We honor them for their functional powers, even while we dishonor them by our use of it; we honor them for their carefully enforced virtue, even while we show by our own conduct how little we think of that virtue; we value them, sincerely, for the perverted maternal activities which make our wives the most comfortable of servants, bound to us for life with the wages wholly at our own decision, their whole business, outside of the temporary duties of such motherhood as they may achieve, to meet our needs in every way.

Oh, we value them, all right, "in their place," which place is the home, where they perform that mixture of duties so ably described by Mrs.Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon, in which the services of "a mistress" are carefully specified.

She is a very clear writer, Mrs.J.D.D.

Bacon, and understands her subject--from her own point of view.

But--that combination of industries, while convenient, and in a way economical, does not arouse the kind of emotion commanded by the women of Herland.
These were women one had to love "up," very high up, instead of down.
They were not pets.