The idea of the modern woman is that she is not to be bothered with anything.

I remember the words with which one of these ladies announced her departure from her bothering home.
"Oh, well, I'm tired of trouble," she confided to another lady, "so I've made up my mind not to have any more of it." Artemus Ward tells us of a man who had been in prison for twenty years.
Suddenly a bright idea occurred to him; he opened the window and got out.
Here have we poor, foolish mortals been imprisoned in this troublesome world for Lord knows how many millions of years.

We have got so used to trouble we thought there was no help for it.

We have told ourselves that "Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upwards." We imagined the only thing to be done was to bear it philosophically.

Why did not this bright young creature come along before--show us the way out.