unknown (1890) Women with Nerves. Bow Bells, 11 (141). p. 250.
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Article about the higher degree of nervousness commonly attributed to women, and how this image might be distorted. As an example the author pictures the situation of public speaking, when men are often quite nervous whereas women approach such situations much more calmly: "It is often amusing at a public dinner to notice the difference between the man who has made his little speech and the man who has not; the jubilant faces of those who have the thing off their minds, the depth of preoccupied care or downright misery on the countenance of those who have still the torture in prospect. Now that women are having so much practice as public speakers, they are rapidly ceasing to exhibit any more nervousness about it than is constantly shown by men."
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