The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-02-15
a TYPICAL AMERIoAN WOMAN

a TYPICAL AMERICAN W0A4N.
Chicago Tribune: The American
woman in Europe has been the subject
of much comment abroad and at home.
and the comment has been as various in /
its kind as the woman. There have |
been women of sill sorts, from James,
Daisy Miller down 10 the most ignorant |
and vulgar parYenu, and they have been |
assailed, ridiculed, and laughed it, and
sometimes with cause, though as a rule
woman nature IS about the same the
world over, and were il the fashion TO
make the grand tour of the United States
instead of the grand tour of London,
Paris, the Rhine, and the Alps, We
should probably find The European wo-
man did not differ much from her
American sister, except that the latter
has more style and knows how to dress
better.
Many typical men visit Europe,
rarely typical women, except those who
are types Of Mammon and fashion
worship. Al last a typical American
woman Is going abroad who will CON-
mand attention and perhaps provoke
criticism. For more than q quarter OF
century she has been the most promin-
ent female figure before the American
people, though not conspicuous for
beauty, fashion or good clothes. She
has forced her way t. her high place by
indomitable strength of character and
eArnestness of purpose. She has been
assaulted, ridiculed, and saiirized more
than any other woman, but she has not
been driven from her mission. Il may
have had the effect e. acidulaie her 3
little, but she has not wavered in her
work, and she has had the reward of
seeing it successful in a large degree.
She has not yet aitIined the culmina-
ton of her purPose-namely: to obtain
the elective franchise for women as a
national bOon-but out of the agita-
tion commenced by her and her asso-
ciates the general sphere OF woman
has been enlarged and the SEX have risen
TO the attainment of many rights they
would not otherwise have had. The
general condition of women has been
immensely improved, and this is almost
directly due 10 this typical representa-
tive who has fought the battle so long
and courageousiy, giving the best years
of her life and all her money to the cause
she has so vigorously champIOned.
Miss Susan B. Anthony on Thursday
next will be 63 years of age, and thirty
of these years she has devoted to the
cause of woman's rights. Satisfied tha
but little more remains to be done II
this country, she is now going to change
the scene of her labors t. England anC
France, where she believes that public
sentiment is ready TO meet her and give
her a patient and respectful hearing
The work will not be SD difficult as
was here. She will not have TO com
mence on virgin soil. Women have OBJ
tanned very considerable rights, espec
tally in England, and il was only few
weeks ago that parliament passeC
the bill giving them absolute Goa.
troll of their property and tn
right to their earnings, thus making
them in a financial sense independent o
their husbands, and protecting those o
the lower classes in large part from tn
savagery and brutality with which the,
haYe been treated heretofore. It is
good time for Miss Anthony to go, 70
other reasons, among them the fayorit
ism which is now shown TO everything
American in England. American writ
ers, lecturers, singers, players and art
lists have never before had such cordia
and enthusiastic reception, and the NOR,
, distinchvely American they have beef
the better they have been liked. Evel
such grave and reverend critic as tn
Quarterly Review prefers Bret Hart
with his Americanisms To the half Eu
ropean insIpidities of Howells and tn
intellectual torsos of James, never be
gun, never ended. MISS Anthony is
distinctively American woman ant
purely original. She is a law and
, style unto herself. She has never follow
/ ed others, being a leader. She has new
I er initiated others, being an origin
z ator. She has never toadied {
= others, being accustomed to command
! She is not slave to fashion, her styl
being her own. She will not probabl
trouble Worth for toilets nor be foun
. in the Bon Marche. She will comman
v the attention of thoughtful men and VIC
r men, however, as u strikingly-origina
| American who has something to say
and we are not afraid she will do injus
tice TO the country TO which she belongs
We anticipate. on the other hand, tina
she will be handsomely received, an
8 that she Will create quite a. much of
!. sensation IN England as the Wildes an
d Langtrys, and other extraordinary spec
:. linens from England have done her
a with this difference, that while there
a no reason that either Wilde or Langtr
It should hhave occupied the attention {
J, the public for a moment, there Is ever
a reason why England should listen
Miss Anthony, and that she herself vi
n make the reason apparent. She may
relied upon to take care Of herself an
|. to do credit to American womGnhood.