The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-08-21
What the Coming Woman Will be
Like When She comes.
philadelphia Times.


First, she will be strong minded. This
does not necessarily imply that she will
either wear a bloomer costume or force
her way through mob to the polls,
but it does imply that she will be her.
self and not an echo of some one else.
She will possess individuality enough to
form her own opinions and be governed
by them. She will cease to think that
her mission in life is to look pretty and
to marry, though she will look as pretty
as nature and the result of educated
taste will allow her, and she will marry
whenever she knows that her life happi-
ness will thereby be promoted. She
will seek to develop and utilize her own
God given powers within her sphere,
and her sphere will be as wide as her
powers can create. She will realize that
she has no right to hide her talent in a
napkin; nevertheless she will not come
before the world heralded by trumpet.
Just as in nature all things tall into
their proper place SO she will take her
place simply by the force of her own
adaptabiiity for it. She will elbow none
nor be elbowed by none, but she will
have her own, simply because it is her
own, not because she wishes to infringe
on the rights OF another. She will know
that in order to meet recognition of her
efforts she will have to make them worth
being recognized, and in order that she
may do this she will bring strong
mind and a disciplined heart to bear on
all she does. Yes, she will be strong
minded, because she knows that to be
weak minded will be to fail and fail is
not her motto.
THE SECOND REQUISITE.
Second, she will be strong hearted.
To the strength of her mind she will
add the higher strength of courage and
independence. The average man does
not care to pose any longer as vine
prop. Self-reliance in the woman he
loves has far more charm than childish
dependence. He seeks companion,
not a plaything. The coming woman
will have the courage that right ever
gives, and, armed with that, she will
wage relentless war on all that is de-
structive of her kingdom-the home. 1t
will not be a spasmodic outbreak of
petulance, but systemetic combination
of all her forces against the wrong, be-
cause it is wrong, and must be eradi-
Gated. She will match her strength of
high purpose and self-sacrifce with the
more hardy endurance of her brothers,
and, hand in hand with them, go forth
to make the world better for her living
in it. She will be strong-hearted, be-
cause her strength will come from the
source of all power and strength.
Third, she will be strong-bodied.
This because she knows that 'mens sana
in corpore sano' is necessary to her sue
cess. Regarding the body as the tenn
pie of the Holy Spirit she will do all in
her power to strenthen and upbuild it.
She will demand room enough in which
to breathe, freedom of limbs enough to
make walking a pleasure rather than a
task. Sne VIII De the mistress rather
than the slave of Madame Grundy. She
will no longer pay the price of wrecked
health for the feeting gayeties of the
bali room. She will realize that natures
laws cannot be violated with impunity.
Strong minded, strong-hearted, strong
bodied Would that the coming wo-
man were here! ALLIE B. BROWN.