Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1891-01-31

Gas women 60 more and more into public life,
| do not dread it for them, but | think that the
standards of personal dignity must be raised.
The lines of demareation must be carefully OBJ
served. This will apply not only to manners ard
the permission of famiiarites but to dress Some
old time, conservative people say we must intro
duce the method of chaperonng young women;
and feel a sense of Indignation every time see
that such parry of young people has gone to
such place, chaperoned by so and so. To me it
is confession on the part of those chaperoned
that they had not sufficient personal dignity to
take care of themselves, which is always con-
fession of weakness on the part of any young
woman or her relatives. The nobler and the mod
ern way is to give more liberty than ever to our
young women, but in Sunday-school and public
school and home to so forewarm, forearm, and de-
yelop in them sense of their own personal dig
nifty and personal responsibility that they will need
no chaperonng.
civilian L. Stead has uttered true word in
opposition to this European tendency imported to
our shores by travellers un-Americanized by long
residence abroad. | hope the w. G. I. U. may
always stand for the higher law he would incul-
cate Hear him:
"'Another mistake has been this When people
aspire to have apurer society they say ave must
have stricter society," we must be more ascetc;
we must diminish the opportunities enjoyed by the
sexes for meeting each other we must keep
tighter hand upon our boys, and keep our girls
closer indoors" believe that is all wrong and
rotten from bottom to top. | think that God AL.
mighty knew long sight better how TO make this
world than you or | and it always seemed to me
that if He in His creation had taken hint from
some of our wise men and women, He would have
had all the boys born in one family and all the
girls born in another. No; as brothers and sis
tiers we are born into the world in the same family,
so as men and women we must mnge in all de-
partments of human life. Wherever you exclude
either the one or the other element therein be-
lieve you have source of weakness and of dam
ger The true unit of humanity is not the man
or the woman, but the man and the woman; and
the more you can bring together in your Church
and in your industries, in your social life and in
everything, man and woman so that we can repro
duce the family life in which you have brothers
and sisters meeting on equal terms, therein you
will have less danger, more purity, much more
happiness. Never forget that one great point we
have got to keep in mind Is that we must labor to
increase and multiply human happiness, 1t is not
enough to say, "We will be pure, we will have
more Justice" | want to see much less separa-
ton. want to see more association on friendly,
innocent, and safe terms of young men and young
women. 1t is one of the most deplorable symp-
toms of the state of things which prevails in many
societies, when if men and women who are not
married are noticed to be united by close ties of
friendship and sympathy, people assume at once
that something is wrong between them. That as
sumption may be, and perhaps is, natural growth
in a corrupt and immoral society, but if we have
got to mend matters we have got to change all
that. Men and women, no longer shut up apart
and separate, must work together, discuss to-
gether, think together and talk together, and it
ought not to be thought if man and woman are
often seen together that there is something wrong
and improper in what they are about, any more
than if they were brother and sister,"