The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-05-27
ABOUT THE COMING MAN
.rr,Sr PHY CONSIDERS WAT
ms CONDITION WILL ~.
when the Coming woman AppsArs-seme
sympathy Expressed for the fo"r
Male Creature.

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"o"e' S.'s,,~ss 20 hasten the advent oi
- ron,lng woman, don't you thiin ~
:, 60 truly worthy, Just ana pro"'" ia
80 s,ivation 20 pause minute
think about the coming ma" o.a has
WIN, shore he any? When success mas
crnwned the various movements az -,
IN, divided skirts on Uncle sam anu u. 80,
- ..Aun,ie" will not man nave oeoV,"'
snecies extinct in the process oi eNo'~-
,Iony or do you fancy ne may h'n.i !"
nernlexing problem In feminizeu poi''Os :
sV,u the land 10 be set aside Tor ms resei .
walton and the figure OF the government.
appropriation TO be made Tor ms suppo,
49,, "a hone OF contention among our
srss lady Congressman. and shall we
bavo Tho frequent spectacle or small nei-
a~ations Of men. wrapped in gloom ana
government blankets, moving upon tne
1vhife House TO invoke the Great Moth
ers protection against the lady agents
any game of fim-fam? VIII the press
yeports OF these days give us something
like this: A.,
.sThe lady Senator from Utah, MIS-
Smith. then spoke as follows:
"'Madam President AS have SAT ~
,,s,enlre TO the cheese-paring eloquence
Of the lady Senator from Texas ~ n Nv.
effort TO have cut In two the town to'
.hat Is set aside in her State for tne
residence Of all men found south Oh Va.
Ie.b Darallel OF latitude, as / have Odus"'
III sinister subtlety of the arguments
she has advanced 20 show that Iien' D
ing creatures having their srea'es. "a
tent vertically, can be stalled III closei
quarters than could the same ndihper
~ cattle-I say. Madam President, as
her words have fallen upon my ears ana
her inhumane purpose penetrated my
heart I have FLUSHED. woman though
am. strong and stronger these many
years 10 shame. l have blushed' MY
cheek Is dyed with red
Here the lady Senator from Texas
arose TO a question of personal privilege
and said: Madam President, | beg to
assure my sensitive colleague from Utah
that the red dye on her cheek Is absolute
ly unmistakeabie from that We are as
customed 10 seeing there daughter
and loud applause on the Democratic
side)
"The lady Senator from Utah then re-
sumed her speech. and In conclusion
offered a resolution submitted by the OK
Jahoma Society for the Prevention or
Cruelty 20 Men, which provides plan to
remove all men from the United States
and coonize them in the territory OF
Hawaii"
/ suppose II I had lived contempora-
neous with him | would have become AT
tached 10 the mastodon or fcthyosaurus-
association counts for so much. At any
rate for this or some other reason l
am attached to man. and my prophetic
eye weeps whenever. gazing into the
future 1t beholds him dropped back TO
the level Of the Indian, or peerfng deeper
into his destiny, discerns all that is left
OF him carefully catalogued and preserv-
ed under a glass case in the Smithsonian
institute Unmistakable glory attaches
TO the Adamless Eden toward which we
are tending. but dear, oh. DEAR don't
you think II win be frlghtfuiiy lone
come? Who VIII make love to us, and
when we get out Of job who Will marry
us? Who will-but by that time we shall
need no fathers Now and then, as she
Is wanted. a full-grown woman will spring
into existence by an act of Congress or
Presidents proclamation. But babies
perish the thought! Already, with the
coming woman no nearer than she is,
we are not secure with our babies. We
have never n romp with the tots. undis-
turbed by the fear that we may be
caught in the act by superior woman.
/ know a mana foreigner he Is, you
may be sure; no American with two
States gone woman's suffrage would have
the courage to make the observation, II
he saw it-this foreigner I know says
so-called superior woman, with her ex-
fraordinary mental attainments, always
reminds him Of the Strasburg geese whose
livers have been fattened-"very good
livers and very sick geese" OF a truth,
there does seem TO be something distress
ingly destructive Of our original identity
in the effect modern improvements have
upon us / have tried the higher aims
of woman on myself and ] speak with
the authority OF the dog in science. To
succeed In these higher aims you must
be anything but what you really are, and
II you can't do this. you must at least
think you are something else, and above
all things don't marry man for love-
IL you must get married and must marry
man, then do It always for the develop
ment OF humanity.
! heard an eloquent woman suffragist
say the other night that we We're all hui
man beings before we were women. May
be she was. but / wasn't. Before l was
woman i may have been man. so
good that after he died he was rein
carnated the next thing TO an angel. but
never was anything so abstract, i'm
personal and colorless as human being
and can't say have any particular in
terest in humanity. Rather my interest
IL all particular. Did you ever know Il
baby who had a human being for moth
err? Did you ever know a mother who
had process of evolution for baby? l
lived next door 10 both once.
The mother. after she was a human
being. was an editor. She lived in her
profession. she said. AS matter Of
fact she lived in a house like anybody
else. and did newspaper work because ii
satisfied her vanity and permitted her
badly-dlscipllned nature to riot In Bohe.
mia. She had not originally intended 10
marry. She explained the incident, how
ever, saying It was new experience,
and all the progressive minds of her ac-
nuaintance agreed that experience is
necessary TO the advancement of humani-
~. So they pardoned this first offense.
But the baby was a circumstance not as
pasi1y extenuated However, she used
Il no scientifically IN conversation--said
she looked upon herself merely as the
vehicle of its creation, that she had no
sense OF property In Il, regarded Il I'm
short as means Of the development of
human nature. Moreover she went right
on with her career. and though serious
doubts prevailed for time. II soon came
20 be generally admitted that she had a
future. despite the fact Of the baby.
She would go 10 her office every dav
Nike man. aid all the while the babv,s
eyes grew more solemn and more search
He wasn't oxoctI,,. -