The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-03-19

Demands the EniranchiSement OF Woman,
the Slave Of Arrested Development


lecture room Of Robert Collyer's
church for the announced object of
presenting the most advanced
views and encouraging their prac.
tical application. The society is
called new departure, and the
platform is said to be broad enough
for all
The programme in gene,+e raids:
"Soholarly and intere - lectures
by acknowledge .uers, discussion
sfterward instrumental and vocal
music Last evening discussion,
followed a lecture on The Evolu-
ton of True Womanhood," by DR..
Ellen K. Kenyon, assoc ia'e editor CT
the school journal.
DR.. Kenyon has an attractive
face, modest and pleasing manner,
and thin, piping voice. She is a
dress reformer, but does not wear
the garments of her more radical
sisters Last evening she wore
loose fitting, high.necked gown.
She said in part:
"Woman is stirring uneasily in
the narrow confines of her average
thought world, only half awake as
yet to the fact that she is victim
of arrested development; that tradi-
ton has her in It's clammy grasp so
tightly that much of her ethical
power is benumbed and nine.te
Of her potential usefuln, IS deprived
of It's right to be actualzed.
about quarter of century
ago the voice Of woman piped out
its first shrill note of determination
in this war for elbow room in which
to become freely developed
ethical being. Society listened and
turned away, pronouncing the note
discordant, but the female 'ranters'
were listened to again and again,
and gradually truth got . foothold
IN puDilc opinion.
"W oman ia trained from her era
die up by orthodoxy. To have
opinions is not dntifl and feminine,
therefore she is trained to believe
as she is tod TO believe. To dress
freely and conveniently is not styl-
ish; therefore, her arms ale bound
down 10 her sides by sleeves cut by
the straight jacket pattern. To
have intellectual tastes and to Sc
lect occupations is vain, for her des.
tiny Is TO wheedle men, direct ser
wants, and dress battles.
"She must spend laborious years
at the piano, though sre may be
stupid IN music, because husband
is Lot easily caught without some
form of flash, and home is nothing
without music. Man, on the other
hald, is train, d more or less as an
individual. If he tries to bulldcze
his sister, he shows evidence Of
future capacity to rule; he will be
anything, from a band leader to
two term president of the United
States.
"Blt woman is finding out that
her dignity demands an uprising
against the cardinal doctrine of
llcentious men, and that the veal of
future generations which she holds
in sacred keeping demands of her
participation in the lawmaking of
this alleged government by the peo.
pie in order that Gel tain dastardly
laws making prey of the young and
ignorant may be swiftly and lndig-
nantly repealed.
"She is learning to lean less upon
the sophistry of selfish men and to
recognize the chivalric hand ex.
tended to help It r to her own feet.
She is learning to reason about the
wonderful gift of intuition than man
ascribes to her in poems, but scorns
IN the prose of real life, and to ask,
If this intuition is such a fine thing
IN theory, is it not worth something
IN practice? England is ahead of
as In extending the educational
facilities of the land to women.
"American mothers pay them.
selves the compliment of trusting
heir daughters. The open avenues
Of vice thrust their hideous invita-.
ion into every life. The first recoil
of the lofty spirit is its salvation.
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