New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-09-12
he Oo,uinx Nan aud Woman.

the new order OF Things under which our
esteemed sister, woman, Is coming 50
rapidly to the front in business and po-
litical life, may be her emancipation from
many social conventions, by which she
has hitherto been shackled. Heretofore
the man has generally been the bread
winner, and as such it has seemed proper
that he should take'the initiative in pro-
positions looking to matrimonial part
nership. This has been the theory, at
least. although it has been frequently
limited that woman has always had a
good deal to do in bringing the man to
the point in such matters. But, at all
events. the actual declaration of affection,
as a rule, has come from the man, and he
has enioved the advantage of being able
to propose as often as he could find some
woman who would accept him. Women,
on the contrary, have had to sit down
and walt patiently until somebody asked
them, and very often have been obliged
to take person they didn't want, or, in
diplomatic language, a persona non gra-
ia, or to 90 without husband altogeth-
er.
But all this, it is said, is to be changed
in the course of the next decade or two,
when the Twentieth century woman has
fully possessed herself Of the promised
land of business and politics into which
she is now entering. Being no longer
under the necessity of marrying for
home or support, and having awakened
to full consciousness of he1 own ability
and superiority, she will, it is argued,
probably insist upon abolishing, or at
least revising, present customs in regard
to negotiations and propositions for
marriage. Being essentially business
person, and with little foolishness about
her, she will look at the subject from a
common sense standpoint, and deal with
it in a common sense way. She will de-
mand the right Of seeking and selecting
a husband and of putting the important
question, and it will very rarely happen
that she will make mistake in her man
or receive a rebuff, for her feminine tact
will tell her when she can speak with a
fair prospect of success and her feminine
charm will rerder her nearly Irresistible
as sutton.
But as already said. if her practical
development proceeds on present lines,
she will eliminate to large extent the
romantic tendencies and impulses which
have heretofore governed her in such az
fairs and conduct her matrimonial enter
prises with strict reference to the best
solution of great social and economic
problems. The coming race of women
will want race of men worthy of them,
and they will do their best to train their
masculine partners up to higher stand
ard. Even the best materials they will
have to work with will necessarily be
poor and unsatisfactory, but by perse-
yerence and careful selection in the mat
ter of husbands, there can be little doubt
that in few generations they will be
able to greatly improve the average OF
the male sex. Ugly men, awkw ard men,
men weak in mind or morals, men too
tall and men too short, men too thin and
men too Eat, will be studiously ignored
and allowed to die out, and only the fit
test be allowed to marry and survive and
perpetuate their kind. At least, these
are some of the predictions that are be-
ing made by enthusiastic social prophets
| about the Twentieth century woman
"Broadly speaking" says one OF them
| in recent magazine article, 81 think we
NAV trust the cultivated minds and pure
instincts of the women of the future in
the choice of partners. Idle and selfish
men would be almost universally reject
ed. The coarse and sensual, the weak
in intellect and body, would rarely find
partners. Thus it will come about that
the lower types of men, morally and ply
sicarly, will remain unmarried, and the
advance Of the race in every good quail
ty will be insured" In other words,the
coming woman will bring the millenni-
UNI along with her and make man only a
little lower than her own angelic self
Let US hope that she will come, and come
! quickly, and that she will accomplish hel
mission Minneapolis Times.
The poets sing of a fountain whose
waters bring back lost youth, but no one
has ever found it. Still there's germ 81
truth in the dreaners' fable of fancy, fol-
there exists to-day. A draught that ban