The Washington times., 1894-05-20
REVOLT OF DAUGHTERS.
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Mistake TO Refer in this Way TO Certain
English Girls.
Mrs. Sheldon Amos, in :he Contemporary
Review, points out that if is mistake to
speak Of the revolt Of the daughters In de-
scribing the new position taken up by English
girls.
It is not a revolt, but natural process Of
evolution, Mrs. Amos says.
Even ''society' has more than accepted
nursing as noble profession for women.
The nurse comes from every grade, is met in
every hovel and every drawing-room. her
freedom. her happy Independence, her own
and others sense OF her value; her accepted
knowledge Of the darker sides of life-in all
OF which respects she is rivaled by that
mighty host OF sisters and deaconesses and
"church workers. OF all secis-have their in
structive aud incitive influence on the home
daughters. II society wants them IN be igno-
rant and uninterested. like the legendary
English lady, 1t must arrange terms with the
hospital, the sick room. the parish priest. the
social reformer. Meanwhile. our girls will
learn; will throw OIL their swaddliDg clothes.
Mrs. Amos wakes quiet eloquent in praise Of
the girls latchkey. Tho moro girls there are
who have latchkeys, she thinks, the better 1t
will be for all concerned. Freedom brings
responsibility, and responsibility brings pru-
dence.
great deal Of the ill-health OF our deli
cate girls arises from repression OF their
young energy. The boys, too, would be hys-
terical If their youth were hedged in with so
many conventional restraints, thatt here would
be no room left for seif-restraint, II every
thing they wore, every word they spoke. every
youthful grace and beauty every intellectual
endowment were habitually looked upon and
openly spoken OF as making them more sala-
BILE articles. These things belong only to the
ages Of slavery, and would once aud for all
protest that where there is ''market' mar
riage in its true sense cannot be said to exist.
So far from resenting the evolution Of the
girl OF the future, Mrs. Amos glorifes and
defends their claim for freedom. She says:
"Certainly the restrictions which produce
the feeble-witted, earth-bound Dodo must
give way to the freedom which will give the
angels in our houses room to grow their
six strong wings-two for personal dignity
and beauty. two for spiritual elevation. aud
Two with which to fiv on serviceable errands
for humanity
This Is picture Of the woman OF the fu.
ture as drawn by Mrs. Theodore Sutro, we'll
known society leader Of New York:
''She will not wear trousers. On the con-
trary. her garments will be prettier and she
herself will be, If that is possible, more
efremInate. more tender than she is now:
"Why? Because she will realize, by being
all these. that her power will be increased in
a corresponding ratio.
"Woman's rights are invariably associated
In a mans mind with the loud-voiced woman
without li;tle personal vani.ies. the woman
who is Indifferent to her appearance, who
wears big boots and would like to wear high
hats and make other incursions on his ward
robe.
"There will be more marriages for love in
her day than there are now. for the reason
that natural selection will replace conven-
ience. She will be qualified for work, and.
not fearing 1t. will not marry for support.
''She will be ableto provide for herself, and
when she marries It will be because she loves
the man, because he is congenial and sympa-
thetic to her and will not retard her mental
and moral development. She will be fearless
and frank. and will have the courage Of her
convictions ?"