The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1895-10-16
The New Woman Unwomanly.


going to have Commander Booth speak
some night on the NEW man" that there
was plenty ofneed of it. She said she would
like to collect the books that the new woman
reads, books that any God-fearing, right
feeling woman would blush to have about
her, disgusting treatises on realism and
kindred topics l would pile these books
all up together and burn them. burn them
along with her cigarettes and her chewing
gum.
She went on to say that the next step in
her plan for the reformation of the new
called her. would be to induce her to come
to the Salvation Army meetings and learn
what it was to get rid of herself, to help the
poor, the sick, the lost and the outcast, and
forever abandon her vain self-keeping.
Then" she said, eff that plan failed, I
should get her a strorg-willed, loving hus-
band, that she might come to recognize that
there is something great and strong and
noble in the other sex. The tendency of the
So called new woman is to belittle man.
She Graves emancipation, progression. she
says, and in her mad rush after these idols
she means to crush and mangle man be-
meath her chariot wheels. We women Of
the Salvation Army, who ourselves have
been termed new women, say to this repul-
sive, revolving creature. whose ideas and as
pirations I hope have been exaggerated,
1--WE don't want you among u.s." our
ideal new woman rises to mans side, and in
turn raises him higher.
The prevailing idea of the new woman as
she is commonly pictured is not the ad-
vdnced woman of the age with whom | am
heart and soul in sympathy. The so-called
new woman is very poor copy of mock
man. She is coarse, unfeminine creature,
from whom men and women alike turn
with aversion. She initiates the garb and
manner of not overnice type of man. even
while she belittles man in the abstract. She
does more; she comes forward to trample
on the traditions of our mothers, of the
mother who kissed her in the cradle and
made a woman of her. This abnormal
woman processes to scorn wifeFOod and
have aspirations above motherhood. She
openly confesses that she abhors children,
and refers to them in contemptuous tones
as 'brats.' For her there is no sweetness,
no glimpse of heaven in innocent oaby eyes.
no music in the prattle OF childish lips, no
grace in pattering feet. She abhors these
infant darlings and wastes all of her love and
attention on a miserable, ugly little pug
nosed dog. 1 am sure that if not utterly
given over to selfshness and blind to
everything good, a happy marriage would
convert such a woman, for if she felt the
touch of childish lips, had childish arms
about her neck, and fair little head pill
lowed on her breast she could not so out
rage her very womanliness by giving vent
to sentiments such as these. Such woman
could never be Christ-ike, because she is
not tender enough. Her mind is too strong
to bow down to God, Religion implies
obedience and infinite love, Men have
dared to impute much to women, they have
dared to question this and that attribute
which she claimed. but no man has ever
dared to question our inalienable right to
love.
81 say let the new woman be educated as
much as possible; let her go to the bar and
study medicine, and preach from the pulpit
as much as she likes, but by all means let
her not neglect her heart. 1t seems to me
now that many women treat their hearts as
the Chinese do their feet, cramp and