The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-01

plates the avoidance of the responsibility OF
its fruits In this connection, as IN every
other relation of her life, woman finds
divine light to guide her in the lie or the
mother Of Jesus Christ--'Behold the hand
maid OF the Lord; be ii done INTO me ac-
cording to thy word
The woman who makes her marriage
VOWS with any reservation concerning the
will OF God in the number OF her children,
is worshiper not Of God, but OF mann
mon. and is unworthy the love and protec-
There is another difficulty your En-
inence-man. What's to become OF MIN now
woman is crowding his sphere? Nothing
ness petticoatS seem TO be his whole
future
SHE is AN OLD SIN REVIVED
There can be no doubt" said his Emil
nence. that, as the woman usurps the
mans rightful place in the house-becomes
the lawmaker and the bread-winner of the
family-the man must become correspond
ingly effeminate; but the woman suffragist
of the nineteenth century fiatters herself
in denominating herself the New Woman.
She is very old woman-old as Eve,
prompted by curiosity and lawlessness to
gain Information of the devil, and her eff
feet man will probably be more than
a warrant of old Adams feeble excuse for
his enjoyment of forbidden fruit. The
bachelor girl you describe who INDUCES in
manly sport is not novelty in history.
She and the present craze for physical
culture among women mark a return TO
the moral standard OF the LaCeQaemOnlan
women, who were taught, when maidens,
to engage in exercises that strengthened
their bodies and impaired grace to their
movements but at the sacrifice OF female
modesty. Then the bachelorhood of the
modern woman is not new. 1t but stamps
civilization with the character of the
domestic life of ancient Greece. This
counted women of elementary education
proper material for wives, whilst clever
cense men accord to their mistresses. Also
the. Malthusian doctrine, by which the
modern marriage is regulated, is, after all,
no more an indication of advancing c1vlli-
cation than the practice in India that reg
nlates the number of offspring by drown
ing nearly all female infants. Men may
even be obliged to return to this method
If the advancing New Woman goes. to
much greater lengths in enforcing her
theories on society.
I'm the matter Of progressive marriage
relations the New Woman has vet some
her counterparts in history. Martial tells
of a woman who had married her tenth
in Rome who had married her twenty-third
husband Seneca, in his day, said: There
is not woman left who is ashamed of be-
ing divorced, that the most dis
tinguished ladies count their years not by
the consuls, but by their husbands.
do I think she is greatly to be feared
Every evil influence in society is to be
depored. and its remedy seriously con-
sures the world always a large majority
of right-minded. true-hearted women who
Work quietly DONG CTOO 5 VIII IN the
sphere of life whereunto they are by ma
ture called. protecting the little ones
against the fuss and feathers of the female
agitator."
'If a New Woman came to your Emil
hence and told you she is wretched with
out knowing why, what would you say to
her?''
II would tell her that the cardinal vir-
tues of a woman are chastity and humility.
The one attracts God. and through the 9TH
err God is born into the world. / would tell
the New Woman that to be happy she
must purify her heart by prayer and
humble herself by self-denial. remembering
that self-denial is actually the denying of
ones self, and that herself being the van
ity of intellect she must subject reason to
faith, as st. Paul says, and her whole be-
ing to religion. For what doth it profit a
woman if she gain the whole world and
lose her own soul?''