Middletown transcript., 1895-09-07

Deautlful WO-
woman, modest, sweet and winsome,
even in the plain, costume of the Sa.-
vationists. She has recently made
quite famous address on 1.-THE New
Woman" and said among other good
things, IF I could get hold of the new
woman, or the so-called new woman,
I would make her change
her dress the first thing. would take
her big sleeves and make them into
dresses for the children of the slums.
I am sure good many little dresses
could be made out of those sleeves.
AS for some of her other garments,
which 1 will not mention here, I would
take them away and give them to the
sex to which they belong.
"The next thing I would do" she
continued, "would be to collect the
books that the new woman reads,
books that any God-fearing, right
feeling woman would blush to have
about her, disgusting treaties on real
ism and kindred topics. would pile
these books all up together and burn
them, burn them along with her Gig
aretts and chewing gum.
1.-THE revolving creature, gaudily
attired in mans clothing, possessed of
strange notions about the home, wife
hood and motherhood, scorned and
stunned by the men, is not my idea
Of the new woman. The new woman,
according to the popular acceptatlon,
speaks of children as 'brats, says they
tire and aggravate her, and SO she be-
stews all her love upon some ugly lit
tie pug nosed dog, which she carries
in one of her mannish pockets.
81 say let the new woman be educa-
ted as mnch 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 cripple and debase them"
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A clever woman writer; whose pen
poignantly points out many of the
faults and foibles of her sex, gave her
opinion the other day on the subject
of"The New Woman" topic which
we admit is growing rather tiresome.
Yet viewed from her kaleidoscope
mentality, it becomes novel and in
teresting.
81 have been making some inquiries
regarding the much-used expression,
new woman and find that it is
adaptable to point of view. For ex-
ample one woman remarks to me, If
I could get my debts all paid, Pm sure
I should be new woman Another
woman says, Il have only to take
dip in the surf to be new woman,'
and third says, Il have found a rem
edy for my hay fever and it has made
a new woman of me- Then a man
straishtens up an announces in for
midable tones, Every new woman
ought to be put behind prison bars.
The new woman is criminal So,
you see, the new woman is not any
one person, but is like rainbow,
which every one sees differently. I
am glad to compare her to the rain
bow, because she is also like a bow of
promise set in the skies, to assure us
that the worlds darkest days are in
the past, and not to return.
"The new woman is simply the |
everyday type of intelligent woman
herself by new light, not a
reflected light, you understand, but a
direct search light, that shows up
blemishes of character, lack of earn
estness and lack of motive, weakness
and discernment, and any disposition
she may have to avoid the problems
Of life by ignoring the methods by
which they may be solved. The same
also reveals to her the
power she possesses in contradistinct-
ion to her weakness and inertia. She
likes the appearance of power, and
,he resolve to use it obliterates all the
shadows OF past Indifference.
''There is something very human
about the new woman and she is in
5erested;in human things. She has
sprung like the butterfly from a CO.
coon made up of conservatism and
prejudice and precedent that time and
custom have woven into case about
/ woman"
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TABLE TALK.
A question which must have arisen
n the mind of every one who has eat
n oatmeal from blue porridge bowls
,r peaches and cream from saucers is,
Why do housekeepers ever allow milk
% be served in blue ware? The rich
st cream ever sent out of a model
larry takes on thin, milky look in a
blue bowl. AS for mere milk, it seems
ike the very SKINNED, half-water
luid dear to the professional humor-
st. Blue is charming color for table
ware, but the inside of a dish which
8 designed to hold cream should be
# rich yellowish tint, that will in
ensify the quality of the dairy pro-
luct.
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Among the ultra-fashionable the
Individual butter plate is not used. :
'he new bread and-butter plates are
0 made thas the ball of butter sinks {
nto a small cavity partially filed
nth cracked ice The most ddinty
t the new bread and butter plates
re of pure white china of eoo-shall