The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-05-21
MISS ANTHoNY's PROPHECY.

MISS ANTHONY'S PROPHECY.
she Tecitcs tho Advance Made by Women
and Predicts Greater Achievements.
Miss Susan B. Anthony sat in the
sunny library Of S. E. Gross home on
the Lake Shore drive. She was daintily,
almost coquettishly, gowped in dress
OF black satin, with O misty collar of
lace caught about her neck with jew
eled pin Of quaint and elaborate work
manship. Her white hair was parted
smoothly over her high forehead and
came down over her ears in fashion 80
very old that it has suddenly become
new again Looking at Miss Anthony
Us she sat in the quiet library, observing
her handsome dress, her air of elegance
and her gentle voice it was hard to think
of her rs the type Of all that is agrees
I've Ill tho nineteenth century woman
hood In fact, she looked like only O
very quiet, we'll dressed little gentle
woman who would like nothing so we'll
as to spend the day in the big chair Of
Mr.. Gross library
And when she talked about the so
called new woman and tho twentieth
century woman it was harder still. For
Miss Anthony doesn't much admire
either of these in the accepted sense of
the terms.
When timorous inquiry was made
az to who tho new woman is, when she
will come, or if she had como already,
Miss Anthony said: "It all depends on
what you moan by tho term new wom-
an The term has become a cant phrase
carrying almost us much opprobrium us
the term 'woman's rights woman used
to imply. Tho new woman as tho
phrase goes, may mean loud, nannish
woman affecting the boisterous conduct
of men, with none Of the saving graces
OF her own sex. If that be tho new
woman. do not welcome her coming
II by the new woman is meant woman
earnest, thoughtful, lofty of purpose,
self reliant and equally we'll educated
with man, why, then she has come We
have got her in our homes, where she
stands side by side with her husband,
welcoming his friends on the common
ground of intellectual equality, joining
i'll their diScussions-a college bred
woman, who can do something moro
than pour tea when her husband enter
tains his friends. We have got the now
woman In everything except the count
ing of her vote ut the ballot box And
that's coming. It's coming sooner than
most people think. The new woman
made her appearance 40 years ago, when
Antolnette Brown entered Oberlin col
lege. Next November we. are going to
have in New York an exhibit of new
woman.
Nov. ~ Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton will be so years old The anniver-
sary will be made the occasion for q
grand gathering of women who were the
first to enter those fields of intellectual
and business endeavor which half a cen
tury ago were occupied solely by men.
AT that tlmo no trades, no institutions
OF higher learning were open to women
~ woman who was driven to self sup.
port could do little sewing, could en-
ter domestic service or perhaps teach in
primary school From not being able
10 earn livelihood as she chose, from
not being able to reap the results Of her
labor after she married, from not being
able to control her property after she
married, from, in brief, Il position of
civic nullity she has advanced to her
present position. Forty thousand women
have been graduated from American col
leges, every calling has its followers
among women, and they are today as
well educated as men, if not better.
In the state of New York one-elev-
enth of the property tax is paid by wom-
en-. In my own city of Rochester wom-
en- pay taxes on property valuation of
500, 900, 600. These are some of the re-
suits of the battle for equal rights,
which women have been waging for 40
years, and they have fought alone. The
blacks had nation s aid in the struggle
for emancipation. Women are the only
oppressed class who ever were compelled
to battle for emancipation unnded. No
party gives onr claims for equal suffrage
Its Endorsement. But today the nation
IS known us nation of educated wom-
en- To be sure, as wage earners they do
not receive compensation equal to that
of men. That is because, being without
the ballot, they cannot dictate the terms
upon which they shall be employed All
the women Of today ask are the rights,
powers, privileges and immunitics Of an
American citizen. We have been grant
ed equal suffrage in Wyoming and Colo
RADIO, virtually in Utah. Equal suffrage
bills are now pending i'll the legislatures
of Oregon, Idaho, Nevada California
and New York. The question of equal
suffrage is beginning to be respected as
political measure And it's coming. +"
Chicago Tribune.
His Pills.