The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-11-28
1.-THE NEW WOMAN"

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Womankind with her varying moods
and numberless Inconsistencies, has
ever been perplexing riddle to man.
She is always a study to him and is
constantly alarming him by her en-
croachments upon fields of labor and
thought commonly believed to belong
exclusively to man.
In the earlier years of the century,
her entrance into the factories and
printing Offices Is an employe, Great
ed no little CONSERVATION, and in l848
when Mrs. Stanton introduced her ia
nous resolution, relative to the enfran-
chisement of women, her compeers
even thought her too radical.
The new woman" has alarmed men
to such an extent, that papers and pc
riodicals devote long columns to this.
interesting subject. They are now ag-
itated by the fear that women wish to
exchange places with them; that wo-
men desire to earn the, living; to shine.
in politics and to lead the world in all
it's important enterprises. It is true
woman has usurped many important
places in the financial world of to-day
In all departments of labor she is
found side by side with mon, ably
performing the work given her. But,
that woman wishes to take the reins
of government out Of the hands OF
man is q wholly mistaken idea. True,
there are strong-minded women who
wish this very thing, and should the
time ever come when woman may sit
in the vice presidents chair, or occu-
by the place of supreme judge, she
will be found performing her duties
with womanly dignity and wisdom.
But, the majority of the new wo-
men wish for no such honors. These
different reformatory movements, the
numberless clubs and societies which
are constantly being organized for the
uplifting of women are mainly to teach
them to be better, higher, nobler, more
self-respecting and self-supporting.
The ''new woman" is morally more
courageous, more highly cultured, q
better thinker and a better worker
than her ancestors. If the ''new wo-
man" has good thought she is not
afraid to let it be known, hence our
many reformers. However, she has
not attained::her present high position
alone, for she has been aided and en-
couraged by the kind words and wise
counsels OF good pure men.
Women now stand on more ele-
waited plane than heretofore and men
have come to desire the society of wo-
men of culture and brains. She must
be able to know something more than
a good recipe for mince pies and must
be able to do something more than sit
at an embroidery frame. The time
for tatting and embroidery is past, land
while these things are not to be de-
spised, women are now awake to the
necessity of having cultivated minds
and vigorous bodies. The time form
erly given to dawdling about the house
in what used to be termed :'female &C
complishment'' has given way to out
of door exercise, beneficial interchange
of thought with highly cultured men
and women and an |ever-deepening
interest in the moral welfare of man
kind.
The moral standard of society is
higher than ever before and since wo
mon have been allowed voice in the
stirring questions of the hour men un-
consciously demand of women high
or moral, mental and physical devel-
opment. Man demands that woman
be his equal in every respect, and the
Indifferent puny woman will be most
likely allowed to remain in single bles-
sedness, for after all, woman only full
fills her destiny properly and in the
way God intended she should when
she knows how to be wise wife and
mother.
All of these outward manifestations
of new development in woman are but
signs that she is more fully prepared
to take her place by her husbands
side and to assist him in fighting the
battles of life. H.
And after all the srticlesh have been
written, after all the speeches have
been made and all phases of this