The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-16

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| love your sisters, even if the fight be
hard and disagreeable and men say
you are brushing off the charm of
your bloom of innocence" And to
good men, too. the Spirit has spoken,
and they hear.
The most alarming of all ito the
poor, bewiidered man, is the rurnor
that the woman of the future will
not marry, that she viii substitute
canaraderie for love, and be united
only by ties of Platonic friendship to
| the men whom she favors. Fear not,
| o men, if you are worthy of love you
will not lack it. AS long as this old
world rolls, and longer. will the
hearts of good women cleave to the
hearts of good men. The New Spirit
never contradicts the Old saying that
| it is not good for man to dwell alone,
and indeed it includes women. Never.
while the need for it lasts, will a
good woman refuse self-sacrifice for
she will, and she ought to. refuse
sslf-obliteration. which is. in effect.
long. She may Iy. Il may offer my
/ self UP. because only so can your
need be met" but she has no moral
right to say, 81 will cease to be Of
any account, 1 will become a cypher
and bury my principles, my convic-
tions, myself, for your pleasure" This
distinction between seif-sacrifice and
self-obliteration is admirably stated
in an article IN the Spectator fc-' 1898,
where the case of Jeanne Deans's ac-
ton in regard to her sister is cited
as an illustration.
And so the New Spirit as it has
been interpreted by hundreds of wo-
men who are never heard of, women
| who live out their lives and do their
work for the world with their homes
for blessed centres. makes friendship,
perfect home life and peace, possible.
1t puts the case as it touches men,
shortly. Equality? Yes. Identity?
No. Equality of duty. equality of
honor, equality OF purity, equality of
parenthood, equality in matters finan-
cial, and all equality made possible
by sef-respect and love. The basis
Of true marriage to be friendship,
common interests and aims, love, not
sexual passion alone.
Then, in the matter of motherhood,
does the New Spirit indeed belittle
the wonder and grandeur of that mys-
terry? 1t is an essential part of the
modern woman'S creed to regard the
needs of tiny bodies and minds as
beneath her notice. as robbing her of
time which should be bestowed on
her methods for universal reform? Is
it she who grudges the patience and
the pain which. these little new lives
involve? Surely it is to the frivolous
woman of fashion, whose horizon is
bounded by her own-self-seeking, that
this creed belongs. But the modern
woman whose mind and heart are
trained does say, and will say yet
more alphabetically, that it is a moral
and physical sin for the diseased.
the MANNED, those in whose families
is madness, fdiocy, tuberculosis, or
any form of intemperance, or amy
dread transmissible suffering, TO bring
merely be a burden to themselves
and the race These are hard sayings,
but born of truth and scientific right
eousness She does say that women
are in duty bound ito study physical
laws which, being observed. shall
save themselves preventible agony
and their children lives of pain.
This New Spirit does say that AN
enforced motherhood Of compelled ex-
cess and waste. which brings in it's
train lives of misery, crushed aspira-
tions or deaths of pain is contrary ito
justice and Gods laws. 1t says that
ma rriage is not the signal for the
ioosening of all habits of
self control and that immor-
ality in marriage is not far
removed from immortality outside OF
marriage. Further. it protests that the
true marriage Of chastity with I'M
chastity is as impossible as II they are
of different worlds.
In short, an essential part of the
awakened woman's or mans creed is,
that in all relations of life, feeling, i'm
pulse, marriage choices, clothing. all
will be under the control of reason and
principle. Then would all minor mat
tiers become harmonious to a great and
beautiful whole Dress will be at once
beautiful and healthful; not masculine
unless any especial garment is of itself
the best for its purpose. The false
taste which dictates that the shape of
the wearer be accommodated to her
clothes, TO the detriment of her health
ards will be avoided equally with the
loud aping Of male garb, or the untidy
f1oppinesS Of the backboneless
aesthetic The modern woman will
aim at once at avoiding the terrible
Scylla of the woman of the antimacas-
sar stage, and the modern Charybdis
of a house-keeper who does not keep
house, and whose many outside calls
prevent her seeing that her family are
supplied with eatable meals, or one
whose erratic management suggests
the entertainment of tramps in the
drawing room, and the sorting of the
family linen in the hall.
The position of the unmarried woman
has not been adequately considered but
limitations of space prevent any line of
thought from being more than suggest
ed. But the New Spirit undoubtedly
says that the days when the unmar-
ried woman was considered a failure
are passed. Woman's sphere is no
longer regarded as being merely a
means for propagating the race. and
therefore, the good women who either
refuse. or to whom circumstances DENY
marriage are not thought of as having
missed their life's end by those who
think at all. Motherhood is indeed the
end of all womanhood, but it is often
the motherhood of care, not of genera
ton. The New Spirit has brought to
light and activity more of mother
hoods ssentials-sympathy, care and
love-than this orphaned world has
known before. Mere than ever all who
love are banded together for the good
of all who suffer
Much of this result is due to the ef-
forts of those brave, pioneer women
VINO woke half the race UP out of
lethargy, ignorance and sleep, into
thought care and action. And al
though the need for pioneers is wan
ing, 1t is yet no part Of the later
womans function to carp at and con-
denim the qualities which have heIned
to bring her freedom from the tram
mels of ignorance
The New Spirit does not whisper of
hatred to men or women, but of pro-
gress for the whole race in holiness
and love.
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