The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-05
WOMEN OLD AND NEW.
PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN DIS
CuSS THIS QUESTION.

Eate Field Thinks She Is Not New ut All
All Seem to Think Of Her In Connec
ton With a Bicycle-Some interesting
Opinions.
Several prominent writers have bea2 in.
terviewed by the Chicago Times Herald Is
to their opinions of that much talked O,
Parsonage, the new woman. An interest
ing synopsis is the result, from which the
following are extracts:
For one, am weary Of this idiotic hah-
bic about the new woman. "There ain,
no SIGH person" declared Betsy Prig OF
Salrey Camp when that portentous persoB
Haunted Mrs. Harris in her rivals face
Tor that last time, which breaks the camel s
back and makes patience cease to be viz
tue. There Is no new woman So much
nonsense Is written about my sex nova
Gays as 10 make earnest women hide theiy
heads In shame and long to be another
KIND OF creature that might quietly so
about Its business and he Judged purely
On Its merits. No self respecting woman
wants TO be judged by sex if she be work
er All she asks is justice.
What with woman buildings, woman
editions, woman columns generally devot-
ed to twaddle, fulsome nattery, horribly
distorted fashion plates and cooking recipes
Tor indigestible dishes, the real woman is
lost sight of. She is not new. She rep
resents the glorious trinity of love, devo-
ton and self sacrifice. She bathed Christ's
1cet III tears and was first at the cross.
she sold her Jewels that Columbus might
Ill A
TO victory and was burned at the stake for
hcf patriotism. She was torn to pieces for
her beauty and learning in ancient Egypt
ana Is torn TO pieces today in this republic,
where she dareS 10 think for herself and
disagree with self organized saints who
mistake their livers for their conscience.
She gave the Gracchi to Rome and sent
her sons to fight for our Union while SCRAP
ing Int for the wounded in her desol.te
home She wrote lyrics in old Greece
Aurora Leigh" and adam Bede'' in
modcrn England. aud ''Uncle Toms Cab
In In our Own country. From the begin
ming CT history she has been the half Of
creation and the complement of man.
With advancing civilization the real worn-
All wakes in self knowledge and begins to
realize the grandeur of her mission. Tho
folly, Of reason against prejudice If there
be a war at all, it is war between two
kinds of wonen-dolls and brains. Men
are merely spectators. Whatever the major
i'y OF women want men will accord cheer
fully.-ka;e Field
1t is natural fer women and sheep to
follow leader The same blind Juror
that has so often dashed "A flock Of lambs
over IA precipicc is propclling the latter day
woman INTO 4 career.
Her leader is an anomaly to all previous
knowledge Of The sex, and we call her, for
lack Of better name, the new woman.
She may improve upon acquaintance, but
at the present writing she is not pleasing
sight either 10 men, angels or the tr,est
Of her kind
The new Woman is altogether artificial
In that she is Opposed TO nature The
primal intention was that she should DO
itoalizci, protected and cared for some-
thing ia tie same way that we guard our
ErI'ii.dmotIicr's china and treasure old lace.
Sio was meant for the delicate image of
life 10 be eCt apart as something choice.
mi Why nct.
Does not the sacred cllrism of mother
hood s;.Lctify le-? When God chose Mary
t. &c tao mother of Jesus did he not, By
that selection, raise all womanhood into
the coInpan;cnship Of angels? ] do not
s;ly that we have lived close to our election,
bat we were granted such superiority, and
ii Is our own faait il we have not kept it,
re new woman may vote, but no bal
iot That she can ever east will equal the
prayer The Old woman" offered when she
buckiCd tho sword 10 the side of her boy
and sept him into battle, or when, ny pa
iient pre"cpt, she guided lin into useful
citizenship and splendid manhocd. The
new woman may ride wheel, be glib in
parliamentary debate, manage real bust
ucss concerns, whip the men single hand
RI. organize clubs and wear trousers: she
may bc bright and brave, active, hustling
aIG viya.ciCjsS, able to lake care Of herself
and her husband too; plant potatoes, pillow
e2rniielGi and break colts, but | shall turn
her GOwn with my last existing breath un-
less size preserves her won:anhood through
Ii dll.-Amber.
Woman Is always new 10 man. The
newer she can be the more she viii suit
in,.n, whose harGihoGd brings him up 10
the times lie yc:lras for the friendship of
Woman. 10 he his mate. He desires her
mind, in faithful mutuality. TO expand tn
his. 50 that they can consult upon their +
little empire. eye 10 eye Marriages dis