The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-06-14
WOMEN OLD AND NEW.
PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN Dis
cUss THIS QUESTION.
Kate Field Thinl1s She Ia Not New, .t All.
All Seem tn Think Of Her In Connec-
ton With . Bicycie-Some Interesting
Opinions.

ton With . Bicycle-some Interesting
Opinions.
Several prominent writer's have been in
erviewcd by the Chicago Times Herald us
10 their opinions of that much talked Of
parsonage, the new woman. An interest
ny synopsis is the result, from which the
nllowing are extracts:
For one, am weary of this idiotc bab-
DIE about the new woman. "Thcre amt
40 SIGH person" declared Betsy Prig of
Sairey Camp when that portentous person
haunted "Mrs. Harris i'm her rivals face
'or that last time, which breaks the camel's
back and makes patience cease To he n vir-
ne. There is no new woman. So much
lonsensc Is written about my sex nova
lays us to make earnest women hide their
leads in shame and long to be another
Kind of creature that might quietly go
about its business and be judged purely
On its merits. No self respecting woman
wants to be judged by sex if she he work
az All she asks is justice.
What with woman buildings. woman
editions, woman columns generally devot-
sd To twaddle, fulsome flattery, horribly
distorted fashion plates and cooking recipes
Tor indigestible dishes the real woman is
ost sight of. She is not new. She rep
:csents the glorious trinity of love, devo-
lion and self sacrifice. She bathed Christ's
,cet in tears and was first ut the cross.
She sold her jewels that Columbus might
discover America, led the armies Of France
20 victory and was burned mt the stake for
ner patriotism. She was torn To pieces for
her beauty and learning in ancient Egypt
and is torn To pieces today in this republic,
where she darcs to 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 lint for the wounded in her desolate
home. She wrote lyrics in old Greece,
Aurora Leigh and "AdCw; Bcde'' in
modern England, and "Uncle Toms Cab
IN" in our own country. From the begin
1ing of history she has been the half of
crcation and the complement of man.
With advancing civilization the real wom-
an wakes in self knowledge and begins TO
realize the grandeur of her mission. The
woman movement is a war of sense against
folly of reason against prejudice. If there
be IA war at all, it is a war between two
kinds of womcn-dolls and brains. Men
ty of women want men will accord cheer
fully.-kate Field.
1t is natural for women and sheep to
follow leader. The same blind Juror
that has so often dashed flock of lambs
over precipice is propel,ing the latter day
woman into u career.
Her leader is an anomaly to all previous
lnIc of no nd aa11 hap for
lack of better name, the new woman.
She may improve upon acquaintance, but
at the present writing she is not II pleasing
sight either to men, angels or the truest
of her kind.
The new woman is altogether artificial
in that she is opposed to nature. The
primal intention was that she should be
localized, protected and cared for, some
thing in the same way that we guard our
grandmother china and treasu' I'D lace.
She was meant for the delicate Image Of
life, to be set apart as something choice.
And why not?
Does not the sacred chrism of mother
hood sanctify her? When God chose Mary
to he the mother of Jesus, did re not, by
that selection, raise all wonanhood into
the companionship of angclss do not
but we were granted such superiority and
it is our own fault if we have not kept it.
The new woman may vote, but no bal
lot that she can ever cast will equal the
PRAYER the "old woman" offered when she
buckled the sword to the side of her boy
and sent him into battle, or when, by pa
ticnt prcccpt, she guided him into useful
citizenship and splendid manhood. The
new woman may ride IL wheel, be glib in
parliamentary debate, manage real bust
ness concerns whip the men single hand
ed, organize clubs and wear trousers; she
may be bright and brave, active, hustling
and vivacious, able to take care Of herself
and her husband, too; pli potatoes, pillow
cornflelds and break colts, but shall turn
her down with my last existing breath un-
less she preserves her womanhood through
ii all.-Amber.
Woman Is always new to man. The
newer she can he the more she will suit
man, whose hardihood brings him up to
the times. He yearns for the friendship of