The morning times., 1895-08-25

peared in garments they were pleased TO
call bicycle suits that We're simply dis
gustlnG TO any man or woman with any
sense or delicacy or refinement
1t must be a melancholy thought to
the fathers who have accumulated large
fortunes and reared sons and daughters,
whose sole object in life is the pursuit
OF pleasure and an effort to get as far
as possible away from the homely methods
ana industries that produced the fortunes
they have inherited, but are not likely to
have TO bequeath TO the secund generation.
DEPARTURE FROM OLD LINES.
at is a great pity that such a grand
woman as Miss Anthony who mas spent -
many years hattling for the rights of wo-
man, has not coupled with her heroic efforts
some enchanment whereby the progress
i've women would have held fast to the
old love OF home and domestic duties, while
attaining The professions and gaining the
rights ofsuffrage. Miss Anthony has always
been so devoted TO her home and those en-
deared to her by the Ties OF nature that l
do not think il has ever occurred to her that
it was necessary or even pardonable for
or adopt masculine manners or habits, or
10 neglect her high duties as wife and
mother.
Il think the suggestion OF the new woman
CRATES upon the sensibiIties OF the more
refined OF her sex, because of the abandon
that CharacteriZeS the manners, dress
aud conversation or the most pronounced
representatives OF the so-called new wo-
will find that the majority of them have
spent much time abroad. aud have acquired
many OF their most Objectionable propensi-
ties IN Europea n cities where society
people entertain ideas Incompatible with
old time American propriety. As for
instance, it seems strange TO see an Ameri-
can hostess smoking cigarettes because
her foreign guests are accustomed TO
having them.
Last winter I heard an American lady
boasting Of having acquired the astonishing
feat of smoking cigarettes through her veil
without spelling the veil, though she seemed
oblivious TO the nicotine shown on her fin
gers from holding the cigarette to her lip.
Another who has much credit as one OF. the
phenomenal women of the nineteenth CEN
tury,' sat at table surrounded by princes
princesses, barons, baronesses, counts and
countesses, and puffed away at her cigar
cite, as il il were her daily custom in her
own country.
EUROPEAN HABITS.
These ladies, l suppose, are among the
new women OF the highest order, but l
am such an old fogy that am panied to
see exhibitions OF abandon either in our
own blessed country or across the seas
and shall be glad when the advent of the
new woman means the beginning Of a new
era OF highly cultivated ChTistiann wives
and mothers who will never lay aside her
principle or sense of nCdesty, no matter
in what country She may travel. but be as
tenacious IL her observance of what seems
proper decorun as her foreign friends are
in their Observance OF their ideas OF mod
cSty.
We hope that the mothers Of coming
generations may so order their lives that
their children may be OF the highest type,
intellectually ana physically, because of
their mothers knowledge of science and
metaphysics, TO the end that this great
nation may attain the highest standard of
civilization.
"Thiers' suggestion that homes Were the
greatest need OF the French nation, may
yet be applicable to America if we depart
much further from the customs of the
founders Of this great Republic.
We have advanced prodigiously in all
respects; let us not off with the old and
on with the new until we are sure of the
results OF the change.
Let our mothers teach their daughters
as their mothers have taught them, that
they may have something TO do in the world
besides devoting their whole time to fri
voliies; TO avoid alliances in which the
heart is not an important factor, and we
shall hear less of domestic infelicity, for
eign marriages and financial and moral
shipwrecks."