The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-05
MORE ABOUT THE NEW WOMAN.

Love" and "obey" have been di-
vorced in the marriage ceremony. The
separation being a demand of the new
woman" it becomes absolute. Here
after if the loving and obeying are both
to be done by either it will have TO
be.,by the husband. The new woman
proposes to love, and just as hard as
the old woman. but not necessarily
her husband. As for obeying she will
obey nobody. In cases where she
loves she will expect the one she loves
to do the ''obey" act.
The Rev Thomas Dixon of New
York, in the Academy of Music, last
Sunday, announced that he was done
| with the word ''obey' so far as the
woman is concerned, for all the fu-
ture. He gave it as his experience,
and from observation, that no woman
ever thoroughly in spirit obeyed any
| man. The apostle Paul in advising
women to obey their husbands advised
i the men TO have nothing to do with
women. Obedience, Mr.. Dixon held
to be an all round relic Of barbarism
and that all divorce laws are based
on the principle of the inferiority of
the woman, which principle is a mere
primitive presumption.
When a woman agrees to obey she
acknowledges to a moral and a men,
tai inferiOrity. She should not for she
is not. AS rule woman's judgment
is something higher and nobler than
mans. Her subconsience, that is her
subjective soul, or the findings of that
within her which we denominate
woinan'S intuition, are purer than the
deductions of mans coarser objective
reason.
There is much light made of the new
woman. The majority seem uncon-
WINGED Of her entirety. Half OF the
world view her as myth or as joke
at most But the '.new woman is
here in real ernest, not of her own
motion but by the environment of de-
yelopment. She is u survival of con-
ditions, and being, therefore, the tit
test, is here to stay. She is in our
wheel will soon roll her into our
trousers. In short she is ours, or
what seems more likely, we are hers.
The sovereign power of her gentleness
is resolved into ninnyism. Soft bodies
will not so soon give place to muscular
outlines, but her external Smoothness
is no longer indicative of her heart
Its mild feXiblenesS is already stern
obdurate, remorselesS beneath her gen.
tleSt smile. Woo who will, but the
time to sue is at hand. Men will not
give like gods" but render as slaves.
The future standard of virtue will be
a single one, to which woman will de-
scend but to which man must come UP.
She will in ceasinS to be an extreme
become medium and common Instead
of being ever a delightful contradic-
ton, she will be an Obdurate fact. |
Whatever God and nature may have
originally made her, man and condi- |
tons have changed her into that which |
she is even now showing herself to be. |
1t will not be hereafter tea and tattle |
IOf her ana WhlSkey and cigars for |
him, but whatever he asks she will de-
mand. AS Mother Eve, in passing
over the apple, dished up a lot of law
and gospel to Adam; so the new woman |
will no longer plead her frail and de-
fenceless sex but swipe the old man |
one where he lives His domestic |
slave will become his equal foe, if |
there is to be any foe in the business.
and furious one. Instead of weaken
ing him with the gendeness OF an |
April shower of tears, she will wipe
him off the earth with the vehemence |
and vigor of n combined cyclone and |
twiSter. It is therefore wisdom to
say that the new woman is all right |
as 1T will be in the near future dam
gerous to assert that she isn't.