The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-07-27
NOT NEW WOMEN:

How grand that statue standing there,
With torch aloft in Freedoms air,
whose woman's lines, in shapelinesS,
The beauty OF our laws confess,
As from the throne Of granite, she
Proclaims to US sweet Liberty;
But not to US alone; share
Awaits all people everywhere;
And Wa admiring, lift our hands
To her, the goddess Of all lands
But how would she look in trousers?
Chaste Dian. like a wheeling star,
Above the madding crowd, afar
Swings regnant In her radiant arc,
A thing Of beauty, and q mark
For Art to aim at. Poising there,
The genius Of the upper air.
She stands tiptoe, beauteous sight,
For earth to gaze at. day and night
But how would she look In trousers? :?
Upon that wondrous dome Of steel,
Which all the roads to Rome reveal
AT washington, a goddess stands,
The proudest In a thousand lands,
And With firm, unchanging gaze,
Keeps watch and ward upon the ways
Wherein the Nation walks; she feeds
The danger that each law conceals,
And waits. enamored, for the fight
That dares maintain the peoples right
But how would she look In trousers?
In gilded, glorious Paris, there
1s found woman's figure fair;
Aepoet's dream In marble white,
The passage Of an angels flight
In cold hard stone: q Venus mould,
Eternity cannot make old;
Armless. but armed by beauty, she
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Unwrinkled by Joy, unstained by tears,
Half clad, she stands the Only One,
"A passion and q BENSON
But how would she look in trousers?
W. J. L., In N. Y. Sun.
4 - a. lE'Il II
/. "Only now and then a public woman
lends herself to methods 80 undignified
! as scolding and vituperation. The day
for that has happily gone by, and yet,
do you think q congress OF men would
be tolerated who should fling out 80 BIT
terly against the women as some of our
women, in talking about men, yet do :?
Do not men always do our sex honor,
sometimes with lavish excess far be-
yond our merits? Have we not yet TO
complain Of any hack of courtesy ac-
corded to women a. wives. mothers,
sisters and sweethearts, wherever in
teihgent and honorable men are met to-
gethte for the making Of speeches? The
lake would not be too wet a place to
or1ve that convention Of men into who
should sssaH women az have heard
nice. motherly appearing women assall
the men IN hen conventions. He IL q
'hrute'' . 'tyrant' and monster He
70 'unclaan,' 'despotic' and impure
Now, all that is wrong, and sensible
women know II. There are bad men:
there are bad women. There are
peachsS blown In the bud with worm
blight, but does that condemn ell the
orchards? am tired OF the attempt
70 blacken the character of the every
day. average man. He 10 q brick in
business, in social life and In love. and
like him. thank him for doing 10
much Of life's uncomfortable work for
me, and II he will be 70 kind, am per-
fectly willing that he should 60 on build
IN hres, killing chickens and casting my
vote at the polls while ! am kept safe
ana clean behind the scenes."
!. Hr d II II
The tritenesB Of the saying that there
ere 10 such things % trifles h borne out
hyAstpry which Major Handy tells about
Mary Andarson's drst professional .sp.
spseranue IN AlqA0gnI Of f.wlstulh event the
tAA3ot wae az eye witness. The Ly-
Seum the4tsr war crowded with an
SeYdieape ma4s Up IN part Of Agsssicsns.
Who: Were peaAy TO- applauo spyth1ng
~ xhhes5oxu actsssS ssfd o. AID, but "a
ure4ter past Of sullen Unglhh llrut-
nlehttsv tUe>ellA ~ asd OailSry, Will.
sng 90 ~ sntsntained. but incss6ulous