Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-06-04
WOMEN OLD AND NEW.
PROMINENT MEN AND WOMEN Dis-
cuss THIS QUESTION.
Nate Field Thinks She II Not New at All.
All Seem 90 Think OF Her In Connso-
zion with . Bi0ycis-some Intsrsstins
Opinions.

All Seem % Think OF Her In Conneo-
zion with . Bioycis--soms Intsrsstins
Opinions.
: Several prominent writer's have been In
terviewed by the Chicago Times Herald as
10 their opinions Of that much talked Of
parsonage, tho new woman. An interest
ing synopsis Is tho result, from which the
following arc extracts:
| For one, I am weary Of this idiotic bab-
rble about tho new woman. "There ain't
no sich person., declared Betsy Prig OF
Sairey Camp when that portentous person
daunted MRS. Harris" In her rivals face
for that last time, which breaks the oamel's
back and makes patience cease to be vir-
tue. There Is no new woman. SO much
nonsense Is written about my sex nova
days as to make earnest women hide their
heads in shame and long to be another
kind OF creature that might quietly go
about its business and be judged purely
on It's merits. No self respecting woman
wants to BIO judged by sox II she be work
ier. All she asks Is justice.
/ What with woman buildings, woman
editions, woman columns generally devot-
ed to twaddle fulsome flattery, horribly
distorted fashion plates and cooking recipes
for indigestible dishes, the real woman Is
lost sight Of She Is not new. She rep-
resents the glorious trinity Of love, devo-
tion and self sacrifice. She bathed Christ's
feet In tears and was first at the cross
She sold her jewels that Columbus might
discover America, led the armies OF France
to victory and was burned at the stake for
her patriotism She was torn to pieces for
her beauty and learning I'm ancient Egypt
and Is torn to pieces today In this republic,
where she dares 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 adam Bede' in
modern England, and "Uncle Toms Cab
in" in our own country. From the begin
ming of history she has been the half Of
creation and tho 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 war of sense against
folly, of reason against prejudice. III there
be war mt all, it Is war between two
kinds OF women-dolls and brains Men
are merely spectators. Whatever the major
ity Of women want men will accord cheer
fully.-Kate Field.
1t Is natural for women and sheep to
follow a leader. The same blind Juror
that has SO often dashed flock of lambs
over precipice is propelling the latter day
woman into a 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. 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
idealized, protected and cared for, some
thing in the same way that we guard our
grandmother china and treasure old lace
She was meant for the delicate image of
life, to be set apart as something choice
And why notY
Does not the sacred chrism of mother
hood sanctify her? When God chose Mary
to be the mother Of Jesus, did he not, by
that selection, raise all womanhood into
the companionship of angels? 1 do not
say that we have lived close to our election,
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
tient precept, she guided him into useful
nit .,.1o TL,
new woman may ride 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, hustlin9
and vivacious, able to take care Of herself
and her husband, too; plant potatoes, plow
cornflelds and break colts, but shall turn
her down with my last existing breath un
less she preserves her womanhood through
1t all.-Amber.
Woman Is always new to man. The
newer she can be the more she will suit
man, whose hardihood brings him up to
the times. He yearns for the friendship of
woman, to be his mate. He desires her
mind in faithful mutuality, to expand to
his, so that they can consult upon their
little empire, eye to eye. Marriage dis
cords are the result of unevenness, as In all
other machinery. The dependence Of his
wife upon other women and other men Is
to man the fatal evidence of her inferiority
A dogmatic belief that woman requires
another life from that Of man; that she
was created differently, and that her edu
cation must be pursued upon different lines
prevents the full acquaintance of husband
and wife till II Is too late for love-
Reputable science seems to teach that
the\ faculties arc tho same The brain Is
In each n storehouse Of sensation. Society
Is the schoolmaster Of existence, and pos
Tterity is tho exquisite prize of society.
Her spollbinders are superstition and
fashion. They are nearly the same.
But the dominating principle Of our age
is facts.
Which OF the great inventions was wo-
man's' The sewing machine, the type
writer, the telephone9