The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-08-14
THE NEW WOMAN.
She Is Going to He'll on Bicycle,
Says Rev ]. B. Hawthorne
CT Atlanta. ga.

She Is "Going to He'll on a Bicycle, ="
Says Rev. ]. B. Hawthorne
CT Atlanta, ga.
We country people in our quiet little
suburban towns know little Of the advance
ment of the woman OF "up-to-date" except
through the newspapers.
Too true. though. their career IS wild,
and ompromising of true womanhood.
From the pulpit and the press wholesale
dcnurclaticn of the folly Of the women IS
vehelnently proclaimed.
4 few days ago the News and Courier
had leading editorial criticising a sermon
preached in Atlanta by DR.. Hn wthorne.
The editorial was headed, Going to Hell
on a Bicycle"
D.. Hawthorne had said: ii think the
time has come when every man who is
loyal to woman should lit up his Voice in
earnest protest against this present bicycle
craze. II the self-respectins women who
have mounted Il bicycle and paraIed the
streets Of our city knew the comm ents
they provoke from tilthy-mouthed sens
ualiSts the would certainly abandon tue In
delicate ANA nuwomauly exercise. 1t Is
simply impossible for women "to persist
in this immodeSt exhibition of themselves
to escape insult Let MS stop this abonl-
inaton before it goes any farther. l am
satisfied that majority of the women who
have made this misstep did not intend to
be i,nmo!cst and that their purposes are
pure, bat tue impression they make is
shocking to the ssnsibilities of al men
who have Il true reverence for womanhood
and q true conception of womauly mod
csty."
The daily comments:
"GoING TO EE-L on THE BIC icLE.
The Rev j. B. Hawthorne. D. D., man
ages to keep himself before the public.
He is all eloquent speaker-that is, he has
an impressive way OF speaking an in-
flute deal Of nothing and he generally
speaks to good houses because most men
and many women love sensation. DR..
Hawthorne latest sensation IS the woman
who rides bicycle He is positive that
she is going to hell on her wheel, and is
evidently afraid that she will take a good
many men along with her. In recent
sermon preached in Atlanta on the bicy-
cling woman Dr. Hawthorne said SO many
rough things about her that the fashion
able people who live in Peachtree street
were deeply incensed, and correspondent
of the Chicago Times Herald says that "a
storm Of criticism followed the doctors
sermon The correspondent continues
- "She tie bicycle woman says that
it WAS the love OF exciting pleasure that
tempted Ler 10 take the false step" said
the reverend doctor IN the vivid sermon
which has attracted so much attention.
she is mistaken 1t was not the love of
pleasure. bnt personal devil. Satan en-
tered into hey that he might degrade and
get her picture in:o the columns Of some
sensational paper aud make her the sub
ject of obscene comment IL ever club
house and gathering of filthy sensational
lists.
Then he paid his respects TO the Chris
tlan EEdeavors in this way Recently q
great religious convention il al Eastern
city concluded its exercises by a bicycle
race on the streets between seven hundred
men, women and preachers Could any
thing less than personal devil have in
stigated such q performance:
.''Of course The sermon created seEsa-
ton. Then, when questioned about his
utterances, he summed up his views in
this way: II think the time has come when
every man who is loyal to woman should
lit up his voice in earnest protest against
this present bicycle craze. If the self-re-
specting women who have mounted q bl
cycle aud paraded the streets of our city
knew the comments they provoke from
flthy-mouthed sensualists they would cef-
tainly abandon the indelicate and un-
womanly exercise. 1t is simply impossible
for women who persist in this immodest
exhibition of themselves to escape insult.
Let Us stop this abomination before it goes
anv father. am satisfied that a majority
of the women who have made this misstep
did not intend to be iu,modest and that
their purpo :e3 are pre-, + THE impression
they make Is shocking to the sensibllities
of all men who have true revnrer ce for
womanhood and a true COZ 'ption of
womanly modesty."'
Surely this is g very low VI " to take
of O healthful and not immoral kind of
physical exercise. DR.. Haw thorne is sat-
isfed that q majority of the women who
ride bicycles do not intend to be immod-
est and that their purposes are pure, but
ne shudders at the comments OF filthy
mouthed sensualists' upon the self:respect-
ing woman who have mounted bicycles
and paraded the streets of Atlanta. We
do not know what these 'Glthy-mouthed
sensualists' have said. but certainly their
comments could not have been more sug-
pestive than the remarks of the Rev. DR..
Hawthorne.
TO the pure all things are pure, and
why preacher should not be able to stand
the uniutentional and purely modest dis
play of a wonan'S ankle without having
all his wicked and lustful thoughts aroused
is one of the queer things about religion
that we can not appreciate. But. perhaps,
DR.. Hawthorne is right. If preacher of
righteousness and purity-such as he is
could think the thoughts that he suggests,
we can not imagine to what lengths the
'ilthy.mouthed sensuslists' may have
gone.
And while the women who ride bicycles
the majority Of whom are confesSedly
modest and pure-are rushing headlong to
~ H.
rest Of US pious and clean-mouthed men q
great deal Of pleasure to Sit on the curb
Stone and see them 60 by. We should be
careful, Dr.. Hawthorne. however, that We
do not beat them in the race"
Vice is monster of so frightful mien,
AS TO be hated needs but to be seen
But seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure then pity then embrace