St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-28
STUDY OF THE NEW WOMAN.
Figure of u woman and Brains
of u New Creature.

SHS lH1nkS SO.
What kind of ideas has she?
| New woman ideas, mostly.
What kind are they?
| Heterogeneous and scattering.
What does that mean?
| Um-er-Well, no two alike and all
| headed different ways.
| Hasn't she an object?
| She is one.
| But she must have some definite ain?
| Just about the same kind of an aim
a natural woman has when she throws
| a stone at anything.
You say natural woman. Isn't the
new woman natural?
| She was born that way, but she
| tries to outgrow it.
| Why?
! That's one of her IDEAS
| Has she any more like it?
| Not like it, but of the same class.
what does she do with them?
Exhibits them, principally.
TIC whom?
Oh, it's free show.
| mat means that she is promiscuous
| in her audiences?
Pretty much promiscuous
men?
Not quite. That is to say, she wants
| 10 convince the women and convict the
| men.
Convince the women of what?
That they are down-trodden sex.
And convict the men of what?
| mat they are the down-treaders.
DO the women believe her?
| those who are not in love do.
Has love anything to do with it?
wen, guess yes. When woman is
IN love she hasn't either time or wish
TO be anything else but just that
Hasn't the new woman a heart?
She mas what the dictionary calls
tine muscular organ, situated in the
thorax, the action of which determines
| the circulation of the Blood
What has become of 1,;o
| of heart?
It's all gone to her head.
What effect has it on her head?
Jumbles it up so inside that she
doeSn'I know a handbook from a bal
| lot-boX
Does the new woman want to vote?
She doesn't know what she wants
Thats about Observation-Disclosures
| WHAT'S the matter with her.
What do the men think of her?
| They never think of her when they
| can help it.
| And when they can't help it?
Oh they just laugh.
| Does she like to be laughed at?
| She doesn't seem to care.
Isn't 1t true that woman can't en-
| dure being laughed at?
The natural woman can't; but we
are discussing the new woman
Why IS she unnatural?
Because she is Self-made
Aren't self-made men the greatest?
| 1t IS SO said, but the new woman
| isn't man-yet.
| Then, what is sauce for the gander
| is not sauce for the goose?
Only in the imagination of the goose.
is the new woman masculine?
| In her mind
In no other respect?
In her apparel and in her manners,
| as far as she dares.
| What is she afraid of?
| Other women. ----,
! And not men?
Oh, no; she isn't afraid of the men.
She can't help being enough of a wo1n-
an, when men are around, TO have a
| certain instructive effect upon them;
| but she can't be enough of man when
| women are around to nave any in
stinetive effect upon them.
How does she win converts among
| the women?
By being as won,anly as she knows
| how.
For instance?
She argues for dress reform; she
| advocates a mild form of well-regu-
| lated independence; she suggests a
! wider intelligence, and does a lot Of
| other talking for the good of woman
| regardless of man.
She isn't quite a fool, then?
| Not by several lengths.
| Does she win many converts?
| She wins some, and sets good many
| to thinking.
Why isn't she successful with all
women?
She is too radical. The average
| woman, after 5000 years of being worn-
an, finds some difficulty in growing
whiskers and putting on pants in a
| hurry.
Does the new woman advocate such
| radicalism?
| The real new one does.
Are there degrees of newneSS?
Oh, yes; some of the real new ones
would like to see congress pass laws
| repeating the laws Of nature:
Are there many like that?
About enough to queer the entire
| lot.
Does the new woman ever marry?
| Not unless she reforms.
| But most Of them are married?
1t happened in their natural state.
| What kind of wives did they make?
The kind that hangs the motto, God
| Bless Our Home on the wall, and
| leaves the balance to the hired. girl.
Why were they such wives?
It's a way some women have.
| Is that the kind all new women are?
Not necessarily, but the good wife
and the good mother doesn't take a
day off to be a new woman.
Some women can't be good wives
| and good mothers?
Possibly they could if they tried as
| hard to be that as they try to be
| good men.
Are girls ever new women?
They think they are, but as a rule
| they don't seem to fit.
| Can't they learn now!
| They can if Cupid, doesn't happen
to catch their hearts before they have
gone to their heads.
| Love humans them, as It were?
| Exactly.
| A new woman must be somewhat of
| an old woman before she is eminently
| successful, mustn't she?
Yes. The feminine heart was made
| to f1utter, and nothing on earth can
| prevent it doing something in that lins
| when If iS and sweet and hQo G
| to the measure of the music that has
thrilled the world since Adam first
| heard the voice of Eve.
Then why is the new woman at all?
| The f1utter business is not always
! permanent Like any other, it is liza
| BILE to bankruptcy. When woman is
| bankrupt In heart she either dissolves
! into tears or hardenS into stone.
Does that mean that the new woman
| belongs to the stone age?
! That's about it.
Aren't the men to blame for it to
| some extent?
Of course.
Couldn't they help the new woman if
! they would?
help; that's what she is fighting
| against; she wants to be independent.
Then why don't the men let her be
that way?
when the new woman really needs help
| she can only get it from the men.
| They are her natural protectors, and
she hasn't been able so far to dispense
with their services entirely.
| Will she ever be?
She has some sort Of vague fancy
| that she will.
| Why does she have it?
| 1t is the result of the strain incident
| to her reaching for the unattainable.
| Is what she is after unattainable?
| Certainly.
| How do you know?
The Creator didn't build her that
way.
| How did he build her?
| Unlike any other creature. He made
| all the others of dust, including Adam
When he had breathed the breath of
| life into man he took Of this new SUBJ
stance and made woman. If he had in
| tended her to be mans equal he would