Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1896-08-13
lie NEW WOMAN.
Eloquent Prophecy OF What she WIN BE 4
and VIII Do

Instead Of preaching a sermon out Of
my own head, will simply quote here
few sentences from a paper by DR..
Arabella Kenealy III The Humanitarian
of London. Those who think the new
woman will be rough and mannish.
those who think she viii neglect the
duties Of home simply because she is
free TO vote, to earn her living as she
likes and to wear dress that is con
venlent and comfortable, those who are
stricken with mortal terror that she will
oppress man as he has hitherto oppressed
her, those who have no idea what she
will be like. but are simply vaguely
afraid OF her, as children are afraid Of
bugaboO i'll the dark, are respectfully
referred to the following definition Of
her: THANK heaven for the new wom-
an Not the woman who is but trav-
esty of man. She is a mere ephemeral
eruption on the face of progress, an
eruption that will shortly fade and
show the world new complexion Of
things. The veritable new woman j. at
present training in our colleges, teach
ing in our schools, serving in our hos
pitfalls, guardianing the poor and pitt
able, cycling along our rOads-in all of
which capacities she is broadening her
horizon, facing human facts, treading
conventions and social fetichis1n under
foot, learning to be a human unit rather
than social cipher. She will presently
emerge fine free creature, equal to,
yet unlike, her fellow, with mind
pure in its enlightened breadth, with
emotions full and tender, with frame
whose sensitiveness is tempered and not
tOughened by liberty and use, health
full in mind and body"
suggest III all seriousness and sorry
earnest the following course Of conduct
to Methodist ladies belonging to congre-
cations where the preacher and the lead
ing male members oppose the full..s Of
complete equalization of ito the right
women in the church esaly. Let them
of Ordinatiqr Jur Of church work alto
geTher. Let them take no measures
whatever to pay the preachers salary,
TO get the parsonage refurnished or the
church debt paid or even get any new
books for the Sunday school Let them
ignore the existence of the church as
utterly as the church ignores them.
There are other denominations where
preachers and congregations manifest
the utmost iberality on the woman
question. This lime Of severely doing
nothing viii in two years bring to.his
senses every man in the Methodist
church who now wishes to withhold
their just rights from women.
In view Of the refusal of the Metho-
dist conference once more to admit wom
en- as delegates, Rev. Anna Shaw is
moved to remark that she supposes
Methodist women will still have the
privilege of paying the bills. Just so
The Methodist church or any church
could not survive year without wom
en-. The spectacle Of women holding
fairs, begging, mildly cheating, doing
everything, even just grazing the edge
of lying and stealing, in order to pay
Methodist preachers salaries and then
having those same preachers possess the
gall to 20 to conference and oppose with
all the bitterness of their narrow, jeal-
GUS little minds the admission Of wom-
en- to the general offices Of the church. is
one to make the angels use profane Ian
guage.
The difference between the new wom-
an and the old woman is that the new
woman knows how to take care of her
self. The old woman did not
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER