The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-15
THE NEW WOMAN.
AN ADDRESS DELIVERED BY MISS
ELSIE ADA FAUST.
At the Alumni Banquet at the Uni
versity of Utah Held Last Week.


Elsie Ada Faust at the University alum
nj banquet last week:
! was pleased indeed when 1 was called
upon to respond TO the toast of the New
Woman: The expectancy and rose of the
fair state The subject-truly great
one-is one near to my heart, and the
only fault l had to find with it was in
the adjective new
The new woman. properly speaking, is
the female infant born today or yesterday
and to be considered on such occasions as
this some twenty years hence.
Then there is the new woman of the
funny paperS-not to be considered at all
mythical monstrosities clothed in mems
attire, endowed with mems faults, equip
ped for mems work; without womanly
beauty, Womanly dignity and wholly de-
sense.
A creature born of some over-tired
81 LII e-nne vi desperation, with the
laudable excuse that it were better TO
make people laugh than to weep.
The new woman we shall consider,
than the sun that shone today is a new
sun or the stars that shine tonight are
new stars. To one who has Only begun
to see they might all appear new, but
they have ever existed, conforming al
w. 5 ~ Iod' S. lmTnuIaDIe laws
The smouidering thoughts and feelings
accomplishing in woman since the tune
,..l4. = e AID ner husband were thrust
from the Garden of Eden began to make
! themselves manifest when the Pilgrim
Mothers and their husbands, severing
themselves from their old life, set sail
ter the rocky shores of America; became
more tangible when our Pioneer Mothers
Van thief husbands turned their backs
on Old disquietudeS and 6auntiesSly pur-
sued their way toward the setting sun
here in this fair state to seek peace and
room for their greater needs: and have
illuminated in set of women with OPP
portunities to- cultivate the brains and
muscles God has gwen them and with
brains and muscles to cultivate greater
opportunities.
as l4d.in4st who with upturned eyes
and an ominous shake OF the head fears
that woman is becoming too independent
has cause for his fears.
She has only just begun to know her
strength, and she is going to try that
strength to the utmast.
solit 5 going to be Just as independent
as her heart, conscience and soul will
permit. She will never rest until she
mas tasted all the sweets and bitJernesses
heretofore reserved for man only. She
| will know what there is in life without
any secondhand opinions from her
brother.
With such aids as this noble institu-
| ton, she VIII seek the knowledge neceS-
sary for her advancement, and, better
still, she will train her daughters into
| that much-feared independence and
| greater expansion of spirit; but, best of
all. she will train her sons that their
l
| htndering, but in the helping of woman 5
progress.
The dea that woman is not born with
| as great mental attachments as man l
| will not for one moment entertain; for
so long as women are the mothers of
! their sons, they must bequeath according
! to the laws of heredity their mental,
| moral and physical characteristics TO
men for their fathers by those same laws
they must inherit so-called masculine
! qualities.
| in separating the sexes and theoretically
endowing each with separate elements of
character, that they have DOT had time
to see (and the misunderstanding OF
! this subject depends largely on the lack
of seeing) that there is no difference, for
| If we look we'll we will find that all the
vanities and faults supposed to be wholly
feminine may be found just as OFTEN IN
man as in woman; and all the noble
| traits and attributes of which men have
assumed a monopoly appear just as often
! in woman. To me it is a sure indication
that our Heavenly Father created our
souls seXless, when, bound by Old tradl-
tons and limitations, as she is, woman
! could do anywhere near as well as man.
The new woman, or rather woman IN
her new light, does not look down upon
| her fellow man as is commonly supposed,
not at all, for she knows, however short
he may fall below the ideal, she may
not do any better.
|
mounted, with her voluminous sleeves
set to, the breszes, she will not take more
than her half of the road All she asks
is equal start and privileges down the
race of life.
The question is often asked, Will tbs
word be better for this new influence
women will have?
AS we'll ask if the world will be better
for the vapor high up amongst the lofty
peaks of the Alps condensing into the
pure white snow which crowds down
veined with denser crystal and loaded
with impure moraineS to meet the warm
kisses of the sun, by which it is converted
into tiny rivulets that wend their way
to the blue lakes beyond, carving life
and joy to millions of growing things.
! Better or worse though she may make
the world she will have the satisfaction
that men have ever craved that of graft
flying the ambition born within her.
A few can touch the magic string,
And noisy Fame is proud to win them
Alas! for those who never sing,
But die with all their music in them.
Nay, weep not for the dead alone
Whose song has told their hearts sac
Weep for the voiceless, who have known
The cross but not the crown of glory.
To me the heroes of history have al
ways been the heroines. They have beer
the mothers by whose suffering the hu-
man race has been propagated-the wo-
men who in any great undertaking have
bravely and patiently, with willing hearts
and helping hands, been ever ready tc
bear their part.
I can say, as the most of you can say
that the best friend of my life has beer
a woman. / might say more, that the
best friends [ ever had have been women
The greatest helps in mental. moral, ply
seal and social ways. and his is indeed
an unhappy lot which does not include
such friends; and he is indeed ungrateful
unworthy of being an American, much
less citizen of our fair state. who car
say he has not drawn his best inspiration
( from a woman.
Nv faith in Woman is great md I