The San Francisco call., 1896-03-17

of Senator A. A. Sargent; Mrs. John T.
Swift, president of the Century Club, and
Miss Susan B. Anthony. Mrs. Cooper in
trcduced the lecturer, who spoke, substan-
TALLY, as follows:
Ineed say nothing about the new woman.
We know all about her. The paragrapher has
told us all about her. She has been thoroughly
dissected ever since she first came. We did
not know that we wanted her and now we
know that we could not live without her. We
are glad she is here and we hope she will settle
down and leave us in peace. She resembles
.ne oid woman IN one thing. she never IN
tends to go IT alone. But she needs new man.
We only find her to be an old woman with a
few modern improvements. We have come to
the conclusion thet the new woman will be
among other things new mother-inlaw, but
TO be a mother-in-law there must be son-in-
law. and she is looking for him.
We are no longer disturbed to know whether
the new woman will dress like her father or
like both. Miss Anthony says she has had
more letters regarding the dress of women,
and particularly with reference to bloomers,
than with reference to any other subject. The
fear seems to be that the new woman will re-
sort entirely to bloomers. But they need have
no fear of that. A woman will always try to
look her very best, and no human being can
look well in mems clothes. Consequently we
will leave you your clothes.
The bloomer woman came; she remained
short time and then she disappeared, because
bleomers are contrary to nature. In fact, any
kind OF garment IS contrary to nature; but if
there is anything under the light OF the sun
that nature ever approached it is dress
coat.
walk and how will he dress? Will he dress like
his father or like his mother? Will his ulster
trail on the ground? VIII his hair be parted
in the middle? How will he manage himself
anyhow? We don't know, but this we do
know: He will have an easier time than the
new woman has had, because he will not be
made as ridiculous by the new woman as she
was by the old man.
great many sissy men, and if there is any
thing worse than a masculine woman it is a
sissy man.
The new woman has the same right to criti-
cize the new man that the present man exer-
cises in criticizing the new woman. She has
got to tell the new man what kind of a man
she is going to marry, because she has always
been told what kind of q woman he is going
to marry.
The one thought that first impresses us is the
large SIZE OF the II men and the handsome
tanned 10 the stature of gladiators. In the
East they are smaller and are growing smaller
During the last twenty-five years the stature
of women has been increasing and that of men
has been de creasing. So that unless some
thing transpires 10 change this the new woman
will find it impossible to do what it has always
been told them 1T was their duty to do-look
up to the new man.
When we make an investigation as to the
cause of this we find that SO far as the women
are concerned it is due to the conditions hat
make IL essential for women to take exercise.
The day has gone by when woman can say that
she is vulgarly healthy. When was in college
it was said that women could not bear the
physical strain necessary in college. Now |
have known something of women in college,
and have never known a young woman to
study herself to death. 1t was really under
exercise that interfered with her course at
college. She didn't go into the campus and
take the necessary amount of physical exer-
else.
The new man will be better educated man.
of labor to-day. Both the man of business and
the woman home-maker ana mother reoufres
the best of Intelligence: woman VINO is
learning and fitting herself for most any kind
of profession.
Not one woman in ten to-day is fit to marry,
riage, and consequently men and women will
not marry as they did in the past and the re-
suits will be better.
The new man will be more intelligent. and
will therefore be more fair and Just 10 women
/ believe that the new man will be on a
higher plane of morality than he has been in
the past. There Is no reason why women
should not demand OF men the same strict
virtue that is looked for in women Mans
motive has never been high enough His
course of conduct has not been based on the
high dignity that it should be, and the
ideal man cannot sink below that conduct
not because of his relation 10 women,
but simply because ne is q man. because the
man has too noble character to degrade him
self. believe that what the young manhood
of to-day needs is to get the consciousness OF
the dignity of his character, the vast posi-
bilities which give every man everywhere not
only intellectual and physical but moral posi-
bilities which ennoble him. When we have
this ideal man the new man will utterly refuse
to take advantage OF woman simply because OF
his physical strength.
In speaking of the acknowledged falsity
of the old saying that competition is the
life of trade, she said that it had been