Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-02-13

Three thousand years ago, q great
writer portrayed the New Woman; be
endowed her with industry, foresight.
business capacity, governmental ability.
compassion for the poor and practical
wisdom, adding, strength, honor and
dignity are her clothing" and over a
hundred years ago, England's greatest
poet drew a similar ideal:
"a perfect woman nobly planned,
TO warn, to comfort and command"
Here we have portrayed, not the
New Woman as she is today, but the
ideal she holds and toward which she is
growing-the ideal embodied in the
exceptional woman of the past; the raj g
mothers of the few really great men the
world has known and loved for their
moral excellence; the best type Of
motherhood, that in the New Woman,
is to reign not in few homes scattered
here and there throughout the world,
but in every home. The exception is
to become the rule. To such woman,
home will ever be her highest throne;
but the petty narrowness and selfish.
ness that binds her vision to the four
walls of her household, will include the
world. She will discover that the ideal
home is not separate from the ideal
community, the ideal state, and her
warm sympathes will embrace all these.
She will be as loving and loyal as ever
woman has been and more so, but along
with these, she will also gain on the
mental side. She will strive for that
mental strength necessary to the wise
rearing and training of the immortal
souls in her charge. How many moth
ers Of today, realizing the responsible
ties pressing upon them and trying
faithfully to rear their children to a
noble, useful manhood, feel themselves
hindered at every step by the want OF
sufficient knowledge, the need of self
culture? Do I not voice the feelings OF
niae out Of every ten mothers in the
land?
Our great thinkers, cur great states
men Of the future must be prepared for
intellectual and moral combat by the
mothers of today. 1t is her prerogative
to instil into the susceptible heart of
childhood and youth. such love Of
honor, integrity and patriotism, such a
reverence for The spiritual entities of
life as will place them beyond the in
sincerity and corruption Of the social
and political life Of today.
The time calls for new measures and
new men" and these are the result OF
childhood reared to manhood by pure,
noble and wise parentage, both father
and mother cooperating in the home
that the benefcent influence OF one may
not be annulled by the other.
The New Woman will not be asham-
ed TO understand something Of the ad-
minstration of the city, state and ma
ton. She knows that only in proper.
ton as she understands these problems
is she able to rear her sons to noble
citizenship. How can we expect wise
ballot from an ignorant ctzenship and
how can we expect the best citizenship
from boys who have been reared IN
! homes where the mother is not only
ignorant of, but indifferent to the well
fare and existing evils Of the state?
The period is rightly called "Wom-
ans age The air is full Of calls tC
noble thot and action. Clubs and con-
ventions for the advancement of women
and the elevation Of the race, multiply
on every hand. The young woman Of
today who ignores the call and the OPP
portunity, who is willing to sit suplnely
down and dawdle away her life on dress
and pleasure, with the sole aim and
purpose of marrying at the first chance
may iud herself in che years to come
crowded to the wall by her brighter
sisters, and forced to eat the bread Of
sorrow, while she mourns over lost OPP
portunities. To the New Woman, love
and marriage will come, not us the aim
Of life, the result of self-seeking but
rather as heavens best gift to woman
who has made herself worthy Of it, and
who is wisely able to fulfill in the larg-
est sense, the higher duties of wife anc
motherhood. A. ). N.
Taxation without representation, II
tyranny and robbery when applied tt
women, Just the same as when applied
| TO men.