The San Francisco call., 1896-02-03
THE NEW WOMAN PRAISED
DR.. Carlos Martyr Looks Upon
Her as a Creature to Be
Admired.
The Speaker Says She Is Aglow With
New Thoughts and Expectant
With New Hopes.

DR.. Carlos Martyr delivered an address
on the "new woman" at Central Metho-
dist Church yesterday. The lecture was
gwen under the auspices of the W. c.
T. o., and was listened to by large and
attentive audience. DR.. Martyr, among
other things, said:
By the new woman, I understand not a
slangy edition OF young America who has
stolen her brothers clothes and who apes his
vices, but woman athrob with new feelings
and aglow with new thoughts, eXpectant with
new hopes, sober with new responsibilities.
broadened with new expectations and healthy
with the new activities OF this last decade OF
the nineteenth century. This Is the real new
woman-the old in new and enlarged en-
vironment.
For my part hail even the bloomer There
is common sense in it, and is something never
before found in woman's dress. The Chinese
women in the streets of San Francisco are more
sensibly dressed for outdoor locomotion than
thousands OF women who are gowned asfashion
DEGREES.
In former times women were regarded as
live bric-a-brac. They were shut in and their
world bounded by the four walls of house.
They were taught that it was 1adylike to be a
stationary article for men to write love letters
on. Then the classic draperies and clinging
skirts were appropriate-the dress suited the
life.
Old-fashioned people looked with terror
upon this appearance OF the new woman. Let
US possess our souls with patience; it will be
found that the new woman is only the old one
with larger ideas. The home will survive,
sweetheartship will survive, marriage will sur
vive, motherhood will survive. These are in
her nature. No outward changes can reverse
the feminine function or the feminine dispo-
sition.
ours is the age of larger life. 1t were ab-
surd to imagine that woman alone would re-
main unaffected by the universal trend.
Luther thought the devil was not entitled to
dll the gOOQ times. and woman has concluded
that man is not entitled 10 all the good times
hence she has helped herself to many things
winch convention has hitherto deprived her of.
IL is the lnfraction OF convention that startles
timtd folks-nothing else. We shall presently
ADJUST ourselves to the new order and wonder
now pygone times ever tolerated anything else.
DR.. Martyr then said that three facts
with regard to woman are patent, name
~: Their equality, the fact that many
duties are IN the neuter gender and the
truth that, as life becomes complex,
woman is increasingly unprovided for in
marriage.
In Massachusetts there are 10000
women in excess. There are not nus
nanos enough TO go round; hence woman
must earn living. They can't all be
housewives; they can't all teach school.
they cant all be needlewomen Hoods
''Song of the Shirt walls through too
many poverty stricken lips.
This is why" he said, ssthat thought
fui men ana women insist that those duties
and activities which are of neuter gender
and which have been arbitrarily given To
man shall be thrown open to women.n
The speaker insisted that woman is en-
titled to vote If the American doctrine of
no taxation without representation is
orthodox. He insisted that woman was
excluded from the franchise at the behest
of inherited prejudice.
DR.. Martyr answered elaborately the
scriptural objection, and maintained that
st. Paul himself was good woman suf-
fragist.