Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-03-07
PRESS COMMENT.
Preserving the Equilibrium.

Preserving tne EqutllDflum.
Numerous sociologists are coming for
ward Just now with views. There seems
to be belief that the indefinable creature
We call the new woman has unsettled the
marriage relation. The numerous di-
vorces, the unwillingness to assume the
burdens of maternity, the dissatisfaction
with a contracted sphere, are assigned as
the unerring indications of condition
which is destined to shatter all dreams of
domestic bliss.
Prof. Felix Adler takes gloomy view
of the FUTURE He thinks the departure
from the old custom of permitting the
marriages is one of the "perls," but the
growing equality of the sexes he consid-
ers the greatest. The old theory that the
husband is superior, dolorously confesses
the sociologist, doesn't go any more.
In those elder days it was an easy mat
ter to bring ABOUT what answered every
purpose of domestic harmony. The lord
of the then creation set his foot down and
that settled it. But In this latter end of
the century "the lord of creation" has be-
come an incident of creation and when
he puts his foot down it is very much as
if he we're giving an imitation of how he
would walk on eggs.
Although Prof Adler states the "peris"
correctly, he falls lamentably down when
he attempts to explain how we are going
to dodge them. He talk Economically
rather than convincingly of "higher
ideals" and the Continuance of court
ship after marriage" The very "peril"
,;,oe er,r, 10 dauaIo r,f Uhiph or
ideals"
Woman has had little to do but perfect
her ideals while the old man has been out
hustling to pay the rent and the grocery
bill. While he has been porlng over old
accounts or trying to placate the customer
from the deep interior, she has been read:
lug Browning or "Woman's Mission in the
World" The race was uneven and the
old man has been made to feel that he is
at best but groveling creature with
dyspeptic stomach and low ideals. Even
his physical su periority hasg gone. Hurried
lunches and stuffy Office have made a
wreck of his once proud form while she,
under the guidance of the physical cul-
ture professor, has developed her muscles
and learned to kick the gew-gaws off the
chandelier.
Prof Adler will have to come again.
If he will bring his mind around to it and
assist DR.. Cutler, of New York, in work
ing out his idea of new man for the new
woman all may yet be we'll. The great
majority of households are running along
in pretty much the same way as of old.
But for fear the new woman becomes 80
numerous that she will bring the birth
rate down to the level of the death rate,
the new man should be created as a
sort of foil. He can obtain valuable
suggestions from the old man, whose
name is legion and who has tried
his scheme successfully on occasions
when the new woman idea has
begun to make trouble for him. He
will differ from the old man 10 degree
and become more positive and self-assert-
i've solely because the new woman can
not be treated as chivalrously as the old
woman.
This may be the transition period, as
Professor Adler suggests, but the "eman-
cipation Of SEX" about which We hear so
much, will only make trouble for the new
woman in the end. 1t will not be long
until she is fored to compromise with the
new man, who has been developed 10
order that the equilibrium may be re-
tanned st. Louis Republic.