San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-13
SARAH ON BOOMERS.
THE GREAT ACTRESS TALKS OF b.
CYCLES AND THE NEW WOMAN.
She Has no Love for the New Woman and
Detests Women in Pants-She Loves
Dogs and Has Eleven.

udy WOIhdh' was lCSchpiJ oohCu
Sarah Bernhsrdt. She replied:
"Mine? Oh, N.Y. like a woman
to be a woman-sweet, pretty,
amiable, the inferior of man, who
believes him to be greater, wiser,
better than she. Women may
like to think they are stronger,
ADLER, cleverer than man until
crisis, then their physique tells.
They are no longer unreal, fanciful
things, but real women, who need
the strong arm, the stout heart,
the clever head OF the man. God
made man to be the head-women
must obey.
"There is Louise Michael" she
continued. "In Paris3they say she
Is new woman. l am very fond
Of Louise Micheal and interested
in her plans, but 1 am sure Louise
Micheal does not want women to
be what / read the new woman Is.
81 look out of my coupe in the
park and 1 see women in boomers.
Very strange! In Paris the reign
ing fad is the bicycle. Everybody
rides-men, women, children.
Boomers? Oh, no! Women Of
good family and position do not
wear them, although the best
women, the grande DANES, ride
bicycles.
ga smart woman can look very
chic on on a bicycle II she rides
well. 1t gives an awkard woman
an absurd appearance, but truly
graceful woman who holds her
shoulders back, her head well up
and moves her legs properly makes
very smart appearance. Women
can look as attractive on a wheel
as on horseback. Why have not
women worn boomers on horse
back, eh, the new woman! 1t will
pass, new women ana boomers.
Men can excuse much, but not
women in pants
"Do you ride the wheel?"
"Only in the country-I am very
fond of the wheel in the country.
1t is amusing, and it improves the
health. 1t is good for your Ameri.
can women. They don't get air
enough-nst like the English
and these-(Mme. Sarah cast a
look of horror OF the hotel radiator
which was heating her parlor to
suffocation(-Mon Dieu they must
kill a graveyard full every day.
For me the open log-wood fire.
"Do you believe in divorces?"
was asked.
81 believe it is good that di-
vorce is possible, but since divorce
has become easier in France, sepa-
rations have decreased very much.
People, knowing that divorce is
possible, think more before marri-
age as to the character, tenn
permanent and circumstances of
their partners. In France society
turns its face against divorced peo-
ple-they can never 60 in good
society. In England it is not quite
80 strict, and American friends
tell me that it makes no differ
ence here. But l don't believe
such conditions can last it strikes
too hard at the family; it makes
society too unnatural"
"Do you believe, as some do
that marriage will become a part
nership dissoluble by mutual con-
sent?"
"Never, never. Three hundred
years hence-that, Mon Dieu, and
the little Children" Oh, never,
never. 1t can never be! Laws
will become more stringent, not
lees. By and by, fifty years, per-
haps, there will be no divorces a
la Dakota. 1t is bad for society.
No, not even the msn-woman-
pardon, the new woman would
want that. Women may want the
law to give them great privileges,
too much for their good, but they
will never want the marriage tie
to be too easily broken. Some
women are old at forty"
american women, | think, re-
semble French women and little
the English; but American women
are always charming. Miss Dsven-
port, how old is she?'"
"Say forty-five."
81 do not think we'll preserved.
Ada Rehsn? Forty? All, we'll she
is we'll preserved. Mrs. Cora Pot
ter ia young, charming; very
charming woman. An artistic? /
never saw her play. like her as a
woman. But Julia Marlowe.