The herald., 1896-07-21
CRAUIAUODA ASSEMBLY
The New Woman in Her
Element
yBE REVEREND ANNA SHAW TALKS
About the Effects of the
WOmen's Ballot
REV. CARLOS MARTYN D. D.
Delivers His Famous Lecture on the
REV. CARLOS MARTYN D. D.
Delivers His Famous Lecture on the
New Wcman
Before An Enthusiastic Audience Com
PISSED Largely Of Women
Stops Are Taken for the Organization OF .
Woman's Suffrage Club for Long Beach.
The Program for Today.
Chsutauqua Brevities

Yesterday the new woman was in her
element. Two of the most famous ex-
ponents of woman's suffrage in the
United States occupied the afternoon
and evening sessions of the Chautauqua
assembly. On both occasions the audi
torium was filled with an audience in
which the women were largely in the
majority. In the afternoon. preliminary
to the lecture of DR.. Martyr, Rev. Anna
Shaw conducted a haIf-hour question
box. Some of the questions which the
audience sent to the platform were:
"Why ought women vote?" How will
suffrage affect women's wages?" How
mas the opening up of new lines of work
forced the wages of men down, and been
thus detrimental?' Don't men repre-
sent women at the polls?" How is
voter to know, how to vote for womans
suffrage at the general election on No
vember 3rd?" "Will not the ballot for
woman greatly aid in the settlement of
moral questions?" Women don't want
to vote?"
Rev. Anna Shaw devoted a few mo-
ments to answering each of these ques-
tions. great many of her expositions
of the inquiries made were full of wit
and humor, which caused continual
smiles and laughter among the audi
ence. Rev. Shaw is pleasing speaker;
her logis Is irresistible; nobody puts
things just as Miss Shaw does. Friend
and foe of the vexed question of woman's
suffrage alike admire her. Even the
man who quivers under her blows.
smiles, applauds and admires. She is
born orator. has pleasing voice which
she does not spare. Miss Shaw unhesi-
tatingly predicts that the time is very
near when the elective franchise will
De given to women-in all probability at
the coming election-by the adoption of
the XI. amendment to the constitution
of the state of California
MRS. Mia I. Maynard presided, and
with her on the platform We're other
members of the Woman's Suffrage Cam
Paign committee, including Mrs. Lulu
Plie Little, corresponding secretary;
Mrs. Alice P. Ludlam, Mrs. Alice M. Nc
Comas and Mrs. l.. II. Meserve
Inc hour OF Rev Charles Martyrs ad-
dress having arrived, he was introduced
oy MRS. Maynard to deliver his famous
address on the New Woman.
DR.. Martyrs conception of the new
woman is not the sangy edition of young
America whi1h initiates the clothes and
vices Of her brother, but a woman pul-
satlng with new ideas, aglow with new
nopes, sober with new responsibilities.
nealthy with the new activities of this
last decade of the nineteenth century
1nlS is the real new Woman-the old
woman In new and enlarged environ
ment. The speakers idea of the much
uaiheo-o1 boomers is in sympathy with
TINS sensible dress for out-of-door exer-
else, as we'll as in the gymnasium Too
often the ordinary dress cramps tho
wearer In the free exercise of the limbs
much as the Chinese woman's feet are
distorted, in keeping with the custom
or the orient. When women were looked
upon in earlier times as sort of bric-a-
brac, and their lives were bound in hv
the four walls of their habtation. when
they were learned and were taught IN
DeneVe that 1t was the proper sphere
OF lady to be stationary article for
men to indite love letters to- the lassic
draperies and clinging skirts were suited
to the ideas of the age. But at present
the ADOPTION by the new woman of out
of-door habits and occupations cause
the clinging garments to become null
Sance that must be done away with
Woman is no longer hothouse plant
or chronic invalid, as in the days when
she was mirrored in bygone novels as
fainting decorously with or without oc-
casion, merely because it was the natu-
raj expression of the old in door artifi-
.cial form of life
The new woman glories in her strength
and health, and delights in fresh air
and exercise. She has discarded the
grapevine theory of womanhood.
and feels competent to stand on her own
feet and prefers the head on her own
shoulders to the time-honored idea that
"the head of the woman is the man"
The old woman wanted nothing but a
husband; after that everything The
new woman wants everything, hus-
band included. and she gets it,
Until recently woman played fox to
mans lion. The word virgin" might be
derived from the Latin ''vir." a man.
and the old English word gin trap,
meaning literally mantrap. Nowadays
women, without despising matrimony,
are serenely conscious of their ability,
II need be, to exist without it.
ssuoU luSlI u! dIeq Oh uonBulIs B 9YII pInoM
Let the old-fashioned folk who look
with terror upon the apparition of the
new woman possess their souls in pa
tience. 1t will be found that the new
woman is only the old one in a new
environment with enlarged ideas and
ampler freedom OF action The home
will survive; sweetheartship, marriage
and motherhood, all will survive, for
these things are grounded in the nature
of woman. and no outward changes can
revolutionize the feminine function or
the feminine disposition. Nature will
keep the new woman well within her
ances may first be-
Ours is the age of a larger. freer life.
1t is absurd to imagine that in such an
era women alone would remain un-
affected by the universal trend. Even
as Luther thought the devil was not
entitled to all the good times, so woman
has decided to take her share of the
good times which convention has hith-
erto decreed to belong to man alone.
1t is only the infraction of convention
that startles the timd folk. The new
order Of things will presently become so
natural that people will wonder how
by-gone times ever tolerated anything
else, just as they now wonder how their
ancestors ever got along without rail
roads, steamships, the telegraph and the
electric light.
There are three facts with regard tc
woman that now seem to be self-evi-
dent. First, man and woman are equal
To quote from quaint old writer: "God
did not take woman from mans head