The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-02-15

number shall not grow indefinitely
The case of Mrs. Getz. who. left a widow,
with herself and children to support, and
who undertook her duty In the line of
business her husband had followed. is
in point. The underwriters of the town.
/ with i.cXplicable stupidity and narrow
ness, endeavered to drive Mrs. Getz out
of the field. A letter from Mrs. Bertha
Honore Palmer to Mrs. Getz's employ
ers. r. ID. Hirschberg & Brother, ma
terially helped to bring the opposition
to reason and decency. Mrs. Palmer.
with characteristic right reason and
| prompt sympathy. declares that 1t is
/ almost incredible, that such an incident
should have happened in this day of ad-
I vanced thought and of Industrial free
I dom for women 1t Is to be observed
also that the women who are making
I the most impression in this enlarged
professional and Industrial field
by individual ability, high per-
sonal character and success. are they
who say the least about what they are
doing. and of whom little is heard out
side the several paths of activity in
which they are honorably and profit
ably occupied
Rev. Anna Shaw has been lecturing
on THE New Man" and like every
thing else that she says or does, her
lecture Is well worth the hearing. It is
noted however that Miss Shaw does not
set the date for the appearance of this
new creature. The Philadelphia Press
reports the lecture as delivered in that
city. 1t says that she predicted that
E..v tn al,
swear nor gamble. lie will do none
of these things because "he will be pre-
eminently man in the development of
his physical organism and will indulge
in nothing that will degrade his bodily
! development" Miss Shaw had seen
it written that Il man should not smoke
until he was so years of age. II the
new man follows this rule she thought
that at that age he would he married
to the new woman and that assertive
female would then see that he never
indulged in the weed. As the result Of
this abstemiousness Miss Shaw foresaw
an increase in the stature of the race.
! There will be giants in those days"
The new man may be Il champion bat
ter. or even Il football player" but he
will indulge in these sports entirely as
pastime and during seasonable hours.
AS logical consequence professional
mines will become n thing of the past,
and the heavy hitters Of today will be
known only as myths. Miss Shaw
was very earnest on this point. and
scoffed at the idea of paying men more
to play baseball than to work.
The new man IL not to be an effemi-
nate creature. lie is to be "a fit mate of
the new woman" He Is also to be
intellectual, but mot from the mere
study OF books" His mind will be n
legal one. and he shall judge accurate
ly between right and wrong even when
woman is concerned. This athletic
foot ball playing individual with the
legal mind Is also to he well developed
morally. Not that the world will be
absolutely pure. but he will be able to
walk in the midst of temptation with
out being affected any more than vac
cinated man is physically who walks
through a smallpox hospital" He will
be "a moral influence for virtue, and
go side by side with the new woman,
clasping her hand with a hand as pure
as hers" The new man will also be re-
ligious. although he will pay more at
tention to his life than he will to creed.
He is to be a manly man. but tender,
true, and loving. His intercourse with
man is to be that of brother with
brother. He Is also going to be a
brother to the new woman. Miss Shaw
intimated that the sisterly racket on the
part OF the young women should be OFF,
set by something of the sort she indi-
Gates. The new man in business life Is
going 20 be benefited by the new busi
ness woman. He will no longer have
to spend money in buying cigars and
drinks i'm order to close his bargains,
for the female drummer will do away
with such methods.
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Says the Allentown Chronicle: THE
decision of a Scranton Judge that a
wife has the right to club her hus-
band over the head with an umbrella
will prove of paramount interest to
every wife in the city of Allentown. as
well as to husbands and to every mer-
chant in this city who deals in umbrel-
las. The oldfashioned way and one
which has always been recognized in
well ablished families in Reading
was for the poor down-trOdden wife to
bang her husband over the head with
a rolling pin. This was clear viola
ton of the statutes and husband has
the right to claim the protection of the
law If his wife comes home from meet
ing of the sewing circle and wants to
restore the peace and preserve the
family honor with the aid of so diaboli-
cal a weapon as a rolling pin. In this
city the rolling pin is somewhat out of
date among our more fin de sciecle
wives. We know woman In this city
who had occasion to reprove her hus-
band for failing to sew button on her
dress when she ordered him to. The
husband had the temerity to talk back,
when the partner Of his bosom grabbed
q big plump, over-ripe. warm lemon
custard and showed it right in his face,
after which she took him and threw
him head foremost in the sour-krout
barrel. This, however, was an extreme
case.
whenever the Society for the Pro-
viding of Chest Protectors for the Sene-
gambians meets one of the most fruit
full subjects of discussion Is What is
the proper weapon for the correction of
a husband The subject has never
been satisfactorily settled. Now that
the court has decided the question we
may expect run on umbrellas, and we