Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-12-16
4 Splendid Lecture
Was That Delivered By Rev. L.
Shaw.
On "The New Man." at the Y. n.
@. a, Last Bvening-A Large
Au3ience Present-An Outline Of
HeI Discussion.

entertainment that has yet been given
of this seasons course.
Miss Shaw spoke for over an hour
and half, and gave the large audience
present delightful intellectual treat.
Her effort last night proved her to be
a woman of high intellectual attain
ments and a master of wit and sar-
casm. She was introduced to the aud
ience by MIR. w. P. Hubbard, Of the AS
sociation.
Miss Shaw, after prefacing her ad-
dress with a few remarks concerning
the new woman" said that inasmuch
as men have told what kind of woman
they like and want her to be, it is
about time to turn the tables and tell
what kind Of men we women want.
The question is, will the new man
be more like his mother or his father?
! VIII he dress as women do? VIII he
part his hair like his father, on the
side, or like his mother, in the middle?
Miss Shaw named some Of the Qualiii-
cations the new man" would have.
She said what the world needs in the
new man" is a better physical devel-
opment The young women OF to-day
were better physically developed than
the young wOmanhoOd OF twenty-five
years ago. This she attributed great
deal to the gymnasiums that had been
established at the various semlnarles
and schools for women. She made a
strong plea for more exercise for wo-
men and said that it was not over study
or higher education that was killing
the girls in the schools to-day, but un-
der exercise. She asked why there
should not be a corresponding physical
DEVELOPMENT in the men. They are
shorter to-day than they were twenty
/ five years ago, and not physically equal
to the men of that time. She attributes
this 10 certain habits INDUCED in by
young men and mentioned alcohol and
nicotine as especially detrimental to
! the highest and best development. She
| believed that TIE new man would refuse
to form any ha5it of life that would in
terfere with hi7 physical, moral or in
tellectual improvement. The new wo-
man demands o. The new man better
physical deveiol llent. The new man
must also be a More intellectual man
than of the past. The lecturer made
q comparison of the records of the boys
and girls in o. own schools. Sne
said that two girls for every boy grad
uated from our grammar schools. Ihls
| is not because the girls are brighter or
have more intelligence, but is the fault
Of society. Boys are taught just rs
soon as they are able to walk straight
TO get money. to start into business
/ and taught that the almightiest thing
of all is the dollar. Thus they leave
school in the lower grades in order to
get into business and earn money. Miss
Shaw here sarcastically criticised adul-
alton and favoring which Americans
displav for titled foreigners. This was
( highly enioyed by the audience. she
said that we had in this country de-
| graded ideas Of life. Character and
ability were highly estimated and great
regard shown to men who have created
vast wealth regardless of the means
employed. This adulatiOn for wealth
and intense desire to get rich has tas
| tened itself upon the people and ac-
counts for the reason why - out OF
every 100 men who enter business fail.
Tho new man also should not have an
idea that any form OF labor was degrading
but that any man who renders service TO
inc race by any kind of labor is giving
j something to the race. The idea. of labor
being DEGRADED has not come from bar
barism but from the religions Of the
world. Christianity as well rs others. The
idea has been that work is in some sense
curse It has often been considered. and
IS generally so in society. disgrace for
2 woman being compelled TO toll by any
rcvorses Of fortune that may overtake the
family. The truer and higher idea is not
that YOU shall work TO eat but that you
| shall eat to work. Labor is mans crown
Of glory. To be of some service to the
! race to contribute something 70 help lift
men from q degraded condition to a
higher race Is the greatest gift God gave
TO man.
The new man and the new woman will
! not waste much time about kinds Of work
/ each shall do. We have heard n great
deal during the last twenty-five years
about what is womans work and sphere
and about women pushing into mems posi-
tions and driving them from lucrative
| emplovment Miss Shaw said that when
she was n girl there were only seven occu-
nations by which women earned a liveli-
hood. Now these occupations arc gone by
reason OF mans inventive genius. in those
davs the women wove tho cloth that made
( the garments. she made the tallow candles
to liyht the world. she cooked, which was
tbcn considered womau's work. and wait
Cd on the tables. which was another Of
her ayocations In those days she also
did the washing and was prosperous. The
washing is done now by the men and we
have men washer-women. Millinery also
used 10 be woman's work and she tid
drose-uaking but now the leading dress
makers of the world are men. Miss Shaw
stated that she had never patronizcd n
m u dress-maker and told of her first ex-
nerience of this kind and Of his ready
! acouicsceuce to give her a couple If pock-
cts in the garment.
When she said this and put her hands
into the two pockets. which were arranged
conveniently at the side. she brought
down the house" She said she would al
ways appreciate her man dress-maker for
this and would also remember him as long
as the pockets held out. Returning 10 the
subject of mems work and women's work.
she said that in the new era there would
be no contention about each others work
( but each would do what they could do
hest. This will draw men and women
closer together. and as they mingle more
: they will understand and respect each
other more. and there will be a higher
/ standard Of morality. Statistics have
shown that in the nations where men and