The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1897-01-27
Some Views on the New Woman.

A large audience in Steinway Hall
yesterday morning heard the views of
NJ. NJ. Mangasarian on "The New
Woman. Mr.. Mangasarian spoke as
follows:
"The new woman is representative
of a renaissance, of universal awak-
ening among women. am going to
advance and try to support the theory
that the woman movement, represent
ed by the new woman, is an indica-
tion that in the modern world woman
is losing ground and that this is path
etic, vigorous, sometimes frantic,
effort on the part of woman for self
preservation. The question is Are
men trying to do more and more with
out women, even to the extent of
three-quarters of their lives
"The fact, my friends. that there is
new woman and woman's move
ment proves that women to-day are
not satisfied. You say the home is
woman's sphere. Why do you not
give her home How many women
are there who ever expect to have
home, ever expect to become wives
and mothers The home, it is true,
is the sphere Of woman, but it is de-
denied her. There are more unmar
ried women to-day than ever in the
history of the United States or the
world. Why does the number of un-
married men and women increase 1t
is because man does not care for wo
men as wife and companion as much
as his fathers did.
SIS it any wonder women cry out
against this tendency to do without
them? There is another evidence Of
this. Marriages are contracted later
in life to-day, on the average, than
ever before. Man is spending agreat-
er part of his life without woman as a
companion, wife, a comrade.
''In the case of the woman who is
married and has a home you will find
my thesis that woman is losing ground
holds true. She is homeless in her
home. She is husbandless in her life
of marriage. Is it not true the habit
in this present society of ours of
spending one $ evenings away from
home is on the increase ? Is it not
true the club house has come to COM
pete with the home
"Prof. Pope, of Philadelphia, advo-
Gates marriage for limited period of
time. He is a university professor
and an educated man, and his ideas
are taken up and commented upon by
everyone His idea is young man
should live with a young woman for
three years. If they are pleased with
each other they should sign contracts
to live with each other six years Ion
ger, and so on, but if the experiment
proves unsatisfactory they should dis
solve partnership.
"NIax Nordau, in his Conventional
Lies, tells us men and women should
come together by the law of affinity.
It is no business of the State, he says,
to tell you that you shall live with a
certain woman. But if cannot build
house or sell matches on the street
without a license from society how
can I get wife and make her moth
er without the consent Of that society
that gives me my wife {?
"The quintesscnce of socialism pro-
poses another substitute for marriage,
which is known as free love. 1t is
not love they want to be free. They
want to be passion free. 1t is only
when we have acquainted ourselves
with the true situation that we shall
remedy the abuses Of which we com
plain, and at last bring to all men and
women true freedom. "-CHicago Trib-