Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-01-20
WONAN'S WORK.

Ab " iuCSub tHbeIiuE Ul LuB SuITbul
Events Glass OF the New Century
CLUB Mrs Elizabeth Bacon Walling
made the following address:
In the worlds womauhood OF our
Nineteenth Century we recognize two
distinct tyres of woman-ths storeo-
typed, mechanical prim, ultra modest,
niiebound, antiquatcd conservative and
the Thorough. going, truth seeking,
wrong Fighting, public hearted pro
gres6ionist.
With the conservative woman, with
this female rslic of primeval days, we
associate prudish notiunB, obstinate
bigotryi biased judgment, and that sub.
Bervienne to conventionality which has
over been attended by illiberal princi-
pleH and narrow activities. With the
progressive woman, with our right
minded. all.ronpd, heroic. Twentieth
Century woman, we associate inds-
ponticnt thought, just principles, noble
achievement and that altruiHtio spirit
which 10 tho inspiration to ingenious
plans and wide endeavor for the de-
yelopment, the uplifting and the per-
footing of the human race.
The new woman, which ia the epithet
popularly applied to the woman who
has brains enough to think for herself
courage enough to express her con
yictions and enough character 10 en-
| force her principles and attain her
! ideaiH. has boen, from her very birth,
I the subject OF bitter prejudice, unkind
/ ridiculs and unintelligent and unjust
| opposition.
4 Since the value Of force is deter
| miusd only by practical result, since
! the only adequate test of what We are
! ia what We do, we can form just
estimate Of the morris Of the new
woman only by considering her unter-
| takings and achievements in the world q
1 great arena Of ondeavor
A sanselesB attack made through
Eyary Evening upon the college woman
by prating little wiseling, who calls
herself Bah, leads no to consider ths
work Of that species of the new woman
! called the higher-e luuated woman. Our
most potent, wise and reverent Bah
contributes to the knowledge OF the
\ people of Wilmington not only by tell
ing them that out OF 500 lettsre, writ
ten by college graduates, the spelling
aud writing Ut 500 were Disgrace to
a IL. yeara-od public school, and that,
besides being q score of other un-
lovely things. the college girl ie con
Ceiied, heartless, masculine, bore, a
cal, Hnob, q holden ami I'M idiot
Bah further instructs us by telling us
that the cullege-h bred woman is help
lees to do any practical work in the
world. / do not propose to answer all
this twaddle of Bab's, nor have time
TO discuss the college as the supreme
power for DEVELOPING in woman right
conception of human conditions and
human needs, and for fitting her fol
vast endeavor and complete living, but
10 rslutation of the erroneous statement
made by the Captious Bah, that the
college. bred woman is helpless to dc
any practical work in the world,
quote from an article in recent mum.
bur of the North American Review,
written by G. G. Buclsler, on 1.-The
Lesser Man." in which Mr.. Bucklei
gives some statistics upon the work Of
college bred women. 10 Great Britain,
between 1869 and 1895, out of l.4S6 col.
lego women, one seventh, that is 268,
married, ESQ became teachers, SO secre
taries, ii doctors, two nurses, ONT
journalist, ono book binder, one market
gardener and one lawyer and the re-
mainder have all engaged IN philan
, thropic or missionary work. according
10 the United StateH statistics in 1885
one half of the college women MARI,
and two. thirds teach at least for awhil,
after they are out of college. OF thu
200, 600 women teachers registered a
tie last census of the United States
735 were professors in advanced
, branches of learning in women's col
leges or co. educational Institutions
Taking the statistics of Vassar Colleg,
. separately, We find that out Of !, Is
, graduates two-thirds are married, one
!. third are teaching, zone ninth pursuing
individual research, one student is
bank director, one business manager
:, and one major in the Salvation Army
: Outside Of the women who are colleg
/. graduates, it is found that there ar
several thousand women engaged in n
less than 400 distinct professions. Ii
Wisconsin 100 women are members O
the bar, and eight have been admitted
!, allow female pleading. The last Unite
States census shows registry OF L.
womsn preachers, 4,875 public officials
: 2,7a5 authoresses and Ss5 journalists
:, Nearly so, 900 women are teaching q
! producing music and art. Ia Americ
!, there are more women engaged in paint
|. ing than men. Iu England woman's al
i is confined to china painting, staine
n glass, wall paper, wood carving, meta
work for lamps &C., art needleworR
> hook binding, modelling 10 clay, houe
+. decoration and landscape gardening.
In addition 10 these departments {
7 activity, women have made notabl
: achievements in philanthropy and Hocii
i reform. and several have distirguiRhe
!. themselves in politics, archaeology
il biology. chemistry, history, philology
.. political economy, astronomy, physic,
J. philosophy, mathematics and invention
/? TheHe branGhoa suggest the honOre
/. names of Mary Goodwin, Susan l
= Anthony, Harriet Beecher STOW,
!. bucretia Mott, Mary a. Livermor,
!, Lady Henry Somerset and Elizahet
n Fry, and the achievements OF Madam
= de Siael az a political write
+ Harriet Martinsau in political ecol
\ omy, Caroline Hersuhel and Mar
Mitchell in astronomy, Mrs. Sumervil
in physics, Miss Fawcett in math
mltics and Betsy Metcalf in invention
since 1890, 345 bona tide woman il
ventors have been Registered at Il
=, United States patent Office.
~ In ona of the recent numbers of Il
v. Critic, Frances Willard states that
~ college bred newspaper man OF her a
q quantance claims that the college ed
u cation fails to develop in woman ii
spirit OF social helpfulness and intsre
~ in the problelnn of mankind. To sho
VI q. the absurdity Of this charge Jeanet
~ Barber Perry asks, in reply, If it is n
!, little singular that one of the mo
e. effective philanthropic movements
ue the day il known as tho college Hettl
nu | p1apt Mipa Willar1sa ooIluoa. brad M