Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1898-07-08

Formerly the fashion was for girls to
be pale, fragile and h%ysterical. Now,
womans clubs, originated by the new
woman, teach that physical health is
a cardinal virtue. The mind, even the
fine subtle essence, the soul, fails to
reach it's destined and exalted place,
il it be confined in diseased tissues.
The earthly temple is being fitted for
the sacred functions of wife and mother.
"Woman's place is at home," is an
other platitude which loses force from
the fact that the duties of the progress
sive M less time than
those of the society woman, whose
functions tend away from family obli-
cations. Yet custom preserves the lat
ter from censure.
But the new woman is not really
new She is old as the cooking stoves
unearthed from Pompeii, orthe incom-
parable portrait painting on the Egyp-
tian mummy cases; she is old rs hui
manity itself, for Eve was an indepen-
dent soul.
Female intellect is not more pro-
nounced now than in the days of Hy-
patfa, the martyred scholar of AleNan-
dria. Her pupils were amongthe most
brilliant youths of that remarkable
age and people. Cyril deemed her a
worthy foe, and her extraordinary
learning aroused the enmity and hate of
the monks. On that dreadful day when
Peter the Reader struck her down un-
der the great white Christ, when the
streets of Alexandria rang with the
clamor of human flends, ending only
when her ashes were scattered on sea
and land. her heroic soul rose supreme.
This gentle was the martyred
student of science and philosophy.
Was her dauntless courage and her
learning unwomanly?
Aspasia. another less admirable
Greek, was SO superbly endowed intel
lectuallythat she was the friend anda adj
wiser of Pericles; and tho wives of other
.Athenian statesmen felt honored by
her social recognition.
Hatasu, the wife of Thotmes II, sur
passed her male contemporaries in
great public works. She is represented
with the beard, dress. and helmet of a
man, as il to secure her deserved fame.
The Queen of Sheba, with Il proper
appreciation of b.. own at ility, pre-
ferred a person /. judgment on King
Solomon. ! .er amazement at his at
tainments prove that wisdom then was
not wholly relegated to men.
Certainly Joan of Arc, fighting TO,
her country in mans attire, might be
termed a now woman A successful.
military leader, she bore torture and
death with Socratic courage.
Antigone possessed in a marked de
gree the assumedly masculine qualit.
of courage. and after the manner OF
brave men, she died for her cause.
Where was Delilah's "Womanly good
ness?" when she cunniAgly discovered
SIMPSONS weakness. and betrayed hin
to his enemies?
Boadicea, the last British Chieftail
who successfully resisted the Romans
was another woman possessing TIN
traits of determined courageous men
It required exceptional valor to def.
Nero, whom Cannon Farrar declared
crowded more monstrous crimes int,
fourteen years than any man who eve
liyed.
Cleopatra ruled more by intellectual
, than by physical charms, and her ruiz
of Anthony evidenced neither purit,
nor weakness.
. Miriam, the Hebrew poetess, san,
her own compositions on the Red Sc,
banks. Whether Moses consented O
whether Miriam dared his satire ant
defended her new departure, is no
clear.
Zenobia, too,defied the Roman powe
with extraordinary capabilities an,
courage.
The great Socrates possessed infin
itely delicacy and tenderness
\ -.
than his virago wife, Xanthippe, o
whom he lived in daily terror. To hin
the hemlock was doubtless a scothin,
!, draft.
; Maria Theresa, one of the world
wisest rulers, had in common will
u many great men, T. gentle nature.
Neither of the Georges is rated coma
/. to Queen Elizabeth. No ruler, unit
. the present, has given such sp!cndo
4 to the throne of England. Yet two in
d~iyiduals of opposite sex, could not b
more dissimiiar in personal traits
Elizabeth swore like tho legendar,
!. sailor and possessed Il diabolicul temper
Tho gentle Victoria is equally gifte,
with Elizabeth in executive ability.
Shakespeare drew with
i strong hand. His heroines arc distin
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