The sun., 1898-02-19
THE NEW WOMAN.
Some Suggestions That May Be Useful
Here and There.

| Some Suggestions That May Be Useful
Here and There.
| l have admired southern girls very
much ever since l saw SO many Of them
when our International league Of press
clubs visited Atlanta and the south in
1894. Because like them SO we'll am
going to say word to them here They
are among the most talented young
newspaper women we have when they
come north. Everybody else likes them
as we'll as l do. No matter what bust.
ness they go into they are apt to sue.
ceed. But, my dear southern girls and
women, when you write for publication
don't begin by saying your family for.
tunes were ruined by the war and that
you never would have thought of earn.
ing money only for that. We have heard
that statement SO awfully many times.
Don't inform us either that southern
gentlemen" are bitterly opposed to the
ladies of their families working for mon
ey We have all known for hundred
years that some ''southern gentlemen y
like some other gentlemen everywhere,
are almost as much opposed to having
their women folk work for a living as
they are opposed to working themselves.
Don't mention that your family is ono
of the Oldest and most important social.
ly in the south. We all know that too.
We have heard it several thousand times.
Every southerner's family is. You need
not say in your writings that you are
Thoroughly feminine. We take that
for granted. Don't be particular to NEIL
tion or to have somebody else mention
for you that you do not belong to wo.
mans club, that you are opposed to
woman suffrage and that you have
horror of the new woman. Why, heaven
have mercy on your ignorant, ungrateful
soul 1t is exactly the pioneer labors OF
woman suffrage women, the clubwomen
and the new woman that have made it
possible for you this day to come com.
fortably out of your chimney corner and
earn your living at some Of the occupa
lions only lately opened to our sex.
Finally, do not bring into the fore
ground your own or your family's per
sonality. The unfeelng public does not
care rap about them. just take up
your work quietly, bravely, grittily and
joyfully, as though you are proud OF it,
as you are, and go on to conquer, and
the Lord bless you!
The Woman's Journal tells the story
Of how one of its subscribers, brave
Colorado woman who did her own
thinking, had husband that just hated
woman suffrage. She softly and silently
laid The Journal on his library table
after she had finished reading it every
week for year, and every week he
burned it without opening it. The Sec
ond year she did the same, but during
this twelvemonth she caught him read.
ing it occasionally when nobody was
looking. The third year he read it open.
ly, and the fourth he was an optspoken
and able advocate of full suffrage for
women. The arguments of the paper had
soaked into him psychically apparently.
There is place in the world for YOU
to fill. Find it for yourself. Do not al.
low yourself to be pushed or scolded or
coaxed into any place chosen for you by
somebody else if you do not like it. Do
your own thinking.
Three respectable and plucky young
women are making a good living can.
vassing in cities for boot and shoe pol
ish. The way they manage is this: They
go from office to Office, carrying bottles
Of the polish. They open one of these,
stoop down and with their own hands
black the gentleman's s Shoes The polish
is an excellent one, and nearly every
man buys bottle of it.
We are wearied to death of hearing
Digots dogmatize and say this or that
is not fitted for women or
hat women are not suited to given
ask just because they are women. The
Individual man or woman is exactly
uited to anything he or she wants to
10 and can do, no matter what it is.
Thus an individual man may be an ex-
client milliner while an individual
woman may find her exact sphere in
onducting a cattle ranch. Some men
re this day earning their living trim
ming bonnets. Several women are sue.
essfully herding cattle in the west.
or heavens sake let the individual
hoose his or her own work. 1t is the
Individual who is to be considered in
very case, not the sex or the race. Just
eep your mouth shut and don't dog
latize
Display of strong emotion on small
,casions is q sign of weakness and
Women will be degraded by being al.
wed to 70 to the polls and vote Oh,
rs! But it is no degradation to have
ell approach them and try to bsite
em to use their influence to indnco
eir husbands to vote for United
ates senator when his Lailot is badly
anted by one of the superior sex, as
openly claimed to have been done in
9 case of Mrs. Griffith of Ohio That
all right and high minded and honor
lie and exalts woman to that high
destal which she should ever occapv
the masculine mind. Oh. yes again.
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