The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-11-14
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NJ. VI. MURDOCH, Editor.
Is the New Woman So Dangerous?


er the fathers husbands brothers of that
American woman petted hattered and in
dulged of creatures taking and Max ORel,
the French philosopher declared in his recent American
lecture that could he choose his Of
an American He through the polite French
mans ewes only the glmme and esti
mate experience of the American husband and son.
The truth is the world so restless, so dis
satisfied relations life and the world SO i'm
patient Of and its responsibilities as
the American woman She rapidly becoming the chdless
mother pugs parrots devotee to mental superhu
ties and promoter defender of clube in which life
the ever effort manhood and to ccse mans
civilization AS artist architect and founder as
the progenitor is by them deemed and es-
teened fat failure and the other half selfish
ness inherited from of the club has
superseded the also the sanctty OF
the sacraents including that of marriage which saca
ment rapidly civil agreement subject to
legal notification periodical abrogaton complete repu-
diation.
That the uneasness of is disturbing
the apparent has but to read to be
convinced anything and everything being put into
type It's the alluded to who figures
in romances platform, in the daily papers
everywhere Meanwhile high school graduate,
collegeJbred buyer musicians painters
scuptors and the woman, generally from know
edge to knowledge cultivation and mentality the home
husband and children neglected until she discovers that she
is living in an atmosphere and removed from that
home whose breadnner longer equal interesting
or even endurable ultmaum stipulated above,
hence the apprehension inspiring so
many writers to conjecture to bewan protest.
The most daring criticism of the modern American wo-
man and her home the most protest that has
come under our eye while is from the of the
editor of sefCulture up-todate magazine, which is
growing rapidly popularity editor enunciatng the
ndentca conclusions foregoing paragraph declares
among many other things the American has
grown very wfu very extravagant intensely aspiring in
dIviduay and exceedingly vain; vvacty, her
beauty and capabty and her ingenuity in
making her powerful dangerous mistress
country he asks does she rule wisely? Does
she give full appreciation hard driven
slaves the working in the world, the
most prodgal and generous? attitude toward
them becoming superciious spite OF the fact
that she refuses to perform fundamental duty
For it is remarkable that in spite of all her excess
knowledge gbness obey recognize
primordla Of her being, and far she is
cerned would OF the writer is
erring independent wel-to-do and the wealthy
His theories about refusing
bear children perfect conditions"
practically unattainable, blindly
perssteny ignoring that the Ill
mystery, conception of life divinity
and the exalted Of the
sprung unpropituous conditions religion
hygiene cubvoman philosophy would pronounce
fortunate degrading
The feelings a m toward the mother Of his child
ren deeper a bride vastly
So suerlngs ceaseless sef-denia sanches her
other women, renders physical beauty
little very faults this reason
holds writer divergent delight in
their life their offspring. The American woman
which treating is not contened wife
complaining that her liberty right
her position a non-producer household ex-
poets her homework and her sewing her.
given liberty where peases do what she
peases and then annoyed her husband
should unbalanced state of
affairs our editor that America having passed
first stage Of civilization before culture
and in apotheoszng education the mis-
take of estimating by their book learning
In answering the question Whittier are we driftng?"
he asserts that were women TO have more child
their discomfort would largely disappear learning the
strong prmordal love for the mother Of his
ohldren-ove unlike the vanity lover in that it is
deeper in passion pride of family involving wealth Of
ideaism-together with his wife much happier. As the
trend is chdbearins to the immigrant and to
his immediate descendants. majority whom are both
poor and ignorant necesating civilization our state
in short the overburdened duty ever lift
ns the bulk Of the oncoming population up from its low
our censor concludes with the observation that the wo