New-York tribune., 1902-02-08
1T IS NOW "nERE WOMAN"
LUCAS CLEEvE TALKS OF THE FEMININE
IDEALS AND TENDENCIES OF TO-DAY.

Are American women holding to the ideals that
made them what they are-the freest. the happiest,
the wOrshipped women earth?" asked Mrs
Howard Kingscote CLucas Cleeve') in her lecture
modern women last night at the Waldorf
Astoria.
The American woman started with the immense
advantage of numerical inferiority when her
try had its birth Men therefore placed her
pedestal and worshipped her-as they always
ship the northumberland this advantage she has
kept until Of late. Now, however. she is becoming
so cosmopolitan in her tastes and habits that she
is in danger of ceasing 10 be American The young
women who. by reason Of their great wealth and
advantages should be the pioneers in the great
social movements of the time, are, almost 70
woman. bestowing their interest and their money
foreign titles and going other countries live.
rs this well for the American man? a mans
idea Of women is formed by the women about him.
The nobest those who have had the
blest mothers. Your George Washington, one Of
the greatest of men, was the OF d grand wom-
an and 1t is doubtful if he would have had his
lofty sense of honor and duty without her inspra-
ton and influence"
Mrs. kingscote devoted the first part of her lect-
ure TO a review of the advancement of women L
the reign Of Queen Victoria and declared that 1t
due the new woman" but rather in
spite of her.
The greatest thing that the Queen did." she
said was to make of womanlness an art OF
motherhood science, and of wifehood a religion
Many consider it bourgeois to be fond Of ones
husband. but Queen NIctorias example IS good
d
that the Queen is not in society!
The new woman too often wastes her energies
in asserting she do another Of the
lecturers statements Everybody knows that
woman do anything she tries TO, so why spend
in shriekng instead OF acting? OF course, she
is superior Why cannot she be content
with that. without insisting usurping has place
in the order of life. Women have their rights, out
they different from mems rights. and neither
The lecture was enlivened by many sharp thrusts
existing conditions, and by numerous anecdotes
of famous EngliShmen and women personally
known the speaker, illustrative OF her theme
One that created a lively interest, showing now
the seven women man ratio in England
! has demoralzed the lower classes, referred 70
Lord Randolph Churchill. He was seated beside
some question rather warmly when he said, laugh
ing, All some day you may give ME haIf crown
to walk down the street with you on sunday II
is an actual fact that nursemalds and shopglrls
who cannot secure beaus otherwise pay a good
looking young man half a crown 10 walk out with
them on Sundays! So you what the American
woman may if she Is not careful as the
same disproportion is coming 10 exist here, am
told
The audiecce which filed the ballroom, was in
terested by the contrast between Mrs. klngscote
lecture on Woman and Sarah Grand 5 on Mere
Man" as the writers represent two phases or
new and the old" idea OF woman s
sphere. Live without men? Horrible thouBnL:
exclaimed Mrs. Kingscote. why, I have been in
New-York only three weeks, and already there Is
a man without whom existence would be impos-
sibIe I vearn for him. l strain my eager eyes TO
catch sight of his manly form. I nestle close 10
him when puts his protectingly around me
1 am despairing when 1 cannot see him. He is the
Broadway policeman