New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-11
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20 NHGEEkS'
THE NEW WOMAN" AGAIN.

People are so apt to see only one side Of a con-
troversy.' remarked a woman TO her friend, when
the other callers had gone. and the two were con-
Stunning together the remains of the tea and waters
in cosey intimacy.
What an original remark! said the friend.
laughing. she tried to melt lump Of sugar in
cup of cold tea
We'll what follows is original; at least it's
novel way of looking at the subject in mind.
Mrs. Brown and I talking Of what she still
calls the woman though the expression is
getting out Of date. She inveighing against
a sort Of woman that confess I don't like myself
hard. conceited unlovable, and given over to fads
and reforms. The kind of woman you know, who
says Never say you are too busy! There is al
ways time for thing more; the kind that
doesn't believe in ripeness and leisure. Well, 1t
never occurred TO Mrs Brown that such woman
is a reaction from a type. Her extravagances
are only a swing of the pendulum. Her hard.
rational life is the other extreme from a capricous,
maddening. petty minded creature. for whom pleas
alone exists, and who hasn't rudiment-
airy conception Of reason. duty, honor fair
ness"
i've always thought" said the visitor that
whatever the new woman might be-
woman unbearable. Women needed in
fusion Of the masculine element in their souls, and
they needed it so badly that they've taken little
much. The ultra-feminine is all very pretty in
Dolly Dialogues and the like. but it's wearing
daily life
Exactly! And men forget that when carried to
more wearing to reasonable women Hence the
action. A woman with any logic or even common
sense, in her makeup, thinks. Heaven defend me
from being like Dolly, Polly the case may
be- So she goes far. and tries to live by mind
alone. And then men call her masculine and pet
the little pussy Dolies, forgetting how they can
scratch!
They can scratch" exclaimed the other woman
shuddering But don't realize that they have
suffer from the claws because of their own
false estimate of the value of reasoning power in
a woman"
And fair play" said the hostess, eagerly "Oh,
those two words mean more than all the creeds
in Christendom! Why. all goodness is comprised
in them And the typical old woman-the ultra
feminine type doesn't know what they mean. II
science and good heart she gets through on her
impulses. and does little harm, because those i'm
pulses kindly on the whole But assume that
She is naturally selfish. or devoid Of moral sense.
or rational methods of thought. I have seen such
cases-severaI of them. I knew one woman whose
every judgment was based on prejudice; l don't
like YOU so you must be wrong. do like you,
you must be right, though you commit a crime: -
Non and women" said the friend laughing land
nearly all the difference in an act whether one per
son another commits II II 8 character that
counts and gives color to the act
-, 80 4ho% PI,+ aside from the common form OF
Drain6jce nettiness plays strange tricks. ! knew
another woman who could invent queer little
Methods of prosecuting others which would count
eye+ber in a long course would drive anything
Suman to insanity. No man could have devised
his latent instinct of fair play would make him
g+on somewhere But a certain elemental type OF
ooIice II the hard headed, practical new woman
can to some extent deliver her sex from sucn con-
ditions that she Is welcome M re see S1 what
little eccentrictles., ana HieN 0"e4 " SO ~
the reaction means