New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-17
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THE REAL DIFFERENCE.


said Aunt Miranda. she placidly knitting her
oid-fashoned stocking.
Alice laughed. what an odd thing for you to
say. Aunt Miranda. I thought you believed in
everything new, and liberal. and independent. and
and even unconventional"
Maybe I do. in a way" replied Aunt Miranda.
Il try to believe in what's good. or old. When
I said new woman used a phrase that's already
old, for il has had its use and is done with. The
age has already assimated the kind of woman
that phrase once stood for she is no longer new
in the sense OF eccentric But in regard Betty.
mean that she's new in just that sense. She's
getting faddy."
Yes. I see that Aunt Miranda But my theory
about it is the opposite Of yours She isn't the
new woman all. but the same old woman try
ing to do things! That's the faddy woman!
It isn't what does. but how she does it.
that marks her as undeveloped and undisciplined.
otherwise"
u guess you're right Allie" observed the elder
woman. shifting her needles. For instance. you
don't try to do anything remarkable Yourself but
when l talk to q girl that's got horse
sense, I your
Thank you, Aunty" Alice laughed again Il
can return the compliment for I come to you for
horse sense. too But there's difference. When
you we're young the logical woman was an oddly.
and she encountered SO much opposition that she
became little-well just little
Cranky said Aunt Miranda quietly. Yes, ]
know. When I was young, seems TO me- never
breathed without shocking somebody. and yet, you
understand, was always perfectly proper! They'd
al been going in groove. that's all. and I'd Jolt
them out OF il. Couldn't to help 1t. They
wouldn't use their brains
That's it, Aunt Miranda! We don't say new
woman now, because, 1 take it, we've got
better definition. There are the instructive woman
and the logical or reasonable woman. the woman
who IS completely governed by her impulses and IN
buttons and the woman Who uses her reason Inc
latter may nave innumerable faults and the former
RG may be perfectly dear and ehahg mats as
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I'll tell you Just what / have observed" said
Alice. about both kinds OF women. The instinct
to be good she can seem half divine! But if her
Impulses happen to be bad she's a hend for She
9eaer can see what IS wrong nor control 1t II she
business women ciu6Nonen suffraEistsIaA those
sinctive type. and yet take up progressive things.
Iaey re merely lady as you say OF Betty: lheLl.
nestle women. and they-nlake home happy. with
Aunt Miranda nodded her approval as her needles
Men like the instructive woman went Alice
WHO theori5t, and loved 10 express herself
You see she keeps them guessing. She never
find her 4 fascinating mystery. When they get
to the osea % w an for s eo fS but they
love her as well They call her a good fellow;
the instructive woman. the atter's shrewd intui
tons foresee that they will do. She can allure as
In my day remarked Aunt Miranda. people
never found out that there was any other kind Of
woman than the you describe.
7 know" replied Alice They say that Becky
Sharp is logical but she isn't She's the instructive
type. with an active brain and selfish impulses,
Her anti-type Amelia. is the instructive saint.
That is why she lacks moral flavor; her goodness
hasn't the element or choice or self-conquest It's
involuntary.
head. that haven't yet got beyond the time
when the reasoning woman is counted freak
fully. The reasoning is the real new
woman the woman of the future. You find her
everywhere also, hidden away in the domes-
tic ranks. You see said before, ii is not what
she does. but how she does il, and what she s,
that makes the real difference. And I tell you,
.AuuIy. she is going regenerate the world. Men
will learn at last the value Of good comradeshp.
then there will he true marriages. And when
women learn to reason their great work in the
Ola VIII be rightly done.
Then Aunt Miranda put down her knitting and
smiled kindly upon the young enthusiast.
That's right. deary." she said I like to see
YOU an optinlist They're the only people who ever
accomplish anything m old but see new lights
dawning everywhere, and have a lot Of faith in
girls like you-wheu they don't get faddy"