Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-02-25
I He NEW WOMAN
Her Words and Deeds
T rs a queer world this On The 9th
er band preachers ligL digni-

lege men and Judges rail- ven-
omously and vociferousIs Ill woman
for constantly straining d the leash to
get out of her spear as .Artemus
Ward used to call e Go Daek
home. they cry marry raise chill
dren. large families. The more chill
dren you give TO this wicked ara pers
verse world. no matter what their quail
ity or bringing up, the nearer 10 exact
ness you will be in fulfilling womans
only sphere And marry marry, mar
~! Whatever else you don't do marry
and stay at home with your little ones.
This is their preaching Now for their
| practice: Just SO sure as a woman en-
gagged in any professional employment
loves man and weds him. and. loving
also her profession, desires to continue
it, then these same would be final aus
thorities on the woman question raise
| the most awful howl you ever heard.
Get out" they say. get out Of school
teaching; get out OF government clerk.
ships and postoffices We won't have
a married woman in our employ. Get
out, say! Starve if you must. but get
out!'' After bounding women into
matrimony on all sides these gentle
men who think they understand wo-
| mans business better than she does
herself at once deprive her Of liveli-
hood. A late instance of this is the
cruel taking away from married wo-
man of the Nordica musical prize after
she had actually won it. 1t was re-
fused to her because she had had the
temerity to marry The prize carried
with it five years course in musical
| instruction, and the lady from whom
it was taken was the wife of minis
ter Let officials and authorities take
notice They themselves are steadily
discriminating against marriage and
discouraging all intellectual and aspir-
ing women from entering into it.
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Helen Wilmans says. "Of all the so
called virtues humility is the most ac-
cursed"
There are times when even ! feel dis
couraged over women. These times
come after read of some sloppy. false.
foolish. fiabbergasted emotional out
break on the part Of members of my
! sex. There is little George Howard
! Meredith, the child orchestra conduct
! or. five years old. After some of bis
| performances in New York he is
mobbed by idiotic women who attempt
to smother him in kisses till policemen
have to keep the elusive females OK
1 Heaven send them at least little
! eepses
Dr.. Emily Dunning, the New York
woman ambulance surgeon. is winning
d noble reputation by the able, thor
ough. dignified way in which she dis
charges her duties. She was recently
called as a witness in case where the
decision hinged on the sanity or insan-
ity of a man who had murdered his
| wife. The man had tried also to kill
himself, but failed. and DR.. Cunning
was the ambulance surgeon who took
him wounded to the hospital. She said
in her judgment the man was irration-
al, and she gave her reasons in the
clearest, most scientific way, a way
that commanded admiration.
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Miss Florence Offutt. teacher of phys
ical culture in the State college at Lex
ington, KY, announces that. though
she is going to be married to an admi-
rable young man. she is not going to
give up her professorship. She says
that any woman can attend to home
and profession, too, if she cares
enough for her profession to do SO.
Miss Offutt prefers her profession to
the ''senseless round of gayety'' of a
young married woman in society.
An infaflible test of a man is his
views on the woman question. II be is
willing to accord to woman all the
rights he claims for himself in the in
dustrial, social and political realms.
| then he is man of large brain and
heart; If not, then he is man of small
brain and narrow, pettily jealous ma
ture. Steer away from the man who is
opposed to woman's rights.
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The most awfully overworked word
| in the English language is that word
tot as applied to children, especially
around the winter and summer holi
days. Pm SO tired Of it that would
it had never been invented
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| A solemn college president declares
through his nose-I am sure be talked
through his nose. if not through his
Lat-that woman may never hope to
compete with man in athletics. Well,
what woman wants to compete with
man in athletics? What woman cares
a rap about it one way or the others
All women desire is how speedily to de-
velop their health and physical powers
10 the highest and most nearly perfect
condition without reference to- college