The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-01-04
HE SCORES new WOMAN
PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER FINDS
MUCH FAULT
breaches About the New Woman and
DepIores Her Desire to Belong to
Clubs and to Be Bachelor-He
Thinks She Ought to Stay at Home

Thinks She Ought to Stay at Home
One of the foremost Presbyterian
clergymen of this city preached Sun
day on the new woman and scored her
for many things she is and some things
which she is not. The minister in
question, like all good people-and
bad peoples very extreme and views
things from one side only. He said
some severe things of the independent
woman, charged her being unsexed
and wanting to be a smart kind of
bachelor bachelor man. he called it,
with plenty of money no response
bility, no cares, a come-and- man.
do-as-you- please man, who is sure
enough a no-account man. The new
woman wants to be member of all
the clubs and president of all the asso-
Citations, and sit at secretary's desks
and travel up and down the country
making speeches on public platforms
and sail about with all the authority
of car or emperor"
Well, well, as bad as that When
the speaker got to think what really
obnoxious creature this poor woman
was, he became excited and drew her
K,
stead OF making a true portrait.
Now, of course. no one will deny
that there are Objectionable women
who have gone into public life, and
having been given opportunities by
reason of the modern prominence of
women, have abused the privileges and
brought down upon the head of all
women-sermons like that of Sunday.
But those are extreme rare cases
hn off 1aI. fI,sC
instance they were given as a general
type of the new woman-wIlich is the
term that has come to stand for a class
of women who have found their work
Surely there is a class of incorporate
men who travel about like cars or
emperors' who are equally objection
able Who nave one idea and push that
to the exclusion of everything else
Now in this country there are thou
sands upon thousands of single. hard
working, self-respecting women who
never get their names in the paper
who are contented, beholden to no
man for their living and of whom we
never hear. 1 will venture to say that,
In point of worth, these women are to
the mass of women what the middle
classes are to the population at large
There IS too, unfortunately, now and
then woman who has allowed the
perfectly sane idea that she can take
with her; she gets to be noisy argu-
mentauve, abuses men, thinks they
should be abolished, and is altogether
Objectionable. Now it may be that.
perchance, this worthy minister has
suffered by one of these extremists. or
even by two, and he seems in his
righteous indignation to have gone to
as great an extreme in his Judgment
of the new woman as one has in her
Daisdirected zeal
Now if the minister in question had
some cause much at heart which he
wanted to push, ten to one he would
go about to the various clubs and or
CARNATIONS Differed by women and
TRY to interest them in his plans,
Knowing they have done effective work
ana that they are we'll organized to do
more. And yet in his sermon he
speaks as if he considered it repre-
henSlble thing for women. to belong to
CLUBS or make speeches and travel
about
There was seldom a good thing that
If carried too far did not become a
bad thing. There was seldom a SER
mon preached with the idea of putting
women in their proper place that ever
dld any good. Let the preacher in
question train his guns upon the self
1sh men of the country; upon the old
bachelors, the hazing, sporty college
boys, the husbands who are a dis
grace TO the name, and he will have
topics enough. There are women who
pose as advanced. who are silly and
worse, but barring a few extremists
the great body of women workers who
nave thrown themselves in the breach
from which men have fallen and have
demonstrated that they can support
families and even take care of lazy
husbands, are not to be scoffed at nor
rldlculed. What about the day nur-
6ncr -.
children are kept during the day to
allow mothers to work who should he
cared for by their husbands? They
are new women. Let the women alone:
they measure up pretty we'll with the
masculine contingent.
Inc speaker thinks women ought to
stay at home. Well, Mr.. Minister
what about the women who have NO
nome, or whose home has been made a
nell upon earth by some bad MANI
what are they to do? If they find they
can 1--we seif-respectingly by lecturing
or by club work or the thousand and
one ACTIVITIES with which women now
engage, it i'll becomes q minister OF
the gospel to disparage their efforts
10 make living. l would like to ask
MN VINO are the women who hecoma
the central figures in large scandals9
Are they not married women who have
MONIES, like Sister Chadwick and 9TH
.,. iiiShe oe named! There are
some things in this country today done
by women which are worse than talk
ing a trifie loudly about independence
and belonging to clubs. And there are
worse things than being single. How
does the minister know what kind OF
women would meet the approval of ST.
Paui II he We're on earth today? I. for
one, have enough faith in Paul to be-
heve that he would admit an unrnar-
fled woman in boarding house could
lear the Lord and hold her head up
even If she did not feel that her no.
si5lon was lucrative enough to support
husband.
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