The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-04-22
Awoman Talks About "The New Man. .

AWoman Talks About 1.-The New Man. I"
| Rev. Anna Howard Shaw delivered lecture
on Monday night last in Golden Eagle Hail.
! YOUNGSTOWN under the auspices of the Mary
land Woman's Suffrage Club, her subject being
The New Man." DR.. Shaw is graduate of
Boston University in both medicine and theol-
ogy and is forcible speaker.
DR.. Shaw dealt with the question much
as the "new woman" was exploited few
years ago. The irony and sarcastic thrusts di-
rected toward the sterner sex delighted the
women and were greeted with laughter and
applause while to the three men of the au-
uience it was apparently gan ana NORWOOD.
lost in the struggle for existence if they do not
look to their laurels. The women, she says,
are in the struggle to stay, and are better equip
ped mentally for the fight, which is today one
OF brain rather than Drawn.
We have heard great deal about the new
woman especially about her clothing. We
did not know at times whether she would
dress as did her mother or her father. Man
Immediately became frightened when she
threatened his wardrobe. 1t has been written
that the old order of things shall give place to
the new, but man rose and said thus far shalt
thou go and no farther. He need not have
feared that woman would linger long among
his coats and collars, she wants to look as well
as possible and never could appear so in his
clothing
But today it is we who ask how will man
dress tomorrow? Will he don the shirtwaist
of his sister, brush his hair on the side, in the
middle like his mother, or not comb it at all
Should he rather not remember that it is not
the parting of the hair that makes the man,
but the gray matter beneath.
1T was said there was nothing uglier than
the bloomer It is admitted to be one of the
ugliest garments ever cut from cloth, and there
is but one uglier it is the swalow-tail coat
notice the sculptor has never been able to
perpetuate its form in marble Thus you see
absurdties belong to both sexes and weak
nesses are divided among them.
AS the new woman is here she must be
mated to new man. The old-fashioned man
was admirably suited for the old woman, but
be is not suited for the new woman. Mans
statistics also show that with the advantages of
higher education instead of pining away she
has added on the average of one to one and q
hhlf inches to her height, from one to two
inches to the waist, and with her increased in
telleetual ability she has increased her under
standing and her foot has grown about an
inch and half. All this has taken place in
the past 30 years. Figures also show that man
has diminished in height. Thus it is shown
that woman is better fitted not only mentally,
but physically than of yOre."
DR.. Shaw says the sun is called che" and
the moon 'she," and that the woman used to
make the tallow dip. Man has fixed it" she
says, 80 we push button and have light
of the olden day."
"a woman cook was cook, but man cook
is Chef or professor of culinary art, and
draws a salary in some cases equal to the sal
airy of college professor. Men have taken the
place of the waiting girls, they have become
washer women. only are known as laundry
men. They churn, weave goods, make butter
and all the things once done by women. There
is but one alternative-wOman must 60 into
the business world"
Good Friday = Some Curious Ideas
About the Day.-Friday, 21st instant was
Good Friday, and its observance is as old as
the history of the church and many curious
customs, which have fallen into disuse, were
formerly in vogue in connection with the day.
says an exchange The following are some ex-
amples of quaint and curious lore about Good
Friday
Good Friday some authorities say, was SO
named because of the good things which Christ
gained for man through His crucifxion. 9th
ers suggest that the name is a corruption of
Goodies, or Gods Friday.
In Catholic England Good Friday was the
day on which the King blessed certain rings,
a ceremony that was thought to endow them
with miraculous power of curing cramps.
Hence they were called cramp rings.
"Creepinge to the Crosse" was in those days
part of the observance of the solemn day. In
the palace chapel crucifix was erected before
WHICH n carpet was ldlu dIOUS Ills Lu6 AlDR,
and then the Queen, crept to the cross. On
Good Friday, so runs the ancient chronicle, lit
shall be declared howe creepinge to the crosse
signifyeth an humblynge of ourselfe to Christie
before the crosse and the kissynge of it men,
ORE of our redemption made upon the crosse"
In many parts of England small loaf Of
bread was baked on the morning of Good
Friday and kept until the next Good Friday.
The bread was not eaten, but used as medi-
cine, being supposed to acquire healing prop
critics.
In London and all over England the morn
ing of Good Friday is ushered in with uni
versal cry of Hot Cross Bunsl' There is a
superstition that if hot cross buns are eaten on
this days they will prevent disaster during the
year. Another old belief is that the eating of
these buns on Good Friday protects the house
from fire.
possess the power to extinguish fires.
\ Hot cross buns are said to keep for IL months
Without turning moldy. They were hung in
homes to protect against evil.
In the north of England a herb pudding in
which the leaves of the passion plant are a
prominent ingredient is eaten on this day.
In nearly all the English villages of Sussex
marbles are played on Good Friday by the
men as well as the boys.
Skipping the rope is one of the traditional
customs at Brighton. Sometimes a long rope
is used and 6 to 10 adults simultaneously do
Rope Day.
Alfalfa Dying-L. Mel. of Cockeysville,
Baltimore county, writes as follows to the
Country Gentleman, II have field that has
been in alfalfa for five years, and up to last
season has given me good results. Last season,
which was very good grass year in this Sec
and turned yellow before reaching any size.
This field has never been inoculated. l have
tested the soil with litmus paper and it is not
acid. Would it be best to pillow and prepare
the field this spring, and resow with alfalfa or
wait and do this in the fall?'
4nswer.-Without more information this is
pretty hard inquiry to answer satisfactorily.
We base our reply on the hypothesis that the
field was a rich one and that the alfalfa did
we'll so long as there was plenty of humus in
the soil, but when this supply gave out, the al
falfa went back. Perhaps this is not correct,
but the facts stated would indicate it. If this
is the case go over the field thoroughly with
disk or cutaway harrow, making thorough
seedbed and preserving as many of the alfalfa
plants as possible, first top-dressing with as
well-rotted manure IS you can spare. After
the seed bed is prepared properly, SOW from
300 to 500 pounds of inoculated soil to the acre,
and resow with alfalfa seed, doing this as early
this spring as possible.
Religious Laws of the State.-A manual
of the laws of Maryland the District of Column
bia, Virginia and West Virginia, relative to re-
ligious societies, charitable uses, marriages,
wills, religious meetings and other topics ofin-
terest both to laity and clergy has been issued
recently from the press Of the Williams &
Wilkins Company of Baltimore. The COM
piler is Rev c. Herbert Richardson, of Roland
Park, and the result of his labors is handy
condensation of all the laws of the states men
toned which will likely prove valuable to
church people. Besides the laws quoted, the
volume contains the order of public worship of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and also the
full text of Bishop E. G. Andrews decision
upon questions relative to the powers of trus-
tees. This decision is epitomized in the fol-
lowing paragraph, which it contains: 1T
must be held that in all matters beyond the
holding of the church property and the ordi-
nary care of it, and the making of ordinary
and necessary repairs on it, the law of the
Methodist Episcopal Church devolves on the
quarterly conference Of each church the con-
troll of its financial interests and expects the
trustees to administer according to its deter
limitations"
Lecture to Housekeepers-How to Get
Pure Food.-On Tuesday afternoon Mrs. J. j.
Abel spoke before the members of the Wo-
mans Club of Roland Park on 1.-The Adultera-
ton of Foods" She told them that the adul-