The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-11-30
4! Of HOPE
FOR ALARMlsTS {
.,,.r Woman Novelist Cheers Up
7hoa, who Are shlverins
Over Feminist
Movement,
lew TYPE OF WOMAN
h,oren,e Court Of the Vatican Mem
bers Will Appear In
Gorgeous New
Robes.


dent of the United Press.]
ROME, Nov. 29.For the countless
thousands in all parts of the world
Who fear that in the present-day FEM
histic movement there can be no
outcome but the undermining Of the
whole social fabric, Dora Melegari,
|Ialy's leading woman novelist. has
Must found ray Of hope.
Signorina Nelegari has just d.scov-
cred a new type Of feministth
feminist of the future, and in this
she believes is going to be the sal
Walton of the race. From among the
thousands Of women in every country
who are today battling for alleged
rights emancipations, equalities, and
Recognition Dora Melegari says there
Is to be discerned from time to tine
| the gradual turning away from this
extreme and the reverting of woman
/ to her natural sphere, but on basis
Of greater development, greater eso-
| luton and crater recognition on her
own part OF woman's responsibility
and mission in the world than she
has ever had before.
In common with the great bulk Of
other Italian women, Signorina Me,e-
gari believes that this sphere, this
mission and this responsibility for
woman is that of wife, mother and
educator of her children. She de-
clares that in recent extensive travels
she has been able to discover the
gradual formation of q class of WON
en- with these beliefs from amongst
the active feminists and this she be
lieyes is going to be the eventful
solution of the present-day fem.nistic
question.
Dora Melegari is at present one OIL
the most conspicuous opponents of the
Feactionary feministic movement thai
in Italy is daily becoming more ap
parent. Contrary to the reactionary
tendencies in other countries tina
are largely in the hands of womer
who not only have not participates
In public life, but have never caret
70 do so, that in Italy is being con
uucted almost exclusively by wcmel
VINO have already made great public
successes in professions and occupa
tons usually restricted to men. Dor;
Melegari, as the daughter of fam
Gus Italian diplomat. spent her earl
Womanhood in the diplomatic societ
OF the various European capitalist;
Later as writer and novelist sh
attained an European reputation an
now instead of advocating for woma
successful public careers SIMILAR t
mat Of her own, Is devoting her Ell
ufe time to battling the present-da
tendencies Of feminism. Sh is on
Oh the most bitter writers in Ital
against what she believes are tn
mistaken ideals of the average fen
mist.
Woman has need of only one III
erty she declared today to the On
GU press correspondent, "and that
moral liberty, not in her relation
WIN man and society at large. b,
moral independence of her own weaI
nesses. To attain this moral ind
pendence she must first liberate he
sell from three yokes; that of va!
NY her thirst for luxury, and her d
sire for pleasure.
The economic mastery is now ar
Naii probably always be in the hant
VI the men, but the frenzy for ell
sauce that devomrs certain wome
PAGES them constantly before Il
nsh In an equivocal position that ce
alnly does not generate for them r
spect and that forces them into col
PROMISES and petty decaits that n
on.y does not help them but that
'silaoly lowers them morally
What seriousness also is to
expected from women who Dire
themselves in a mode that alternat
Tween the grotesque and the inc
senl. When children of 90 years 8
sae'r mothers exposing what an {
ssslve generosity forms that are
sauY too abundant what must tn
lnk When an entire family suffe
no'n the excessive place In the fa