The trouble Is, too many of these so
called advanced Ideas in women run
too much to supertlctaUies and frivol
ities. We hear much of culture and
higher education, but more of ad
vanced costumes and skirts and anti
skirt crusades. The new woman may
be all right, but she should get out of
her head the Idea that great reforms or
great movements must begin in modes
of dress or styles of head gear. So
much stress seems to be laid on mere
trllles that it 1s no wonder the new
movement shows early signs of disso
lution. The emancipation of the sex,
the glorious destiny in store for
woman, are grand topics. Man takes
oil his hat to them. But when man
sees Kmanelpated Woman, in bloom
ers on a bicycle, and is told that this
is the New Woman, he cannot be
blamed for being somewhat skeptical
as to the benefit or utility of the so
called modern and up-to-date progress,
if the emancipation of woman means
simply emancipation from skirts, from
domesticity, from sweetness and wo
manliness from that indeilnable qual
ity wo call loveableness then
we any, let us have the old woman
back with us again."
The grout reformer and classical
scholar, Dr. Parkhurst, writes about
Andromanlaes which we in popular
language call new women the ones
who have a mania for all that is mas
culine rather than for that which is
feminine. And this mania would
seem to indicate that they would
rather be men than women. For a
woman to prefer manhood to woman
hood Implies that she regards man as
her superior. No true man has
ever been so ungallant as to make
this claim. The weak confession has
been left tor the new woman in her
ridiculous attempts to be a man
which nature has not yet vouchsafed.
