“THE NEW WOMAN.”

White Ribbon, Volume 15, Issue 176, 16 February 1910, Page 3

“THE NEW WOMAN.”

A HF.AiTiKri. and forceful definition of ‘‘The New Woman” is given in a leading editorial in the Union Signal. In an appreciation of the new superintendent of the Chicago City Schools, Mrs Klla Flag Young, who holds “the second highest position in the public schools of the United States,” the “Union Signal” takes its text from a contemporary, and replies in these convincing words :

“One looks in vain foi any evidence of the ‘new’ woman in Mrs Young. She is all that is feminine,” writes John Evans in the Outlook. Ah, hut the genuine ‘new’ woman is always ‘all that is feminine.’ It is she who rates the home first among all of earth’s institutions, and believes in protecting it from saloon environment and saloon encroachment, as well as from the greed of the man who would collect rentals from poverty for tenements dilapidated and wholly unfit for human habitation. It is she who is taking up the battle of the babies, hundreds of whom are murdered annuallv in our great cities through poor sanitation, ignorant motherland, and criminal milkmen. It is she who is pleading the l ights of childhood to playtime and suns!.ine and school ; who is seeking to emancipate it from the mill and the mine; who is opening mothers’ clubs and mothers’ schools; who is providing summer vacations in the country and summer playgrounds in the city, that the children of tho slums may become the children of actual homes, the children of privileges. The ‘new’ woman is standing by her over-tempted und overwoiked sister everywhere, seeking to lighten her burdens and shorten her hours of toil,”