f fine paintings it is important to have the
benefit of proper light and shadow. So it should be in the study of
questions. Those who look at the new woman through the distorted lense
of false education or prejudice, see the monstrosity such as we have
pictured in the public press. They see Dr. Mary Walker, whose dress
offends our sense of propriety; they see the ranting woman on the
platform, or suffragettes throwing stones through plate-glass windows,
and defacing costly specimens of art. These no more represent the
genuine new woman I indorse, than does the goggled-eyed, kimbo-armed
dandy represent true manhood. Fanaticism marks every new movement,
every life has its defect, the sun its spots and the fairest face its
freckles.

The new woman is not to be judged by exceptions, nor is she to be
measured by the standard of public sentiment. Public sentiment has
often condemned the right. It ridiculed Columbus; put Roger Bacon in
jail because he discovered the principle of concave and convex glass;
condemned Socrates, and jeered Fulton and Morse. It pronounced the
making of table forks a mockery of the Creator who gave us fingers to
eat with, and broke up a church in Illinois because a woman prayed in
prayer meeting.

Hume said: "There is nothing in itself, beautiful or deformed. These
attributes arise from the peculiar construction of human sentiment and
affection; the attractiveness or repulsiveness of a thing depends very
much upon our schooling."

Prof. John Stuart Blackie wore his hair so long that it almost reached
his waist. Seated one day in front of a hotel in London, a bootblack
halted before him and said: "Mister, will you have a shine?"

Professor Blackie replied: "No, but if you will go wash that dirty
face of yours I will give you the price of a shine."

The boy went but soon returned with his rosy cheeks cleansed, saying:
"Sir, how do you like the job?"

"That's all right; you have earned your sixpence," said Prof. Blackie
as he held out the coin.

The bootblack turning away said: "I dinna want your sixpence; keep it,
old chap, and have yer hair cut."

The long hair of Professor Blackie was as offensive to the boy as the
dirty face of the boy to Professor Blackie. One had been schooled to
short-haired men, the other to cleanly children.

I have in my presence now scores of persons, who believe the sale of a
negro on the auction block in the South to the domination of a white
man was wrong. I di