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Womaiivbtej:
A Charming
Suffragette Leader
Describes
the Suffragette Ideal, Always-in-White, Short-
Haired, Beardless, Refined and Perambulator
Pushing, Ballot-Made Man of 1940
M ISS ELIZABETH ALDRICH, the beauti
ful girl suffragette, who joined General
Rosalie Jones in her advance upon
Washington, who has organized the Inwood
Club Nursery, which provides for the care of
babes while their mothers are away from home
working for suffrage, and who has written
many brochures on the feminine movement,
which have become campaign classics, has a
vision of the new man.
She has told this newspaper of the new man
as she sees him. She pictures the man of 1940
as she ‘believes he will be, and as leaders of
the feminist movement hope he will be and
expect him to become.
Miss Aldrich is the great granddaughter of
Avis Keene, the great Quaker suffragette, and
friend of John Greenleaf Whittier and William
Lloyd Garrison. Some of her associates in the
suffrage movement believe that the gifted
granddaughter inherited from the genius great
grandmother that power with which certain
members of the quaint sect of Friends believe
themselves endowed, the power of prophecy.
At any rate Miss Aldrich’s vision of man
as she expects him to be when moulded by the
forces that will accompany recognized equality
of the sexes is interesting, especially when re
garded as expressing the expectations of
suffragists.
By Elizabeth Aldrich
1 SEE a new man.
The forces which have changed the
traditional life of women are also chang
ing the traditional life of man. While these
forces are developing in her self reliance and
independence of thought and action, they are
making him a kinder, more tender, more
imaginative creature.
The man from which he is emerging was
nagging, selfish, ugly, domineering, cruel, ruth
less, imperious. The new man will stop fault
finding. He will be considerate, deserving for
the first time in history the title “gentleman."
He will be better to look at.
■He will cease being a creature of prey!
The man of 1940, held up in the schools as
the model man will be handsomer because he
will be more harmoniously developed. His
mind, corresponding to his body, will be more-
symmetrical. -The physical ideals of that time
will be those of the old Greeks, the Olympic
games, not those of the prize ring.
I see the man of 1940 and of succeeding
generations always in white. No man will
then wear a dark suit either Winter or Sum
mer, because he will know, and knowing will
realize, that dark clothes are unhygienic and
unbecoming. They are unhygienic because
they do not show the dirt. Soiled spots could
remain indefinitely in them, breeding germs.
Now a man may look clean without being so.
Then he will be only as clean as he looks and
he will take pains to look and be clean.
We need not fear that the era will be one
of the long haired man. Instead he will wear his
hair closely cropped for the same reason that
he will wear white clothes, for cleanliness. He
will keep his face smooth shaven, for the same
reason. •,
Women, I do not think, will ever wear short
hair, because it is not becoming.
The model suffragette man will not be a
creatore whose muscles bulge. The ideal will
not be to make a pair of biceps too enormous
and neglect the muscles of the legs, or to de
velop both at the expense of the brain. Sym
metry will be the aim of all men and all men
will be graceful as Adonises. No man
will then go into training to fight Jack John
son, even if he desired to, because it would
make him ugly. This man will share in the
care of the children. It will be a very common
sight then to see a man pushing a perambu
lator. With father in service there' will be
fewer flirtations between policemen and
nursery mafds while the baiby nearly chokes
himself to death on the carriage strap.
He will have dropped many of his horrid
habits. He will swear less than he does now
and he won’t chew tobacco. He will not sit
with his feet above his head.
The man of 1940 will come home from the
office earlier and he won’t come home with a
• grouch,” Fortune making will be secondary
to character development with him and he will
think as much of how to help humanity as
how to- grow rich. The man of that time won’t
make corners in anything. He willl not in
dulge either in pugilism or fraud.
I cannot see the man of that time killing for
sport. A man won’t go to South Africa and rush
back again with a reputation as a hero because
he killed animals in their jungle homes.
The man of 1940 will not even tease a cat.
He will not puli a dog’s ears, and the boy who
pins a tin can to a dog’s tail will be severely
dealt with as he deserves, for the new man
will abhor suffering and will never cause it if
he can help it.
I cannot see the man of my vision eating
meat, for his character will be gentle and we
become like what we eat. Because he will
be gentle-hearted and active-minded, I can
see him eating only fruits and nuts and
vegetables.
The character of a man's jokes will change.
The jokes will be clean and they will assail no
class. There will be no mother-in-
law joke, no old-maid joke. Women
will, in fact, cease to "be the butt of
all man’s jokes. I hope that laws
will be enacted to enforce this new
chivalry.
His speech will be moderate when
he speaks of women. He will per
mit us to drop our wings. Hereto
fore we have been in his speech
winged creatures. We have been
“angels” to him at one end of the
scale, and “birds” or “chickens,”
“squabs,” “geese,” “wrens’ or "hens,”
according to his humor. All those
wings, thank heaven, he will allow
us to shed forever.
He will, without comment, allow a
woman the privilege of being old and
homely if she wishes. He will not
by his silly attitude of loving only
the freshness of youth drive us to lie
about our ages. The worst thing lie
can say about us then, according to
his own ideas, will not be “old hen.”
He will not use the name of any
bird in describing us, and he will not
mention age.
For the first time in all the cen
turies he will approve of women.
We have been called naggers ever
since we can remember, but it isn’t
true. Men have been the naggers.
Down through the ages they have
found fault with women. They have
held up the ideal of the old-fash
ioned woman and then found fault
with her because she was old-fash
ioned. They told her she had no
sense. They informed her that she
was “puttyheaded,” that she didn’t
know anything. Then when she
pushed into the shop and office, and
even on the police force, they began
to nag about that. They said she
was bold and womanly, and poor
woman cried out “Well, what do you
want?” Men didn’t answer because
they didn't know. They didn’t want
what they had. Never has man ap
proved of woman since the time
Adam slunk behind Eve and placed
the blame of the fruit incident upon
her. The new man will cease this
cavilling. He will be satisfied with
woman as she will then be.
The man of the fu
ture as I see him
will have a compen
sation for foregoing
the last delights of
the prize ring. He
will revive the lost
art of writing love-
letters. Instead of
sending her a tele
gram or of telephon
ing her he will write
her a love-letter. You
see, there will be so
complete an under
standing at that time
between men and
women that they will
not fear breach of
promise cases.
There will be more
marriage than ever
before. Almost ev
eryone will marry.
There will be very
Eew exceptions, mere
ly -a few persons
who greatly prefer
living alone, those
by nature "soli
tary,” because men
and women will
have outlived their
dislike for each other
—that antagonism,
springing from a
sense of inequality,
that caused women
to hate and fear
men and men to de
spise women. Hand
in hand, as true
partners in life, they
will walk the path
of mutual under
standing. Men will
no longer puzzle
women nor women
baffle men, for with
recognized equality
will come under
standing, and with
understanding can
dor. Custom will no
longer place a pre
mium upon lies be
tween men and worn-
The New Men Wili Be Handsomer. He Will Be
Cleaner. HU Hair Will Be Close Cropped. His Clothes
Will Be Beautiful. He Will Drop His Hideous Whiskers.
This Composite Shows on One Side the Old Man and
on tfie Other Side the New.
The Six-Hour Baby Watch
of the Ballot-Made
Man.
Horn
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Miss Elizabeth Aldrich, the Girl Suffragette, and Granddaughter
of the Quaker Prophetess, Avis Keene, Who Describes
This Page Her Vision of “The New Man.”
en, because they
will no longer hate
and fear each otljer.
There will be a
change of proverbs
about men. The old
“The way to a man's
heart is through the
stomach” will be for- »
gotten. We will say,
“The way to a man's
heart is through his
imagination."
There will be a new chivalry, but it will not
be based on exploitation of sex. The knight
who rode forth with his lady’s glove on his
shield was not the brave, unselfish person he
seemed. He expected a reward. The reward
was the lady. The new chivalry will be fine
and impersonal, based upon respect, for
the opinion of woman. When a woman's
opinion is backed by the ballot the humor of
the opinion vanishes.
There will be sex harmony. Heretofore there
has been sex discord. The two sexes will take
counsel together instead of striving for
dominion, one by force, the other by subtle
ties and deceit.
Hitherto we have iiad much of the mother
ideal. There will he more of the father ideal
in the home. I have seen that mothers and
sons are the greater friends in the family and
fathers and daughters are in closer friendship
than mother and daughter and father and son.
Many girls make serious mistakes because they
have not had the benefit of the man's point of
view. Father will be more than the household
cash register.
Whatever the standard of morals it will be
the same for man and woman. The double
standard of morals will go into the scrap heap
where it belongs. The man of 1940 will cease
to believe that he can buy love. Women will
not simulate love in order to secure a home
and alimony.
There will be few divorces because men
will not find women so deceitful and women
will not have to complain that a man neglects
» for money making. Men will not make
at fortunes then because they will not want
to make them. < They will have less cunning
and more usefulness as members of society.
The real reason for the antagonism of the
sexes, for there has been indeed a duel of the
sexes throughout the world's history, was that
the traditional manner of life caused each to
be oversexed. The man was too masculine.
The woman was too feminine. But in the now
leavening movement woman is developing
qualities that have been considered masculine
and men are developing their feminine sides.
The result will he a perfect sex halauce and
a complete understanding.
The new man, at his best, that model which
will lie upheld in the schools and in literature,
and of whom we will see specimens in life,
will have the justice of a Lincoln, the balance
of an Emerson, the philosophy of a Marcus
Aurelius, the frankness of a Brieux, the deli
cacy of a Maeterlinck and the imagination of
a William Blake.
Heaven speed the day of his arrival!
Exactly How You Must Wear Your Corsets
Paul Swan, Whom Suf
fragettes Think the
Most Beautiful Man in
New York. He Danced
in This Costume at the
Suffragette Production
of the Greek Play
M Lvsistrata.”
A BOUT corsets, the unexpected has hap
pened—twice. First, medical opinion
on the subject has quite generally re
versed itself in the last dozen years. Since
corsets have ceased to be instruments of tor
lure the dociors have discovered that most
women are better off with than without them.
And now the whole matter has been made
the subject of a public scientific investiga
tion, resulting in a set of rules prescribing
what kind of corsets to wear and how to
wear them. This is the work of a commit
tee of scientfsts appointed by the London
Council of the Incorporated Institute of Hy-
geine, whose president is Sir William Ben
nett, K. C. V. O., F. R. C. S. Following are
the principal points of the committee’s report:
(4) Than owing to the spread of know
ledge regarding the importance of freedom
of movement and the need of physical exer
cise in strengthening the muscles of the
hack and abdomen, the objectional rigid cor
sets of the past are becoming much less
worn and are gradually being replaced by
lighter and more flexible corsets, constructed
on hygienic lines.
In regard to the construction of corsets, the
instructions say:
(1) The corset should be sufficiently flexi
ble to allow of free movement of the body
in every direction.
t (2) The corset should be constructed so
as to exert pressure, only, on the lower part
of the abdomen—the direction, of the pres
sure being upwards and backwards.
(.°») The corset should be quite loose above,
so that no pressure is exerted on the lower
ribs and upper part of the abdomen, as any
pressure in this region tends to interfere
•with tin freedo-m of respiration and also to
produce injurious compression-
It is equally important, continues the re
port, to have the corset properly adjusted, as
to obtain the right corset to begin with, in
order to ensure proper and healthful support.
The wrong adjustment of the right corset may
be followed by injurious effects, both in re
gard to health and symmetry of figure. Wom
en are therefore urged to pay particular at
tention to the following instructions:
(1) Before putting the corset on, see that
tiie back lacings are open widely (not less
than 6 in. to 81n. with two conveniently
long hoops at the waist line for adjustment
# purposes.
(2) Stand erect before a mirror (so that
you can see what you are doifig, and so as
to be able to adjust the corset without hav
ing to bend down), brace back the shoulders,
draw in the abdomen and support the weight
of the body upoxi the front part of the soles
of the feet.
(IS) Put the corset round the body and
fasten the busks in front from below up
wards.
(4) Bend down and fasten the suspenders
to the stockings well inside the knee, and
having once more assumed the erect atti
tude, pull the corset as low ddwh on the
body as i‘t will comfortably settle. (This is
best done by a diagonal pull on each side,
first holding the right upper edge with the
right hand, and pulling down the left low
er edge with the left hand, and then re
versing the process with the left hand above
and the right below). ,
The report concludes with some general
remarks, among which Is a warning that care-
* ful measurements should always be taken be
fore a cotfet is made or purchased.