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THE NEW WOMAN, WHAT IS FREEDOM {"
[BY a. K CHESTEMTON,] The case for the New Woman, at least as conceived by its worthy and respon
ible exponents, is concerned with two ideals; the idea that women should have a larger degree of liberty than has been permitted in the past," and the idea that should have a larger share in the Labours and professions which specially the occupation of men in a modern society. After reading with interest and sympathy the present discussion, and many similar discussions it has begun to dawn on me that there "to supposed to be some sort of connection between these two ideas.
women
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and leaves far too little play for person- ality in production. Compared with the old craftsman in his own shop, of the old peasant in his own field. the artisan is less of an artist. in the sense of a ma
maker of his environment. ter, and People may think it impossible to restore these conditions, but I cannot see how they can deny that there are more per. sonally creative conditions. Is there any Yon; place in which we can say that such con ditions in some sense still exist ! · there is at least one place; and it is what we commonly call the home.
PREKDOM IN FAMILY LIFE A housewife may work barder than any But it is workman, as the peasant generally works harder than any woman, simply the fact that uer work resembles that of the small farmer or the master-
its exten
In attempting to conjecture what this craftsman, in this particular respect; that connection can be, I will begin by allows proportions, its pauses, ing for a certain romantic associationviona, its way of making up the balance, which is real in the sense that romance are ganernly chosen by the worker to sonte is always real. Everything has its ideal extent at her own discretion; and are not A woman, in aspect; and there may be people who will imposed on her by the rotation of
the family has some control over when idealise anything.. Let us take, for the machine outside herself. sake of argument, the concrete case of a girl who became an omnibus-conductor. the domestic tasks and times of waiting It is possible in the abstract that she shall come round; a woman in the factory come round. Now, as entirely sympa- thought there would be a sort of artistic has no control over when the wheels shall thise with the first of the two feminist freedom of geature about conducting an
ideals, the increase of feminine freedom, about conducting an omnibus, as orchestra. It is even conceivable that she naturally look at in the light of this may have been under the generous illusion that the omnibus-conductor conducts the fact, and not as most of the. feraicists appear to look at it. I wish to develop omnibus. She may conceivably have the germ of freedom where it does exist, in the family, instead of merely talking thought that she could lead it into fresh woods and pastures new; that when she about it where it does not exist, in the dreamed of the dark elfland of Burnham factory. It may be that freedom can.
to Burnham Beeches, it would_go_ Beeches; that when she was in the moracer be developed anywhere into such for the river, it would stray amid the fulness as in the fancy of the wandering green and silver of the low meadows of maibus. But the mother of a family has the Thames. But whether or no she her certainly more influence on whether her self had this illusion of liberty, we can children shall pienio in Barnham Beeches be, under no illusion, I fear, about the or in Hertfordshire than the female feelings of the company of clerks and nibus conductor has in deciding whe Now, it is per- stock brokers who had-got into a Bays. ther her passangers are going to Bays great deal water omnibus, and found themselves water or the Bank. tipped out of it into a field in Hertfordfectly true that there is a shire or a village in South Bu ks. And of decayed domesticity, against which the even this fancy will be of service to us young naturally rebel; for things are if it induces us to face a fact. And the often decayed when they are neglect- ed. But my remedy is not to neglers is; fact is that freedom is not one of the many virtues of an omnibus; and free to exalt and expand the domestic office dom is not by any means one of the with all possible tributes of courtesy and culture and religion, and not merely to virtues of that modern industrini society congratulate those who free themselves which very much resembles an omnibus from becoming the servants of a capitalist There is exen something verbally symbolia in conceiving it na an omnibus, for we are all travelling in it, whether we like But we obviously need some it or no.. consideration of the definition of free- dom before we agree that a woman stand
house that -is- Ling still all day, in a
moving, is necessarily any more free than a woman moving about all day in a hous
is etanding still.
that
...
ENDURING SLAVERY.
Having indicated what, I think, is the mal, I may add that I do not admit the need of surrendering the normal to the numerical. If there are women who all reasonable respect when do something cannot contribute to this,. let them have ela; but not something else conceived in contempt or oblivion of this, or of the facts upon which this is founded. A social re- these realities. forin really founded on would certainly inspire women to enter It some news profesions and not others, according to these vital aptitudes. would create new and good social institu tions; but it, would create the institutions to suit the women, and not, as at present, attempt to create new women to suit new.
I will continue this concrete lustra tion before passing on to general prin ciples, because it does happen to dispose of a great many of the first and most obvious fallacies. First of all, all normat men know quite well why they did and bad institutions. At present there pect a girl who was an omnibus condue, for. It was certainly not because she was seeking liberty, and it was quite self evident that she was not finding it. It would be truer to say it was because she was enduring slavery, but in the same honourable sense in which all soldiers have to endure slavery. In other words ahe was doing her duty in a dreadful crisis in her country's history, she was releasing a man 16 de his duty in a still more dreadful fashion. And so far from our respect proving that the work suited her, the truth is that the less it suited her the more we should respect her. Just as in such a crisis we should admire a cripple more for Sghting when he was not fit to fight, so we should admire a woman more for her industry because she is not atted for industrialism
:
Now, this astonishingly simple truth makes no sense of nine-tenths of the argument about woman and the war. It is not an argument, in any case, very agreeable to those who happen to have
t tradition of respect for the When a lady remarks, in this column; that the war proved that women
woman.
were
capable of service, I have some difficulty in replying as I caunot imagine among what barbarians she can have lived that it should ever have needed to be prosed. In my own circle of female acquaintances there are few who would be gratified at my conversion, if I expressed it in the form of caying,I thought you were a fool, and a coward until the autumn of 1914" But the point, for the moment, is that it is the very nature of war to be nnnatural." Of its nature it demands desperate remedies, a patchwork of heroic opportunism. As it was the boast of mes that thousands were soldiers who were not soldiers by nature, so it was the boast of women that thousands were nurses who were not nurses by nature.
is nothing but a sort of plunging plagiarism a blind resolve that women shall imitate every one of the mistakes of Its propaganda "is only possible un because many of the facts that are for- gotten are too "fundamental to be dis cussed. I will only say here that control over the distribution of the day's work is physically far more needed for women than for men. While it is certainly not wicked for a woman to cut down a tree. it would, in some cases, be very wicked to tell her to; and to talk about women If continuously competing with men in cut- ting down trees is raving insanity. some fanaties like to take advantage of the silence of all civilised custom to talk to bo what all grown up people know nonsense, they are welcome to do so. Daily Telegraph..
1 HOUR DINNERS. CHEF. SAYS LESS TIME IS A GREAT MISTAKE.
French cooking is on the, downward grade because people will no longer devote enough time to their meals to appreciate it.
M. Carton, director of the French chefs Lade newspaper, La Rerne Culi naire, himself a practical restaurateur, makes this gloomy statement, and er quiry at the principal Färis restaurant tends to confirm it.
"Foreigners, especially Englishmen, make one great mistake when they dino sta restaurant," the manager, of the Restaurant La Permise told me. They insist on ordering their dinner course by coursen, instead of arranging an entire menu with the hond waiter at the begin It seems toning. so that the chef can have time to
devote to the preparation of each dish.
me very strange that the Feminists de not see that the argument from female work in war-time proves the very oppo site of what they are bent on proving When we say that a woman displayed heroism or underwent martyrdom in the waz, we mean that she did things that ought not to be part of the daily life of woman, any more than being killed ought to be part of the daily life of a
"YEAR.
of WAT. After eliminating the exception which avowedly sacrifices the liberty of the citizen to the ultimate liberty of the city, we come back to the question of the normal need for liberty. And wo are bern first confronted with, the case of a kind of work more curious and
exacting than conducting omnibuses or cutting down trees, or all the various forms of masculine toil that have been offered as examples of feminine emancipa tion. There is an occupation which is open to women as well as men, but which 1 is often harder for both of them than driving, or digging, or minding machines; it is the occupation of think- ing; and it is not tested by the enthu siasin with which people tumble over ench oher into some intellectual fashion, but by the detachment and enlargement of mind-with-which they take in funda mental and permanent truths. We shall not discover what is best for our society in any of its parts unless we see it ne a whole, against a background of history. and in contrdat to alternative societies Now anyone who thinks will agree that the industrial system of great cities already endangers liberty far too much,
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