Identifier: dmarsaffinityrom00bloo (find matches)
Title: D'Mars' affinity : romance of love's final test in time and tide
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bloomer, James Moses, 1841-1923 Condo, A. D Glenn Negley Collection of Utopian Literature. NcD Leona Bowman Carpenter Collection of English and American Literature. NcD
Subjects: Utopias
Publisher: New York : J.S. Ogilvie Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Duke University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Duke University Libraries

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path, shud-dered at the sight of the bleaching bones of its victimsin the highways and in the byways. I have longknown that Mercenary Fashion is the chief source ofwomans worry and of mans worry too. But untilnow, I did not know that worry is the destroyer ofmental and physical health and beauty and these gonethere can be no happiness. And to think that duringall this time the reformers, the so-called emancipatorsof wom-en, the high-toned college, the society press, theforum and the pulpit have failed to denounce this evil—nay, they dare not even rebuke the insane pranks ofthis blind, heartless, soulless, tyrant—MercenaryFashion. You can count on me to do my full part inthis crusade. There will be no crusade, replied Ethel. Nowarfare, no criticism even of those who differ with us.We would not substitute one species of tyranny for an-other. What woman needs, and man too. is emancipa-tion from mental slavery, sin and suffering. Theemancipation which we seek not only makes us strong
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I HAVE EDITED A POLITICAL PAPER TOO LOXG TO TELL THE TRUTH NOW,—Page 236. DMABS AFFINITY. 251 but it disarms the enemy. This emancipation is notonly a work of love for others but a promoter of ourown happiness. Every moment we devote to thiswork is a moment of joy, a season of good impressions,even in sickness the emancipated mind is grateful forthe limitations of the suffering, and in death it opensthe windows of the soul to the early dawn of a higherand happier existence. Indeed an emancipation can bereached that relieves the body of all suffermg and dis-arms death of all its terrors, rendering it only a nappyawaking from a troubled dream. Now, my friends, I know you all suffer. Andyour sufferings reach others and make them suffer.By emancipating yourselves you emancipate others.Thus your efforts are twice blest. What say you? I cant see why we must abolish fashion. With-out fashion and style what would a woman be? Whatwould occupy her time ? replied a fashionably gownedlady. Eman

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