The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-11-15

Mrs. FARNuAMs LECTURE ON WoNAN.-Seeing a
notice of lecture at the Society Library yesterday
at III o'clock. A. M, we sent Of our reporters
to attend it. He reached the place at the appointed
hour, but finding only some dozen females present,
and that Mrs Farnham had not yet arrived, he I'm
| gereda few minutes at the door to converse with
| the door-keeper, and make few experiments IN
| physiology. From the philosophical door-keeper,
he learned much wisdom and logic; he learned
that Mrs. F. is married woman, but not attended
by her husband-but whether they have been blessed
with children, the door-keeper did not say. This
is the second gratu,tous lecture, which this excel
lent lady has given, preaching for the benefit of the
age; the first was to about twenty-five persons.
The door-keeper further said, that reporters were
TO be admitted to this lecture, although it was adj
dressed to ladies' only
During this physiological conversation, Mrs.
Farnham arrived at the door, She appeared to be
about thirty-tive years DID, and many persons per
haps might think her tolerably good looking-but
as our reporter idozes the sex. he was in rapures
with her bright eyes, elegant figure and benevolent
face. Alter some private conversation with the
door keeper, she went away to enter by the private
| entrance. When our reporter proposed to enter,
the door-keeper asked him what paper he belonged
to! Answer, "the Herald" He replied that the
orders he had just received were, to admit no
members OF the press except from the Tribune, or
some such paper. Never baffled at any difficulty,
our reporter, Immediately, though little late in the
season for butterflies, assumed, through the power
of magnetism, which he possesses in greater de-
gree than Col. Stone, the shape of very beautiful
blue and pink fv, with ten legs and forty wings,
flew through the key hole, and took his position on
the left ringlet of Mrs Farnham's madonna's face
during the whole of the lecture. Here he heard
unutterabe things-the whole secrets of nature de-
vsloped-but not word of cooking or of darning
stockings.
1t seems, therefore, that Mrs. Farnham is tread
ing in the lustrious footsteps of the learned Mrs.
Cove, who had husband, but instead of doing the
cooking and washing of her own family, went
through the world, contrary to the doctrine of Saint
Paul, trying TO teach philosophy, philology, and
physiology. Now on this important subject-"the
position and duty OF woman" we coincide with the
opinion of Paul the Apostle, who was pretty sensi
BILE man on many questions, cons d sring thathe was
merely tent maker. Saint Paul thought that wo-
mans true position and duty" was in combining
herself, it is true to the oogies, but it was cook
oogy-make the pudding -ology, Misunderstanding
oogy-that the private parlor her natural posi-
tion-not the public desk-that peep into the
kitchen was more amable and becoming than a
hop-step-and-skip into the lecture room
Instead, therefore, of attempting to deliver public
lectures in the city of New York, if Mrs. Farnham
would return to her home and husband, attend to
the affairs of her famiy-and mind the philosophy of
her parlor and kitchen, she would be giving much
better practcallecture the 'position of woman,
than by the course she is pursuing. Let her study
the following stanzas
l742.
Man to the plough,
Wife to the COW,
Girl to the yarn,
Boy to the barn,i
And your rents will be netted.
1912.
Man tally no,
Miss piano,
Wife silk and satin
Boy Greek and Latin
And you'll all be gazetted.