The New York herald., 1870-12-17
LECTURES LAST NIGHT.
THE pEnlLs Of the HOUR.

Lecture by Mrs. Laura G. Holloway. nj
Cooper Institute.
Laura G. Holloway told very few people what
she considered to be the 'pers OF the hour,n last
night in the great hall OF Cooper Institute. One OF
the perils Of the hour woman who lectures is an
unbecoming dress, and this Miss Holloway evidently
forgot in the pers Of preparing her Lecturer for her
blue and white costume was not SO becoming as ir
might have been.
The lecture had some good hits, bur, on the whole
lacked conference and vim. After some Introductory
remarks the lecturer said-One OF the perils OF the
hour Is the
HORDE or ILL-ADvIsED LEADERS
who seek to guide women. The ranks OF fashion
able society are recruited from the intelligent
and disappointed women who listen to
lascivlous music and gaze at the inde
cate ballet. We these women rushing
into newspaper oinces. annoying the editors and
disturbing the clerks. Forthwith there is developed
the ambition TO wrench from me hands of men posi-
tlonS which theY nave worked years TO learn.
TRUE, NOBLE WOMAN
meets with no peril, though she mlngle with the
crowd In the haunts OF trade.
One Of the greatest perils Affecting women, and
through them the race, Is the Increase OF devotion
TO fashion. Not that women love beauty too much
or are too anxous to keep their own beauty and add
to it. We take French fashions to our heats till the
inhabitants OF other worlds look down upon us in
COVER OUR FACES WITH ENAMEL,
new kind OF plaster of Paris, as II we could hide
intends woman's face TO be brilliant focus, where
the rays from within are shown and the rays with
out are reflected.
The speaker did not dare to describe modern bali
toilet so little there Is OF IL. II the scarcity OF dress
were practised for economy's sake it would have
show OF reason, but the extremities neglected In
favor of the hump at the back and it takes just as
much material for one OF these scant costumes.
ANOTHER PERIL
Is the idea that women are able TO do mans work.
Man is intended for struggle. Protection from the
hands OF man Is woman's due, and he is a robber
who compes woman to earn money for him. AS
nations rise in dignity and power woman takes her
place as the companion OF man. Woman does not
manage effectively; her work Is never done.
Poets talk about the delights of taking
care OF children, but this Is drudgery that no man
would submit to. II there is one right OF woman
more sacred than another 1t Is the right to home;
for there she develops her
PERFECT ORGANIZATION.
But home Is not place TO work and bake in.
To be woman is to suffer thus far In the worlds
career. A woman VINO can manage household Is
capable Of being President OF the United States.
There Is
NOT A MAN ON THE FACE OF THE EARTH
who is not under profound obligations to some
woman for his life, and Improvement In the daugh-
ters will best AID IN the reformation OF the sons.
Poverty Is peril though we are inveigled into q
certain caste TO the contrary Success In life depen-
dent upon the physical. Yet there those among
who decry this love OF the beautiful and tell that
pearls are the unhandsOme accreti0n or oysters.
More peril arises from the want OF money than ever
comes from Its possession Through woman the
pers Of the hour Will yet become the trumphs Of the
future.