The Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1870-1875, 1870-12-28

Nh. CARPENTERS LECTURE.-Not-
Withatanding the inelemeney of the
weather, an audience, respectable in
number, assembled in Trinity Church
last evening. to hear lecture on the
Progress Of Woman. The lecture, Of
which we shall not even attempt a
synopsis, was listened to with most
delighted interest By all present. The
speaker began By saying he had, dur
ing the past week, been frequently re-
minded that he was advertised to
speak on 9 delicate subject. This he
denied. While woman herself might
be delicate, the subject selected was
powerful and comprehensive.
Ancient history, SO far as it applied
to the subject under consideration,
thu speaker divided into two periods.
First. when the law Of physical force
prevailed, and woman, being the
weaker, became the slave Of man, and
secondly when the love Of the beauti-
full became more prominent, or, as the
speaker termed 1.-THE age of aesthet-
Ical development-when woman, as
model Of grace and beauty, was the
ideal Of painters. sculptors and poets.
The condition of woman during these
periods was ketched in a rapid but
graphic manner, and illustrated by
original and selected paragraphs of
great beauty and power.
he also attributed her progress and
improved condition in medieval his
tozY to the overthrow of Roman civil
ization By the Teutonie barbarians
who preserved the purity of the fam
lily relationship with most religious
ezactitude. He spoke eloquently OF
the disastrous effect which the ascetic
notions entertained in the early histo
~ of the church, had upon woman'G
condition, and of the great influence
for which tie worship of the good
Virgin Mother of Christ had upon the
lives and homes Of Catholic Eu-
rope. The age Of chivalry. ani
the part that wonderful period il
the worlds history had upon WON.
ans development was briefly but
plainly set forth. Coming on down
20 the nineteenth century, he dis
cussed at greater length the reforms
which were now sgitating the people
Of all countries with reference to the
enlargement of woman's sphere. He
thought the first reform necessary
was that the marriage relation should
make the woman an equal partne
with the man in life's venture. TIL
second was the breaking down of tht
barriers which now confined woman
10 a small number and variety of oc
cupations, so that she could earn
support for herself and those depend
ing upon her, as we'll as paying he
equal wages with the man, for tn
performance Of the same labors
Toe proper promotion for thes
reforms, he insisted, was the cor
reotion Of the erroneous ideas o
female education which had so widel.
prevailed in the past, and still main
tanned their hold upon the mass Q
the people with most stubborn tenae
ity. He thought too much importanc
was attached to the merely orna
mental, and too little to the usefu
IN female education.
This portion Of his lecture was d.
hYered with great earnestness, an
was illustrated and enforced in a VI
riety Of rays, calculated to make
permanent impression upoa all VIII
heard lin. We are confident tbs
none present regretted their attend
ancs. and ell vent home feeling tha
they had much 70 think over that wa
Bogth their most serious meditation