New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-09-17

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ABOUT OUR YOUNG GIRLS.
Lecture by Mrs. Stanton.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton thus dis
coursed in recent lecture in San Fran
cisco:
Goethe. the great German, says: The
destiny Of great nation is settled by the
opinions OF the young men under twenty
one years of age" came here to tell yor
that the destiny Of nation is settled by the
health and brains of young women under
eighteen years Of age. tApplause:]
Young girls! What are they' the music
of our churches. the sunshine OF our streets
the flowers of our social life. Boys and girls
was born to clutch the stars and the other
to grovel in the dust. But watch the girls
as they grow up. They become lstiees and
dissatisfied; they have no aim in life. Their
calling is simply TO revolve around some
man-to-dav. father or a brother: to-mor-
row, husband or son. Girls feel all this
though they may never utter it. was once
walking in Central Park, New York. with
my son. when we came upon the frequent
sign, mo dogs admitted here" What a
blessing it is TO the dogs that they can't
read" he remarked, 'for it would hurt their
feelings 80 if they could. Now they don I
know the restrictions they are placed under. y
| told him there was great similarity be-
tween the doors of Central Park and the
doors OF useful occupation. Tie one We're
closed to dogs and the other to girls. and
neither realized the deprivations they sui
fered by the restrictions A dog may lay
drowsily on his rug. not dreaming that he
can not enter the park. but if he try TO enter.
a sharp rap on the nose will remind him
that he is out of his sphere A girl may he
compels her to do for herself, and then SIZE
feels, from the sharp opposition she meets,
that she ia only girl, and out OF her
sphere.
This has lately been illustrated at Har-
ward. Two young girls, after years of effort.
had perfectly prepared themselves TO enter
college, and applied for admission. but old
Harvard slams the door in their faces sim
ply because they are girls. Perhaps they
fare sumptuouslv in palatial mansions: Int
if they awaken to the inspiration that they
must be active to be happy. they are
doomed to feel that they are only girls.
What q terrible moral effect must this
have on the hundreds of boys in Harvard
From just such actions How the terrible re-
suits Of insults and cCntumelv which are
daily heaped upon women. And when pro-
fessors and clergymen uphold such rest-ic-
tons l hold them responsible for tie ter
rible overt acts everywhere showered upon
women by the lower orders OF men.
had more trouble in my family 70 keep
the boys anu girls on an equal plane than
by any other difficulty. Seeing that the
world discriminates thus against girls the
hnx-a inf fbaf ftar AL w.
perior natural gifts. Even ii girl braces
up her mind TO resist. what can one brave
girl do against the whole world,
Custem has made the boy the lord and
the girl the slave, the mere pendage to the
lord. the man, on which 20 hang lis title of
name and fame. She is the mother.
daughter, or wife of Major So-and-so or
Lord So-and-so This should not be-
Women should have an individual aim and
purpose through life. The hoy has a viii of
his own. He has selfdependence and is
growing stronger. Drawer and nobier as lie
moves through life.
Alas. tor the girl The world denies her
a field for ambition. 1t furnishes no career
for woman. and she is tabooed if size steps
out of the conventional beaten path. Surely
the battle of life Is hard enough for the boy.
but it is tenfold harder for the girl
For example, lock at Winnie Ream. really
q bright, beautiful little girl. with love for
her art. She has done well. and displayed
great artistic skill. considering the adyan-
tages at her hand. But see how she has
been bounded by the press because she was
engaged by Congress to form statue Of
Lincoln. That is a good statue
l have seen it. and it is exactly like the
original. You all know that Abraham Lin
coin was an awkward, ungainly man. Is it
expected OF an artist to remodel subject
and present the likeness unlike the originate
The capitol at Washington is filed with
daubs Of prominent men. all made by men
artists, and never one of these many, all of
which is poorer than Winnie Ream's statue
of Lincoln, has ever been bounded as she
has been.
There is no labor field for girls They are
dying for want Of something to do, longing
tor the want of peace only found in action
know beautiful girl, eighteen years of
age, full of force and fire, who longs to
take the stage for profession. Her per-
lection IN private theatricals is marvellous
She lives in the ideal. She will give imita-
ton to the life, and will read Shake peare.
apprecIating all the shades of thought
She thinks OF the stage day and night. Her
friends have power to say TO her nay and
blast her life;; but how can they fill the void
IN her heart! The stage" say they, lis
not respectable as if a royal soul could
not dignity any profession. (Applause1
Can they surround her with iuxu,ies all
ler life! No; the skill and cunning of a
girls own hand are the only reliance she
las in time of need. Give Your daughters
heir own fortune by teaching them to sup
port themselves.
The coming girl will be healthy. wealthy
md wise. She will hold an equal place
With her brother in the various professions.
She will be an Independent, selfsupporting
,eing, not as to-day, bound by convention
Ilism. When all this comes to pass. we
hall not have such miserable line of old |
who don't marry because they |
ant support wife. We Shall teach them
o support themselves.
We must educate our young men to de- !
nand something more than the present |
lverage physiques All our society is based |
N the theory that woman was made to |
merely contribute to mans happiness. |
!" hen there is demand for self-reliant !
vomen, this idea will be overthrown, and |
ne present supply Of beauty and of vanity, |
snich meets them at every corner made up |
4 cMgnons and whalebone and waterfalls, |
nu SNAKES and spiders, will have lost its
lttractlons. Woman now dies ten thou
ana deaths, when, if educated to be self
chant, she would die but one.
Men are educated to really suppose wo-
aan Is natures work, as she is. If she en-
ers the heid OF labor they call her unsexed,
n say their chivalry dies away. Mans
nlvalry and devotion are not manifest in
roportlon to wOpan's need of them. The
zen helress, who has all her wants supplied,