The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-11-14
MRS. LIvERMOnE,s LECTURE.
Whnt shall We do with our Daugii
tiers


Christian Association lecture course in this
village, was delivered by Mrs. Mary A.
Liyermore of Boston, Tuesday evening at
the Opera House. The subject of the adj
dress was "What shall we do with our
daughters ?" The reputation of the lady as
speaker is too well known and too justly
established to make 1t necessary for us, at
tins time, to make any extended remarks
upon that subject, but in attempting some
what Of comprehensive resume of the
lecture, we must say that no effort of ours
can give an idea of the full power and
scope brought into requisition by the speak
er during her remarks The lecture was
some two hours in length, and owing to the
lateness of the hour at which it closed we
are obliged to cut short what we otherwise
would endeavor to make full and extend
ed abstract.
The house was well filed, and the inter
est in the speaker and her subject was kept
intact and quite intense throughout the
whole. We consider Mrs. Livermore the
most effective lady speaker upon the plat
form lacking, perhaps, many of tue
good qualities possessed in that art by Mrs.
Stdiruu, Wine having muuy otner~ 80 ,s.--...
value and force that are far in advance of
the lady mentioned or of others of like
famous reputation. Especially does Mrs.
Livermore succeed in touching the hearts
of her hearers by her trte and interesting
Illustrations, and in enlisting the sympathics
of a majority in the arguments advanced.
She, also, does not fail when the occasion
seems, TO her. to demand tito give evidence
of the great courage and vigorous stamina
that is apparently rooted deep in her ma
ture, and must come out
The speaker was introduced to the audi
ence by j. NJ. Haven, Esq, who took the
opportunity to state that the lecture by
Cough would occur on the 10Th of Decem-
Der instead of the 9th, as announced upon
the coupon tickets. He also gave notice
that the next lecture of the course would
be delivered by Hon. William Parsons, on
the evening of the 2Sth inst, upon
"NIichael Angelo"
Mrs. Lvermore commenced her lecture
by referring to the work launched by Mar
tina Fuller, quarter OF "A century ago, on
the subject of woman in the nineteenth
century," and that as she, the speaker,
opened to its title-page to glance at the
contents of the book that had already
made so much clamor in the literary world,
her attention was riveted by the two mottos
which were inscribed upon the page, one
under another, and one contradicting the
other The first was a familiar saying, en-
dorsed by Shakespeare, "Frailty, thy name
is woman" The other read, 1.-THE earth
waits for her queen" The first, said the
speaker, is a synonym in the literary world
for ages, now brought again into actual eX-
istence. The other prophesied the grandel
type of womanhOod, toward which tho
current seems to set.
The speaker then referred to the history
of six thousand years ago, when women
broodcd over a destiny of disability and
servtude; woman was not considered in
any way co-worker with man but subjected
to mental drudgery of the latter day.
called the chivalrc age when woman was
raised to an imaginary height far aboyC
men. So, said the speaker, has the con
ditiOn of woman in contrast to man, vacil-
lated between the two extremes. During
the last hundred years the current had
set steadily in one direction; instead OF
being made now drudge and then doll,
woman was recognized on an equal social
footing with man. The world, said the
speaker, don't know to-day what woman is
capable of accomplishing. Where women
have arisen to the standard of power and
greatness in any particular department it is
considered and treated as an exceptional
case, and is by common consent passed tc
the credit OF men-they are called mdscu
line women, as if God had not put into the
soul of woman dormant power that coulo
arise and exert itself as well as that OF
man.
The lady then referred to the latter gen
Grafton, when women were rejOiced over
and upon whom are lavished the bes' Of
love and affection that now because de
mand has sprung up for superior woman
fnr m
powers, the woman question Is in the as
tendant. She did not mean any particular
phase of the question, but treated as I
whole. You are met with this question
everywhere in the papers it is talked owe
increasingly it knocks at the doors o
schools and colleges of all grades and de
nominations it applies for acceptance e
every trade, profession and business NJ
convention can be called but that question
is uppermost; it stalks. up the broad aisle
unlimited, undesired. She illustrated thi
statement by relating a fact that occurred
at a Congregational Convention in Massa
chusetts, when the woman question was t.
be assiduously kept out. On organizing
the same it was found that one-half til
delegates were women, and the question
was before them Immediately, taking tw
out of the three days convention to decide
This was true the same in England, unit
now women who are householders and tax
payers are considered voters, provide
they are not married. The speaker illus
trated by stating that one lady, Miss Gal
rett, had been elected to office, runnin
thirty thousand ahead of her ticket. l
Germany the industrial question was nov
in the ascendancy. Henry Wilson tel
us of his visit there and his surpris
at seeing the women performing sue
labor as animals do here, and on a scant
pittance such as no man is expected to liN
upon here. The women were now askin
to be better paid and was one of univers'
Importance there. Russia was referred t