Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-02-07

tenths Of the insane in the asylums are
there from sexual debauchery, and the
balance are there from the ignorance Of
mothers who made them. Ninetenths Of
the criminals are the children Of mothers
who did not desire their births. Mothers
say I dare not 90 out to hear this subject
discussed" But it is a mother mission
to do so, Your men have discussed the
generation Of animals for two hundred
years-about that stallion, that Durham
bull. that S~outhdOwn am, but when a
woman does this she is called a vulgar
prostitute. Thank God, all this is past.
The mother can now discuss this subject
on the platform, and noble men say, we'll
done.
How many Memphis mothers dare tell
their child who made them? The child
asks, "Who made me2' aud they answer
net the truth, but the child goes out on
the street and learns from the street
Arab what the mother feared To teach.
The intelligent mother answers her child
and ..says: Why. mamma carried you
under her heart for days and months
until you wers ushered into the world,
and that's the reason that mamma loves
you" That child becomes intelligent, q
man, a gentleman, because he is born Of
an intelligent mother. You recognize
him as a gentleman the moment he en-
tsrs a room, from his Tone Of voice.
People say Mrs. Woodruff does not
believe in the sancity OF marriage. /
do believe in that sauctitv of mar
riage which admits of no divorce. When
the truth is told to children they will
shrink with awe at the sanctity Of mar
riage. | say that there is not one wo-
man il a hundred thousand fit to bear a
child, and not one man in a million is ct
to become its father. Marriages at pres
ent eud in the prostitution Of wives
Herbert Spencer says: THE condition
of married women to-day is more to be
deplored than the condition Of a har-
lot" and yet people dare net ask the
cause.
There is a remedy, and that remedy is
intelligence. The intelligent woman
will go and look nature squsrely in the
face aud not be shocked. When l was
in Paris saw ststuary there true to ma
ture-not q 6g-lesf to be seen. Elegant
gentlemen ana ladies walked around and
looked at the statuary; no one blushed
and no n uttered a vulgar word. In
America we have an American Chris
tian Association to suppress that in a
minute. American ladies would look at
such statuary through their fingers and
blush. American ladies are afraid tc
look at or discuss the subject of the gen,
GRAFTON Of races.
The serpent Of Eden was the abomin,
able lust Of the passions. What young
man will leave this house 10 night anC
desecrate his body after compromising
that that body is Gods temple? Victol
Hugo said, When will fathers and moth
ers make the acquaintance Of their chill
dreuY' None but a noble and intelli
gent mother eau redeem her child.
| heard a fashionable mother boas
that Der son had sown his wild oats anC
was now going to marry And the girl
with whom be sowed his wild oats-art
they going to marry him, or is it YOU
virgin daughter2 | demand the same
purity 10 men as you ask in women
The man who boasts of conquestl
never made them the true gentleman
never boasts OF such, and the bosster il
not gentleman.
Mrs. Woodruff, at this point, discussed
the theory Of CESSATION, and continued:
Familiarity on this subject will not rot
your daughters of their modesty; there
is no danger, Let her understand her
self and then she will be modest. fee
honored tonight by the presence Of {
number Of ladies, but there are FIVE hun
dred more ladies' in Memphis who are
dying to hear me. You men are respon
sible for it; they must stay at home; i
, wouldn't do TO 60 and hear Mrs. Wood
hull. But the man will go; he is the BIZ
IDjin. Intelligent men take their wives
to wherever they go themselves. Th'
intelligent wife discusses ell subject
/ with her husband-all financial problems
/ politics, agricultural subjects, business
social problems. Such o wife holds he
, husband in a bond OF love and they IvI
happily together; but when the woman il
/ unable to discuss any subject the mai
puts on bis hat and goes out to discuss
+. these subjects with other peoples wives
Let parents take their children every
: where and teach them everything. Noel
; modesty should be eradicated. Take "
5 the leading journals Of the country an'
, what do you find in themY Whole col
umns filled with advertisements Of curt
e for private diseases. In these journal
; you learn all this-how to cure privat
E diseases after having contracted them
D but in Woodruff d Claain's Weekly,whic
3 is not permitted to appear an your table
r you learn how to avoid all these pTivat
|. diseases.
/ read in one OF your papers an aceoun
r of the death Of a beautiful glrl at tn