Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-02-12
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| Concerning Has5sEcs" was t8s subj 20 o r
| the lev lecture which Ec-. J|v-rino 20 de-
| lvered last eveSipg "a lrs T-lOs P-r< CSi-
Eregat:cEs Al CnUrth, -. tie N stir : n.
| toe Star course. The i--lre was fair n
| point Of numbers, doe - n its character.
and nisestly in harmony With the y!eE
/ or Inc lecturer, who UIsrei upon The conSii-
ee T,n OF the subject chosen withoI. other
iHtroductior than that Or az organ voluuts-
~ by Mr.. Louis Dix. The tarature OF M At
rlmony, said the lecturer was wondarfully
scarce in the land, that literature which
treated OF one at least who was largely IN the
theme. There were hundreds of Volumes on
the bride and the wife TO day. hat hariI one
on the person who was to be the oridegro ,m,
the husband. The reason of this seemed TO
l be that those most concerned did not write
about IL, and the result was we n al but a
one-sided view of the subject. The Character
| OF general literature In all the ages ami
among all nations WAS such that We obtained
out slide gl9nces, only Incidental views of
the condition and status OF woman. 1t was
In 10 other way that We got q fair look At
woman rs condition, aud with this We b al
to rest content. But from these We were able,
when nothing further was vouchssfed, to
draw conclusions as 10 her stat1s which
would aid in the consideration OF the topic
of the evening. The lecturer gave an inter
esurg description OF the way in which wo-
man was treatec aud situated. aud what DO
siion she held in Hindostan, In Cnina aud
IN Egypt, whica latter place gave to the
| Catholic Church AID To the world the iiea OF
Z
type or woma nhOpi. 1t would be impoSsi-
be, with the iiea that obtained in Hindos-
tan and in Chira, foI woman to be held In
nigh esteem. On the other hand there was
no such IDEA in Old Egypt about which we
are only beginning tn know something and
from which the Catholics borrowed their
MaCOnDa. Inc teuets OF the Mob ammeiaus
held that 10 woman could enter heaven IN
less she had been, or was married and the
unmarred had 40 KIDD OF chance In the
lahd 10 come. The traces OF the progress of
the nations from the east 10 TIE west were
rejected, and the lecturer gave a semi-philo-
logical account of the migrat .onS of tha ma
lions from Asia TO Europe There exists TO
the present day In India q legend as to how
Eoman CHANGED to be made. 1t seems that
God, who did the manufacturing OF man.
found after he had made his man that
he had limb more than he knew what
to DO with. He then amputaued the
extra limb, and. being of an economical
turn of mind, he desired to keep it.
as he didn't want TO throw il away. So a
woman grew out OF the extra limbs. TIE
were sketched. II was found that the only
way to keep women from obtaining culture
was by q ban that was placed on them, and
II was stated that these women, certain OF
them at least, would not be deprived OF Gull
ture, and rather than surrender their desire
for knowledge they would lay aside their re-
for when woman was able TO talk as we'll
as a man they thrust her out among the dis
solute. In the later days of the old Greeks,
II was no un common thing to find women 10
the theaters along with the men, who before
were the sole spectators. There were far
more than 900 years In the early days of the
Roman reaublfc, when women were treated
with the respect which they deserved. The
latter days OF Rome were passed when there
was the most disgusting, most deplorable
that the Cloths and Nandals swept down
from the north and wiped Rome out, yet the
dlssolute sons of the Eternal city went down
nrst by this lack of respect or marriage.
The speaker gave a birds eye view of the
status and condition of women among the
conquerors of Rome, as we get them from
the Roman historians, who were willing to
coDcele to their victors great praise. These
were the conditions of woman in the lands
tefore Christianity came on the scene. The
ages previous were distinctly maScu-
line eras. There were the Deborahs,
tie Jareds-the women who were DESTROYS
OF making their names remembered by the
world, women who had to be as men were
and do as men did to be borne on the histo-
ries. The whole theory OF the family reIa-
ton when Christ came was changed. He
this was the impress He made on the world
when He came. This Was the thought. The
wife was to be respected as Paul said, as
Christ had loved His church, so that He died
Tor IL, even though IL was unloving, I'M
faithful. This was said 10 the Christians of
the Greek Church, and was intended toIift
up the Grecian idea ofmarriage. The condi-
tlon OF the women in the time of William
the COnqueror may be guessed when IL is
SAID that that great hero who had first gave
England her impetus, had proposed to NATL
ia OF r Ianders, who refused him as often as
be asked. He met her one day in the street
and threw her from her horse, pushing her
with his INST, and made her take back her
refusal, which she did, aud then marie
him, ard pretty life they had. The lee
turer paid q tribute to the average Ameri-
can husband, and asked If there were nothing
clusfOn OF the lecture was taken up in the
present legal condition OF the wife, aud Ii
was urged that the laws be changed so as to
have her recognized and protected, and put
on an equal footing with man.-(Hic1po Infer