New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-04-14
LECTURE THEMES.
WOMEN IN OLD AND NEW TIMES.

WOMEN IN OLD AND NEW TIMES.
LECTURE by GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS FOR TIE
BENEFIT OF THE YOUNG wOMENS CHRISTIAN
ASSOCIATION.
Chickering Hall last evening was filed by an
appreciatye audience from the best people or the
city listen 10 lecture from George william Curtis
upon The Women Of the Old Time and the New" The
lecture the only which Mr.. Curtis VIII de
liver this season, and was gwen for the bone
fit OF the Young WOmen's Christian Association
Mr. Curtis held throughout the attention OF bis hearers,
whose sympathy with his theme and its expression was
eyinced in frequent applause The lecturer came upon
the stage unintroduced, and had manuscript before
him. but did not appear TO read sketch OF the lecture
Is as follows:
The past always the golden age The glamor OF us
lance makes beauty beautiful, and vaior more
heroc and proaio fate seems have thrown us ON tue
of time and IN the worlds decrepitude WINE We
read, history and poetry full OF the heroic fhhp
Sidney, bending from his saddle to Offer cup Oh
go water the wounded soldier was hero Blu sec
that gunner ut Gettysburg. who, falling wounded
and tortured by thsi, called out: johnny
.olnnyl for the love Of God q drop OF wafer
AL Jenny there Is not drop In my canteen' ahdH
20 to get any the enemy viii take the gun " No MAT
Ter. Johnny, stand to your gum and wheh Tue ""'
moved forward 1t novel over jennings uci" "o"'.
Three hundred years ago II world have been rs Deau
seIfsacfiHce rs Philip sidneys All that was pest !"
history End poetry, and tho truth Of to-day scatets e
cnmor OF the past. All a.cs have been depiore"'
We see to-day appalling ex.rayagancc ana luxury
They cry, "TLo dress Of iasAiuh'p'o Wv
man costs her husband thousands Oh "C'''i'
II was not so In the simple o'u 'ip'e''
Softlv softIv Ouccn Elizabeth happy owner OF o'ouV
dresses, issued a proclamation against eNuN"E""'"
We b.veil a DEGENERATE sOciefy-so soroih. SO gross
orr Young only IT. IT is said to smoke os"A
and play billiards ana ttlk slang; our Young "oi'" "
nc French dolls perched upon hig-heelrd sh cS p'H
ing their waists almost n vanishing point pilng
ligh upon their heads dyed tow and horse hlr
making an aA,ctation Of .lciiy, but were tHet
inlpr IN the old finest Dick steele. in his account "l
he moe tai GI y%bg wh damon s. saws
hat when TIC iudge ordered drawn mp WIN n ~,
snkrn rotunda ike u. Peters.
W. cry against political eSruption, and Justly lear
sor the moral foundations OF tue Government ! nav
in he lobby OF the lesainr' DinG, q, Tnn
I WINGED Remembered tat in tho tmo OF Walpoo ne
British King bought men IN lie would haun,h > % h
Wien foolish irnsina ion signs Tor lhr Ola ,r - o.
TIE Of the old time haei ersona, po'iiG'i, ana
IN ne open country than IN tie driir't zane OF our cry
The emancipation from the theories and manners
~ the Cd dnc. W so L"t .Acr.c GA. "g"
age but when We SIGH for return oi the pis r' us re-
.iemb tla It's great ~ glory ives the "N.hr ul'cl'hi
vh those times. Ons Commaniins and snitrm, iHh,-
c1uon OF The worlds lro.reSS Is II, n,s",f 80
of woman Is always the test Of scciriy To-Day t-
star n fup
m hum of Ind sriOus and happy lie, n rHntf taI
IN the cir The age oi Fcrcos al s'hoa'c hhtrhS
world have breu accepted evidence 81 ~ design ~
the Golden age of Athens Tie most accomplished WOMB
h,iou.,rI - an uuf luwc,t elias
Mr urtis then huinorou,y described tGc dScuS"oh'
thai were carried On ia Dean Snits INA IS 20 Ltir
IN would be prudent 20 woman VINO hii funl
natural sense some tus'c, aud Was able 10 Ietl ud'i
sf.l,dlclv the literature ~ the daE. II was SSH
man there were radical objections against hn ihiI"
wife that t4c natural lcylty ~ women nt'd,l h"o'
~ irIoriutc and stupidity. Aut such was lh- t"di-
$. of me sex that tin women cons met i"ln-n
Ignntaut tLat they mi, lat be equal - nor Aur'h'
Iu- ,gaa slow fo change Not more thln % years tf
-,in.y smith spoke OF the disparity b-twccn ~. kh"
should cultivate household dUtcH 10 tHD N'u h "i 1000
al he. ar iuir,mcut,. THAT j. ln-'luu- is"a OBJ
,,uulau" sid the lecturer, (Which mahrs itr hiiis
,ylg,i t.r husband brings h.r home hr'," .'i aid
screaming when "a mouse hops across the Hon'. $40 BE-
moi he fne lads 81 III iaslou- Ec@, hui lif'"' "'-
oh- vita health ami pouring nectar duy mar
rcd Ia IIeIrl.es. strongest ol Tao gods. J. ti.
Potia Shakespeare has drawn, bclutiul h''a1rc
o wise young iulgr, les trulf i.in.inhr aI
Iullct whispering LcT love from bilruuyF -F, 'Hrl.
kefrncd The great caution witr which itr Pr iiIs ami
rIy srter. New E llsud dealt uut liiiic fdH.ap'
10 tcif girls ana strain Ol tr Ertn'rt IRONY t'h
now Boston trembling the bulwarhs Of freed in'
prur IA III srho1, Tor girls and stood aruast ut th-
luin.r ttrnlauc- u-ou 10 ANA ihc caG gtt'Hnt OF
IFS uiiyi c-rH The notion iDft lf 'hu'"l"h iHH
tselulness OF women should Dc coLnn Il Ia nome,
.,uiulv because nl "a had ii-a that thai sac h'i
-Ducr." was rilcucI AMI oi-prscd 90 hf d-uu ."'
and rof ions Illustration Yesterday i zone aut To-day
and DE ie toy and do 81 tie axe 81 ca strih.lc ~
Given place To q b'ticr idea; 1nd we 90 forward WIN
Gods 10 40 ni the true woman IN lac ire American
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