The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-03

sin. Teach them wisely, reverently and
plainly their obligations to God and to
themselves, and the beauty, strength and
glory of pure and innocent manhood! So
shall we have more dutiful sons, more loyal
husbands, fewer broken hearts and blasted
homes and grey hairs brought down in sor-
row to the gravel Alas that we cannot
teach our sons that society as well as God
will hold them to strict account for
profigacy and evil doing. Tell me whose
fault is It that the boy or young man teels
that vice is at a premium and virtue little
valued, when he perceives some companion
well known to be roue and libertine,
because he is wealthy or of fine adj
dress and possessed of pleasing manners, or
is member ofsome "oli family" cordial
ly received by his mother and sisters in his
own homcl How much attention think
you will he pay to the gentle warning Of
his mother against an intimacy with such
person because he is not good compan
ion for boy when he sees her smile upon
him in society, and permit his attentions to
his sistersl What restraint is there upon
the desire of men to frequent gambling
halls, saloons and houses which yirtuous
women blush to name, when they know
that from these haunts of sin and shame
they can go direct to the drawing-rooms
and parlors of "bcst society,"" enjoying at
the same time the dregs and cream of life
at pleasurel What blindness is this that
closes our eyes to shameless folly in the
man, and yet makes US so ready to detect
it in the woman! | have known good
Christian women to speak scornfully and
angrily Of those poor lost sisters whose
lives are like the whirlpool, in which, once
| caught, the wrecked vessel is carried help
lessly around, until engulfed in the boiling
vortex and lost forever in the backness of
darkness; who are shut out from all
thoughts Of happy, virtuous homes, and
little children's holy love, and suffer in
bondage worse thad that of Ixion's wheel,
from which there is no escape this side of
the grave, and have known these good
women to receive with pleasant smiles and
cordial welcome the men who have placed
and keep these poor, lost sisters where they
are, with no word Of protest, no act to show
the disapproval which they ought to feel.
How long before we shall dare refuse to re-
ceive into our homes or recognize elsewhere
the man who makes his boast among his
fellows of his evil deeds2 When we shall
dare TO frown upon this dual life of re-
spectability and sinfulness, of seeming vir-
tue and actual vice, and demand of our as
sociates that purity and chastity that they
demand Of u.s. When women in a body
have the courage to do this, the fearless
ness to lift up their united voices in earnest
protest, and the bravery to act in concert,
we shall have a different state of affairs,
anu uOt ulllII tllcu.
We are gathered here to-day, my friends,
to discuss among other important topics
the ways and means of making "better
homes" 1fmy crude ideas, poorly written
shall be any help in solving this important
problem, shall not have spoken in VAN,
or trespassed for naught upon your patience.
As women in this golden day of opportu-
nifty, which gives lis more latitude than we
have ever known before, with so much to
stimulate and encourage us in the pursuit
OF noble purposes, let us dedicate our
lives yet more earnestly to the service of
humanity, deSpising not the little things,
taking up patiently all practical duties, and
laboring faithfully as a unit for all who are
sinful, sorrowing and repentant, remem-
bering tie Divine commands of our Blessed
Master and asking only when we shall lay
down our burden at eveningtide that he
shall say of Us in golden accents-"She
hath done what she could"