Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-03-26

Rev. j. l.. Dudley completes the term Of
his engagement with the Twenty Eighth
Congregational Society of Boston, on the
first of April and he will not proloug it
beyond that time. He returns to the west
about the middle of the month and will
spend the summer as usual in his home at
Lake Mills. Mrs. Dudley has a new Lee
ture on Self Made Women, which she has
just repeated the eighth time in Boston.
The Commonwealth of that city says:
Mrs. NJ. V. Dudley repeated her lecture on
"Self Made Women in Parker-Frateruitv
Hall, on Friday evening ,week), before a
select and very sppreciative audience. An
it well might be appreciated by an though.
tai and intelligent audience, not more for,
its graceful delivery and beauty of style.
Astounding in flashes Of wit and apt illus
trations, and suggesting IN its easy, gem
tie flow the music and poetry of babbling
brooks and flowing rivers that sing all the
day. than for the high moral and intellect.
ual standard taken in dealing with the
problems of the day respecting the status
of women. The term "sel f-made women"
employed in The lecture refers not to indi-
vidual women especially, but to all, gener-
ally, who, by force of character, have risen
above the average. In commencing. the
lecturer remarked that self-mad men are apt
to praise their makers, but they certainly
have better maker to praise than the
Chicago Mayor of whom Wendell Phillips
said: "The Sums of the city made him
and ne was made in the likeness of his crea-
tor Beyond all words Of praise is the high
standard of morality and justice mapped
out in the lecture. Nothing is so much
doubted in our day as sincerity. The eff
fort to appear, rather than to be, seems Ithe
rule of society; but it must not be so with
the self-making woman. Sincerity, ingen-
| uousness and truth are to be her watchwords.
She should have sympathetic feeling with
all other women in the same business with
herself, as the road is broad enough for all.
She must be willing to assist competitor
even to surpass herself, if she is more
worthy, else she is not worthy OF success
herself. She has no right to aspire for
what she is unfit, or take the place that
others can Till better than herself. And
| this principle ranges all the way from the
| lowest to the highest positions The self.
| making woman must stand on her own
merit, not on that OF her fathers, though
heredlty is worth mach. All are better
for good ancestry, and the worse for bad,
though not responsible tor it. She should
discIaim all schening, strategy and treason,
in treating with others, for the worst muir.
ders are not physical To be generous to
one's allies is mere selfshness, hence the
necessity of generosity to opponents. There
are heights which men have not scaled. One
OF these is modesty, to which women can
aspire; but, if she is only seeking a name,
or scrambling for position, she had better
remain where she u.s. Woman, as we'll as
man, is often disappointing in these ideals;
and the reason Of her being swallowed I'D in
men is too oftep that there is so little to be
swallowed.
Mrs. Dudley said that once rail-splitter.
or cook, In America does rot imply al.
ways rail-splitter. or cook, and if all were
assigned their true place many Senator
| would De at the plongh, and many a Gin
cinnatus in legislative halls. She also spoke
OF the struggle woman has bad in forcing
her way into the medical profession, when
instead, the doors should have been flung
wide open. If she has thus done so mu ch.
what will she not DO when free? Let her
end the debate by iacarnatiag her own life
in all that is good and truel Let her cult
vate sympathy with all the unfortunate!
For all which we enjoy some have bled and
died; the road to the mount of trans6pura.
ton is through Gethsemane. Let woman
then put on the whole armoI of righteous.
ness and then shall she reach the chambe,
OF Peace-self-made and God.anointed.