St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-01

| theme of his DISCOURSE which was eloquent
and impressive.
Last night at Hennepin avenue NJ. E..
church, Rev. J. L. Pitner, who was a
soldier himself, preached powerful sermon
on Patriotism and the Duty of the American
Soldier, which was heard by large con-
| gregation, including a number OF soldiers.
Rev. II. NJ. Simmons addressed the
Unitarian society at the Hebrew temple on
the Union Temple. delivering a very elO-
quent and common sense address.
Rev. G. FL. Merrill preached at Pilgrim
church on Which Way, the same theme on
which Ingersoll lectured. 1t was handling
of the theme, but not exactly an answer to
IngersOll.
Bishop Whipple was in the city yester-
day. In the morning he Otficiated at st.
| Marks church, where the rite of confirma-
ton was administered. In the evening he
preached at All Saints church.
| Flowers in abundance were at Spiritual
hall yesterday afternoon, for special offer
ings to the spirits of dead children and
soldiers. Music was rendered by the
| Nisthem quartet and addresses made by
leading spiritualists.
BLOW FROM THE SHOULDER.
Center Shots Scored in J. l.. Scud.
der's Baccalaureate Sermon.
| The baccalaureate sermon to the gradual
ing class of Bennett seminary was delivered
by Rev. J. L. Scudder at Plymouth church
last night, and was in many respects re
markable Grafton. Departing from the
almost beaten path of such sermons, he de-
livered an emphatically practical, common
sense talk, straight at the graduates and the
hundreds of other ladies in the cOngrega.
ton, bristling with every day facts and re-
plete with satirical truths. AS he
talked, ladies cast significant glances at each
other and smiled consciously, while ripples
of laughter We're occasionally heard-ex.
pressions of appreciation which, under or
binary circumstances, would have been ap.
plauded. The Young Women of America
was the theme of his discourse and his an
nounced object was to depict the highest
ideal of womanhood for the admiration
and emulation of his feminine hearers. He
first laid the greatest stress on the proper
care for the body,
HOLDING HEALTH ABOVE EVERYTHING
else, even religion. Young ladies should
go through the world with the Bible in the
right hand and physiology in the left; or,
better still, should carry the physiology in
the right hand; for, if they thoroughly TN
derstood and obeyed it, they would better
| be able to interpret and enforce the Bible.
The trinity they should consult should be
anatomy, physiology and hygiene, for the
| spiritual Trinity none of us can compre-
| bend. The body is the great foundation
of all, and should health be neglected, the
superstructure could amount to nothing.
maiden, in whose cheeks health had set
her rose banner. Her complexion should
not be the Iily-whlte of fashion and her
waist must be more than nine inches in
circumference. Her feet would never be
dstorted-be little larger than the aver
age, perhaps, and she must be able to run,
ride and climb tree as well as boy. In
short, she must be the embodiment of health
in sound body In this connection Mr..
| Scudder satiricalIy touched upon the de-
crees of fashion and the exactions of style,
| which compel the sickly form ''to err from
honest natures rule" sending his thoughts
home to his hearers by the plainest, most
practical language.
PREPARED FOR LIES BATTLES.
He dweIt for time on the necessity of
teaching young ladies to prepare to fight
| their own way through the world, pointing
| in bright cOlors the independence OF
| thought, feeling and action secured by the
knowledge that in ones own self lay the
means of existence. In enlightened Amer
| lea the sentiment was growing that honest
| labor is enabling, and in England Queen
|. Victoria herself set the example by causing
| the Prince of Wales to learn a cobbler's
| trade and her daughters to be thoroughly
| instructed in the art of cooking and keeping
house. They were queens daughters, but
| in America every young woman is the
| daughter of king and queen in her own
right. There are some so foolish as to be-
lieve labor degrading and who regard with
| horror callous on the hand. When they
shake hands with man they
| want their hands to fairly melt away in his
grasp. They are those who either propose
| to live on their fathers wealth or entrap a
husband and live on him always. But
wealth, like the centipede, has hundred
| feet and oftimes wings, too, and such
women are powerlesS and helpless when
thrown on their own resources.
WOMAN'S ONE OBJECT.
| Many young women say, as one did to
him, on the eve of graduation, ''now will
become BELLE" and they go out to lose all
they ever learned, in the opera and ball
ROOM Their one object in life is to catch
husband and of course their prevailing
idea must be, ''How do l look?" To that
they sacrifice everything. They become a
mere animated mass of feathers, cotton and
| iute and their intellectual waves behind
their forehead are superseded by the water
waves before it. The hardest work thew
do is to pound piano, while their mothers
perhaps are washing. scrubbing or mending
| i'm the kitchen. If they do get husband,
it's sorry catch, and on through lifesthey
20, a helpless, dependent pair With
such man it is generally difficult matter
to support himself, how then by any pro-
cess of arithmetic and economy, can he
support two?
| AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW.
But, he said, there was an optimistic
view to be taken. The world is constantly
growing better and the race improving
| The number of good and noble women is on
the increase and every generation produced
few more, as encouragement to genera
lions to come. The future is full of prom.
Use, especially here in America where God
has given woman higher sphere and
greater responsibility in that she is accorded
greater liberty, and in such proportion are
great women increasing. The age will pro-
duce women fit to be helpmeets to mem
women who can, if necessity calls, leave
the helm and take the oars. Such women
men respect and love, for respect is the