Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-11-16
WHAT MODEL WOMAN is
DIR. NIUNHALI's SERMON TO sA.
XANNAH LADIES.


DIR. Munhall has bad no such audience
since he came TO Savannah as crowded
nto the Independent Presbyterian church
20 hear him yesterday afternoon. He has
had larger audiences frequently Tor the
galleries were not filled.
From the front platform back to the
farthest row Of seats there was not a male
10 be seen. DR.. Munhall had announced
that he wanted to talk to the ladies', and
all over IA years Of age were invited. On
two previous occasions he had talked TO
the sex that votes, and two sundays be-
fore had told a theatre full Of men about
some things they ought not 10 do.
Before the sermon began and while the
choir sang bringing in the Sheaves" the
white ribboned ushers were kept busy
showing ladies to seats. After the doors
were closed the ushers retired behind the
convenient high back to the last row OF
seats. The audience looked as IL it eX-
pected a collection was about TO be taken
up or something unusual was about to
occur.
In the pools sold at the Office on the
chances of the NEWS reporter getting In
he sold very low. He stood in with the
ushers though, aud got a back seat where
IG " dH UlHtUNtAEu ~ bii9 n itN III bhN
audience and stared at very hard as an
Intruder. He concluded, however, that
be could stand pretty near anything the
rest OF the audience could and so re-
manned. The men looked very lonesome.
Besides DIR. Munhall the only men on the
platform were Rev. J. W. Rogan, Rev. I.
T. Christian and the professor who led
the singing,
THE EvANGELIsT's TEXT.
The evangelist read for his text about
fwo-tbirds of Proverbs XXI, 1881:
sfWhO can find a virtuous woman for
her price is far above Tubies. The heart
OF her husband doth safely trust in her
so that be shall have no need OF spoil.
She will do him good and not evil all the
DAYS of her life,' etc.
"The word "virtuous" means literally
s'braYev or courageous" the preacher
explained. His topic was "a model
woman" and he drew the points OF her
character from his text. "She seeketh
wool and flax, and wOrketh willingly with
her hands" indicated that the ideal of the
author Of the Proverbs contemplated an
woman. Employment the
speaker lauded as a virtue, and he ar
Taigned "polite society" in caustic terms.
He remarked that he much preferred the
word s'woman" to ''lady,v ana continued:
''Pohte society teaches thatyou must have
nothing TO do. 1t disdains the fingers
prieked by needle work aud knuckles
rouuhed I'm the wash tub. But it Is as
honorable to do those things as to bang a
piano. and every woman ought to know
as well how TO preside in the kitchen as
in the parlor. Girls ought to be taught to
do all kinds Of work that woman may
have 10 do. Nowadays, though, they are
raised like hot house plants, and educated
to catch rich husbands. Life like that is
q blank.
THE MODEL WOMAN.
"I discover that the model woman is a
prudent woman. There never was day
when our girls needed so much to be
taught prudence as now. We used to talk
about sweet sixteen That meant the
time when a girl was in that transition
state when she is just stepping across the
threshold from girlhoOd to womanhoOd.
About four-fifths OF the girls of that age
in this country now can stare an ordinary
man out OF countenance. You see them
on the streets IA, 10 and l6 years old
the young fellows on the other
side smiling at them and flirting. There
are scores and hundreds Of girls Of that
age to-day in this country who, because
Of the latitude allowed them by their
parents, are being led on to live life OF
shame. The false teachings ofpolite society
are responsible for it. Some one has said
that there is no such thing as girlhood
anymore. They are children and then
women. At they are sent to dancing
school, and before they are girls they are
In society. / presume that the ladies' who
need TO hear these truths the most are not
here, for they do not come to such places.
Polite society at its best is bad enough.
had just as soon send my children to a
L.. - h . H..
what the world calls polite society. Ii
you are bound to put yours in wait until
they get old enough. Teach your chill
dren 10 be prudent. What glorious
thing 1t is for young girl to be prudent.
woMAN's CHARACTERISTICS
ga third characteristic OF the model
woman is, she is strong physically. 'She
girdeth her loins with strength and
her arms / wish dare
say some things l could say that you
ought TO know. Polite society teaches
woman that she must spend her time
reading novels. They are TO her the curse
that whisky drinking is to men. 1t is
dissipation and intOxication. The stories
are not real, and the heroes are dukes and
rascals.
Il have a great admiration for English
women, who are built on the most beauti-
ful mOdels-though not, perhaps, on the
generally accepted standard OF feminine
beauty. They take exercise, and plenty
OF 1t. They don't wear shoes so little
their feet can hardly get in, and with
high heels under the middle Of the foot.
They wear a good, stout shoe with
broad sole, and can outwalk most men
that you know.
''rhis woman was a domestic woman.
What we need in this country is a revO-
tuition I'm domestic matters, change that
will keep the men from going 10 the clubs
and the saloons and other resorts in the
evenings. You do not need paintings by
old masters and hand carved furniture
90 make home attractive. Give it more Of
your own attention. Have II neat, clean
and inviting.
YOUNG LADIES OF THE DAY.
'Tbe young lady Of to-day wants duke
Tor a husband, and a grand house with
broad lawns in front, and the mother dis
cQurages her keeping company with the
honest blacksmith or artisan, but en-
courages the prohigate young man whose
father has money.
II believe IN strOng-minded women.
What did CiOd give woman a brain cavity
for aud OIL II with brain matter II he did
not Intend her 70 have a mind OF her
ownY
In concluding. be used these express
elons among others;
''some people sneer at old maids. ]
don't But God never designed woman %
be an old maid"
sold Time, who don't care anything
ABOUT your beauty, will scratch IL out"
Tonight Or. Munhall will close his