Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-09-01

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When we assemble in a place like this and allow
scenes to be put before us that are indecorous and
shameful, we have passed from the purity and self
respect that must and shall characterize the woman
of the future Oh, friends, these things are so
deep in my heart! Girls come and ask me,
"Would you dance round dances?' "Oh my
sister, my dear little sister, no, don't dance
round dance" The woman of the future will not
do it. walked the aisles of the picture galleries
of Europe. | saw the men in those great historic
paintings with their earrings and their fingers
covered with rings, bedecked with ruffles and
dressedin all the hues that the peacock and rainbow
could supply. That was the time when King
Louis XIV said, ''The state, it is l." They
were nothing but a parcel of courtiers. When a
woman shall be able to say to the state, II am part
oft, just as much as anything that breathes when
she shall say II am part Of society, am part Of
the industrial value, am part of everything that
a man values, everything that mans brain loves
to think about, in philosophy in philanthropy, or
history, or science, think about it in the same
lines" then the calm equipoise shall COME And
for that would like to live; for that would like to
speak. Persons who know more about it than l.
tell me that women who give their lives to shame,
women who are on the street corners with their
invitations at night are women who have, from
the very look of the face and confguration OF the
head the symbols and emblems of no self respect.
The superior, queenly woman is the one that has
the most self respect, and sees its application
most to everything around her. and makes every
man feel that he would as soon die as offer her an
insult.
Let me speak a word of hope. I have heard
~, FRO, who bac
Germany, woman for years a student in the
university. She says the professors wives tell
her that the new science has developed this
thought and that professors are saying to their
young men students, eff you want scintlllating
brain, if you want magnificent power of i'm
agnation, conserve every force be as chaste as
your sister is and put your power into taat brain
that throbs like an untired engine" Thatwill be
the science of the future, that was Christs gospel
always. They never set two standards up.
said | think no unkind thought of this poor
humanity of ours, and Pm sure you don't.
think we must look upon it like that poor womnn
of seventy years DID, who after having been thirty
years in prison was brought to the chaplain with
her hands manacled for they said, "She is the devil
of the JAIL and we don't dare to bring hern your
presence, uncurbed." But the chaplain, the sweet
Quaker woman, said, 'Take off those shackles."
But the men said, 'Oh, madam, we dare not take
them off, for if we did she would spring at you"
"Take off those shackles and leave her Free" And
they were slowly unfastening the chains while the
old wretch sat there, and the chaplain came for
ward and put her arms around the withered
shoulders and pressed her sweet fresh lips to the
pale and hardened cheek, and then said, "Will
YOU come with me" Then the old woman, fall
ing on her knees and clasping those youthful
hands, said, ''Did you think that could be bet
ter?" And so poor humanity comes to us who
haven't been down in the darkness, us who have
had mothers so sweet and true to guide us,
humanity comes and says to the womanhood OF the
nation, "Did you think | could be betterF' Oh,
yes, it can be better; it never had fair chance
The tobacco delusion, the alcohol delirium, the
wasting vice of impurity, treacherous CUSTOM
of opi1