Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-09-20

we'll as domestic employment in the remote West,
but who are leading anxious and aimless lives in
New England"
By the "anxious and aimless" the governor
doubtless meant the widows and old maids, who
were so unfortunate as not to be represented even
by proxy The Legislature took no action on this
portion of the governors message, but one Sena-
tor actually made the following proposition to the
Senate
'tThat the anxious and aimless women of the
State should assemble on the Common on GER
tain day of the year Ito be hereafter named), and
that Western men who wanted wives, should be
invited to come here and select them
Thus it transpires that an unrepresented class
soon becomes superduous, "anxious and aimless'
in the minds of lawmakers and the idea is not
how to benefit and employ what appears to them
superauity of females, but how to get them Off
their hands and upon the bounty of their neigh
bors in the West.
FROM Social Purity address to the ministers of
Great Britain, which appeared in the September
Philanthropst, we clip the following significant
paragraph:
tToo long has society maintained a double
standard of morals-a severe one for women,
very lenient one for men, A man may have been
rake, but he is not in society's view thereby un-
fitted for marriage with pure girl; whereas girl
who has once forgotten her modesty is never par
doned by society and is judged to be unfit to mar
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the entree of the drawing room without challenge.
What an iniquity is this two-faced morality, and
how inconsistent with the pure principles of Him
whose disciples we profess to be! In His name,
and in the strength of our religious convictions,
our duty is to denounce this worldly hypocrisy,
and make it ring in the ears of our young men
that the Living God demands equal purity in men
and women, that the male as well as the female
body is His holy temple which it is impious to de-
file Prostitution is terrible stain upon ciyiliza-
ton, but the demand creates the supply. If the
vicious tendencies of our young men can be re-
moved or prevented we are striking at the root of
this and other grievous evils and society as a
whole will be purer for our faithful work. Let us
make it prominent feature in our ministry to pro-
claim that there is One Moral Law, applicable
alike, not only to religion and business but to
men and women, and we shall do much to save the
Young from the insidlous teachings and example of
the depraved advisers whom they are sure to meet"
The address closed with some valuable sugges-
tons as to the benefit to be derived from the join
ing of some Social Purity alliance, which, as it is
unsectarian, in its character-and no money sub
scrption is oblgatory-none need stand aloof.
The White Cross movement is doing much, and so
are other organizations in this work, but it singles
out the Social Purity Alliance, established in 1873,
at Victoria street, London, S. W.. partly because
of its honorable position as the first society in the
field to vndcate an equal moral law for men and
women, and partly because is open to all denom-
nations and to those who are unattached to any.
Tn some localities it NAV be found possible and