The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-16


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ing Octob.r 81.
MRS. LONGsHORE-POrTs M. ID.
A Lecture to Women Only by the
Scientific Quakeress.
Mrs. DR.. Longshore- Potts lecture to
women only at the Seattle opera-house
yesterday afternoon drew large audience.
Il was a representative audience, COM
posed of young girls. young matrons, old
maids - If there are any of that genus
extant in Seattle. - mothers and grand
mothers; indeed. except the skeletons on
the stage, it was entirely petticoated
crowd, . throng of bright, intelligent
women, who followed the lecturer with
closest attention throughout her instruct
i've talk. 1t il but just to Mrs. Longshore-
Potts to say. in the outset, that she first
captivated her audience by her unlikeness
to those glaring purple and pink and green
and yellow cuts purporting TO represent
her in the forid posters that hang on the
outer walls throughout the city. They
look about as little like the Quakeress as q
hollyhock resembles the modest, lovely,
trailing arbutus. Her well-cut features
are illumined by benign and intelligent
dark eyes and softened by chevelure of
natural curly brown hair, thickly sprinkied
with gray, Worn short, but without
q hint Of nanishness. Indeed, it is
by her supreme womanliness that
she at once wins the confidence of her
audience. She has Q womanly love of rich
attire and nothing could have been more
suitable or becoming than the elegant
black silk gown she wore, the breadths
sweeping away in graceful train, the
sides falling in long, plain panels. finished
with very rich black fringe. This was the
outward woman who claimed the attention
of the audience, standing amid the unusual
stage settings Of skeletons swinging by
steeIs attached to their skulls, q table
covered with portions of the bony struc-
ture of the human frame, while as q back
ground the whole wall was covered with
Iife-sized charts of various parts of human
internal anatomy.
Mrs. Potts announced that the lecture
in her talk she would tell things necessary
for women to know that they might prop
erly care for their own health and that of
their children. She admitted that she
might touch sensitively the squeamishness
of ladies who did not like to hear such
subjects discussed and if they had come to
hear lecture on dyspepsia they would be
disappointed. Then she plunged in medals
res into her subject. She told those
who did not know it that men and women
are unlike in their structures. their brain
and even in their very souls.
Women's bones are of finer fiber
than mems, because mems bones
were made for the work required of them.
while women's, being formed for different
functions, are slightly finer, and she
charged women to be careful of the diet of
their children, and of their exercise while
the bone-forming process is going on. She
showed, with much humor as well as good
reason, how injurious spanking with the
hand or slipper is to children, and would
have such punishment abolished from the
nursery and the schools. She especially
and earnestly explained the delicate organ-
ization of woman, touching clearly and
plainly on the points that women should
know how to preserve their health. From
the assortment of bones and other parts of
the human body lying on the table she
selected those that actually showed the
points she talked of. and demonstrated
them with the colored charts. She partic-
ularly inveighed against women's running
up and down stairs, and especially Young
girls, alluding to the common practice in
all large schools of sending girls from floor
to floor of three-story buildings to make
their Rotations. She inveighed against
girls jumping rope and riding long dis
tances, and also against too frequent dane
ing in tight dresses and at late hours Her
talk was that of q woman physician. who
knew of her personal feelings, and knew
whereof she spoke. The audience dis
persed satisfied that there is more sound
sense and good instruction to be gained
from Mrs Potts talks than from all the
fads of so-caIled dress-reformers. and there
is little doubt that the women of Seattle
will be wiser and grow stronger from learn
ing from her lectures that great lesson,
Man, know thyself."