Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-12-08
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She Talks to SOrosis About
What Women Should
Do to Help
MAKE THE WORLD BETTER.
She Says the World Is Waking Up
to Their Position,
WHICH is BOUND TO IMPROVE.
What Mothers Should Do in Order to Aid
Their Girls.
MAKE THE WORLD BETTER.
WHICH is BOUND TO IMPROVE.
CITY BRED WOMEN THE STRONGEST
rspEcIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH.l

New YORK, Dec. 7.-Sorosis sat down t
neutrality-suspicious. banquet in the new
white and gold room at Sherry's, with Lady
Henry Somerset as her honored guest AL
the Sorosians were present, from Jenny
June and her contemporary veterans dowr
TO pretty, little Miss Demorest and he
coterie of intellectual buds. Beside tn,
regular members present many guests o
note, including the wife of Max 0'Rell, the
wife of Bishop Simpson, the wife of Colone
Roebling, of Brooklyn bridge fame; Mrs
Davis and Mrs. Dickinson, of the King;
Daughters, and others.
When these guests had been duly pre-.
sented and the preliminary entertainment
duly applauded the Chairman of the day,
Mrs. Jardley, presented for the discussion
in which Sorosis delights the very prac.
tical question, "What Kind of Education
will best fit women for the duties of life?''
Very briefly the chairman pointed out and
classified the duties of woman's life as re-
ligious, as personal and social, ad-
ding: ''Our personal duty, that we
may make the best of ourselves, is
10 be chaste, temperate, truthful, brave and
free in the condition God intends for men
and women. Our social duty is simply the
broadening out of our personal duty to our
families, our neighbors' society, the State
and the country. Social duty is the full
filling of the law to do unto others what we
would have our neighbors do unto us with
love in our hearts
Medical Study for the Dear Ones.
Mrs. Jennie Lozier, the President of
Sorosis, advocated the Importance of medi-
L.. H..
for women's duties, because 'the peculiar
duty o: woman-one she cannot relegate to
anvone else-is the care of her children and
the indispensable preparation for this duty
is health for herself and health to trans
nit to her offspring, and such
knowledge as shall adapt her to retain it for
both Heredity, although potent factor in
the product of health, is not fatality. Its
complaint is environment. Health is not
positive quantity. 1t is like beauty, har-
nony symmetry, is the law of its develop
ment. and education must be directed to the
whole, or we shall have monstrosiiies either
intellectual or physical.
''Gou can't play harmony with one
finger. The harmony which thrills from
the harp of lif- comes from the fine strings
nutrition, respiration, activity, sustena-
ton and cerebration, and the essential
woman's knowledge is that which governs
the best development of these elements in
her child. 1t is surely no insignificant
sign of the times that sickness is
no longer fashionable. and we do not now
enjoy poor health. In the smaller towns
girls have fainting fits and matrons break
down with nervous prostration. The city
women are plump, rosy and
strong in comparison. 1t seems
that the country women are killing
themselves with strongly and mental
yacuitv. The occupation and excitement
of city life are tonic to our brains and
nerves, but We must remember that every
tonic has its corresponding depression and
may be abused. Activity and rest should
alternate in due proportion and mark the
rythms, harmony of health.
Lacy somersers Address.
Then Lady Somerset spoke in her rich,
melodIous English voice, and, after thank
Sorosis very graciously for the pleasure and
profit derived bv the stranger guest at the
meeting, Lady Somerset said:
''The world is waking up to the great
difference between woman's position now
from the position she formerly held. No
one would dare utter the now in public the
prayer of the old Scotch minister, we
thank thee, Lord, that thou has given us
women TO make us comfortable The old
order changes and woman education en-
braces wider outlook than ever before. In
considering the question of woman's
sphere and the kind of education
which shall best prepare her for its duties
we must look upon her as life giver and a
law giver, of which the first is paramount.
Many of the ills flesh is heir to might be
overcome and obliterated if this idea could
be kept before womer.
''The most sacred duties of life are pre-
sented to people when they are poorly pre-
pared to find the solution OF its problems.
The mothers education is sort OF moral
IobOgganipg. The children are sent out in
10 the world TO land where thev will
But we have passed beyond the old
idea that ignorance is innocence
and knowledge necessarily vice.
1t is the duty of every mother to gather her
girls around her and tell them all they
is her duty to do this in fidelity to her hus-
band and faithfulness to her children.
Women Regulate the Morals.
And of woman as law giver, not entire
ly in political sense, for woman makes the
laws, sets the tone, creates the morals of
society. and anv education that fits her for
this is the best she can have. The moral
tone of the world hangs upon the moral
tone of its women. Politically English
women seem to be in advance of American
women. Pardon me if L express my opin-
on.
"When all women realize their power
hey will not tolerate the evils of the pres
ent-will not allow the public work of the
statesmen 10 give the lie TO their private
ives. They will demand that it
ever shall be good and pure, even as
7omen age brave and true. Until women
axe an intelligent interest in politics
he best men will stand aloof from political
york Let every mother influence her
ons for the best and noblest, and through
hem she shall influence cities and countries.
he best education is, indeed, the true
ducation for women, for it is love that
ends us out into this great, weary world to
~ to make it better and brighter for our
Iaving been here"