Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-04-17

Z Comprehensive aud Inirre.'ing Lect.
ere on "women's Work for women"
value Of Home In - nuay Man'. life.
The fairly rrainiug Of Children.
The New Haven papers rive an extended
report Of the visitation Of the grand chal,
lain u the Daughter " the kiug. the Rev
Ralph W. Kenyon, Of ~. Ann's church, OF
Brooklyn. to st. panls church, New fIa.
ven. Upward OF 30 women. representing
the ten chapters Of the Daughters Of the
King IN New Haven, werc hlsemblei when
Mr.. Kenyon appeared.
Rev. Mr.. lanes. rector ~ 81 pnul's
opened the meeting aud then introduced
the speaker. whose subject was "Wumct'a
Work for Women" Among other things
Mr.. Kenyon raidi
Allowing fnr local differences, conditions
arr quite the same In this city w. In that
from which have just come. What nl,.
plies, Therefore, to one may apply to tho
other, md today my tnsk. whish ~ my
great pleasure. lice not alone in giving you
greeting. not alone In telling You Of the
warm bond Of sympathy between the chap.
ter. far away and your own wnrm hearted
s.lrcs and work, but In placing bcforc YOU,
swell ~ ! can, one or two " the problems
which arr forcing themaclvcs into proml.
nencc and which MAY he Included In the
tnbitct, "Women's work Tor women"
Spmehow'or other my attention has i,cen
called to curious coincidence More aud
morc frequontly there has been pressed
upon our attention the growing lnxity 81
integrity OF family life And the most fanil.
lar way In which the subject Il presented
~ the woman who. with tear Just ready To
start from quiyUrlng cyeiid, asks, "iloo
eau keep my husband NJ home from the
club' nm convinced that the answer,
"iy making home attractive, In IL. usual.
ly nccrrted sense is passing shallow
Tiir HOME
Home understood ~ the four walls Of
house, ~ n gathering place for friends. a.
merely a ctntcr u diversion. Is moi sufii
Client, yet this Il generally accepted. 4
home u ndi home without tho subtle la.
huence NJ a Nomanly nature. The term.
aroused adyiselly -a womanly mature. The
club houses are attractive. a. attractive ~
any housu can be made They answer u. u
gathering place FOR friends aud they are
ccuter u diversion. aud, beside, buslncs.
is somciimes doYu Ia them. 4 homo must
H. mor than fhls The Influence Of the
womanly mature must h. pcryndluR.
Here, then, Sour first grcat worl. for wo-
men. For the influence ln bc felt must
einanhic from the woman r-clf and then
10 cmanatc II must ~ founded upon lnher.
ent character. mother words. the womanly
NATURE must be such that the mnu tvcug.
ni1,s At ouoc ~ power aud rrvcrrnccs H.
Now, I am the last man % deny that
woman should have a part In higher edu.
cation. um further -tiil from saving that
she should not exercise the right OF SUI.
f,ge. ! am furf hest Of all from saying
that she should not have a fall chance aud
riRht To make her living Ia any held OF
honest industry bat, somehow, tho coin.
cidcpcc cniorccs itsclf that with the prum.
inence Of thcquostlon-with the struggling
and assumption aud crowding aud pushing
OF the women with the men has come the
proiulnenco Of the club evil among men.
We ARE compelled 10 admit that r,yer.
encc ia not n product OF familiarity-that
the tendency Of familiarity Is TO induce
contempt. II Is merely coincidence, but
nsk You 20 think II tho rvvrrrnce which
men should reel for womanhood l. en-.
HANGED by sceing that wouanbood induig.
lug In all the methods which men them.
selves employ and for which oltimes men
dcsplso themselves
TfE WORN.
This II our great theme, how 20 renew
the reverence. Of man Tor woman, aud there
can be- no better work douc for woman than
this, Dr. Oliver Wendell HOLMES once said |
that "the education of the child should he. |
gin one hundred years before he WIS born |
Of course. with one hundred years i-so we
have nothing 10 do but we have a vital |
responsibility for one hundred years hcnc.,
nnd MON vital responsibility for twenty |
years hencr. THIS child which today lies |
sleeping peacefully In his cradle twenty |
Year. from now will reverence or dcsplss
woman.
Which shAll ID l-s There .. absolutely
no middle ground. The Jesuit who said, /
"Giye the the child until be- h seven years
old, then whovcr will may have him TO
educate. WINS largely right The child b.
fore he i seven has imhihed the principle
OF reverence or the principle Of oouicmp,,
aud one day.ho Will certainly show which.
Therefore, you mothers, teach your boy
reverence, Always let him icel the sane.
tlty " your womAnhood. Above all, bo
thoughtful in little things.
Mothers, YOU must begin your work ut
ths cradle, and your work mnst 10 truth.
fal, II you teach your children as yon
ought they will newer ccase 10 r-gnrl
women m the holiest 81 created beings, and
their home ~ the earthly shrine, second
only 10 thclr church. 10 you, my younger
sisters, say, look well 10 the mothers of
the men who come TO your houses and
whom you meet. See " the mOthers have
taught these men reverence for woman
hood, and, take my word for 1t, II they
hive not. II the men are not imbned with a
high Ideal, II they ever fall to ring per.
fectly true In all their mention Of women,
think not for "a single moment that your
entire lives WIN suffice 10 chang, their ma.
lures.
That which mother taught or failed TO
teach no other woman need attempt. Tho
most loyal wife can only develop mans
nnturc-ihc seed timc and planting nro
gone foUter. II passed. away back there
Ia the cradle, and the atmosphe;p Of tho
nursery eau never be brought around the
hardy tree Herr, then. Is womar's great
work for woman--a work that reaches Into
ihe happiness, into the life, Into the honor .
tself. Of womanhood