The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-07
WOMAN AND HER PLACE.
Rev. DIR. Henson Tells What He Thinks
Upon This Great Subject.

Rev. DIR. Henson Tells What He Thinks
Upon This Great Subject.
DR.. p. d. Henson of Chicago recently
lectured on woman at Los Angeles, and,
in the course of his remarks, gave utteranee
to some telling truths. AS reported by the
Herald, DR.. Henson began by saying:
The question of woman and her place was
one that had to be as carefully handled as
dynamite. 1t was perplexing politicians
and confounding ecclesiastics. Women are
sometimes spoken Of as the weaker vessels.
but always by those who have not tested
their strength. Paul was not married
man, or some Of his epistles would have
been written differently. There is no cues
ton as to the relative superiority of the
sexes. We cannot say the rose is better
than the peach, o. the flower more beautiful
than the star Each, in its appropriate
place is superior to the other. A locomo-
live is the grandest creation of mans hands,
yet a locomotive in the mud and off the
track IS an ignominiOus and helpless thing,
God created Adam, and woman, as 4 ere
alton, was part of Adams lie. Man has
ever since been one-sided, and without his
other and larger half is failure. Think
of that, all ye old bachelors If you want
to change your condition you can find DIR.
Cantine's address on the front of this
church, and his fees for marriage ceremonies
are moderate.
Men know thing because they reason it
out. God knows a thing without reasoning
1t. Women are like the Lord in this respect.
If we men had more respect for the intuition
OF our wives, we would often escape, among
other miseries, her 81 told you So"
The intuition of the woman and the child
is truer than the reason of manhood. AS
children we say:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How wonder what you are,
And after years of study and searching the
heavens with costly telescopes and figuring
among abstruse problems, the astronomer
can only say the same as the child.
"A woman's Intuition makes her religious.
The churches have more women than men
in them. Perhaps this is the reason that
there will be neither marrying nor giving
in marriage in heaven. There won't be men
enough to go around.
Women should be educated as thoroughly
as are men. l have no sympathy with an
education which makes it necessary for a
woman to marry to get supported. Besides
that an educated woman can do more for q
man if she is educated herself. Ihave a boy
who was never careful about his appear
ance or ambitious about himself until he
got girl. l don't know what became of
that that girl-neither. does the boy-but say
GOD bless her," anyway. Men are what
the women make them, and some of the
men look as If bungling job had been done
somewhere.
Ordinarily, think men should be at the
head of things, but there are times when
men and nations need Deborah, a Joan of
Arc or Grace Darling.
AS to woman's voting: In house cleaning
nothing can do SO much execution as a
woman with broom, and so with the
BALLOT think she would clean out much
political corruption. She would certainly
be less cowardly than male politicians In
facing moral questions, and as for the claim
that she has not discretion enough to vote
ask, What is votingP 1t is choosing man,
and If the women folks haven't sense
enough t6 choose man where do YOU mar
riet men come in?
1t is in the home. however, that women
will always reign supreme. and when
think OF her there 1 can say. and think you
Will join mcleod save the queen"