The record-union., 1892-05-09
POINTS FOR LADIES.
DR.. Mary Wood Allen Tells Them How
to be Beautiful.
Something About the Needs Of Social
Purlty-The Beatific yision-The
Rearing of Children.

Mrs. Mary Wood Allen, NJ. D., of Ohio
lectured ait the Congregational Church Oh
Saturday afternoon and last night to inl-
mense congregations.
On Saturday her remarks were ad-
dressed to ladies principally, her subject
being "How to be Beautiful Last even
ing she addressed the regular patrons OF
the church on the subject of "Social Purity
the Beatific Vision.''
If the women of Sacramento are not
beautiful, it will not be because DR.. Allen
has not told them how to beso. DIR. Allen
is a graduate Of Ann Arbor Medical
School, and for many years predicting
physician. Several years of her later lite
have been spent in the lecture field. She
is Of slight figure, with perfectly formed
head, placid countenance, and having an
irresistible charm OF manner. She is q
most graceful speaker.
If Webster's definition of beauty be
true, she said Saturday, an object can have
only as much beauty as we bring to it.
and this view explains why people and
nations differ so widely in their ideas ol
beauty-citing as examples the small feet
OF the Chinese, the blackened teeth of the
Japanese, the tlattened heads of Indians,
nose and ear ornaments of barbarous ma
tions-and the speaker could not consider
1t less so when the opening was small and
the wire fine one. She had also heard
1t rumored tnat there were races who
compressed their waists with an instru-
ment of torture. She declared it was
only rumor, for no person had ever yet
been found who would admit it. The
only true and absolute standard by which,
at all times aud under all circumstances,
we may measure true beauty is the di-
vine
Fifty years ago." she SAID, cit was
considered the correct thing to be pale
delicate and willowy, but all this has
changed, and instead of pride in a waist
that could easily be spanned by the two
hands, the average waist has increased
from nineteen to twenty-four inches. II
we would maintain the position that
woman is mans equal mentally, it is abb
soIutely necessary TO cultivate her physi-
cal strength. A sound mind demands a
sound body. Who educates woman ed
ucateS man. Rome could only bring its
men TO certain standard when it culti-
waited its mothers. No nation can rise
higher than its mothers. The farmer
places value in dollars and cents on his
cattle and horses, hence in their higher
cultivation the highest sanitary cou-
ditions are demanded, and they often get
OSbOcA CdlS Iudll uiIuS01I OF his cnllQren,
because he fails to put monetary value
on the latter, and does not recognize the
fact that they are of value only as their
work for the nation is of use. 1t is esti-
mated that through preventible disease
alone s,O00,O0O days in year are lost to the
nation, which, at 81 per diem, gives los s
OF S9,OtO,O ,O0O. The question, what shall
we eat, drink and wear, is one we are
morally bound to consider"
DR.. Allen believes the day will come
when people shall be ashamed to admit
that tney have typhoid, diphtheritic or
other diseases arising from unsanitary
conditions. She considered the work Of
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union in compelling the teaching in our
schools Of the effect on the system of al
cohol and narcotics as OF inestimable val
ue to the rising generation. Teachers
should see to it that the study is made
practical. Children like anything that
appeals to the imagination, and she had
lound from her own experience that an
interest could always be created in this
way. The doctor gave very charming
lllu itratlon of her method of teaching
physiology. From her necessity grew
the creating of her little book. more
interesting than fairy tales, 1.-The Man
Wonderful in the House Beautiful" The
doctor believes that many young man
is driven into questionable places because
the nourishment his system properly
Graves. In highly spiced food he creates
an unnatural thirst, and acquires in bran
died pies and sauces the taste for the So
clal glass that later on may prove his
ruin.
The speaker considered the tobacco
question as more important even than
that of alcohol, in some respects. Bows
do not begin so young to drink as to
smoke, and the use of tobacco is much
less criticised in the community than that
OF liquor. A young lady may not be
able TO compel young man to give up
his tobacco, but she can forbid its use in
her presence. The doctor secuted the idea
that light beer and wine-drinking people
were not drunken. She had seen in beer
drinking England more drunkards than
III any other part Of the world The
lecturer closed with beautiful tribute to
a sweet and graceful old age, and said she
meyer stood before an audience without
feeling that there was nothing in the soft
beauty Of youth that charmed her like
the twilight OF life. The glowing cheek
and beamlng eye of youth reaching for
ward to conquer remind one of the half
cut statue-we see the promise but cannot
say what the tulfillment will be; while in
the bent form, the snowy head, the faded,
tear-dimmed eye we may read the full
fillment of all life's possibilities.
Last evening Mrs. Allen devoted most
of her remarks to the necessity of rearing
children III the proper path-"for upon
them depends the future OF the nation -
she argued that parents could not be too
careful. 1t was not necessary, she said.
10 teach child to steal or to be a thief in
order 10 demonstrate TO it the difference
between right and wrong. She referred
also To Inc necessity of keeping ones
thoughts pure, There were many per-
sons who called themselves Christians
who lndulged in thoughts which they
would scorn as acts In others. 1t was told
OF young man who could not tolerate a
Deacon Somebody in prayer because out
Slae OF his church duties he had tcld so
many talsehoods. The deacon would
nave been quite angry had he heard this
crltlcism, yet he was still not ashamed
10 continue as corrupter of the imagi-
nation. a pure mind was essential above
all things, she said. Children should be
treated seriously. Testing on serious top-
les, such as love and marriage should not
De lndulged IN with them-it was danger
Gus. They should be taught how sacred
these matters were, so, when they grow
up there Will be no mistaking. Filtration
should be condemned and discouraged
1t was playing with tire-seeing how near
one could go 10 the edge of the precipice
without going over. Vulgar language
also has demoralizing effect, as did
dime novels and cigarettes
Altogether Mrs. Allen gave her hearers
budget of good advice, which was evil
IDENTIFY appreciated particularly bv the
IatherS and mothers present. Mrs Allen
viii probably be heard again before She
leaves Sacramento.