The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-11-10
LECTURE ON "OUR GIRLS
Rev. Dr.. Everett Compared:
Them to a Ship Wrecked
Sailor, Seeking Rescue.

The Rev. T. I. Everett, D. D.. formerly
OF brooklyn. but now of Cobbleskiil,
New York, delivered a very witty, yet
very instructive and entertaining Iectur e
upon the subject sour Girls" at st.
Trinitatis Lutheran Church in Be wers
street last evening. IL was preceded by
an organ voluntary by Miss Henrietta
Lu'jen. the organist OF the church.
1t is impossiols. In a brief report OF the
lecture. to give an adequate idea of DIR.
Everett's lecture. 1t was compose d
mainly OF many short stories. all so sEill-
fully arranged. With bright, clsverly told
aud intersDersed comments, that they
made mp a charming essay upon an all
absorbing to pic. His advice relative TO
courtshiD and m rriage set Lnea old folks
nudging each other, and the younger
folks picked uD man. bright hints.
The Doctor Is one VINO believes that
MARRIAGE Is tue best Institution GU earth,
ant is down on cranks who ask us mar
riage a faIlure?n Men he declared are
not going to forget to fol-
low in the footsteps of old
Father Adam, who fell in love with Eve.
married her aud Went to housekeeping
tue the Garden of Eden. Adam pros
claimed her the FIRST lady in the land. II
was u great pity, said the Doctor, taa
every married man does not pros
Claim his wife the first lady III the land.
Ii Ill wouid love their own wives instead
Of, as many do. lavishing their atfeetisns
on som body else's wlfe there would be
much NOSE conjugal felicity IN life.
is MARRIAGE A FAILURE.
But Is marriage a failur 3" he asked.
When you PASS along an avenue crowd.
ca with young men u women, what do
you hear 10 scraps of conversation accl-
dentally overheardf II 1t Ia that of the
young wo nan, it is invariably aoout
'ntm,' aud of that of The young mau, IT'S
about 'ner.' Go ask rne young fresh
from lovs's couquests. GO ask those old
couples who are cels bratlng their silver
ana goldiug weddings. ASH anybody
but an old bachelor. He's not in H."
"A young man. said the doctor in
part of MS lecture, generally
nlarries with especial reference TO busl-
ness plans. With girls 1t was different,
She might have her ambitions, but the
disposition Il the man she might marry
could tear all her plans to pieces aud
leave her q broken wreck on the stream
OF Life. A young mans life. he said,
IN the selection OF a wife was like a
street car stopping to take on a pas
senger. and then rollfng on to it's destina-
tioE. A girl looking for a husband might
Pail WkEbA0d &dllOE
butfeting about on the pillows OF the
Atlantic ocean. What kind of u human
craft would see her aud coma to her
rescue. 1t might be q noisy, fussy little
tug, or some swift yacht like the Vigilant,
or some big merchantmen, or man OF
war, or 1t might be some black suspicious
piratical craft. And IL she does consent
10 be rescued, how does she know what
port she is TO enter"
WOMAN'S LOVE.
One OF the many stories the Doctor
told was that OF a young girl he knew in
Philadelphia who. much admired. HAD
been left riches and splendid home-
stead. She had declared whoever she
married she would never leays dear old
philadelphia with him. Oae evening at
n social she met her fate. He was a brill
liant. rich and cultured young Japanese
studying the plans of our custom houses.
He was suddenly summoned home. aud
was so fixed politically he could not we'll
return. Investigation OF his character
was made through the American official
channels aud found satisfactory.
for her to come to him
shs crossed h continent with her
brother. and leaving him at San Fran
cisco crossed the ocean comparatively
alone. sought out her love in Toxic, op
the other side of the earth, and was mar
ried to him Inside OF Two hours. ..Did
any bird ever refuse TO go to its mate?
D!d auy woman ever refuse TO go to the
she loves?'
While the Doctor does not believe in
unsexing themselves by mount.
Ing politica. rostrums, etc., be declared
she had a right to compete with men in
Inc matter Of wage earning, and con-
that woman had demonstrated her
ability where men had scored signal
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