The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-25
THE EVENING SESSION.
Cheers for Two Queens, Vic
toria of England and
Susan B,

Another big crowd in front of the First
Congregational Church last evening, await
ing the opening of the doors, attested very
plainly that interest in the congress keeps
up to the highest pitch. The women were
in the larger majority, as usual, and the
way they piled into the edifice when the
doors swung open was caution. In less
than no time seats on the lower floor were
not to be had and the gallery was filling
up rapidly. 1t was not such large crowd
as on Thursday evening, when the women
| were talking politics, but more than large
| enough to have turned the cheeks of q
| theatrical manager green with envy.
DIR. Kellogg Lane of Oakland, the first
woman in the United States ever appointed
on a board of health, was introduced by
Mrs. Cooper as the first speaker of the
evening. Her subject was "City Mothers
The congress, she began, was asking
questions, which each one must take home
and answer for himself or herself The
papers offered have been many and varied
but they were more of a suggestive nature
than exhaustive.
We have city fathers, she continued. and ]
cannot see why we should not have city moth
ers. 1t seems to me there should be, and will
give you some of my reasons. Psychologists
tell US that in every human being there are
two minds the subjective and the objective
The subjective mind is intuitive. 1t does not
reason. God does not reason. He knows and
does We hear of women striking by intuition
that for which man has to go through long
course of reasoning to attain. Women have the
gilt OF intuition. Man has the objective reason.
ing mind, and goes on in his calm way:
The home is too exclusively mothered and
the city is too exclusively fathered. We have
too much of the slow practical method, too lit
tie of the heart in the city, and when we &c
home we have too much of the heart and too
little of the head.
They say women are emotional. Well, what
of it? That's just the reason we want them
there. If they were like the men we would not
need them there. II 1t would make a woman
less womanly to go into the world would be
the last one TO ask her to go there.
God made man and woman to go together.
He planted them in families, the families in
cities, the cities in States, all to make mag
nifcent whole, and we hare subyerted the
work of God in making the conditions that
ure. 1t will never be better, never until man
and woman rise in their might and say, "to-
gether we will make these things different"
In passing, the speaker paid beautiful
tribute to motherhood, and stated as her
belief that the mothers of the Nation do
more in bringing up family than they
could by engaging in any other work.
These mothers must make their boys safe
in places OF temptation, and in cities these
places were the streets.
eff you expect to give them physical
health, you must have the atmosphere
you send them out into sweet and pure if
you expect them to grow up to manhood.
Thank God that human nature can change
and is changing, and human nature is to
be so much better a hundred years from
to-day than it is to-day. Tell me if we are not
having new birth? Out of that new
birth we shall yet have a higher civiliza-
ton, which will not be putting new wine
into old bottles
When the applause had subsidized the
chair recognized Mrs. Sturtevant Peet.
"Dr. Lane spoke of the fact" said Mrs.
Peet, ''that to-day we are thinking more of
property and purse than of our boys and
girls, particularly in regard to their morals
This was especially illustrated in our work
in the Legislature this last year in our
efforts to pass an anti-cigarette bill. The
only argument made against this bill was
the amount of money invested in the bust
ness in this City, which was said to be a
million dollars. And when we were told that
the bill would not pass and attempted to
work little longer for it, a man said, DO
you know that there is million dollars in
vested in this business% and one of our
ladies said, YES and there are million
of boys at stake as WE'LL The bill was
passed and the Governor refused to sign it,"
''The point wish to refer to, said Mrs.
Sarah b. Cooper, relinquishing her chair,
sis this: That we possess eyes behind eyes,
ears behind ears, which we use sometimes
In other words, sight and insight. Now,
the reason we have so little of the intui-
tive power which we might have is that
we do not use what believe we have-the
sixth sense, and if you please the seventh
They had this sixth sense in the earlier
times, but it is becoming sloughed through