The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-17
GIRLS And WEDDINGS
The Haste to Get Married Causes Girls
Much Sorrow.
A PLAIN SPOKEN PRAYER
Meeting by the United Churches
at the Auditorium Last Night
DR.. Browns Sermon-Rev.
Mr.. Avis Petition.

with the many entertainments in pro-
gross last night the attendance at the re-
vival meeting was affected and was very
light, Notwithstanding the fact that DIR.
Brown had prepared one of his very best
lectures The address was for the ladies
and he began II by telling story.
Eleezer went out across the desert to
find a wife for his masters SON. Isaac.
and while journeying he asked God to
send him the woman, that she should be
the one who came to give him drink, and
II was by this omen he selected Rebekah
as the chosen one. Then he told Rachael
about Isaac and she promptly fell in love
with her unseen sutton. and when her
father asked her, ''Wilt thou go with this
man?" she answered Il will CO."
This quotation was Dr. Browns sub
ject for his address to women last night.
The great mistake which girls make
most frequently is in early marriages.
Before they reach the age of judgment
and sense, not knowing themselves or
their real desires. or knowing men. They
marry between the ages of IA and is and
accept as husbands. life partners, men
whose characters they do not know.
There is no one on earth capable of tell
ing a girl at that age anything about
matrimony-she knows more than all her
relatives. She thinks she knows 1t all.
The reason most girls are In such a
hurry to get married is because they are
afraid of being "old maids" They think
that a horrible fate; that all the witches.
tale-bearers and slanderes are made from
old maids, and for fear the supply of
young men will run out they make haste
into matrmony.
But / know thousands of old maids.
Some of the best women I know are I'M
married, and 1 thank God for the old
maids. Miss Willard. Florence Nightin-
gale and Clara Barton are all old maids.
The world rejoices in the work which
they have done. don't doubt that there
are a dozen married ladies in Anaconda
who would give all the money they've got
IL they were old maids. The divorce
courts of this land are busy grinding out
divorces for girls who plunged themselves
into hasty marriages and afterwards re-
GREETED 1t.
The causes of these are the ball room
and the aheater. Now, some old women
say that they don't see any harm in
dancing but Chief of Police Byrnes of
New York says that 80 per cent of the
women who go astray are ruined by the
ball room. Most of the women are will
ing to forgive a man who fails to keep
his promise to marry a young woman,
but for the wronged girl all avenues are
closed. They won't let her work in their
kitchens or sew for them. She is cast off
and only two roads are open, one to the
suicides grave, the other to the brothel.
The same God who condemns the sin Of
the woman condemns the man. Then
why should the women of the land make
| a difference between a man and the. wp-
man.
DIR. Brown then narrated a number of
pathetic incidents of the results of hasty
marriages and tragedies which were the
| fruits of the ball room.
Dancing does not lead to morality and
| II certainly leads in the other direction.
| Teach the girls temperance and sobriety.
| Bring them up dn the old-fashioned way.
| Educate their heads and not their heels,
| and misery and woe will be spared the
rising generation.
Jesus Christ ds the best friend that the
| female sex ever had. He dealt with them
| gently, lovingly, not as modern society
does His best sermon was 10 the fallen
| woman at the well of Samaria- He said
| to another, Neither do condemn thee"
| He is the best friend the sex ever had or
| ever will have. He established the only
religion which tends to lift them up and
not degrade. Then why should not ev-
cry woman be a Christian?
The speaker said he did not favor uni
versal suffrage He believed that a wo-
man who was true to herself and, her BIZ
BILE controlled the ballot. II an education
i al clause were made a basis for suffrage
| he believed that women might vote and
| would favor that. He said he did not
| fancy the new woman in all her ways,
but some of them he thought might be
useful and practical after experience, has
| proved them.
Rev. Mr.. Avis Of the NJ. e. church
| made a prayer which left no room for
doubt as to his meaning. He specially
prayed for the women of this city, this
fair city, in which the leading women
| meet to gamble over the card table. May
the women of this city be taught that II
is betterto cultivate their heads than their
heels: may the young women learn what
life means and God hasten the day when
| women shall defend their sex as men de-
fend their own sex; may they not draw
| aside their skirts from the unfortunate
sister, but aid her and bring her unto sal
| walton.
After the prayer there was the usual
after service. Tonight DIR. Brown will
speak particularly to men. though ladies
who come Will not be excluded.