The Washington times., 1895-05-17
FADS THAT ARE FADING
Miss Elizabeth Yates Lecture on
Fashionable Thinking"
Flags on School Houses and Lizards
as Ornaments No Longer Dividing
Attention Work.

Miss Elizabeth q. Yates, formerly mis-
sionary to China under the Methodist
Foreign Mission Board, delivered an ad-
dress last night at the Washington Club
at No. 171O street northwest, on ''Fash-
ionabIe thinking''
Miss Yates is a handsome, youthful
looking brunette She has a rich, melo-
dious voice and speaks with confidence
and much force She is considered the
rising light of the womans suffrage move
ment. The lecture room was closely filled
with fashionably dressed ladies, mostly
elderly, to hear her. Half dozen men
were present.
After referring to some of the fads which
have occupied public attention recently,
such as flags on the school-houses and
lizards as ornaments, she turned 10 some
of the fashions that have shaped human
destiny. The divine right of kings and the
notion that every son must learn his
fathers trade had once exercised a pro-
found influence on men. but now these
have ceased, and every boy has a fair
chance to develop his natural gifts and
royalty in civilized nations is merely NOM
inal.
The idea of union of church and state
is passing away, and religion is progress
ing from the egoistic to the altTuistic.
Every soul must be free to choose what
it will bear Intolerance is gone before.
The idea Of making religious creru a
crit erion OF political prefe rmeDt had
| recently caught a little hold anew upon
the public, but there nevercouId be a growth
OF healthy public sentiment along that line.
Sentiment in regard TO war has changed,
| she said, and the very armament OF the
nations is now best defended as the way to
ensue such peace In the scientific
world, too, there has been immense pro-
J gress since the day when il W as fashionable
1 to believe that the sun moved.
| As in all these things there had been
| forward march, so there has been i'll
| the realm OF woman's work and opportuni-
| ties 1t used TO be thought that woman
| was toy, doll, slave, or an angel.
Now woman is her OVID master and is
| going out West taking up claims on her
| own responsibility. The day was when
Hannah Dustin was an Indian fighter
| and for her bravSy Massachusetts gave
| her husband pension.
| Later an heiress with million had mar
ried and her husband dying, willed her
| S25, 900 of her own money. But in 1920
| the first appropriation for girls school
| was made by the New York Leg gslature
| for Emma Willard S School, Harvard
| had then been open over 100 years To boys,
| but when Abigail Adams chose to read
in the Boston Library, there were muunurs
OF astonishment and one learned professor
| said he would as lief marry his Greek
| grammar as such q woInGn.
But now there is Radcliffe College for
women alongside Harvard, where a girl
! can have the same opportunity for study
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means as much. Women are now allowed
to toll as they have always been, but with
| a larger liberty. They are in the ministry,
in spite of the alleged injunction against
| il by St Paul. a New York new spaper
prophesied in 1853 that in fifty years
it would be thought incre dible that
| women should have ever permitted men
TO monopolize the field OF mefiiciIIe, and
we are on the high road to d realization
of this prophecy. In law, too, womeI
| now practice before the highest courts,
including the United States Supreme
| Court
Still, unfortu nately, she said, the
fashion still obtains that women are paiC
| about two-thirdS what men are paid fol
the same work. But this, with the
| fancy that women are too nervous and
are too great takers and can not hold
respons SJe positions, viii pass away, as
| patience has her perfect work..
| Full suffrage has been achieved In New
Zealand, South Australia, and Wyoming.
II has been found women have as much
interest in public matters as men, and
discharge their duties even more faith
fully. In a jury in a murder case there
were six women and six men. They were
locked up to find a verdict The mel
spent the time card playing, the women i'll
praying for light.
The address closed with an appeal for
an educational qualification for voters
and the restriction of immigration.