The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-09
THE NEW WOMAN AND THE OLD"
Hahn Temple Graves Brilliant Lee
ture Mt the Guards Hall.


,..,ro audience last night at the Guards
mary hall on ''The New Woman and
40 old " The lecture was for the benefit
If Grace Methodist church.
owing to a misunderstanding as to the
,ir,e the audience had gathered some
-,,nutes before Mr.. Graves arrived, and
a. was in a state Of expectancy that
,.,nsed hearty applause as he entered with
Mr. Pleasant A. Stovall.
without further ceremony Mr.. Stovall
.,+roduced Mr. Graves and expressed the
.,roasure it occasioned him to present his
lid college classmate and warm friend.
Mr. Graves began his speech by q hand
Inc Acknowledgement of the tributes
lid him and INDUCED in a little spon-
taneous humor that captured his audi
ence completely.
His address opened with picture of the
world in the year l, before the coming of
christ. and with a beauty of words ana
imagery that rivals the charms of the
scene he described, he led his hearers in
4be ecstasy of fancy through the pleas
ant shades of the garden of Eden, VITA
ali Of it's grandeur smiling in the full
bursts of natures magniflcence, and or
fered to their inspection the spectacle OF
the first gentleman of the world, as he
existed when sin was unborn and the
insts of the flesh lay dead in the beauty
that environed him.
'But, with all that might be deemed a
Measure to this father of his race thrown
in bounteous profusion about him, the
sense of loneliness cried OUT said the
sneaker, land the desire for companion
ship placed Eve at his side" And then
with a beauty Of word-painting and a
charm of manner, the finished artist drew
a picture of the ideal in feminine lovliness
and entitled it Eve
This lovely woman" whom he clothed
with all the beauty that poetry sings,
Twas given to ADAM" said Mr.. Graves
after a glowing touch to all her charms
land she hadn't been with him a week
before she got him into trouble"
He adopted the side of Eve and opposed
the weakness of Adam that'permitted him
to be led and then ascribed all the blame
to his helpmeet, and said that his family
pride was put to the blush for him.
From this very antique in woman, by
an easy fight, Mr.. Graves traversed the
gulf of the ages gone and gave the new
woman his attention. He said, by the
phrase, new woman, do not mean the
radical hybrid that stalks abroad in mas
culine attire
The woman of yesterday is the mother
Of the woman of to-day, and 1 pause to
pay tribute to her, though, as I pause, 1
am impressed with the futility of words
to express the fullness of a heart"
Then with words that to his hearers
suggested no thought of futility, he de-
scrbed, the women of the generation that
has passed away or yet fingers in our
mothers to render unquestioned testimo-
ny TO the truth Of his words, and paid a
tender tribute to the women of yesterday.
Mr.. Graves then turned his theme TO
the new woman or as he expressed it,
greeted the "step of the coming woman
crossing the portals of the twentieth
century" With an eloquence superb, he
championed the rights of woman and ar
rayed himself with unreserved candor on
the side that heralds the coming of purl-
ty, chastity and religion. He drew a
laugh by saying that with the invasion
of women into all branches of business.
and all professions, the misogynists say
that as soon as it slightly increases there
will be no place like home, because it
will be the only place where you can never
see woman.
In New York." said Mr. Graves, there
are 1900 women who are supporting the
bpeds in breeches that call themselves
their husbands.
The speaker ridiculed the ideas of
scientists that hold the quality of brains
IN direct ratio to their sizes, and there
lore, womans being smaller than a
ma p l4plldllCdlly SLaLlllR that she lS
inferior to him. 1t is only to the highest
OF coos creation, he said, that this dis
elimination in the amount of brains be-
slowed on the sexes Is evinced, and vet
the scientists do not pretend to ascribe
any interiority to the females in the ami
maj tribes. An elephant has a massive
Draln' and the whale also, he said, but
nothlng either has ever done, or has ele-
4 VGted the species to a high plane of in
tenectua4 endowment. "In point of size"
ne SAID, we could take the brain of a
"hale ana stock the head of a Lincoln,
ana sun nave enough left to run a female
Women, said Mr.. Graves, began the
crusade for temperance and thew will
win, and he hoped thew Womb gain the
privilege of the ballot, a. right to the
mlnese being indisputable, and the ex-
p-ulehcy only the point in question. He
unused MS audience by reciting an anec-
Sose Vi an Old negro, who qestioned by a
NY showed such a profound ignorance
ulSt she exclaimed in impotent despair
against the sad fate that Subjected her
topolitical retirement. and conferred mon
ms aiS uhtutored darkey the right of the
'pae4 pats all right Misses said
tnastuS' you knows more dan I does.
tons" quaillIca-
mi, Mr. Graves address was brilliant and
ko~+ i us anu MS grace as a lecturer
tL NJ ms audience alternately absorbed by
~ 1C e'oquence, beauty and pathos of his
1t.t serious thoughts, and convulsed
"'''' laughter by the flashes of his wit.
bancroft the magician. win be seen for
|e nfst time by a Savannah audience to-
1's"' lt Is said that he is running Herr
D''" and Kellar a very hard race for
tS Ulors and many think he has outpaced
mn M some criticisms say he "Out-Herr-
Ko aIns the loquacious Hermann and out
boa ,.als the nimble Kellar." Bancroft.
star5sser, desires to be known by his own
Ifa u%9lu' and not by comparison.
Sa,.- mas already become well known TO
frono 'IInahlans by his interesting letters
He h Ii,ula published in the Morning News.
Of sn Dllnss with him two large carloads
fo,r peclal scenery, for which ii has been
Of ~ necessary to clear the entire stage
Wern re .heater, and ten extra sets of ropes
IN ~ requlred. Nothing in the theater
tain He way of scenery, but the drop cur
new, WI WI pc used The performance is
NJ ana novel throughout
soto bancroft is registered at the De
tbro,,ul IN speaking sf his recent tour
tbinets.h India, he said among other