Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-12

Interesting Programme Carried
Out-Mrs. Peters's Address was
q Gem, and Sparkled With Bril-
liant Lights on Womans Work
and Sphere.
Nashville, Tenn, October 11.-Brook-
Ign Day was celebrated at the Tennes-
see Centennial Exposition to-day with
very interesting exercises, which were
held in the auditorium The attend
ance was large and the programme was
greatly enjoyed. Herbert F. Gunnison,
president of the Brooklyn commission,
made the Introductory remarks, after
which Mayor VIM. NJ. Mccarthy deliv-
cred the address of welcome on the part
of the city, to which Mayor Frederick
W. Wurster, of Brooklyn, responded.
Major j. w. Thomas, president of the
Exposition, welcomed the visitors in
behalf of the Exposition Company, and
VIM. C. Redfeld, secretary of the
| Brooklyn commission, made the re-
Spouse. A poem was read by Mrs. Mar
garet E. Sangster, and an Grafton was
delivered by st. Clair McKelvey, editor
of the Brooklyn Eagle. An address by
Mrs. Bernard Peters closed the exer-
cises. This evening the wives of the
Brooklyn and New York State commits
sioners gave joint reception at the
New York building. The affair was
one of the most brilliant yet held at this
building.
The address of Mrs. Peters, who was
formerly a Wheeling lady, sister OF
Mr.. Mortimer Pollock and Mr.. julius
Pollock, was as follows:
'Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentle
men:-Thomas Carlyle says: All speech
is either biographical or Autobiography
ical.' This is my excuse for referring
to myself. l stand before you as a wo-
man who can remember back more than
half a century. The first prominent
citizen of our country with whom | had
the honor of shaking hands was the
eleventh President of the United States,
James K. Polk, Of Nashville, Tenn.
was born in virginia, and because OF my
training 1 admired Polk and the prin
ciples for which he stood. / have taken
an interest in each presidential election
from that date. l have witnessed the
vast improvements of our century; the
means of inter communication, the tel
egraph, so anxiously desired by the be-
levers in Morse and so much derided
by the skeptics, the telephone and all
the other inventions that have followed
in the blaze of electricity. So far as
physical comforts are in question, great
strides forward have been made. The
young people Of this generation cannot
realize what discomfort would arise
were they deprived of these modern
appliances for heat, light and transport
tation.
81 have witnessed the struggles of
women for the higher education, so
called, for culture in art, science, lit
erature, law and medicine All honor
to Harriet K. Hunt, the pioneer wo-
man physician of America, | had the
pleasure of entertaining DR.. Hunt at
my own home. When my husband in
adYertently called her 'Doctress Hunt
she exclaimed with great spirit: There
is no sex in the professions. You
might as well call cook a cookess!'
81 have passed through the bloomer
costume excitement, the struggle for
nd a YaIa in no in
dustrial world in which woman may
earn her own living and thus acquire
a measure of independence which she
had not half century since. Strong
Opin Hns have been expressed for and
against these movements which are of
vital Importance to women, yea, to the
world. They resolve themselves into
this pertinent query: Shall woman en-
ter the industrial world and become
self-supporting, and by industry is
meant all work, whether of the head
or of the hand; or shall she wait for
a husband to maintain hero
In former days a woman who at
tempted to enter the industrial world
was frowned upon by the majority of
her acquaintance. A cry arose from
Maine to the Gulf: Woman will de-
scend in the scale of being. will become
loud, coarse and mannish.' These OBJ
jectors forgot that man is as mich IL
fluenced by woman as woman by man.
1t is the opinion of the thoughtful that
a woman who has a we'll balanced mind,
who acquires a broad, liberal eduea-
ton, who has strength of cha 'acte~ &c
keep herself pure and unspotted from
the world will not become coarse al
brutal because sac earns her own liv-
ing Such a woman will make the best
wife and mother. We have such women
in Brooklyn and I trust there are also
many in Nashville. A woman cannct
possess any kind Of knowledge. whether
acquired in college Gr in practical life,
that will not he Useful = her in caring
for house. children and husband Il her
knowledge is tempered with the !rue
Christian spilit--the spirit IF conserve.
not to destroy. Every one dislikes the
mannish woman should fancy she
would dislike hecse:f. The species is
slowly but surely disanna7!';ng In the
future we will read of her and wonder,
as we now read AMI wonder at orr an
cestors who ate without forks and who
silent in their day garments
industrial exuositions, such as this
in Nashville. show the place woman
holds in the realm of industry. From