The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-06
DO WOMEN HATE wOMENs
Rev. 1. u. Mendes' Discussion of n
Delicate Subject.

I
Rev. 1. P. Mendes addressed large con-
gregation last night at Mickva Israel tenn
pie. His subjects of tate have been on the
questions of to-day and have invariably
aroused interest. The announcement of
his subject for last night, do Women
Hate Women?" caused some little feeling
Of curiosity as to what he might say upon
such subject and his congregation was
an expectant one.
DR.. Mendes said the topic of his address
has been revolutionizing the intelligent
world for some months and claimed the
privilege of answering 1t from his own
standpoint and his own personal knowl-
edge and observation.
DO Women Hate Women" he said lis
indeed very strange way in which to in
quire into the relative feelings which do
or should actuate the gentler sex in all
OF her dealings with her sisters, and is suf-
hclent, L am candid enough to admit, to
can Iorth from all sides a combination
OF Indignation, VituperatiOn, denals
ana condemnation The many smiles
which the query has called forth are
more OF a sarcastic than an amused ma
lure ana are in themselves a most de-
termlned demand upon the part of the
opposition to prove that women do hate
women The cynlcs and the skeptics,
VINO pretend that they never could find
any good whatever in women. of course,
as may be expected, take unwonted de-
lght in enlarging upon the spitefulness,
cruelty and bitterness which she displays
IN all of her dealings with her own sex,
even claiming that she will experience as
much pleasure in degrading a woman as
she would in being instrumental in elevat-
ing man"
DR.. Mendes said the comic papers and
periodicals, the best endeavors of the
nineteenth century wit, are all enlisted
in the services of these cynics and skep
tics, and they most literally and indus
triously ply their trade till
to-day the generality of peo-
pie have grown so accustomed to these
slurs and ennuendoes against woman that
they deem 1t matter of course that they
should pay the usual tribute of an approx
ing smile as the deserved reward to those
champions who pretend that they believe
that women hate women
The disposition, character and qualities
of women" said DR.. Mendes, "are not
creations and results of to-day, which
have been brought into existence through
force of accident or necessity, but they
have formed from the very beginning of
the world, the framework in which the
great God Almighty Himself has placed
her to make the beauty and artistic finish
of this, His greatest work, stand out in
bold and magnificent relief.
Whilst she has ever been most diligent
and willing to bring all her virtues into
play for the advancement Of the
opposite and sterner sex, yet at
the same time, the true woman
has always recognized that the main
aim of her existence. the principle dream
of her life should without doubt or ques-
ton tend towards the relief, assistance,
betterment and elevation Of her own sex
She felt that she could better understand
the wants and needs of those, who were
created with her own longings and pecu-
liarities; she knew that she could read
the emotions of the womans heart from
and by those emotions which were arous-
ed in her own; she was certain that wo-
man knew woman, as God had in reality
given her to the world, and armed with
this knowledge and with this positive i'm
preston, she showed by all her actions
where woman played the principal role
that between all good women there is a
reciprocity of admiration and affection
In this way she at once established her
reputation, building daily upon 1t, each
thought and each act only adding fur
Their proof of her usefulness and unfolding
new beauties of her character.
Just as Rhode Island became i'm bv-
gone times the refuge home for those wo-
men, who loved women as women, and
who recognized their right to freedom
of speech, thought and act, so are our
cities, our towns and our
villages fast becoming the headquarters
for mission schools for mothers meetings.
for needlewomen's guilds, in short, for
every known institution which is not
alone governed and directed by women.
but which has been established wholly
and solely for the good and welfare of
the women in every community where
those institutions exist.
by woman's aid the curse of pauper-
ism is fast disappearing, and in its stead
is rising up as a bright morning star, the
eternal blessings of self-help; through the
personal service of the women for the
women, the poor are being taught by the
rich the meaning and philosophy of, as
well as the active application Of that
great teaching of the Talmud, which has
been honored by the celebrated John
Wesley, that Cleanliness is next to God
liness," and through that personal service
are beginning to intelligently understand
that life is what we make it, and that
it is their duty, as it is our own, to make
1t bright and happy in it's every sur
rounding; through the women's gentle
words of advice to women more ignorant
and inexperienced than they. Russia's be-
nighted outcasts are fast becoming wives
and mothers, worthy of the great and
holy mission placed into their hands by
the Almighty God"
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