The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-23

49, controversy going on in the
!, the Cosmopolitan Magazine fol
md July on the subject of the status
.n.n Of today and tomorrow. be-
professor Harry Thurston Peck and
charlotte Perkins Stetson. The for
scales his subject in very lordly
-, without threats OF what man
!. - driven to the wall. He uses
very plain language which. he says
hs brutal, but is none the less an
rable antidote to the neurotic cater
,,ns. If feminine hysteria." "Neurotic
-waulings" is good, and l certainly
! IT is time some plain and forcible
bs we're being said to stop them. Pro-
= Peck takes the ground that the
marked out for woman by man is the
no, is best for him and for her, and
mist stay in it or he will know why.
avs this in forceful way, and holds
nositiou with clarity and strength.
stetson answers him very cleverly
bs July number, arguing that the
90 in the status of woman Is simply
rssult of evolution, and the progress
"a world. She complains that hitherto
an has only held 1.-The sex relation to
anity. She has been daughter to 1t,
TO 1t, wife TO 1t, mother to 1t; but
was not it--humanity ITSELF" AS II
r daughter, sister. wife and mother to
are not the Hottest and best part of it!
rs. Stetson is a very clever woman, a
lmng speaker and very attractive
cnaity. / onco heard her speak very
uently and we'll on the necessity for
hing girls up to be good wives and
hers, and yet her own married life was
iIure, and she was then separated and
equently divorced from her husband.
IL Is one of the women who are very
Ing in convention. She has tact and
or and is not only pleasant to listen
but to look at, which is not always the
with the converting woman. Her
Bile in the Cosmopolitan for July is
er and well written, and she gives her
brsary some telling blows, but there
IN artifcality about 1t and an utter
OF womanliness that Is dispiriting.
here Is no answer in this controversy
The question as to whether the new
ban Is an improvement on the old, and
nothing TO change my admiration and
let for the woman of the past. Is there
bpe that the swing Of the pendulum will
By US back to her, with perhaps some
royentent cast up by the wave of prog
would like to call the attention of the
ers Of this page to the fact that no
pymous communications will receive
htion. So often l receive notices OF
lss. drives. weddings, ETC., that are
signed with the name of the sender.
% the rule of The Post forbids any
20 TO anonymous contributions, these
can not be used In sending me
descriptions or notices please sign
names, to them as otherwise they
DO disregarded.
Margaret Hadley Foster.
learn Methodist church has been the
% OF many pretty weddings, but none
Tier than that of Miss Sadie Shepherd
b, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. B.
+. and Mr.. Ira Lee Campbell Wednes-
eyening The interior OF the church
ffy handsome, and it was we'll lighted
literally packed on that evening. In
nall circle, formed by the railing that
ses the pulpit, With the organ and
'aulNs DacK, was a perfect forest Of
81 many species, their varied foliage
~ tue space with the softest shed
ri To-.
|nuas OF Tern vine and the central isle
closed with gateway made of the
muaitis OF this delicate vine, the
gov o'clock. Mr.. Beazley struck
opening chords of Mendelsohn's we'd
march. Rev. Mr.. Ward took his place
NJ me pulpit and awaited the coming
H. .oulk people who were to pledge
give their troth before him. The
f., Ar. Clarence Kendall. Mr.. C. L.
Ins MT S, NJ McAshan, Jr.. and Mr.. w.
Pn,er, came first. two by two from the
eu'rances and walking down the
Eh.raa' '.es, crossed over as they came
Taete the minister stood, each two
w I've opposite sides from the one
maica ther entered. Then came the {
MI Mss Vera Strong. Miss {
Aien. Miss Mabel Windle and !
,ns nnie Hanna. walking also two by (
,vIossine over, as the ushers had
SHOWED ,oiowed ~ the groomsmen, MIR. I
NJ Mems OF Coleman. Mr.. Torrance |
~ rom hathaway and Mr.. Gus s
Il u muo cams in in the same order.
,ha se Ian ~ taken their places be- [
n iaiilhg NE flower girls. Misses 5
thsr Au May Howell, were seen coming /
nl.. w the cNtral aisle and taking I
rsiss ny thegreen gateway. opened !
hsr anu held them while the bride :
"a yo s'sIer and maid Of honor. Miss r
.by ,ha passed in. These two were :
Ror "e bridegroom and his best man. =
.sro y campbell IF Temple, and the :
4 ana LOOK his girl bride from her /,
, wSsn s'ood with her before thu clergy =
msds 'he solemn words were said
iha 'hem man ind wife
tam,iu onl pews thH were reserved for
Ana q were Mr.. am Mrs. j. / Camp- !,
nd as' a. j. Lee father and moth
and Mahumother o. the bridegroom p
d NJ rs. w. B. Joies. Mr.. ana Mrs Z
y q, o. 1 ana Mrs. Guy Jones. Miss Cora =
W., aylor, Texas Miss Laney az
4 'v w,,a and Master W. d. Jones' Jr Il
ppsntaas a number # other friends z
Il ans me bridal purity to the nome a
Isnt w MIS- w. B. Jones. where
Z Ana '.eptlon was he'd with rcfresb- n
ns ny .ne cutting OF he brides cake. t,
4 nv ~ me handsome presents re, ii
hour, .as young people served 10 make :,
h pass very deligkfully. In The y
. Of ,hougn the bride cake for am =
ling future. Mr.. Ton stevens got Q
Mss F,h Clarence Keadall the dime !,
bs,nm,.aae Ethel Jones the timble W Z
need by ~ 'he weddint was greatly =
e bride IN .Se fresh, pretty costumes $,
that Of the lhs a ner attendants. All. ex- y
= worn by ,h maid OF horor. were the !.
y rom the T,ah al theirrecent grad !.
slnn vss was purely OF white and A
sweet a. W, prettlly and she looked Il
her h,nsssane turned from the altar fc
snsids' ga Young huband. The n
= over einn We're all q white or O
The MAD a. sc they cfried pink d