The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-11
LOVE, NoTLAW
Needed To Make Happy Wives and
Contented Motherhood.

COntented Motherhood.
New York World: There is but one
true basis OF marriage" said Mrs. Eva
+. Riggs before the society for the
study Of life, agthe Tuxedo. "Not lust,
but love: not physical affinity, but spir-
itual afinityi Girls want to marry not
for home or dress or a hat, but be-
cause they love q man and are willing
to die for him. No man ever inspired
that feeling that was not worthy Of it.
He will,iove her children and his. There
should be NO union les Sthan that; no
children that are not welcomed as bless
ingS. We do not need laws nearly 30
much as love,
This was called out by the address Of
DR.. NJ. A. Stewart, q woman physician,
on "Heredlty and Regeneration" She
handled the subject without gloves, and
went straight to the heart Of the matter
In a fashion that caused spirited dis
cussioR.
"Heredity." she argued. "lles in the
innermost springH'Of existence and the
curse Of man Is the sense Of shame that
oVerhangs the reproduction Of the race
"a condition 50 deep and unholy that
the0logians rightly term 1t total deprav-
ity.
Every child brought into the world Is
born under this curse, the Eubordinatlon
Of motherhood 70 the Will Of man, the
perVersioI Of the divine order Of cTea-
ton. Here sin has Its origin. For 10
centuries we have had Christian re-
liglon; but the Christian marriage Is
yet to come. The spirit which holds
woman in subiectlon Is the same satan
lc influence as in the beginning.
"orlglnal sin Is a trouble raslstent re-
atty. It Is impossible for the ignorant
to sin so deliberately and disastrously
as the educated. We have reached the
utmost advance. The ebbtide has set
In that is sweeping Us down Into chaos.
The majority Of mankind probably
came into existence by accident"
And the doctor cited French family
life as an example Of moral ob1iqutty.
Until the movement Of the world Is
changed, moral and physical degener-
acy," she continued, will go hand IN
hand. We want the control OF the Splr-
1t Of God ut the threshold Of life to take
us from the old Adam to the regenerat-
ed Christ"
Mrs, Riggs c6ntended that the doc
for's was q most depressing view OF
marriage and Of human nature.
"She speaks as If a woman were the
victim, man an oppressor," she said.
II have not found It so in the majority
Of cases"
''If they are mated" agreed Mrs. AL
mon r. Heasley, from the chair. "hus-
band and wife Will be In perfect ac-
cord"
mot one woman In n thousand de-
sIres the responsihtlity Of motherhood"
began Mrs. Henry Bender, but chorus
Of mo, that's not so, interrupted her.
''I would like to know how the regen.
eratioa OF man can be accompllshed?'
Insisted Mrs. Bender.
II don't think It possible to reBener-
ate man." replied the doctor. 1T is a
matter Of conscience between the wo:
man and her God whether she Will
stick to the man and bring devils chill
dren into the world or leave him.
The women were up in arms IN a
moment asserting the better nature Of
man.
III we want to regenerate man, begin
with the boys" cried one.
Mrs. L. D. Hubert was Of the opinion
that girls had an equal share OF re-
sponsibllltyf
''The mother can make the unborn
child what she would have II" she cried.
at is the ignorant mothers that make
the ignorant children, who, through ig-
norance. fall into sin"
Accidental children brought out
Mrs. Riggs plea that Gods plan Is
best"
Mrs. HensIey concluded:
II have known the child Of drunk
ard 1--WE have one In the society TO
grow into a good woman, but would
not go so far as to say that she might
not have been better with the right
kind OF a father"