The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-01
How to Make a Happy Wife.


There is but one true basis for mar
riage," said Mrs. Eva F. Riggs before
the Society for the Study of Life at the
Tuxedo. mot lust, but love; not physi-
cal affinity, but spiritual affinity! Girls
want to marry not for a home or a
dress or a hat, but because they love a
man and are willing to die for him. No
man ever inspired that feeling who was
not worthy of it. He will love her chill
dren and his. There should be no union
less than that: no children that are
not welcomed as blessings. We do not
need laws nearly so much as love"
This was called out by the address of
DR.. NJ. A. Stewart, a woman physician,
on "Heredity and Regeneration" She
handled the subject without gloves, and
went straight to the heart of the mat
ter in a fashion that caused a spirited
discussion.
''Heredity,'' she argued, lies in the
innermoSt springs of existence and the
curse of man is the sense of shame that
overhangs the reproduction of the race
"a condition so deep and unholy that
theologians rightly term it total de-
pravity.
Every child brought into the world
is born under this curse, the subordina-
ton of motherhood to the will of man,
the perVersion of the divine order of
creation. Here sin has its origin. For
10 centuries we have had a Christian
religion, but the Christian marriage is
yet to come. The spirit which holds
woman in subsection is the same Sa-
tanic influence as in the beginning.
Original sin is a trouble resistent
reality 1t is impossible for the ig
norant to sin so deliberately and dis
astrously as the educated. We have
reached the utmost advance. The ebb-
tide has set in that is sweeping US down
into chaos. The majority of mankind
probably came into existence by acct
dent"
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life as an example of moral obliquity.
Until the movement of the world is
changed moral and physical degen-
eracy," she continued, will go hand
in hand. We want the control of the
Spirit of God at the threshold of life
to take US from the old Adam to the
regenerated Christ"
Mrs. Riggs commended that the doc
tors was a most depressing view Of
marriage and of human nature.
She speaks as if women were the
victim, man the oppressor,' she said.
Il have not found it so in the majority
of cases.
IF they are mated" agreed Mrs. Al
mon T. Hensley from the chair, s'hus-
cord"
mot one woman in a thousand de-
sires the responsibility of motherhood
began Mrs. Henry Bender but a chorus
of mo, that's not So" interrupted.
Il would like to know how the re-
generation of man can be accomplish
ed?' insisted Mrs. Bender.
Il don't think it possible to regen-
crate 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 children
into the world or leave him.
The women were up in arms in mo-
ment asserting the better nature of
man.
IF we want to regenerate man begin
with the boys cried one.
Mrs. L. D. Hubert was of the opin-
ion that girls had an equal share of re-
sponsibility.
THE mother can make the unborn
child what she would have it, she
cried. 1T is the ignorant mothers that
make the ignorant children, who,
through ignorance, fall into sim
Accidental children brought out
Mrs. Riggs plea that Gods plan is
best"
Mrs. Hensley concluded:
L have known the child of drunk
ard 1--WE have one in the society to
grow into a good woman, but I would
not go so far as to say that she might
not have been better with the right
kind of a father