The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-14
DIR. LOngshore-Potts Lectures.


Miss Maud Maitland and Mrs. Ferd.
Dreis bach.
DIR. LOngshore-Potts Lectures.
Dr. Anna Longshore-Potts de-
livered her first lecture on the laws of
health to a large audience at the CraW-
ford opera house Monday afternoon.
In the course of her lecture, which oc-
cupied an hour and a half and was de-
Hvered with ease and much quaint hui
NOR, DR.. Potts commended that man and
woman differ both physically and men
tally. Her frame is Slighter and her or
ganization more delicate. 1t is there
fore impossible to expect that she should
enter into competition with him.
She deplored the tendency, which is
becoming more and more marked, of
girls being taught violent athletics and
gymnastics, advancing reasons based
upon anatomy and physics to show that
women can not indulge in excessive ex-
ercise without injury to themselves.
She does not believe it possible for
the industrial spheres of man and wom-
an to conflict. Her two trips around
the world have convinced her that the
women of America are the most ad-
vanced Of all nations. and she believes
the American men to be the most chiy-
alrous.
Turning to the purely physiological
aspect of the subject, DR.. Potts con-
siders that knowledge of the human
frame should be more thoroughly
taught in the schools. She protested in
a most vigorous manner against the
use of stays, declaring that a woman
who knelt before her Creator, praying
for health and strength, while she daily
distorted and compressed her vital or
gans, was guilty of something almost
sacrilegious- Health is the secret of
good looks; a proper adjustment of the
clothing from the shoulders, moderate
exercise, plain, wholesome food will do
more for physical beauty than all the
cosmetics in the world. She does not
think. however, that beauty of dress
ha f7nl in oh Ierx-
of health, and she herself appeared in
a pretty black velvet gown, trimmed
with white lace and diamond orna-
ments.
In the evening the theater was packed
with both men and women She de-
Tended the women doctors eloQuentIY
upon obviously good grounds. She con-
tended that women doctors are more
bic to understand and Sympathize with
a wOman's ailments than a man; that
she instinctiveIy turns toward the al
deviation of suffering. as we find ex-
emDlified in our own homes, in the
hospitals, upon the battlefield. It is
not the father, but the mother, who
staunches the wounded finger of the
child, and it is not her nature to shud-
der at wound, but to saIve it
She denied that the new woman is in
any way representative of the general
ity of her sex. She Iikened the new
movements Chat toward the unfemin-
unity of costume, for instance) to the
extreme point of the pendulum swing.
All movements must have a beginning
and the beginning is at an extreme.
The true woman finds her place in the
center of the pendulum swing (the
happy medium), the false one delights
in the ''outre" and the so-caIled
smart" But it is the old and not the
new that lasts.
Both of the addresses were illustrated
with stereopticon views OF unusual
beauty. They consisted of anatomical
diagrams and reproductions of some of
the worlds best scenery and works of
art, the latter having only an indirect
bearing on the lectures themselves.
The lectures to women will continue
daily, closing Friday All but the last
Will be free with collections. A small
admission will be charged for the last.
Notes and Personal Mention.
are in the city visiting Mrs. F. c.
Bowen, Mrs. Fogg's sister.
Mr.. Charlie kleinhans left Monday
for San Francisco for the benefit of his
health He expects to remain for some
time
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
Methodist church will meet Wednesday
afternoon, February Is, at the home of
Mrs F. D. Fuller, at 227 Clay street.
Mrs G. A Huron will read a paper on
The Jew"
Mr.. and Mrs. T. w. Scudder have re-
turned to their country home, after
spending few weeks IN Topeka
Mr.. and Mrs Horace Hall have re-
Ettlinger property on Van Buren, street
Mr.. John Small returned to his home
in Atchison Monday, after a short visit
with his daughter, Mrs. Walter Noble.
Mrs. Small will remain for a longer
visit
The Current Literature club is meet
ing this month with Mrs J. w Hardt.
complimentary to her mother. Airs.