The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-04-12
EVENING SESSION.
Professor Brimhall of Provo Talks
About Intelligent Fatherhood."


Miss May presided over the night ses-
sion, which was opened by a prayer by
Mrs En1neAine B. Wells. At the con-
clusion of the prayer Nine. Amanda
SWenson gave an eXquisitely rendered
solo, and then Professor G.. H. Brim-
hall of the B. y. academy at Provo
talked on Intelligent Fatherhoed.'
Professor Brimhall started out by stat
ing that the question as to whether or
not there could be an instructive father
hood had never been answered.
"FatherhoOd means parental respon-
sibility," he went on. TT means more
than progenitorship. 1t means care,
grave responsibility. 1t is grave thing
to be parent. The obligation is a SER
ious one. A father cannot be RESPONSE
BILE without intelligence. L assume.
then, that all are intelligent. There. are
degrees of intelligence. Some do not go
beyond the realm of instinct, and in
stinct is not progressive"
Professor Brimhall advanced the the
Dry that a father has prenatal infu-
ence on his children He illustrated by
telling of a case he said, had come I'M
der his observation. A boy 16 years of
age, the son of q. bank cashier, was
sent to the penitentiary for forgery. The
father, in speaking of the affair, said
the blame was all his, He recounted a
story of a forgery he himself had COM
mitted before the boy was born, and
said that he believed this had it's in
fluence on the child.
The speakers next topic was the man
ageanent of children. He said that
boys and girls love the man that man
ages them. BY this he did not mean
sternness. Intelligent fatherhood meant
cooperation along this line with the
mother. He believed the father should
win the confidence of the children to
such an extent that they would unques-
tioningly trust him.
In conclusion, Professor Brimhall
made an argument for a combination of
fathers into such an organization as the
mothers assembly. He thought they
needed it as much and probably more
than the women. The men should get
together, he believed, and exchange
ideas on the training of their children.
Professor Brimhall's talk was elo-
quently delivered, and frequently inter
rupted by applause.
Mrs. Alice E. Ranford, at the request
Of a number of the women, repeated
some of the kindergarten songs she had
sung on Monday. Mrs. Hanford took
her audience by storm. Her voice was
clear and sweet and her selections We're
given in a mother style that could not
fail to win applause and appreciation.
MRS. WESTENDORF SPEAKS.
a talk by Mrs. Katharine Westendorf
of Denver on Ethical Ends and Ideal
Aims in the Culture of the Human
Body" was the last number on the
programme. Mrs. Westendorf prefaced
her talk by saying she was glad to see
so many men present, for she thought
it was time fathers We're catching UP
with mothers in the study of childlife.
Plunging into the subject matter OF
her discourse, Mrs. Westendorf treated
her theme from a scientific standpoint
She went over the cultivation of the hui
man body from the earliest ages to the
present time. Mrs. Westendorf eX-
pressed a strong belief in gymnastic eX-
ercises, but talked against carrying the
letics built Rome, but the great Roman
empire began to decay when the glad
iatorial combats took precedence OF
everything else. The same was true OF
ancient Greece.
In conclusion Mrs Westendorf paid a
! high tribute to F'roebel, the originator
of kindergartens, for his study of meth
DDS by which to develop the senses OF
children. Mrs Westenderf lectures on
Physical Culture" this afternoon in
Assembly hall, and TOMORROW night be-
fore the Ladies' Literary club she will
appear jointly with Mrs. Campbell
along the same lines. When Mrs Yves
tendorf had finished last night, Miss
May briefly thanked the audience for
it's presence, and the meeting closed
with the long metre "DoXology"