The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-19
The Reverend Frank q. Tyrrcll
Praises the Modern Type of
Bread Winners.
SCORES SOCIETY PERSONS.
Declares Many Women Devote but
Little Time to the Home. and
Should be Emancipated
From Tyranny of Dress.

The Reverend Frank G: Tyrrell. who sew
eral weeks ago created 4 mild sensation by
saying that marriage-hunting maids of the
present day often made birthstone bar
gains delivered an address last night at
Mount Cabanne Christian Church on The
Twentieth-Century Woman" in which he
said that she was fitted 'to achieve her
own destiny. TO cope single-handed with
the worlds vicissitudes and fitted for the
battle Of the bread-winners'
The lecture was to the Woman's Club of
his church. Mr.. Tyrrell is writing a book
on social problems. which deals largely with
women, and the extracts from it which
have been published have caused wide COM
ment. For this reason the women of his
congregation were anxious to hear his
views on the TWENTIETH Century woman,
and. accordingly. the lecture was specially
prepared.
He said. in part: The Twentieth-Century
woman. as living, moving, breathing per-
son. separate and distinct. will serve her
day and generation even as her brother
serves Whether she marries and bears chill
Cren, woman Will accept her commission
and render her service.
she will write or paint or perform; she
VIII buy and sell: she will produce: she will
invent; she will guide: she Will explore:
she will judge: she will preach and plead
she Will uncurtain the heavens and tell the
secrets OF the stars: she Will uncover the
earth and make the silent rocks eloquent
with the story Of creation.
She will introduce g. new element of
grace and tenderness and beauty into the
fields of science and the marts OF trade anu
the courts Of religion and the halls of gov
eminent.
CHANGE IS TAKING PLACE
How could it be otherwise? If the race
advances what new conspiracy will you
concoct to keep woman down? 1t cannot
be said too often that woman's cause is
mans cause. Your right leg might As well
chaiiense your left to q walking match
as your man attempt to rise in knowledge,
skill, in character, while the woman is held
in subordnation
VIII you revert to the customs of the
Orientallsts and shut her up in zennanas
and seraSlios and make her once more the
toy and slave of man?
1t would be as well TO mate with Il
squalid savage as with woman reared
in the midst of pretentious civilization,
yet denied all its boosted advantages and
condemned by false and squeamish and
foolish notions to inaction and ineptiIude.
Through long, dark and barbarous ages
she has siumbered, and what the world has
lost because of ner enslavement and oblit-
Grafton it will never know.
But now disentangled in a measure from
the .tyrrany of tradition, freed from the
incubus of disapproval and denial that once
rested forbiddingly upon her woman is
awake. She is coming to her throne. She
is rousing herself to a consciousness of her
divine prerogatiyes, and even in these first
moments of awakening she grasps the
scepter and enters the throneroom 10 reign
a queen over the realm SO long held by
strangers.
1T is natural to think of the home and
TO wonder what will become of it when the
Twentieth Century woman has come to her
throne. 1t will never be jostled by the
change. unless it be to n higher place and
grander office As it is now, how many
homes receive all the woman's time and
energy:
Subtract the time she devotes TO dress