Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-14
TALKS OF REAL WOMAN
Mrs. Lucia Gale BARRIERS
Theme Before Mothers.
MANY OTHER TOPICS
PRESIDENT RoOSEVELT'S AD-
DRESS SUBJECT OF DISCUSSION.
Delegates Congratulated Upon Support
Given Mothers Cause by
Mr. Roosevelt.
MANY OTHER TOPICS

morning. They couldn't break away from
each other and mutual congratulations over
| the success and the wide-reaching influence
of the presidential meeting held last even
| ing at the Metropolitan M. E. Church.
1.-The effect of this loyal support Of our
young father-President of this mothers
cause cannot be fully estimated, and tre-
mendously weighty will 1t be for years to
| COME declared Mrs. Schoff this morning.
| This support is SO unaffected. SO whole
hearted, that it has encouraged us wonder
| fully"
When the gavel fell at 1890, instead Of 10,
as set down in the program, this feeling of
exaltation found expression in the opening
| prayer of Mrs. u. o. Mears, who fervently
thanked God for the father and mother
| heart in the White House and the splendid
moral example the pure home life there was
| giving to the people of the country and of
! the whole world.
The earlier hours were occupied with con-
| ferences and discussions, and a little later
| belated reports of mothers clubs and par
| ents' associations and their methods of work
were taken up. The last subjects on the
morning program before dispensing for the
| trip to Mount Vernon in special cars were
paper on 1.-The Real Woman" by Mrs. Lucia
Gale Barber of Boston, Mass, and an equal
| ~ good paper on "Autobographes of Child
hood, Their Value and What We May Learn
OF Child Life from Them by Mrs. Herman
II. Birney of Philadelphia.
Mrs. Barber, as she assembled the platform
to present her paper on THE Real Wom-
an" looked so much her subject that she
was received with round of applause. Mrs.
Barber is wholesome to look upon, and she
has that necessary thing to hold audi
ence-both presence and voice. She could
be heard.
Mrs. BARRIERS Address.
With much emphasis Mrs. Barber declared
in her opening sentence that the real
woman is the ideal woman. Ideals are the
only real things" which brought prolonged
applause.
This ideal real woman," she continued,
sis she whose exterior is in harmony with
the beautiful things of earth; her counte-
nance is open and Serene her eyes
clear; her voice firm and sweet her step
and movements free and light; her dress
and appointments, however simple, decora-
tive and BETTING her station and work;
she radiates health and vigor, and is good
to look upon, she is an ornament.
Mrs. Barber then asserted that interiorly
the real woman's mind is furnished with
calm judgment, discretion, decision, imagi-
nation, and her soul with love, faith, hope,
and clear consciousness of God. She
moves along the earth carrying help and
healing in the sympathy and tenderness
which she pours out in unStinted mea sure:
she increases the joy of humankind by
her own joy in living; her clear courage
puts strength into the discouraged soul
She is a light illumining the ways of her
going.
Speaking of this ideal real woman's
strength, Mrs. Barber declared she meets
adversely with courage and cheerfulness .
and ajusts herself to it; she thinks each
responsibility privilege, because a revela-
ton of Hfe-she does not call it burden. ~
Scandal finds no carrier in her tongue;
there is no place in her heart mind for
the unk1nd thought or word which so easily
halts another soul on it's way; she has no
room for that ugly brood-jealousy, envy,
malice, suspicion, dstrust; she has dignity
tempered with graciousness; courage sof-
tened by gentlenesS: she enters our pres
ence bringing delight and serene strength;
her poised soul rests in Gods will and her
thought, speech hands and feet do that
will
Mrs. Barber thought that every woman
has the real woman within, and in her own
individual way may realize this ideal. But
for all there is common way-to live real
th1ngs-those principles which are eternally
true and have their root i'll the God-center
of each human soul.
And this way, she declared, is found
through recognition of, and living
! from, this divine center, and bringing into
| rhythmic harmony with it its avenues and
instruments of expression-mind and body
Real Woman's Requisites.
Mrs. Barber believes that health of mind
and health of body are necessary for the
real womans life-and the health of each
Is dependent upon the other, and the clear
vision of the soul upon the health of both
An understanding and appreciation of this
interdependence of soul. mind and body,
she said, makes a firm foundation for the
evolving of the highest human ideals.
Who stops to think what he owes his
body? she asked And yet. there is no
thought or feeling of which one may be-
come conscious without it. The spirit,
even, we know only ION this plane. at
LEAST through it's occupation of this flesh
and bone house. Unto the least express
sion of self upon earth are we dependent
upon it, and yet we abuse, distort and de-
grade it-this soul house; it's rights we are
| Indifferent to; it's laws we disobey; it's
rebellions we quell with drugs that stunt
| and weaken. If nature did not make al
ways for truth and perfection we should
long ago have become a mentally ire
sponsible and physically misshapen peo-
pie, but at each new birth she struggles
back to her own ideal. thus constantly
righting the wrongs we as persistently
commit. and saving us for ourselves.
We put upon these bodies every form OF
strain, she declared. We take no thought
| for the laws governing them, consequently
| they break-cease to be capable of service
If women would give their bodies a little
loving care and attention-not simply in the
| matter of eating and clothing-that is al
| ready over done-but in the observance of
! natural laws; seek to understand them and
develop them as their structure shows was
| the intent, the response in health and hap
| piness would be incalculable.
! Lack of time is usually pleaded for mat
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| for body care. We have. however, time for
everything else-while the instrument
| through which we do all these other things
| "goes a-begging."
| Waste and Repair.
| Mrs. Barber then quoted DR.. Robson
| Roose of London in Waste and Repair in
| Modern Life saying: Exercise is essen
| tial to the preservation of health; inactivity
| is potent cause of wasting and degenera-
| tion."
| Returning to her own analysis, Mrs Bar
| Der asserted that an unhealthy body gives
| unhealthy mind pictures, however superior
| the spiritual intellectual development may
| be, and an unhealthy, morbid or irritable
| mental state will produce unhealthy physi-
| cal conditions. A pain in one small nerve
| will often make ones mental outlook Iugu-
| brious and cheerless; hurt to ones self
| love, a disappointment, will SO disturb
| the nervous system as to cause bodily pain
| sometimes a fit of sickness" Fear, or
| anger. will stop the processes of digestion,
4 just as surely food at an unse asonable
/ hour, or an imperfect circulation from any
physical cause
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