The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-01-29
DISCUSSED
DANGEROUS
WOMEN

Mathewson street Methodist church
could not accommodate the crowd which
came out last night 10 hear Roy. Or G.
NJ Meden speak on Dangerous Women
The church was so full that not even
standing room could be had and many
persons had 10 be turned away.
Or. Melden took for his text: And |
find more bitter than death the woman,
whose hearts is snares and nets and her
hands as bands Whose pleaseth God
shall escape her: but the sinner shall be
taken by her" He said i'm part.
The writer of these words represented
himself as having patiently investigated
the existing conditions OF his time, and
his opinion Of womankind is not very
lattering Now, IL We agree that Solo
mon is the author Of our text, his expert
ence with women was such as to make
him hard and cynical: but no one except
a worn-out libertine would make such
sweeping charge against the sex OF our
mothers. our sisters and our wives.
Tonight | desire to give expression 10
my high estimate OF woman. But as the
sun has spots, so there are women who
are danger. and We raise our voice as "a
warning or as one would hoist red light
signal
! will speak of Is the gossip. The presence
or tattlers and busybodies In community
is worse than a blight Beware OF the gos-
sip her words are evil and though her
words are sweeter than honey and she
comes 10 you with a tale derogatory 10
your neighbor. pledging you TO secrecy,
she has done the same TO scores OF others.
and she should not be encouraged but re-
PEELED
Then there is the ambitious woman,
fond OF publicity. IL may be- necessary
sometimes for a Florence Nightingale To
seize the oar and make her way across
the waves TO save the shipwrecked ma
riner God bless the Clara Bart0ns and the
Frances Willards But the Lord have
mercy on the husband and children OF the
woman who feels herself called upon 10
set the world right by becoming n public
agitator.
These women are dangerous In that
they threaten not only the peace and in
tegrity OF the family. but the famiy's
veIy existence: and the family liz the cor
nerstone Of our society. They are danger
Gus also In that they create unrest and
dissa tisfaction in the minds OF other
women with a quiet. domestic and useful
life.
A MODICUM OF TALENT
There was never time when so many
women were posing before audiences as
readers singers and what-not Young
women with but a modcum OF talent,
encouraged by mercepary elocution teach
ers enter and compete for n prize. Then
their ambition is TO get on a platform
and attempt TO entertain an audience.
You would be surprised TO know of the
frequency with which young women write
and ask for the opportunity OF reading
in this church.
nrtsh T. L. 1
vised tho young women to marry and
bear children. and become home makers
n God has conferred upon you the honor
TO be n wife and "A mother esteem IL
as such. IT'S the hand that rocks the
cradle that rules the world. Not on
thrones. but In homes, are TO be found
the real queens.
Then there IL the fashionable woman.
II Is the duty of every woman to make
herself 9s attractive as possible, but /
refer to the woman whose Bible IS the
fashion plate whose shrine the dress
makers. II would seem to mo that health
and beauty are not considered by the vo-
taries OF fashion. The rich and graceful
OF the ancient Greeks left the
human form in much the style that God
made It,
but today. between the contractions
and the extensions.it is hard TO tell wheth-
er the result is form OF kangaroo or n
camel. | say not these things 10 provoke
a smile. for II is Gods truth. The fash
onable woman is an extravagant woman
She has no time for the development OF
her intellectual or spiritual nature With
a distorted form and q depleted purse
She becomes wreck I'm body and soul.
~ would warn YOU against a woman
whose name l will not pronounce and
whose characteristics ! will not attempt
20 describe" DIR. Melden read descrip-
ion of the class OF women TO which he
referred from the seventh and ninth chap
ers OF Proverbs and said: Against
such want 10 hang a red light as
warning.
II want to close by saying that these
'lasses have described are not typical
" the sex: they are excrescences and
leformities O. II woman would but real
ze her high prerogatives the regenera-
ion OF this world would not be dis
anti"