The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-01-20
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lin Sermon: at Grace.Stree
Ramsay Replies to e
Address Before !
AT tho Grace street Baptist Church
Inst night. Woman as We Know Hers,
IAN Appreciation" was the subject OF y
sermon by the pastor, the Rev DIR.
ID. NJ. Ramsay. Though not Intended
primarily MS n reply to the address of
DR.. w. II. Taylor before tho Medical,
College Of Virginia a Few days ago,
Tho discourse exalted tho other side Of
1.-THE feminine nature, the speaker re-
IrlyinE In terms to some OF the COR
oner's TRUSTS.
DR.. Ramsey took his text from,
4 Psalms, cxllv. 10: THAT our daughters
may be as corncr.stoncs. polished after
the similitudc OF u palace In dis
cussing his subject, DIR. Ramsay sail:
THE patriotic Psaln,ist, knowing the
large place held In a great nation by
woman. is here stating his glowing
ideal for womanhood In Israel. II is
not possible to exaggerate the impor-
| lance OF woman In our national life.
This Is true II we think only Of her
economic place and value. She Is now
ID mighty factor In the world processes.
1 Fifty years ago there was scarcely
an occupation open to her beyond her
home. except that or school teaching.
and now there Is hardly ono closed.
It is already too late to debate whether
women can do the things which men.
used to do. We know that She is al.
ready doing them surprisingly we'll.
recent discussion Of the subject OF
woman In our city. as reported by a
leading and reliable journal, seems to
disparago woman. Let US see.
Woman's Position.
Many Of us now living who are still
young remember when very different
opinion was held OF the business abil-
ity Of women from that which now OBJ
tatns. Much stress was laid upon her
superb and almost supernatural powers
OF intuition. but at the cost OF her
reason. It was thought, It would seem.
that she saw without eyes, knew with.
out ratiocination. and thought without
LOGIC There was a time In the more
distant past when she was thought
not to have a soul, and now we are
sometimes ready to exclalm that she
alone has soul; and IL we knew what
the philosopher Emerson meant we
would say that She possessed that
divine oversoul of which he writes
With such profundity. Then they said
she could not keep secret: now we
know that the secret Of the Lord dwells
IN her reverent spirit. II was oven
amrmed. as conclusive evidence OF
her PRACTICAL inefficiency. that she could
not sharpen pencil: and now It is
admitted that she sharpens everything
that she touches.
II was charged that she fed ncon-
tinently before an approaching mouse; :
latterly she has been mainly useful in
keeping the wolf from the door. and
not infrequently she must live with
bear. Then she was thought ia be
profitable only for sowing seeds in
the youthful minds of the home: now
her husband has discovered that she
Is useful for narrowing also.
Physically. woman Is at a disad-
vantage with man in taking her place
| in the business world. This Is one OF
the reasons for her being the receipt
nent Of mans chlvalrous regard in all
| civilized lands. On this subject we
are fortunate in having some data
gathered OF late by patient scientific
students in the new science OF psyche
| PHYSICS, showing the essential differ
enccs Of the two sexes. Physically,
the average man Is two and half
I times stronger than the average wo-
man. Men have always gotten the
I! start of women, 1t would seem. AS
the first or the race was q man, SO
the rule Is that the first child in til g
\ family Is boy. There are more boys
! horn into the world than girls, SO.
i matrimonlally. there are enough to go
around, A girls head grows In Length,
until she is eighteen years or age. and
at that time she Is longheaded enough
ito get married: but she should be
careful not to be headlong In the bus
1 mess
Yet. notwithstanding these compar-
ativc disadvantages. our sisters have
large and honorable place in the
modern business world In the United
States 100000 girls and women Will
go to their work Tomorrow morning
of whom more than 5000 are surgeons
and physicians more than 1000 are
lawyers, nearly 1000 dentists. more
than 1000 architects, and nearly 1900
are clergymen.
Mental Equipment.
:, Further. let us see What woman's
. equipment Is. mentally. for her tasks
t Here the comparison Of the sexes |!
/. interesting. While mans brain Il
e larger. woman's is heavier in proper
t!ou 10 6l1e IL mas Oeeu SATISFACTORILY
! demonstrated that the weight OF tn
Q brain is an important factor In deter
\ mining thought power. Her brain |
said to be 4, per cent. heavier In pro
portion to total weight OF the averag
brain OF man and woman. There seer
to be three factors In thought power
namely, the gray matter, the depth o
o the conyolutions and the relativ
weight In proportion to bulk, and !
9 all these respects woman's brain make
d fine showing. Those who hayA bee
q conducting those experiments hav
l. reached the conclusion that our sister
* excel In memory. It is an interestin
ID fact that the worlds record for mem
70 DRY is held by an actress. Miss Victori
70 Bateman. who remembered the sequenc
= Of $4,000 words, with their synony N
being several thousand words MOI
than are In Victor Hugo's Les Miael
ables.'
ho AT the Medical College. In Charlie
ton. S. c.. last May saw young ",
1T man awarded the cup as the hiele
honor graduate OF her class over m j,
IT than twenty young mon. It must !
nj ADMITTED that this IN NOT hpd Ef1ov