The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1909-09-01
WOMAN'S VANITY INfPERILS
RACE.
Says Father j. j. Sullivan, of St
LOuis-Slaves of Foolish Fashion.

screeching, childless and husbandless
sisterhood. 1t might be laughable
show were 1t not for the effect such
antics may have upon the young Of
the present generation. Women don't
want higher education or culture, If
We are to judge from the energy and
ambition of that body of them who
have wealth and leisure to enable them
to get 1t If they cared for it. They
do not exert themselves other than to
acquire a few charming superlatives
varied by an appropriate giggle or two
which equipment is sufficient to get
them along In polite society.
The finality of this conviction was
uttered with fervor by Father ]. ].
Sullivan, s. j.. for nineteen years
member Of the faculty of st. Louis
University, says st. Louis dispatch
to the New York World. He has held
the chair Of philosophy and for many
years was dean of theology. On ac-
count of Ill health he has been trans
erred t. Omaha.
Father Sullivan does not believe In
higher education for women because
they have not shown themselves suffi-
ciently desirous Of acquiring it. 'The
inordinate trivialities of femininity do
not point to a desire for mental de-
velopement." he said. land in losing
their reverence for older RESPONSE
bilities in an attempt to overstep their
limitations these women have been
thrown upon seat q vapidity and
discomfort.
"They like to be and are admired,
not for what is in them. but rather
for what Is on them. AS a woman is
neither the mental nor physical equal
of man she will be compelled to suffer
when she shall have taken from her
her only prop-masculine chivalry.
What hinders women from attain
ment Of any intellectual desire? They
have every opportunity for becoming
cultivated. Nobody has placed any re-
straint upon women exercising their
| mental faculties to the fullest.
IF they wasted less time in "trip
perry and tinsel and gossip of modern
social functions they would have time
| on their hands to study all the 'ologies
and 'isms' in the university curricu-
lum
why has women permitted man to
place her in position which obiiges
her TO consult external appearance in
manner not demanded of man, thus
making her to be admired for what
Is on her and not what is in her? They
talk about the masculine tyranny. Is
It as CALLING and as uncompiimentary
as in their ready obedience to any
mandate that emanates from the Paris
milliner. who sends them forth with
an artistic collection Of shrubbery
forming the headgear OF modern
women.
'They follow this implacable despot
with naIs eating dociity. whether she
orders miniature was,aSb or a pro.
;,'c milk rail
Love of admiration is not Of itself
W.T. drs:. but when this ,sir for praise
is baiscd r..on lie ard becomes The
pr ';n: cause of countess other lies,
whs'n 1t actually accompanies the sac.
rifice of self-respect and principle
then 1t becomes vice, as in the case
If current extravaganza of the fem
mime.
| The growing discomfort over what
women regard as their neglect, has
produced many asperties and such
bitterness on the part OF the screech-
Ing and screaming sisterhood, who
display by their assertiveness a
! strange lack of confidence in their
| fathers and husbands.
| ''1'he moral condition of the race
depends far more upon woman than
man. BY keeping up the standard
she has everything to gain and by
lowering it everything to lose"