Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-11
IDEAL WOMAN SUBJECT
OF DR.. L0CKE's SERMON
First Methodist Minister Also
CommendS Councils Stand
Against Fight Pictures

At the First Methodist Episcopal
church DR.. Charles Edward Locke
preached his last sermon before his
vacation, on the subject MANS Ideal
Woman, or the Magnificence of the
Womanly Woman" DR.. Locke also
spoke in hearty approval of the atti-
tude taken by the city authorities in
their determination not to permit any
exhibition of the prize fight pictures.
The text was elisha passed to
Shunem, where was a great woman" J"
DR.. Locke said, in part:
"A man never reveals his limitations
as when he seeks to make a definition,
but never is a man so grotesque and
tragically lame as when he essays to
answer the question What is wo-
man? The gallant old English poet,
Prior, said, BE to her virtues very
kind. Be to her faults a little blind
Anyhow, what is woman? Not
mans better half, but mans equal and
usually mans superior. Equal in brain
possibilities, and in endowments and
spiritual aspirations. Equal, also, in
is not a question of sex, 1t is a ques-
tion of attitude. The greater respon-
sibility rests upon those who have at
tanned the noblest heights. That an
swers the question as upon whom rests
the greater responsibility for the moral
conditions of the race.
WoMAN's SPHERE
IF a man has his sphere, his limita-
tions, his opportunities, so has woman
her sphere. her limitations, her oppor-
tunities. There are certain distinctions
and honorable boundaries which must
be observed If the equilibrium of the
race would be maintained.
"Woman's sphere is her atmosphere.
Her intuitions, her faith and her af
finity for the purest and best give her
a realm of power all her own. This
is not self cement, but It is COM
ing to her own.
First of all, mans ideal woman
must be happy that she is a woman.
There are many things which wo-
man can do just as well as man, but
woman's call and mission is to be and
to do things which men cannot be
and do. Men do not like women who
affect men In their dress, their tastes
and their manners.
MANS ideal woman should be bright,
ViVacious, contented, cultured and pos
sess fine sense of humor. She should
be modest and gentle, not vociferous
and ostentatious. Men do not like
fussy woman who is always in state
of excitement, who is loquacious and
conspicuous and vain who talks loud
and long. A modest reserve and n gen.
tie patience seem to belong to the ideal
woman as perfume and beauty to the
rose.
IDEAL WOMAN
"The ideal woman must be firm in
L. f,4o
ingly for the right and steadfastly
against all appearance of and tendency
toward evil. Men are the worst vic
tins of evil but women are the most
tragic sufferers. She must be abso-
lutely good. Every normal man be-
lieves that his wife is much better
than he is, and in most cases that is
true. Woman should endeavor to merit
this high place of honor to which man
has assigned her. A good man ideal
ICES woman. If he would portray or
impersonate any lofty thought he does
it by making a beautiful woman his
Goddess of Liberty, his ideal of faith,
of wisdom, of justice and of love. A
pagan age defied woman and wor-
SHIPPED her as Athena, Diana and
Venus, but today man idealizes Wo-
man because she most nearly ap-
proaches his highest conception of hu-
MANS ideal woman must love her
home and her domestic duties as she
does nothing else. Man feels that as
custodian of the home, woman has
sphere which far surpasses in import
ance any work possible to man; that
hers is a sublime employment beside
which commerce and merchandising
and professions are but irksome and
slavish toll. The home has seriously
suffered as women have experimental
and coqueted with the affairs of an
engrossing and e..ervating public l1fe.
A woman should prefer her home and
her children to the club and the social
function Much domestic unhappiness
can be traced directly to the unwill-
ingness of women to assume the hon
ors and cares of the home. Such wo-
men have no moral right to be mar
ried. and most of them would never
have the opportunity if men knew be-
forehand of their intense dislike for
domestic life. The normal man wants
q. home, is fond of children and wishes
to be a father. The court dockets are
full of matrimonial complications
which are sthe result of the refusal of
women to enter the high estate for
which God created them. Motherhood
Is the divinest honor which God has
bestowed upon humanity; and the wo-
man who despises motherhood is un-
-4....oI ood ,,puOral if not immoral "