The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-24
WOMEN TOLDFEW
 THINGS BY JONES Lovers of Pleasure and
 Causes of Divorce" ARE FAR FROM IDEAL The Evangelist at the First Methodist Breaches on "Modern Women" Handles Situation With More
 Candor Than Tact
ARE FAR FROM IDEAL

"The modern woman is adaptable to any style ever created. Is lover or pleasure, is seeker after the adml- ration of the world. Is inclined to boss and therefore is unfit for wifehood. IS lax in her standards of right and wrong. Is dead in modesty In the finer sensibilitIes and the mother instinct She Is reader of novels, despises re- straint, things look gray to her in- stead of black and white. She is re- sponsibe for two-thirds of the d. vorces because she enters the mar riage relation with her liberty loving instincts and keeps locked in her heart secrets that she would never dare breathe to her husband. She does not fulfill the ideal of womanhood sought after by the American man."
 These statements were the underly- ing sentiments of the sermon delivered on "The Modern Woman" by the Rev. Bob Jones yesterday morning at the First Methodist church to a large as semblage of women and a few men. There were grandmothers, school girls, matrons, young women of the leisure | class and women identified with the | musical artistic and business circles of | the city in the audience that thronged | the lower floor and baicony of the church auditorium.
 l a The opening invocation was pro- nounced by Rev. Dr. Branscomb This | was followed by several songs by the congregation and a solo by Professor Maxim, who accompanies Rev. Jones as l musical director.
 Taking for his theme the verse, "She ] that liveth in pleasure Is dead while I-B~ fl,A s.,t. L,,4lf .ar l structure of attacks, dissecting the trend of the times as evidenced by the modern woman. Beginning with the | assertion that the men of this gener- l ation do. not have the, respect for the modern feminine type that the men of the olden days displayed he said; Women of 1912
 If 1t Is stylish in the fall of 1912 to be | thin, you will not find a stout woman | and vice versa. If woman is not stylish
 she is condemned by her sisters I have | never known the modern woman to turn down any new style but the sheath skirt
 and then she soon afterwards adopted the | obble. She Is consecrated and she con-
 socrates her daughters and granddaugh-
 ters to altar of fashion and drives men | into eternity because they can no longer l hold up under the strain of providing for
 their extravagance
 | NO woman Is a true woman whose
 heart Is always crying for the admra.
 tion of the world for she will sacrifice hel
 self respect 10 gain this. Another char
 acteristic of the modern woman is that | she is tolerant, too tolerant of conditions
 that would have shocked her grandmoth | CT. She wants to boss the household l when God never made women to take
 place above men. Women were created
 to cling to and respect their husbands il
 the old fashioned. natural way. If they get a husband they can't respect that Il
 their fault and I don't know any way tt | remedy It but to make the best of thu
 situation. The modern woman does no | want the restraint of a home nor the love | of married life she has caught the liberty | loving spirit of the day and wants tt fit here and there in quest of amuse.
 ment in the dance hall. card club or the
 ater. If I had my way In this United
 States I would destroy every drop o | liquor and then tear up every dance slool
 in the country, for next tO the whiski
 problem stands the dancing evil.
 There are three general reasons, in my opinion, for the great number of d
 vorces in this country. Because the aver | age man is such a scoundrel in the day
 of his youth that he Is not fit to marry
 a woman, the average woman ent err
 into marriage with a keen dislike of tn,
 restraint it involves and she keeps hiddel
 in her brain certain facts in her life tha
 she would not suffer to confide to he
 husband. The modern woman revels il
 books which paint sin in a gilded palace
 in plays that portray a violation of tn
 marriage vows dressed in attractive garl
 and In moving picture shows that mak,
 light of the most sacred things In tn
 world. My friends, upon you rests tn
 hope of the world. for great men max
 the civilization and great men alway
 have great mothers"