Evening journal., 1916-01-20
The Ideal Woman
Sermon Tabc nacc Last Evening BY Dr. Lyon.

cal health and strength. Why is it
that the hospitals and sanitariums
are crowded with weak and diseased
women? The more finely organized
the nature, the more easy il is to
get out of adjustment The demands
OF modern society are taxing the
strength and vitality of women to the
utmost Too frequently this impair
ed health of wives is due to the vices
OF husbands, and in my talks to men
/ never spare those fellows. But
many women sin against their own
bodies-they lead an abnormal and
unnatural life. My mother reared
fourteen children. and now at the
age OF ninety-One she is stronger
than many women not out OF their
tWentes. II has been the unwill-
ingness of many wives to assume the
responsibility Of maternity that is one
cause Of their weakness. II the ply
sical basis of our civilization is un-
dermined our nation must inevitably
perish. We're it not for the influx
OF the strong vigorous vitality Of
European women that has poured
into America during the last two gem
erations. / fear our native American
stock would show even a much more
marked deterioration than it has.
Society dissipation. late hours. ir-
regular and indiscriminate eating and
drinking have done so much to de-
stroy health. The drug habit is get
ting a fearful hold upon American
women. They desire to keen up the
pace in society, and resort TO stimu-
lants, with the horrible results that
we see evident on every hand. How
can we expect a strong healthy gen.
Grafton Of sons and daughters if the
women who are 10 be the mothers
are weak and pale and puny and dis
eased?
It is surprising that in this divine
description, which God gives to us in
this last chapter Of Proverbs Of an
( Ideal Woman. that he would stop
to say that she dressed we'll It has
been frequently said that woman is
/ just as old as she looks and no older.
II is a duty that every woman owes
to herself and to others to dress just
as well as she can afford. BY this !
do not mean extravagantly. Some can
be garbed in silks and satins and
look as though they had Just been
dragged through a mudhole, while
others can put on q gingham gown
and look neat and attractive. wife
you ought never to allow any other
woman to he any more fascinating
and pleasing in appearance to your
husband than you are. Many wives
when their husbands come home from
work. are wearing an old, soilet
dress. and they look slovenly and
slatternly. Yet when they go out into
/ society they will be very careful tC
/ appear neat and tidy. Then they
wonder why they are losing the re.
spect and affection of their husbands
Dress ought TO be made one of tn,
fine arts. an aesthetic. the same a,
music or painting. In the past thii
has been relegated to the milliner
and dressmakers OF Paris. who. /
seems. have not so much considerel
appearance as they have schemes Il
increase expense.
II is time that someone registers
vigorous protest against the moder
! woman's dress, or rather undres.
{ Many women appear in society an
! on the streets with scarcely enoug
clothing on TO be worth mentioning
Their dresses have been abbreviate
at both ends. II seems that societ
has gone mad in its desire to Sc
who could cncroach the farthes
across the border Of respectable
and decency. One chief cause o
the epidemic Of social impurity. tina
has swept over our country in th
last five years. can be directly trace
10 this immodesty in dress.
We perceive also that this idea
, Woman described in the scripture.
no gossiper or scandal monger.
says. "She openeth her mouth wit
wisdom II the conversation cai
b ried on in many woman organization
p and societies were recorded on
, phonograph tablet or printed in th
J., newspapers. more than one creatur
would want to hide her head j
| shame. The society columns of Il
l newspapers say that Mrs. So and S
has loft the city. or given part.
T or has done this or that. but as Go
@ has her name down on the Judgmcr
e / Books. perhaps she is called simpl
I ! a long tongued old gossip.
{ We arc told also in this scriptul
( delineation that the Ideal Woman
D a good housekeCper "She looket
s well to the ways of her household
4 I believe that if were the husban
OF some women it would almost dri,
r me to drink Their houses look ;
= though a cyclone had struck ther
n While ! do not excuse men for spen,
{. ing their evenings away from HON
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