| Show womans comans Wo mans needs JW mimi emily faith fulls farewell adze address sa in ameriba america no xo woman says tzvi vo when the right man uan appears mormonism the only onty cure for redundant femininity steinway hall was filled yesterday afternoon with an audience in in which ladies ladles largely predominated gathered to hear the forewell address of miss emily faithfull the tile platform was taken by members of and by many friends of the movement for the advance of woman the rev bev dr bellows opened the exercises by apologizing in behalf of miss Faithfull for the omission of the short concert that had been announced he spoke briefly of miss faithfully falth Faith fulls fulPs services service s and alluded to the presence oil on the platform of lucretia J mott she thereupon rose and expressed her unwillingness to take up time which properly belonged to miss faithfull whose persistent and noble efforts in a good work deserved the tribute of the presence of so large a number to express reg regard gard and respect in every enn eff effort ort to advance woman and to open abundant nn t avenues for her progress she had bad accomplished much mrs mott proceeded with reminiscences of the earlier days of the movement for womans comans rights miss faithfull oil on rising was greeted with an earnest welcome and for an hour thereafter claimed the strict attention of her hearers whose approval was shown by frequent ripples of applause when she reached america in october last she had not expected to find it so very hard to my say farewell in the following april from tile the moment of landing she had been the reci recipient plent of the kindliest kind liest hospitality and now that the time iad lad irad come to sever the ties which manifold and strong bound her to america and americans she felt too much regret to trust herself to give expression to her emotions and gladly recalled the object of meeting the subject on which slie slip was to speak had received unmerited abuse and its agitators had been charged with trying C to set women against men the movement truly arises from the deepest sympathy with men with their noblest efforts and best aspirations it is a war of principles and in it men and women are deeply interested there are three great subjects at present exciting england forstthe first the relations of labor to capital second pauperism third theroman the woman question the last taken in its broadest sense was to be the theme of bf the speakers utterance on this occasion she would not appeal to chivalry and compassion but to justice and good sense in england there are now nearly three million women dependent on their own exertions to tell such as these that womans comans proper sphere is home is mockery for they arc are forced from their homes to get bread though many a barrier to womans comans livelihood had been broken down there are still terrible difficulties in finding employment for women specially onerous is tiie tile effort in the case of those of fallen fortunes members of the tile genteel classes to IN relieve such suell miss faithful had founded a fund funa for desti tute tufo go gentlewomen omen to which she would devote the proceeds of the lecture true it is that young merd meri now find it liard hard to get suitable work they often have to go west but there is no analogy awne amne them to tile the wholesale yearly destruction truc tion of consciences bodies and duls duis souls among women destruct destruction lon too oo 00 often brought about by destitution how can tenderhearted tender hearted peo their hands while BO so many of their sisters sister are driven to the gates brats of hell liell by want vant yant of bread statements are published that capable women willing to work world can get employment at good wage wages S good steady skilled labor is wanted unjust in just those departments where women have gained position the unremitting earnest application required to acquire skill skin in these I 1 departments is hard for women to go through in them love of lof wor work k for its own sake is no more inore inherent thau than in ill men i moreover women fird are always alway look ing for the appearance appearance of the po possible 1 I emancipator men have nothing but their work to look to for dependence the tile greatest evil of all is the lack of the right early training and for this the tile family the parents society in gener almust almust be impeached society casts a stigma on women who earn own livelihood and parents that their daughters may never brought brou glit gilt so low As to education a girls training stops just where the main part of a boys begins men are allowed full opportunity to devote themselves to their choser work and are not diverted by social demands women are at the beek beck and call of everybody as it were w ere and have havo so many society duties so many distracting little trifles to attend to wonder is liot not that there lias has not been ben a female shakespeare raphael newton but that women have done so much the problem what we shall shail do with our redundant women in england is answered by some philosophers by proposing emigration and marriage but emigration has already been tried and scotch english and irish women have h ave been sent to australia and america Alfi erich in large numbers without much diminishing mini shing the gravity of the problem I 1 while as for in marriage arriage there is yet to be found the woman to say no when the right man appears As long as the number of women in great britain exceeds that of the number of men by six per cent marriage will not wholly do away with the difficulty unless mormonism is tried true ni arriage marriage is the tile crown and glory of a aw omans life but it ausile musile must be foun founded dedon on love and not on the desire of a home or of sup port sort while nothing ean can bo be more debasing and corrupting than the loveless lovele ss marriages brought about ia ir our upper society by a craving ambition and a longing for a good settlement loveless marriages randa sanda and a different standard of morality for men and women are the curses of modem society the dignity of labor is not yet properly appreciated f we agree that work is honorable in a man but are not yet convinced that idleness is dishonorable ina lna in a woman A contempt for work is at the bottom of the mind of a fashionable young lady frivolity ia is so general that it is surprising that so much good survives in spite of neglect so long as we frown down and sneer at the efforts to enlarge womans comans ap sphere liere we are encouraging 0 frivolity and idleness in women we hear the interests and rights of women spoken of as if these could be separated from those of man manas as if men and women were creatures of a different kind A most common and mischievous error is that which would make woman the mere shadow and attendant of her lord as if a shadow could be a true helpmeet we have long heard the mails mans sphere is the world womans comans is home but women have a part in the world too while men are not ciphers in the home circle the speaker protested against setting up lip an ideal standard and recognizing no womanliness but such as conformed to that standard the material need of opening fresh avenues to woman is obvious the monal moral necessity 1 is also of the utmost importance women must have such occupations as will give I 1 e them true and genuine sampat sympathies lies lles with their fathers husbands and who are toiling tolling day by day for their support while the women dependent on oil them them are wearing out the trying to kill 1111 time in this tilis way a wide gulf constantly expanding is opened between men and women the 8 speaker k 0 r then inveighed inveigh ed against ga the undue extravagance of dress which so 60 demoralizes upper society who supply the means for this extravagance extravagance and admire the in considering the admission of women to suffrage slie she tho thought tight that politics and election beering might be purified rifled for their participation she recounted a conversation with horace greeley one she stated who must be held in respect and veneration by the whole country in answer to ills liis eli eil enquiry as to the reasons english women had for wishing a part in politics she mid that they had reason to complain of three great hardships first the great educational endowments left by their ancestors for the use 0 O of f both sexes are confined to the benefit of boys thus chils Chris christa td hospital in ill london yearly educates 1200 bot boc boys boss ya and only twenty ys girls S second the property of women is is under the husbands control third and hardest of all landlords will not have women tenants tenant 8 because they tiley want voters miss faithfull faith Falth full fuli proceeded to discuss the arguments for and against woman suffrage at consider erable length and closed her address by showing the I 1 imperative in pera pena tive need of wom vom womans comans anys auls aid in the reform of prisoners in the improvement of the criminal classes in less loss lessening ening ehing 0 the evils of factories where young youn g children are aro finally and chiefly in the formation of suell such a public sentiment as will welcome every effort for the good of man and woi wol woman idan and will oppose that worship of mammon which now holds such universal sway nem new york Tri tribune buhe bune april 4 |
