Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1911 — YOUNG MAN IS “HEN MINDED” [ARTICLE]

YOUNG MAN IS “HEN MINDED”

Pastor Says Wealthy Members of Fair Bex Refuse to Exchange Riches or Barter for Titles. Chicago.—The American young men, and not the young women of today, are the ones who are becoming “hen minded,” declared the Rev.~ Percival H. Barker, pastor of the Maywood Congregational church, in an address before the Hull House Woman’s club. Dr. Barker placed the average American woman of wealth upon a high plane, picturing her as a woman of ambition and intellectual attainments. He said the women who were a peril to the American home were those who have a champagne tastg with only a beer income. The minister took Issue with Prof. McLaughlin of the University of Chicago, who in a recent magazine article, condemned women of wealth for indolence, and lack of ambition. “The ordinary woman ot jwealth refuses to exchange her wealth or barter her name for empty titles. She would rather live with a plain ordinary American with no title except his manhood; no castle except his character, and no wealth except a strong right arm and a true heart; would rather dwell with such a man in a shack over which waved the stars and stripes than live with any prince, count or no account in some lordly castle filled with dusty portraits of a defunct ancestry. “Lincoln pleaded with women to uphold the. home, the school, the church and the political meeting. He saw that woman had ft. high mission in life to serve. Lincoln gave his mother great credit when be was praised for his goodness and his attainments. “We have few women who are *hen minded,’ and 'we can see a greater

peril in the lack of intellectuality among our young men. It is truest to say of many young men of today that they are ‘hen minded’ and are ‘slaves of pleasure.’ “Unless men awaken the latent powers within them we will rapidly come to an age devoid of heroism and power among men.”