Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 99, 29 February 1912 — Page 8

THE RICHMOND PAIIAIIUSI AX1 OUW-TELJiGIlAlI, TOURSDAY FEBRUARY 3, 1012.

EXTRAOnOliJflRY SESSION OF BIBLE CLASS

John D. Rockefeller, -Jr., and His Sunday School Class Discuss Woman.- She Must' Do the Proposing and Have Straight Hips.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. When 1 went to Sunday-school," Mid the other person, "we repeated the Golden Text and recited the Psalma In concert." . "Don't they do that now?" Inquired the cynic. "Not according to the thins you read In the papers," said the other person. "Listen to this " The Ideal girl was defined by the Jtotkefeller Bible class of the Fifth Avenue Baptist church In the second of the series of its discussions on "the facts to be known about engagement and marriage." "'The class prefers a girl with Straight hips and of .good form, but nothing was said as to any preference for blond ness or brunettes.' "Isn't that a queer thing for a Sunday school class to discuss?" "Why It Isn't nice!" interrupted Sal. - "Oh, my dear Sal," expostulated the cynic, "in this day of realism and scientific exposition you must cast away tbore Inherited traditions " "Traditions!" excalmed Sal. "I don't

know wnetner tney re traditions or not. Dut when it comes to Sunday schools I'm conservative. I don't think Sunday school Is the place to discuss female anatomy." "Where better," said the cynic. "Here are a lot of masculine ingenues, guileless snd Innocent of the ways of the w.'ckcd world. It Is not better to fortify them with accurate diagrams ot the Ideal fair one than to spend the time Idly prattling the Psalms or ineaninglessly orating the Golden text". "Ingenues!" Jeered the other person. "Rather sophisticated ingenues. Hear this," she reads "The Ideal Rockefeller girl Is set forth In the following table: " 'She should do the proposing, have

straight hips, be well formed, be healthy, go to bed early, have mental qual ,lty, be modest, have high ideala, attend lectures, resd good books, like serious plays, admire the opera, have good table manners, avoid flirting, have social ambitions, have distinct purposes, avoid -good times, abhor finerr, be homelike, love babies, study nan's nature." ; "I still maintain," insisted the cynic, "that they are Ingenues they wouldn't be attending Sunday school If they weren't." he grinned. "I don't think Sunday schools were Invented for old - people," said Sal. They're all right for children the fa la t thlnlr all ohIUnn nis'lit tn vn

It supplies the place of the religious discipline they used to get otherwise. It Instructs them in" You're-talking Mae w -teacher's In'etitute." said. the cynic. a "Oh; that's all right. Sarah.'! said the other person, "but that lant what we're talking about. 1 maintain ' that discussing sex problems at Sunday school Is an abomination. The Idea of those1 men sitting round on the Sabbath day . saying that women ahould conform to the advertisements of the new corsets." , "In the name of my sex, I must protest" Interrupted the cynic. "Tour protest amounts to nothing." said the other person, "and. besides, was :made with frivolous Intent

' you're never serious," she added severely. . : "Will no one come to my rescue," murmured the cynic. "Sarah my Sarahwill thou sit by and hear me thus lambasted and brow-beaten?" ; "Don't fall back on me when you get Into a holer' said 8arah some what cryptically. "Besides this isn't your day a man who will support other men in the position that these Bible class creatures have taken deserves no sympathy." ' "I should say not," cried other per- - son. "It makes no difference whether tou admit It or not, when the men 'agreed on the straicht-htoDed sirl thev

were boosting the latest thing in corsets. I read all about It in the Sunday papers." "Everything seems to happen on Sunday," whispered the cynic. "Maybe." said Sal. "Rockefeller had some sort of an agreement with the manufacturers. By instilling a love for straight hips in his Sunday school class, the sale of their corsets would naturally be augmented." "I wish you 'wouldn't use such imposing words." murmured the cynic. "'Augmented!' However, you practically admit that the women play up to the men since you say that the corsets would go off like hot cakes after reports of the Bible-clss conference were sown broadcast." "I admit nothing," said Sal. 'Men have to take women as they find them. Women dress according to the fashions not as dictated to by the men." "How do you account, then, "said the cynic, "for the fact that all the great dressmakers are men?" "Because Its profitable,"' said the

other person. "They do It for money what most people do everything for." "Well, anyway," said Sal. "I think its perfectly disgusting for these pillars of society for presumably they are or they wouldn't be attending Sunday school should say that it is the women's place to propose and that she must have a good figure. "Why, In .heaven's name, are the women being eternally discussed. Why fahould conventions and caucuses be held to map out programs for her deportment and sit in judgment on her virtues and defects. Why should she be hauled up before the bar and lectured and rowed nnd jawed for what she does or does not do. "Why don't some women's Bibleclass prepare plans and specifications for the ideal man and give It to their press agent. "Its insulting that's what It Is," cried Sal. "The idea of putting it in the papers that the women should propose." said the other person. "Certainly superfluous," Interpolated the cynic. . "Since everybody knows they do it nnyhow." "How dare you!" cried the other person. "Brute!" glared Sal. "Still," said the other person, "it la the truth that most .of the women who get married do It by running a man into a corner and executing a matrimonial holdup." . "Oh, yea," said Sal, "they can t get out' of it." "The thing I admire about women," cried thCynkL la their extreme agility in flopping from . one position to another." "And that list of qualities." deployed Sal sidestepping the cynic's last observation. "Even if she must have straight hips why should she have to attend lectures snd have distinct purpores? What, In heaven's name, is a 'distinct purpose? "Maybe Its to get married," grinned the cynic. "Distinct purposes are often very disagreeable," went on Sal. "A woman might have distinct purposes that would drive n man to drthk then he'd be sorry he put it in the papers. "And T don't see why she should go to bed early," said the other person. "Sometimes she may have to stay up late so that she can be 'hpmelike' and welcome her husband when he returna after a heavy session down town. "And surprise him by her 'mental

quality' when she Interrogates him as to the necessity of- staying at the office all night." "Well." said Sal maliciously, "he csn reply that he has been attending a 'serious play.'" "That is about the time, she should puil that 'avoid good times' speciflca- ' ion on him," said Sal. "and tell him how strong she has been on that. She could also point to the fact that while she 'admires the opera' the hasn't had a chance to put It into practice." "Yes." cried. the other person, "how mad bft'd be. Men expect women, when they get married, to become slaves and hermits. But they expect to act just as they please enjoy the emoluments of matrimony while retaining the perquisites of bachelordom." "What are the emoluments of matrimony?" idly Inquired the cynic. "Being grouchy as you feel and flinging things round." said Sal. "Rut the complacence and egotism of the mascucline animal." she went on. "Saying we should have good table manners!" "Do they think we eat grass like Nf buchadnezzer?" exclaimed the other person. "But the funniest thing of all," cried h1, "is his solemn advice to 'study men's nature! ' " "Ha! Ha!" grimaced the other person, "poor simple Idiots!" "Plainly this is not the place for me," said the cynic reaching for his hat. "You women know too much."

Scientists Announce Position . Regarding Medical Inspection

The Palladium of the issue of Feb. 26th contained an article stating that the action of the Richmond school board, providing medical inspection of children In the public schools, was objectionable to the Christian Scientists and that they would enter a protest against the order. The information on which the Palladium based its article came '"from an active member of the local Christian Science church, however the statements made by this member are objected to by other members of the church. Today the follow. Ing communication from R. Stanhope Easterday of Indianapolis was received by the Palladium:

Here Is a message of hope and good cheer from Mrs. C. J. Martin. Boone Mill, Va., who is the mother of eighteen children. Mrs. Martin was cured of stomach trouble and constipation by Chamberlain's Tablets after five years of suffering, and now reconij mends these tablets to the public ' Sold by all dealers. I

"Jack In the Box Islands. It Is said that the natives of the Aleutian islands have given the name "Jack In the Box Islands" to the curious chain that extends out toward Asia from Alaska. They are like stepping stones laid for a giant in tbe ocean by which he might tread the sea drysbod. A writer in the Philadelphia Ledger says that tbey may perhaps be used some day as the Florida keys are used, as the support of a seagoing railroad, with the widest gaps covered bv railroad ferryboats. These Islands appear and disappear in a curious way in connection with tbe activity of Bogoslof. a small volcano that Is among them. Fire Island appeared in 1SS3. Perry Island In 1905. MeCnllongb peak in 1000. but disappeared the uext year. Another island became visible In 1909. Christian Science Monitor.

A Robber's Real Terror. The only really satisfactory burglar alarms are living ones.' and tbe best of all Is a crying baby. No man will enter a house or remain In one if he hears a baby crying, for tbe simple reason that he knows that some one will be about. The small dog. we may add. Is also a burglar alnrm. and there la a story told of Sir Walter Scott and a burglar. The author of "Waverley" bad defended a veteran cracksman, and In gratitude be gave his counsel a little advice. It ran something In this way: "You are n rising sun. but I am going down. Tbe best way to frighten housebreakers Is to have a small dog about. He'll always be on tbe alert and Is better than the ordinary watchdog." London M. A. P.

Languages In Switzerland. Of tbe various languages that are used in Switzerland 09 per cent of the Inhabitants speak German, 21.2 per cent French. 8 per cent Italian, while 1.1 per cent speak Romanian, an old language spoken by mountaineers on the Italian and Austro-IIungarian frontiers, and 0.7 per cent speak other languages.

Editor of Palladium: A local Item In your issue of the 2Cth under the caption "Scientists are to Ignore the Ruling." reports that members of the local Christian Science church have decided as a body to oppose medical inspection of children in the Richmond schools, etc. There has been a very grave misunderstanding somewhere. Upon investigation I find that no such action was taken by the Christian Science body in Richmond, no general discussion of the situation was entered into and there seems to be no reasonable foundation whatever for the report. The report, moreover, does very grave Injustice to Christian Scientists, because it is characteristic of the Christian Science following that, as organizations and as individuals, they make special effort, in full oomformity with their high moral standard, to be law abiding and to conduct themselves in the community in all ways best calculated to conserve the highest interests of ail. The question as to the advisability of regular and general medical Inspection in our schools being of sufficient magnitude to justify our assembly in making school inspection optional instead of compulsory, and the fact that all school authorities have not felt justified In establishing medical inspection, coupled with the further fact that liberal exemption has been provided in districts where inspection has been made a ruling, and In as much as such inspection has proved to a large extent and among all classes of people more or less objectionable, it is possible that individual Christian Scientists along with parents of other medical faiths are exercising their legitimate prerogative and requesting of school authorities exemption for their children for one reason and another. The fact that children generally seem to revolt against the numerous onwholsome phases of such regular inspection, and the extreme measures that pave already been deemed necessary Un point of forcing timid children to submit, in other instances very compromising - situations being forced Upon children. Irrespective of age or sex, by Internes and younger and usually inexperienced men of the medical profession, are ail calculated to cause a tendency tq general remonstrance. Christian Scientists reasonably contend that a aafer and more, wholesome course In such matters would be to seek for health rather than for dis

ease in themselves and in their children and they attempt to creat, in the impressionable minds of the young, not the fear and anticipation of disease, but a wholesome, buoyant, normal sense of health, physical, menta. and moral. In other words, the Christian Scientists logically tries to "overcome evil." not with the- supposed counter evil, but according to our Lord's admonition "with good." anc that primarily in "thought," but con sequently In "deed." Such a method moreover, of "conserving the health' entails for more than the mere exciting of exercising of "imagination," but means practical and rational "education," in the loftiest sense of the latter term, and conduces potently to physical, mental and moral wholeness.

J Ere the consumption, however, of such I ideal of education. Christian Scien

tists and others will doubtless be called upon to make reasonable concessions in the face of limited spiritual progress and there will be reasonable

i consideration on the part of all for the views of others. Christian Scienjtlsts will not, therefore, in the mean

time Tiold out against the ruling" of medical inspection, but will reasonably handle the matter in the light of individual circumstances and conditions and with due regard for the views and Interests of others Sincerely, R. Stanhope Easterday.

Need For a Bishop. There used to be a New Zealand newspaper, in which statements frequently appeared tbat were vary, very far from the truth. Sir Joseph Wsrd met tbe editor one day. "Have you s bishop on your staff?" he asked. "A bishop!" the editor exclaimed. "No. I haven't." "Yon onffht to have one, yoa know," Sir Joseph said earnestly. "But why. on earth should I have a bishop?" asked the agitated editor. "Because, my dear sir," Sir Joseph explained smoothly, "many of your newspaper's statements need confirmation so badly

The federal government owns fiftyfive bird reservations in different parts of the United States.

DISTORTED JrtlSTORY. Nepeteon's Downfall as Recorded hi Russian Textbook. Reasons of church, state or other policy have frequently caused tbe scholars of one country to tamper wltb tbe history of another with which It has been intimately connected. A curious Instance of such a distortion of French history was that found in a Russian textbook used in all Russian public schools .and edited by a great Russian scholar. Ilovaiski. The following nay be cited as an il lustration: "Loots XVI. was a good and peaceful king. After a Ions and famous reign in which he was most happy in his -boice of minister of finance he died luletly In 1'arU. beloved by all bis people. His death was caused by a hemorrhage. "The successor of Louis XVI. was his son. Louis XV11. During his reign the brave royal army commanded by General Napoleon Bonaparte captured tbe larger part of the European coutlnent for the French crown. But tbe faithless Napoleon showed tendencies toward misusing his power and was suspected of harboring dishonest schemes against the legitimate ruler. Wltb the help of his majesty the emperor snd autocrat of all tbe Russia, his plans were frustrated, and he was deprived of ail bla possessions, honors and rights to a pension. He was then exiled to the Island of St. Helena, where he died." Chicago Record-Herald.

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