The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1896, Page 17

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1596 Sheuly N M2y i TP<\HERE bas been a reaction of sen-) | timent since our mothers and | grandmothers knelt before the al- | tar and bl ngly promised to | “obey” their husbands. The first of the new women, or such of | them as chanced to take the marriage vow, objected to the word. “Itwas a relic of | " they declared, and they in- | ated & campaign agaipst the an- | that has almost resuited in 1!:] sm nstance, the views of some | sco’s representative preach- | ers Dr. W. W. Case, pastor of the Howard- street M dist Church, is nothing if not emp % We not require a vow of obedience,’” | “The women wouldn’t keep it, w, so what's the use. We avoid | vthing that is unnecessary. Besides | 4 matter of principle with us. Woman | ade from man’s rib in order that she | walk by his side. | is abominable to ask a woman to | bey the man just as it would be to ask a | man to obey a woman. The effect of s & promise would be to stulitify woman. de ‘What ao I think of ‘Paul’s advice'? That it is misunderstood.’ | The posi of Rev. W. P. Boynton, | f the First Baptist Church, woulc assume obligations to ot men should,” he said word but once in performir v, and that was when a nice little sked me to do so. believe in a common purse in the I believe in comnvlete confidence home. there, that the wife should have no secr: om the h' \oaymous with rse made to the wi. » c of the da: fe. d the old mar- t to the phrase- id Mr. Smith, s that his bride ay zing her to obedi- rd as a coward. ng for g Teasons, , why a ympelled to prom- I know Paul isthe for such advice as ve to your husbands,’ lencein the churches.’ as anold bachelor, as one of the most intellectual men of be could not rise entirely | ces, one of which was | ould live in seclusion. | nore, it was a mattey of policy,for | n asserted any of the independence | ght and action that characterize | stian woman of our day the pagans | would have pronouncea them of th the C I cannot say- that the Presbyterian | church is a unit in the matter. In fact Dr. Hodge's manual, which isan authority | to many of my ministerial brethren, in- cludes the word ‘obey’ in its form for the | e ceremony and a good many still | The form of marriage in vogue for so iong a time and which is being superseded | ® adopted by the churchesand | v the ministers, is not up to the | the present,” said Rev. W. D. | of Plymouth Congregational a candidate for wifehood se it, or rather if she insists | n it I do, but I am averse to it. Itwill | )t bear the fire of criticism. It was de- | ned for the time when people lived like | attle, not for this age of enlightenment. ‘For irstance, that form requires a wife | all others and cleave unto her v ot intend that my | iers in the sense of | By no means! | ea L it of a vow she would be Ilike the new 1y of me. and its modifica- l WO D .Nhe ni 5&!‘5 say |a %ig}f be tions, for they convey no hint of unworthi- ness of either man or woman and no ten- dency to keep either down.” *You ask, Should a woman promise to obey?’ said Rev. Hobart Chetwood. *‘Now, did you ever hear of the man who id promise o ‘obey? Never? Weil, it's afact. A university professor living not a hundred miles from here promised to ' obey his wife. I can answer for the prom- ise, if not for the performance. < *“You see, the clergyman who officiated | at the wedding ceremiony was exceedingly absent-minded. He had one of his guent lapses while he was joining the pair. | He repeated the proper formula for the | ‘A mice little woman asked me to use the word in her marriage service,” said Rev. M. P. Boynton. er to take such | “Reverence includes obedience; therefore while we do not use the lesser term in the service the greater one absorbs and implies it,” said Bishop arrade .Service! arriade US@@X | | | | groom unil he came to the final clause, | when to the consternation of the gentle- | man he added the words ‘to obey.” T bridegroom faltered and was dum pause became painful. “To obey, the clergyman interrogatively. The groom grew nervous. *To obey, said the clergy- man the third time. The uniortunate man looked appealingly at the clergyman, | but the faraway look in the good man’s eyes sent his spirits to the freezing point. ‘Oh, very well, then, ‘to obey,” he | ed. The bride made the same promise hout any hesitancy. The guestslooked politely unconscious, and the clergyman | was blissfully ignorant of the blunder | “Catholic brides do mot obey,” said Father “I would refuse to ceremony if she refu: Nichola: said Rev. | lic marriage until his wife made bim aware of it after they reached the seclusion of their home. ! “Seriously speaking,”’ continued Mr. Chetwood, | “I would refuse to marry a couple if the bride would refuse to obey. It is a part of the church ritual and I would bave no right to omit it. One l of our clergymen turned away from the altar and left ‘a couple unwedded, because of such a show ofso-called independence on the part of a would- be bride. We consider Paul’s words to women were mandatory, not ad- visory, and that they hold ‘gooa now as in the days of their utterance.” rides do not prom- ise to obey in the Catho- service, said Rev. H. H. Wyman, the chief of the Paulist fathers. *You are sur- prised; neverthelessit is true. Oh, yes,” he said, smiling, ‘‘we are more liberal than they of the Episcopal faith. Our service is precisely the same in the language | “It is a relic of like cattle,” promise to Wyman. perform the sed to obey,” Hobart Chetwood. “A Jewish matrimonial union is one of equality,” said Rabbi Jacob Voorsanger. e \\\‘ the time when people lived said Rev.W. D. Williams. ““ My experience for twenty-five years has been that woman is generally and unqualified!y opposed to the word obey,” said Rev. A. J. Wells. “It is abominable to ask a woman to obey a man,” said Rev. W. W. Case. “Obedience has its limitations, course,” said Rev. H. S. Tanner. of “It is a relic of the dark ages,” said Rev. J. Cumming Smith. | creation, that the earth n | confidence and love re | bride is asked. *Is it your firm | cludes obedience,” said Bisho, addressed to the bride and groom except as to gender.” “The custom of requiring a promise of obedience from a bride arises from New Testament teaching,” said Rabbi Voor- sanger. “No such vow was ever included in the simple wedding service of the jews, aservice that unites a man and woman on a plane of equality.” *“The old or so-called orthodox branch of the Lutheran church insists that a bride shall promise to obey her husband, but the liberal does not,” said Rev. J. Fuendelir astor of 8t. Mark’s Lutheran Church. ave never used the word in our ritual either in this country or rope. “The scriptural injunction may have been a necessary precautionary measure at the time it was pronounced, but does not apply in this age of civilization. 1 o not | like to think of marriage as the bondage or servitude that a vow of obedience implies. It should bea relation characterized by tenderness.’’ Rev. A.J. Wells, pastor of the Second Unitarian Church, said the use of the word “obey” in the marriage service was ‘‘repugnant to manly feeling.”” | “My experience for twenty | that woman is generally and ung opposed to the use of the word obe | marriage service. My own custom has been all my life to 1 out. It is re- pugnant to manly feeling, i. e.,to a true reverence for woman. [t isa relicof atime gone by, when woman was either a toy or aslave, when man considered her insome sort his property. Perhaps a relicof that bygone time remains in the language of ignorant men—a Southern phrase, [ think it is—My woman.” As to woman’s posi- tion, 1t is not wholly due to the Bible. Early Christianity taught woman subjec- tion. ‘Let her learn in silence in all sub- jection,’ Paul said. It was not until Chris- tianity found Greex refinement on its way to the West and met there the superior reverence for woman among the Tentonic races that Europe began to show her due respect. “Both human slavery and the subjection of woman can be vindicated by the text of the Bible and the practice of early Chris- tianity. The new woman is the producer forces, and while in some forms h she appears to-day she is not | wholly lovable these extremes will pass. | Steadily she is securing her rights and | assuming her privileges, and as she does so_some of the evils of our social, indus- | trial ana political life will disappear.”” | _ The views of the Mormons or Latter-day Saints on the question were voiced by | Henry S. Tanner, the president of the | California division of that church. | The sect employs the mooted word in its | ceremony, and President Tanner justifies | its use in thiswise: “We believe the mar- | riage covenant is eternal, through the holy | spirit of promise, and 1f the contracting persons have proverly complied with all the requirements the Lord makes of them they are bound together forever. As Christ is bound to the church and the | ehurch to him, so the man is bound to the | woman and the woman to the man. By | mutual consent Christ stands at the head | of the church and the man at the head of | the family, its strength and support. We do not consider it arbitrary power on the part of Christ to require obedience from the church because we have willingly ac- cepted him as that head, knowing him to | be kind and just and willing to protect his own. “‘So men and women should be consider- ate and make proper selections, that their obligations may be kept in righteousness and that reproach may not come upon the marriage relation. Marria is oraained of God unto mar for the purpose of pro- ight answer the in the end of its creation, ai the people. Something woman opeys her hus oppression. are failing obligations Bishov Nicholas, the chief authority at the Russo-Greek cathedral, says the new woman’s tabooed word is not used in the marriage service of the Greek church. The is wrong if a nd through fear or One or the other, or both, to comply with their sacred to take this man for your husba she replies in the native she is hether she “has avowed any other man."” There is no promise to obey 1n thoss vows, but in the prior charge of the offi- ciating priest she is told that she must reverence her husband. ‘‘Reverence in I cholas, ‘‘therefore, while we do not use the lesser term in the service the greater one ab- sorbs and implies it. In the Russian church it is regarded asa woman’s duty to yield obedience to her husband’s author- ity. My opinion as to the scriptural grounds for that belief? It is not a mat- ter of opinion. The command stands as it did the day it was written. Greek Cath- olics have not changed an iota of it, so there can be no mistake as to the intention of the writer. St. Paul is the authority on the subject. “The implication of obedience on the part of the wife occurs also in the prayer read be priest during the marriage service.” How PETE SALES MADE CAP- | ITAL OUT OF ACCUSATIONS NST HIS Ho NESTY. { Pete Sales, the butcher, is dead. At| least that is what all of his old friends and | ghbors say, and they ought to know. The sad event caused a feeling of genuine | regret in the vicinity of Broadway and | Montgomery avenue, where Pete had lived | for over a quarter of a century. | Years ago Pete was a prominent man, liked by everybody for his jolly good na- n eciation of a joke. He rkstore on the corner of Dupont streets, that was then the only | one in the neighborhood except those kept by Chinese. Pete did a fine business and his customers were always pleased, al- though it was whispered that he bad a habit of converting stray cats into the most delicious sausage, and circumstantial evidence tended to prove the fact. On one occasion a well-known newspa- per man caught Pete in the actof purchas- ing a number of half-starved cats from | some street urchin. He asked a few | pointed questions and found that Pete was | in the habit of buying all the cats he could | get. Furthermore, he was told that the | cats were keptabout the shop until they got fat, when they were killed and made into the finest grades of weinerwurst. Pete had even been heard to state that cat meat was superior to pork. It was whiter and had a finer flavor. be newspaper man published all the facts he had learned ina morning paper, | fully expecting that Pete would be in a rage on account of it. But instead he was pleased, and even looked upon the article as a zood advertisement. | Not long afterward Pete had a new sign | put on top of his building, that at once | became famous. People flocked from all directions to see it. The sign was gigantic | was not of the highest , 80 that it could be seen from the | street, and represented a butcher cutting off a cat's tail. The large cleaver had already passed through the animal’s candal | appendage, ana the butcher was smiling | grimly to himself. The cat was flying through the air on one side of the block and the dismembered piece of tail was falling to the floor on the other. Painted n one corner of the It was not a pleasing subject to a person of fine sensibilties, but Pete's customers thought it a work of art and spent hours in admiring it. The work on the picture tistic merit, but it brought Pete many new customers. The drawing was a little “off” and the color- ing crude, but the composition was ferci ble and told the story without any danger of being misunderstood, 5 . The sign remained on top of the build- ing until about six years ago when Pete. feeling that he had earned a long rest, re. tired from business. He sold all the fit- tings of his shop and then had the sign taken down so that he could break it up with his own hands. Pork MARKET. —= SAUSACES~ Ty S = St YOUNG WOMEN WHO WORK. Is Business Emplo Demoralizing to the Fair Sex? The fact cannot be disputed that no sin- gle factor in modern life is doing so much | to degenerate our young womanhood as | this mad race on the partof girls, impelled [ world. words to the ears of some, but to those who are really cognizant of the immensity of the evil results that are being wrought they will simply fit the case and not go beyond it. In altogether too many of our commercial and industrial establishments, stores and factories, the men into whose hands is given the power to employ and standpoint, to herd swine. | And yet thousands of our young women | are allowed to go from their homes to work under the influence of these men and in the atmosphere vitiated by them. | And why? Simply because it is consid- | ered more “respectable” to be emploved | in an office, store or factor, ap-d in domestic service. e very word ‘servant” has a taintabout it that the ma- joritv of young women dislike, and from ich they flee. But what else are they in business establishments than servants pure and simple? There can be no differ- ence but an imaginary one. Thatis all. Far less leniency is shown in 6ur business houses to.women employes than is shown, as a rule, in our homes to domestic help— infinitely less. : Itis the pot-and-kettle idea that seems so painfully unrespectable to thousands of young women and. perhaps, they are not so much to blame when one considers the depth to which the idea of domestic ser- vice has been allowed to sink in America. Just so long as the well-to-do parents of our country discourage the idea of house- hold knowledge in their daughters, as so many do, just so increasingly difficult will these same parents find it to secure good domestic servants for their homes, Make a thing undesirable to one class and you quickly make it unrespectable to another class. We all like to ape the ideas and manners of those whom we fancy to be a little above us in birth or station.” Here is where the great evil to domestic service has been done and is being wrought. It has been made purely ard lowly menial and the result is that youne women, com- pelled to earn their living, have sought other avenues, which, with their inexperi- ence, they fancy are more desirable or ele- vating.—Ladies’ Home Journal. e Our Ships the Best. The Vulcan, 6629 tons, with a radius of action of 12,600 miles at ten knots an hour, or 8000 at eighteen Knots, is regarded as one of the most capable ships in the British navy. Her French compeer is the Tage, 7255 tons, which has a radius of 6500 miles at ten knots. " The Italia, 15,000 tons, italy’s best ship, has a. coal capacity of 8036 miles at ten knots an hour. From this it will be seen that no European navy has any vessel that can compare with the Oregon and other vessels of the United States navy, which can steam 16,000 miles at ten knots an hour. ——————— Julian Hawthorne, the novelist, has sailed from Kingston, Jamaica, for Boston, ontrol girls are not fit, from a moral | | A GARDEN ON A WHARF. Pleasing but Unusual Sight on the | Banks of Oakland Creek. | Land is so plentiful in California that | such a thing as a garden on a wharf is a | most unusual sight. But there is one on | the banks of Oakland Creek, close to the Zn were the words: | by necessity or not, to go into the business | shipyards, and it gives a pleasing bit of | These may sound like strong | color to the practical and barren surround- | ings. The garden belongs to Mrs. McLaren, | wife of Al McLaren, the boat-builder. Al | has been there a long time, and once there | was no garden on the wharf where he | does his work. That was before he got | married and brought his wife to make her | home where he had made his for years. | The first thing Mrs. McLaren wanted was a garden, as she had been used to | flowers all her life. But there was ap- ! parently no place to make one, as all the | land about the house that was not covered | with boats in course of construction was | barren sand. She grew a few flowers | pots for a long time until the idea struck | her that a portion of the wharf could be | used for a garden. | Al accordingly hauled several wagon [ loads of good soil and spread it several feet thick over the place where it looked to Mrs, McLaren as if it would do the most good. The garden was a success from the start. The warm, moist airof the marsh was just what the flowers wanted, and they blossomed in great profusion. Mrs. McLaren has taken full charge of | the garden and done all of the work her- | self.” She has planted several palms that | have turned out well, and a number of | rosebushes that are always covered with | bright colored blossoms. ®he garden is | on the southern side of the house, and ex- | tends back over the waters of the creek. | A rustic seat has been built amid the | flowers, and on warm days the lady of the | house takes her sewing there and, as she | sa ‘“‘enjoys life.” Al says that he often es the appropriated portion of the | m | wharf when he has a certain kind of work | to do, but thinks that his wife has put it | to a better use than ever he did. THE GARDEN ON THE WHARF. \From a sketch by a *“ Call” artist.] THE GOLD PRODUOT. Likely to Be Larger Than Ever for the Next Fifty Years. - It is now evident that the production of gold for the next fifty years will be alto- gether unprecedented. This production has been vigorously stimulated by fresh discoveries of mines, by new and cheap mining processes and by the fall of silver, leading miners to pay greater attention to the other metal. The operation of the latter factor is best seen in Colorado, where the production of gold rose from $5,300,000 in 1892 to $7,527,000 in 1893 and to about $12,000,000 in 1894. The produc- tion for 1895 in Colorado is confidently ex- pected toreach $20,000,000. The Director of the Mint is of the opinion that the produc- tion of the United States rose from $33,- 014,981 in 1892 to about $39,500,000 in 1894, while other good authorities put the pro- duction for 1894 at $50,000,000. Theannual product of other great producing countries shows a large increase of late years. In bis notable article in the North American at the world’s s the largest amounting in round numbers to $1. 000.” The product for 1994, | howeyer, very largely exceeded—probably |'by 25 per cent—the product of 1893. There | is scarcely any assignable limit to the gold known to exist in the world, or even in the United States. It is said that | simply by the removal of the restrictions on hydraulic mining California can pro- duce’ half a billion of gold. The quantity | easily obtainable in Colorado is stupen- dous. Other paris of the United States are also rich, while Australia and Ru: ably possess a stock equal to our own, and are increasing the annual output every sear. But the most surprising and, so to speak, revolutionary facts regarding gold that have recently come to light are those concerning the great Witwatersraud mines of South Africa. There gold is found [in enormous quantities and in a cheaply Review Mr. Preston states | production of gold for 1893 | in kis | workable form in a new geological situa- tion—*‘in strata the component parts of which are pieces of quartz held together by a clayey cement.”—Popular Science Monthly. THE BEST PAID POET. 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