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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1980.

WOMAN'S PLACE

Her Influence in the World

INTERESTING LECTURE

"The place and influence of woman in the world" was the sub- ject of an interesting lecture given by Father R. W. Gallagher, S.J., at the St. Patrick's Club yesterday evening, a large number of mem- bers and friends being present.

slave conditions in which she was being

exploited when the agitation started.

It went too far, however, as it tried to make her in all things the equal of man. It endeavoured to bridge a gap of God's own making and snin jured as well as benefited the abject of its endeaVOUTS.

An Indirect Answer

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Impossible to reconcile the direct par- alono-give up everything to the win- ticipation of woman in political and ning of squls for God. No work is too parliamentary life with her predomin-mental if by doing it they can save a fant duty as a mother."

soul. there is no hope of earthly re- Woman's Place in the World ward. They cut themselves off from Has woman, then, no place in the that Ly their vow of poverty. What world? She has, and, in one way, it is they do they do for God. Nuna are to a bigger and more important place be found everywhere, directing souls, than man's.

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was unknown, the woman lived the life prominent Chinese official said quite from Mr. I HOI TUNG, Man- the helper, she cared for others, she school, it would be the saving of the ager. Mesars. Banker & Co., Bank for which she was croated: ahe was recently: "If every village had such was, in the home. With the com- country." If you wish, Ladies and of China Building, Queen's Road

Father Gallagher said: Though the which aims at Individualism: is

Blow NEW STUDENTS will be re- first tremors of the modern movement education on the wrong lines. Another her character. New avenues of plea-Revuo, where you see life as it is not, Offices of Messrs. Banker & Co., an dition went pari pass a change in hours, not in gazing at the Hollywood ceived by the Warden at the to improve the status of woman were thing which strikes one is the inconsure were open to her, the cinema, the but in visiting the convents of Hong Bank of China Ballding, Queen's felt as far back as the middle of the pleteness of the education offered. The dance-hall, the cabaret. What she can Kong, where you will see life as it Road C. on Friday, February 14, the last 10 years. that interest in the are neglected in the systera of state aspect of life which she does not realise ledge defent, could do what the nuns 17th century, it was not until within moral and spiritual training of the girls see for a few pence

the screen, anis. Only women, who never noknow at 9 a.m. question was really aroused.

Many education as now obtaining. Children to be hideously unreal, has made her of the world have done. names have been given to it, according are not educated, they are made learn-discontented with her lot, has ruined to the particular phase exercising ed. But learning is not the important her appreciRtlen of moral vatacs.

The Home: The vast majority of people's minds at the time. Writers. thing. It is but a very smal part of certain class of the modern girl eens tenchers or nurses. Only a chosen few

A women are not called to the chapters of education. To the absence of moral bent on having a good time and nothing are called by God to leave all and fol-HE Umiersigned have received

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PUBLIC AUCTION nowadays, group the agitation ukier the hending training in the State controlled educa-else. She is emancipated, and the low Him. The rest are called to the "Feminism."

tlonal establishments of the world must emancipation has ruisied her. One can Home. They are called to Motherhood. It is a movement to emancipate be attributed many of the sad things not blame the "Feminist movement al-It is woman, to give her, so its votaries say, which are happening.

together far that. The so-called ad-genoral way, entrusted the salvation of

thom that God has, in the most Auction her proper status. It was undoubledly

vance in eivilisation must share in tho the world. called for, beemise of the worse than

We read the lives of the is woman less intelligent than man? responsibility, and above all those who saints. We honour and admire them. shall answer that question indirectly. Fonder to the lowest instincts of man. Do we ever think of the mothers of the in the State. To mention but a few, unslushingly by girls, which but a Littis Flower is the glimpse we get of

Women have held the highest position not what it was. Books are now read things in the autobiography

Her sense of modesty and reserve is saints? One of tho

most beautiful Catharine

of Russia, Elizabeth and Victoria in England. Women have led short time ago would have been thrown her armies in battle, amongst others St. across a little allegory, which, like most mother's hand. Behind the sanctity of

father and mother. into the fire. Not long ago I came saint was

Yet every Joan of Arc.

at one time guided by a Wonen have shone in scientific research: Hertha Ayrton in allegories, contains a lot of truth. The the child is the influence of In pagan emintries, whether pre Electricity, Madame Curie, the Dis-levil wished to destroy the human race, mother. Christian or modern, the position of coverer of Radium, Caroline Herschell but found all his efforts frustrated. He army

Just as behind the great woman is completely subordinate. She was not far below her gifted brother hela consultation, and learned that priests and the nuns, behind the great of God's Church, behind the Is the chattel or property of man. She in her knowledge of the heavens. In mothers of the world. The only road the mothers who gave them the cour has no meaning beyond that. She has the field of Education the name of

of his failure were the and good man of the world, there are no right even in determining the Madame Montessori immediately sug-mothers. He was told that there was gave them the courage to be great and to success was the corruption of the age to follow the call of God, who most important event of her life. She gets itself. Many, in nedern times, no hope in tempting the mothers of the good, whose Influence made them what has no say in the disposal of herself. have done brilliantly In many cases, she is an unwanted courses, and we need not go outside young girls who would be the mothers

in University present, he must get to work on the they are. thing. to be thrown out birth. In Hong Kong to look for names the most polished civilisation of anti-which to prove

of the future. He must destroy their

A Mother's Sphera varying degrees, the Avon is the work of a woman, who won act hastily, lest they take fright.

Stratford-on-their sense of modesty. He must not in the saving of her child's soul, as The mother co-operates with Christ The woman was always under in open competition from a number of must introduce, little by little, a love tion. The souls of her children are an He she co-operated with God in its crea- the hard patria potestas of the man. well-known architects. Polygamy was the rule of the world.the Middle Ages women also won fame, less and less modes.

Far back in fer dress less and less becoming, then inviolable trust to her from God, and Divorce, for the most trivial reasons, and held chairs in Universities. was a matter of course, but it was the practised medicine. In fact there was serve will be gone, and their children, child first learns to speak with God, to formed that all Goods are being land-

They reach the age of womanhood their re-

When the girls she guards them with her life. The Steamship. right of the man, not of the woman.not a profession in which they did not trained by them, or fet run wild by know and lave Our Blessed Lord and ed at their risk into the hazardous It is at the mother's knee that the CONSIGNEES of Cargo are hereby in There was one moral code for the participate. woman, and another far the man. Mis- Therefore about the

them, will begin where they left off, His Mother. It is from the mother's and/or extra hazardous Godowns of sionaries in the pagan countries of to-woman I can say nothing. But to come and the object of his desire will be example that the little one learns to The Hong Kong & Kowloon Wharf & day are faced with the same difficul-down to generalities. All the parlia with books. It seems, Ladies and enre of the mother that it grows up.

achioyed. He must act in the same Way bo good. ments, cabinets, ministers of the queens Gentlemen, that he is very near his

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from the wharves delivery may be ob it all for granted. There are isolated themselves would never have sat upon the future, has sadly deteriorated in her fuence. His work to support the fami-Goods have left the Godowns, and all

tained. The father has no such direct in- scal. The modern girl, the mother of instances of where she turned the the throne had there been male heirs.

No claims will be admitted after the i tables, but history mentions no far- It is not because they were intellee-modesty and reserve. It is the result calls him away for many hours at Goods remaining undelivered after the reaching or successful revolt to alter tually inferior, but because the common of emancipation based on her condition. Custom became a habit, sense of the common people did not principal of individualism.

the false time.

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before the 26th inst., or they will not herself.

task of controlling a nation's destinies. For that she deserves all praise. She be happy with God for ever. It is on Goods are to be left in the Godowns, at home after her school days are over. nacle of an immortal soul, destined to

recognised. Perhaps still more remarkable is the

All brokon, chafed, and damaged France, with its slogan of "Liberty, same fact in the Republics of the World., on the whole, healthier and better you, mothers, that Ho has laid the where they will be examined or the than her sisters of not so many years charge of bringing it to heaven. But 11th inst. at 10a.m. by fears. Fraternity. Equality," has not entrust-ago. But she is exposed to dangers what a big responsibility it is, a respon Goddard and Douglas. raiseded its destinies to

which they did not meet and about sibility shirked by so many to-day. marriage to the dignity of a Sacrament. today, though it champions absolute which they knew nothing. Will she suc-How many mothers fail to superviso He abolished divorce, Man and woman in marriage were to form an in-seem to be making a really bad job of training she got in her carly days.

communism, is ruled by men. They cumb or will she win through the cut their children's education, especiallyed dissoluble partnership of morally equal it, and women would, perhaps, do bet-

some of the battle depends on the their religious education... For pure- ly worldly motives they expose their beings. In the sight of God man and ter, but they are not allowed to try.

Before I speak of the wonderful work children woman are equal: "For as many of

the risk of losing their im you as have been baptised in Christ, a number of books and went through strikes one most is prone to be unduly ly refusing to accept the gift, for For the general answer I got together that woman has done and is doing, I mortal souls. How many women will want to say this.. The thing which have to answer to God for deliberate There is the names of those who were doemod neither male nor female, for yo are all worthy of note in the great divisions stressed. Gorealisations which are not placing self before the immortal souls choose. I simply took the names as young woman, whose conduct deserves

I did not pick and justified are often made. The modern of their children. they came and counted. This is the censure, is in a very small minority. her trial. in Chicago. Before passing A young girl was recently standing she wished. For her social position result of my investigations. the most decisive factor was the teach-1-Antangst

Where is otherwise there would be very sentence the Judge asked her if she had. ing of the nobility of freely chosen Biologists I came across the name of ours. Most women, thank God, realise piled

of 87 lttle hope for this poor old earth of anything to say. "Yes," She re- virginity. Woman became the dis-one woman, Ellen Key, who developed their work in life and do it.

"I am what you say ... poser of herself. Elizabeth Gnauck Feminism through Biolegy. 1/87.

jan ulcer on society... I am what my

"BENAVON". Kuehne says: "The esteem of virginity ZOf 74 Explorers all were mon

mother made me." is the emancipation of the woman in 0/74.

We speak of people following a pro-

Consignees of Cargo are thereby in- formed that all Goods are being land- Here are the words of a graduate ined at their risk into the hazardous fession. the literal sense."

I shall mention five which 3-0 10 Thinkers (Philosophers, women follow. They are not all pro- "Of course I am delighted to win first The Hong Kong and Kowloon Wharf Another factor in the elevation of etc.) all were man. 0/70.

University, the son of a peor mother: and/or extra hazardous Godowns of fcasions in the technical meaning of woman is, the glory of Mary, the Mother of God. She, a woman, is the was one wanan, Sarah

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In her is whom we have to thank for the Tonte realisation of women's place in the honours mean a great deal to me, but Goods have left the God, war, and all Ann Glover, field of woman. But they are the everybody that it is to this brave little from the wharves delivery may be ob.

mother of mine that I owe all... My

tained. embodied everything perfect in virgin-Sol-Fa. 1/94.

No claims will be admitted after the world, they are the Roodgates through and motherhood. Respect for 5. In a list of 60 Chemists and her influence for good pours over the

am prouder of my mother than of Goods remaining undelivered after woman rise or falls with respect for Physicists Our Blessed Lady.

stands out, human race. They aro: Down the can- I Madame

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discoverer of Nursing, Prayer, Motherhood, Sanc Childhood Impressions

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be presented to the Undersigned on OF Immortalised its courtesy towards and amongst their number, Caroline Hersers, especially now since the use of the on how you lofluence them,

Teaching: Women make ideal teach will they say of you. It will depend be recognised

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All broken, chafed, and damaged 735 male Geologists hold the field have a way with chlidren that no man in your power to make then 12th inst at 10 am, by Messrs They your power to ruin their Aves. It is where they will be examined on the Goods are to be left in the GodOWAN, in striking contrast to the want of an all to themselves. 0/85.

can ever hope to rival. They under- Which is it to be? ideal. In pre-Christian paganlam and 8-Pioneers have the biggest pro. atand the child mind, for every woman

Goddard and Douglas. II. has got the mother instinct A good And lastly in the ranks of the saints, Ayrton in Electricity and Wave Motion: teacher with high ideals, is an untold are as many women as men. The nature of woman was not chang-Elizabeth Fry in Prison Reform: influence for good, and in that role all have sprung from all ranks of society, ed by the advent of Christianity. She Florence Nightingale in Nursing: over the world women are playing a and though they are now in heaven, still remained a woman, bat a woman Frances M. Bass and Madame Montes. Blorious part: elevated, ennobled, aupernaturalized.

they still by the example of their lives,' seri in Education: and Mrs. Sydney Nursing: A profession which re- and by their direct intercession with Webb in Social Reform

quires a saint to perform it properly. God, are influencing the world for good Let us return to my assertion that the authors of 4,000 books written on sympathy, infinite tact, an inexhausti- of time.

I then went through the names of It demands infinite patience, Infinite and will continue to do so till the end the feminist movement did harm those subjects, and found that 25 of ble fund of Enmour, absolute selfish- well as good. The line along which its the books were written by worden.

Woman is a great in the sight of nes. A nurso is born not made bat God as man la. Her influence in the to very small audiences in an Irish greatest effort was expended was the line of education. Up to the middle of as a rule, take no interest. Therefore her being,

These are subjects in which women, every woman is a nurse. It is part of things that really count is greater. Her town. the 19th century-though there were the small proportion did not surprise her gallest days. All over the world sense of throwing off all restraint, she

instinct in her from aim should be not emancipsilon in the the local residents how the theatre The manager asked one of many clever women education was me. But I was astonished at the re-to-day are hospitals where women Ja-should emancipate herself from all that considered a superfluity as far as sults of my tour through Musicians and bour for the comfort of the sick, with might lower her dignity. She should

was usually patronised. woman in general was concerned. The Artists. pioneer of the movement to rectify this peal to women and yet out of 69 great cription:

"Oh, not so bad, not so bad," was These are branches which ap-an influence for good that passes dea emulate in purity the Queen of the reply. "Sometimes it was: state of things was Frances Mary composers not one was a woman, of 48 Prayer: Acting on the words of Our God may send an did the Queen of empty.

Virgins, try to carry the crosses that half full and sometimes it was half of that modern composers of note only one wan agitation to-day. Everywhere there a woman, Mrs. H. H. Beach. Amongst globe, are women who have given up Amficted to those who seck her syn- Blessed iLded in every spot of the Martyrs, be a Comforter of the schools and colleges for girls the great Masters of Fainting and everything to follow Him. They come pathy, love her children's squis with a The universities are open to them, Sculpture there was not a single from the righ as well as from the poor, loyé as near as possible to the love a train, when a man though this was a later development woman's name. I cannot appak for the What they have left does not count, which Mary had for her Child. She foot.

A boxer was 'oit his way to catch, Missionary countries are also coming modem schools of Art for I could not they have left everything. The work should shine as an example to others der by the collar,

trod on his into line. The girl of to-day has the find a comprehensive list. I am not of all is not the same. Sono cut them in whatever calling she be, be it nun "Look 'ere," he said, "for two The boxer caught the offen- same opportunities as the boy.

denying that there have been and are selves of altogether from contact with teacher, nurse, or loyal wife and Here, however, we must pause and first class women musicians and the outaldo world. They are the con- móthis. Thus and only thur will pins and fifty per cent of the nek ourselves: "Has the movement artists. All I am asserting is that his templatives Their Ilves are spent in woman he really free, and take the Purse, win or lose, me naming the done the best it could?" It aims at giv-tory has failed to record their names intimate undan with God. The world place which God intends the should refered, I'd knock your blessed ead ing the girl the same education as the amongst those which have won world which does not understand the super take in this world and the next. boy. But the girl's destiny. Je not the renown same as that of the boy Education, It seems strange that, when queens members of society, and yet they do vargje natural, looks upon them as unclogg

Fort should be the process of developing in and great ladies were patrons of Art immense good. They win from God dividuals so as to enable them to fulfil and Music, a woman, if such existed, the Graces which enable ur who re their particular roles in the most who might have rivalled the great mass in the active life to-do His perfect way. There is an essenters, should have remained hiddeny which enables boula, struggling tial difference between the role which In It because women are less alayes temptation to overcome Woman must play in the world and than men? No, not necessarily, but may be sudised pp that which man is desified to fill because woman's place to not in the Therese of the Woman la to co-operate with man in the Sciences, Discoveries and

have put on Christ

one in Jesus Christ." (Gal. iii. 27,28).

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