March 1896
Two girls in Cumberland, Pennsylvania, have been heavily fined for disturbing public worship by chewing gum. The minister testified that when he remonstrated with one of the girls she made faces at him.
The Congregational Church of Sedalia, Missouri, is going to make a grand effort to bring the old sinners into the fold this year. Young women are to act as ushers in place of the young men hitherto acting in that capacity.
Mrs. Cleveland rarely fails to attend the regular church services, and is scrupulously exact in being present on all special days.
Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein who is Queen Victoria's daughter Helena, and her daughter Princess Victoria, are to sing solo parts in the "Messiah" at a church concert at Slough.
Showing posts with label girls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label girls. Show all posts
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Monday, May 7, 2007
Pastor Has Pretty Girls for Ushers: Attendance, Giving Up
1897
Girls Fill The Church
Pretty Ushers Prove a Paying Move at Trenton, N.J.
Rev. Maurice Penfield Fikes, of the First Baptist church, Trenton, N. J., has astonished religious circles by introducing in his church a novel feature in the form of girl ushers, whose business it is to take up the collections as well as to show church attendants to seats.
Mr. Fikes advertised the fact that there would be girl ushers in the church, and it was incidentally announced that in selecting care would be taken to pick out half a dozen, of the prettiest maidens in the congregation. The announcement was sufficient to draw to the church recently such an attendance of young men as was never there before.
Every seat in the church was filled long before services were begun, and it was necessary to set chairs in the aisles to accommodate the crowd. As ushers the girls were a grand success, but their best service was given when the time came to take up the collection. Pastor Fikes, prior to the time for starting the girls out with the contribution boxes, announced that the Lord loves a cheerful giver and said that he who gave to a church invested his money in an institution that was better than a savings bank. "Give freely and cheerfully," said he, "and the Lord, as well as these good girls, will appreciate it." The contribution was the largest ever taken in the church.
—Dubuque Daily Herald, Dubuque, IA, Dec. 4, 1897, p. 7.
Girls Fill The Church
Pretty Ushers Prove a Paying Move at Trenton, N.J.
Rev. Maurice Penfield Fikes, of the First Baptist church, Trenton, N. J., has astonished religious circles by introducing in his church a novel feature in the form of girl ushers, whose business it is to take up the collections as well as to show church attendants to seats.
Mr. Fikes advertised the fact that there would be girl ushers in the church, and it was incidentally announced that in selecting care would be taken to pick out half a dozen, of the prettiest maidens in the congregation. The announcement was sufficient to draw to the church recently such an attendance of young men as was never there before.
Every seat in the church was filled long before services were begun, and it was necessary to set chairs in the aisles to accommodate the crowd. As ushers the girls were a grand success, but their best service was given when the time came to take up the collection. Pastor Fikes, prior to the time for starting the girls out with the contribution boxes, announced that the Lord loves a cheerful giver and said that he who gave to a church invested his money in an institution that was better than a savings bank. "Give freely and cheerfully," said he, "and the Lord, as well as these good girls, will appreciate it." The contribution was the largest ever taken in the church.
—Dubuque Daily Herald, Dubuque, IA, Dec. 4, 1897, p. 7.
Saturday, May 5, 2007
Roller Skating Immoral – "Hell on Wheels"
1914
HELL ON WHEELS
The skating rink has long been considered a menace to public morals. Its history has been one of degradation. Many happy homes have been broken up as a direct cause of its evil influence.
Like a great many other evils, it apparently is harmless, but beneath the surface is an immoral tide which drags young helpless girls into the ocean of destruction, never to return to their fond parents, whose lives have been blighted and many of whom now occupy untimely graves.
That any professing Christian should allow himself to be connected with such an institution, either financially or otherwise, is beyond comprehension. Clean, healthy sport should be encouraged, but the skating rink cannot be placed in that class.
—Daily Independent, Monessen, Pennsylvania, Nov. 23, 1914, p. 4.
HELL ON WHEELS
The skating rink has long been considered a menace to public morals. Its history has been one of degradation. Many happy homes have been broken up as a direct cause of its evil influence.
Like a great many other evils, it apparently is harmless, but beneath the surface is an immoral tide which drags young helpless girls into the ocean of destruction, never to return to their fond parents, whose lives have been blighted and many of whom now occupy untimely graves.
That any professing Christian should allow himself to be connected with such an institution, either financially or otherwise, is beyond comprehension. Clean, healthy sport should be encouraged, but the skating rink cannot be placed in that class.
—Daily Independent, Monessen, Pennsylvania, Nov. 23, 1914, p. 4.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Clergyman Refuted: Teddy Bears Don't Kill Maternal Instinct
1907
THE MATERNAL INSTINCT
A Chicago clergyman, who frankly states his belief that sensationalism is a good thing for the church, has hired a brass band to play at intervals during the service. Another clergyman, with apparently the same ideals but less nerve — he doesn't live in Chicago — shouts vehemently to a waiting world to beware the "Teddy bear," it promotes race suicide by killing the maternal instinct in little girls. As between these two we vastly prefer the brass band disciple as the more straightforward as well as intelligent of the two.
As for the maternal instinct, we have not supposed it was so slight and weak a thing as to be endangered by the most formidable assaults of the "Teddy bear," even though assisted by all the other animals of Noah's ark. In fact the maternal instinct seems to have resisted for many generations all the little girlish, as well as little boyish, fondness for all the animals that went in two by two.
The maternal instinct appears indeed a pretty comprehensive and pretty reliable thing, about as comprehensive and reliable as any feeling of emotion in unstable humanity.
It is also very generally and generously distributed among women, being by no means confined to those who are the actual mothers of children.
In mothers it is not confined to their own children, but reaches to all other children as well. It is not even confined to children, since the love which women feel for men is largely maternal. Often women have the same brooding tenderness for animals, especially if they are sick or suffering, or even for plants and flowers.
Kill a little girl's tenderness by giving her a "Teddy bear" to fondle? Ridiculous! A little girl will mother a "Teddy bear" just as naturally as she will mother some rags or a bit of china in the shape of a doll, or a kitten, or a little green frog, or a really, truly, baby, or anything else animate or inanimate that happens to appeal to her. And her fondness and care for any of these develops, instead of destroying her maternal instinct.
-The Waukesha Freeman, Waukesha, Wisconsin, July 11, 1907, page 4.
THE MATERNAL INSTINCT
A Chicago clergyman, who frankly states his belief that sensationalism is a good thing for the church, has hired a brass band to play at intervals during the service. Another clergyman, with apparently the same ideals but less nerve — he doesn't live in Chicago — shouts vehemently to a waiting world to beware the "Teddy bear," it promotes race suicide by killing the maternal instinct in little girls. As between these two we vastly prefer the brass band disciple as the more straightforward as well as intelligent of the two.
As for the maternal instinct, we have not supposed it was so slight and weak a thing as to be endangered by the most formidable assaults of the "Teddy bear," even though assisted by all the other animals of Noah's ark. In fact the maternal instinct seems to have resisted for many generations all the little girlish, as well as little boyish, fondness for all the animals that went in two by two.
The maternal instinct appears indeed a pretty comprehensive and pretty reliable thing, about as comprehensive and reliable as any feeling of emotion in unstable humanity.
It is also very generally and generously distributed among women, being by no means confined to those who are the actual mothers of children.
In mothers it is not confined to their own children, but reaches to all other children as well. It is not even confined to children, since the love which women feel for men is largely maternal. Often women have the same brooding tenderness for animals, especially if they are sick or suffering, or even for plants and flowers.
Kill a little girl's tenderness by giving her a "Teddy bear" to fondle? Ridiculous! A little girl will mother a "Teddy bear" just as naturally as she will mother some rags or a bit of china in the shape of a doll, or a kitten, or a little green frog, or a really, truly, baby, or anything else animate or inanimate that happens to appeal to her. And her fondness and care for any of these develops, instead of destroying her maternal instinct.
-The Waukesha Freeman, Waukesha, Wisconsin, July 11, 1907, page 4.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
