Against American Women.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 3, 17 January 1912, Page 62

Against American Women.

Casting stones at Society women seems an increasingly popular pastime amongst clerics. The latest exponent of th.s art is the Rev. Charles Richmond, of Philadelphia. who is giving the residents of Fifth Avenue this sort of food to digest: —“The women of this country are responsible for scandals, divorces, and the demoralisation of American society. Thev are money-mad. elothes-mad. ami hunger and thirst for limelight. They regard home solely as a place to eat and sleep in. They scheme for any kind of notoriety, dress immodestly, lust for wealth and evil leadership in fashionable society. In all these things they outstrip the women of any other nation. Nowhere else can wo non be found who frankly -ell them-elves ami their children to the highest bidder-” XX hat we can never understand about this kind of preaching is tint the wrong people generally get the benefit of it. By that we mean the poorer class congregationsThe effect of suua tirades is generally to arouse envy and not pity for the “terlible doings in high society, if such a thing exists among the Yankees.’’