Hearts and Home

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 100, 11 February 1893, Page 2

Hearts and Home

Mrs Dr Potts delivered her last lecture . yesterday evening to a very large audi- > 2S. ce^ he lad "» mustering in great force. • The Doctor handled her rabjeet/" HrtS and Homes," or, "Is Marriage a IWlare," in a most able and masterly manner, her address being listened to with close attention, and that she soon succeeded in eh. 1 listing the sympathies of her audience. : arid carried them with her, was evidenced by the applause which she constantly 1 received. After touching upon the divine attribute of love, that it is an attraction . which is found in all created things, even the trees, the flowers, and all animals' from the highest to the lowest orders. The lecturer showed that love gives ns . power to resist temptation, that it has an ennobling, a strengthening, a refining in* t fluence ; you cannot see it, but yon can i I*.* 1 ' 8 f 0 **™ 0 * »3» How are yonr children to know how, when, and who to love, if you do not give them judicious . training upon the subject? Itisamongs the comparatively poor class that we find the greatest happiness, beeanse we observe that their little homes content them- The ' reason for so much unhappinesa in the married state is the amount of ignorance and want of enlightenment which exists amongst ns. The lecturer went on to show, in an amusing way why so many | marriages have turned ont failures. She then referred to the franchise, a boon which it is the duty of men to give ' women, and concluded a very able address by urging that if husbands and wives were more forbearing towards one another we should not find it necessary to put the , query, •• Is marriage a fiulure?" At the ' conclusion the Doctor was loudly applauded for her able address. Large [ audiences have attended Dr Potts' ad- - dresses to ladies every afternoon during ' her stay in this town, and we hope that considerable benefit may accrue to the public generally, as a result of the visit of Doctors Potts and Harrison to our town- * ship.