THEATRE ROYAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4353, 24 February 1893, Page 3

THEATRE ROYAL.

Mrs Dr. Potts' Lecture.

Despite the inclement weather and tho attractions of the Sports on the Oval, quito a number of ladies attended Mrs Dr Potts' lecture yesterday afternoon, at the Theatre lioyal, and listened to a most instructive lecture by this lady physician, whose reputation for plain speaking and a gonnine desire to alleviate tho sufferings of her sex, is now worldwide. How many at the present day (oven when education is said to bo so far advanced) know anything of the real seciets of keeping their own or their families' health by the attention which should be given to the simplest laws of nature. But heie is just the very thing which Mrs Dr Potts ii>st iries to impress on he • hearers, showing particularly how the desire to follow the fashion or custom of the day, women incut' a'lments which must be their life-long companions, besides, in some instances, having a considerable influence on the lives and happiness of their children. Yesterday a'tei noon, while tho audience was assembling in the Theatre floya', a lepoiter from the Times waited in the ante-room until Mrs Longshore-Potts, M D., armed. He was received with a cordial grasp of the hand, and a few wordi of greeting ulioied in a sweet and finoly modulated voice, The celebrated doctor is much below the medium height, very slight, with delicate features and brown eyes that sparkle behind goldbowed spectacles, and she has an exceedingly captivating laugh. Mrs Dr Potis' mission is to her sisterhood ; to tlicin she endeavours to explain in the simplest and most effective way by plain truths told in a plain stiaighifonva'd manner, what is required of the mother to train her child to fit it for its duty in the world; what is required of her to make her home happy, Her own health and that of her children must of necessity be her first care. How many aro too careless or too squeamish to placo the truth and a knowledge of their true position before them when they come to yfais of discretion. " Woman often shuns what most she ought to learn, and by her own ignorance (not innocence) fpoils her own and her families lives. Mrs Dr I'olts advice is worthy of car eful study and application, Knowledge coupled with Christianity imparts power to resist temptation. Teach your daughter, mother, and give her a chance to know herself, to know how to make a husband happy, to know how to bo a mother good and truo," Mrs Dr Potts is addressing another large audience of women to-day. Tho regular pa/course of tin ee lectures will begin to-morrow, Tuesday night sho will deliver ber famous lecture on" Hearts and Homes," or" Is Marriage a Failure ?" This will be the only lecture to which men will be admitted.