Jerauld County, SD News.....Mrs. Hall Lectures November 16, 1888
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Wessington Springs Herald November 16, 1888
Mrs. Hall's lecture before the Teachers' Institute Tuesday evening, on "Modern
Leprosy" was listened to by a large audience and well appreciated. She spok of
the grand work being accomplished by the W. C. T. U., of its progressive steps,
adding different departments until that of ruined women absorbed their
attention. Social Purity with the watchword, Equal Standard of Purity for both
sexes, occupied the thoughts of the speaker, and the candid attention of the
audience for over an hour. Mrs. Hall treated this most delicate of subjects,
with plainness and decisiveness, yet with such womanly grace, and well chosen
expressions, that the most fastidious could not take offense. It is a false
education that makes certain ones abhor the public discussion of such subjects.
Too often the same people wink at the very vices and crimes committed through
ignorance of the laws and principal of life. The Mariner can not steer clear of
the hidden rocks and shoals in mid ocean if he has no knowledge of their
location. So it is on the sea of life; If a child is turned loose without a
knowledge of the evils and vices that may wreck his life or the laws that govern
his career, he will surely founder in midocean, blast fond hopes and defeat the
purposes of his being. Mrs. Hall pleaded with her hearers to abstain from all
appearance of evil, to have clean hands and lips and to protect women from shame
and degration. Surely her earnest appeal to parents to rear their children in
the paths of purity will not go unheeded.

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