Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-10-27

life =" around them, if they do inquire more
into the concerns of others, they also love
more devotedly, more ehduringly they wor-
ship more fervently, and have a more true
and living faith in Heaven, than men. They
are more ready to enter ardently into any en-
terprize of Justice or benevolence, are more
self-sacrificing in all their relations. The
Hindoo widow upon her husbands funeral
pyre is only an embodiment-an exaggera-
ted one, it is true, but still an embodiment
of the life and soul of w~olnan-kind in all
countries and IN all ages. That suffering of
self TO be entirely absorbed in the object Of
her lifc-is it not proverbial? Who has not
bestowed his eulogies upon the mothers de-
votion to her offspring? Who has not adj
mired, while he sympathized with, the utter
distraction of the bereavcd mothers anguish
-" wailing for her children, and will not
be comforte I because they are not? VIII
has not beheld woman in tie chamber of
the sick, gliding around like the guardian an
gel of the suffering one, as silent, as wake
fiji, and animated by as holy and patient a
love as angels may feel? Nay, she is an an
gel then, for every thing of earth and of self
is banished from her heart. VIII has not
seen woman, for the most trifing object, TO
CRAFTY the Etlcst whim of some one about
her, toll at the midnight lamp with a martyr
patience very lily proportional to its object.
Strangely, you think, l have thus linked
,comen's gossiping propensities with roman
devotcdness. But they are thus bound to-
gether in nature, and in their present direc-
ton md degree of development, though one
be dark as night, and the other beautiful as
the morning. A great truth lies at the bot
tom of the whole. 1t is this: Uomdn, Ike
man, must haze an object IA life. Her mind is
varied as his, and requires as large a field
for the play of its activities. i. is contrary to
the harmony of nature to press all women
into one routine of duty, as it would be to
force all men, of whatever cast of character,
into one occupation. Woman's soul is sur
ging and heaving with its smothered pow
crs, its innate aspirations for a more ac-
uNC lhC, uIu q a Sti CAiSttitC lhuh 'iC liCo-
ent state of society permits her to have. She
who was formed for a sphere large as the uni
verse, has been forced into a perpetual petty
tea-table revolution, and what else than dis
cord and outrage can result from such per-
version of Natures order?
Few women, perhaps, comprehend the
wants and the necessities of their OWL being.
Fewer men are capable of revealing to them
r vTc secret. Yet it is None the less true for
all that. The sunshine is as really round
about us, if we shut our eyes and will moi
perceive it, or if we are blind and cannot, as
tho our vision were blest by it.
Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do )"
And women will gossip, and dress, ant
flirt, too, so long as higher objects are PLACED
beyond their reach. True, there are some
more places open to woman now than for
merly. She can now teach school; hence
in the great dearth of places for the exercise
/ of her powers, the country is being flooded
with school-mistresses. Competent or in
. competent, whether having tastes suited tC
the occupation or not, almost every womal
who is driven from pecuniGIy necessity TO la
Dor for a living, or from heart necessity TO b,
in some active employment, turns TO tin
cares and duties of a school-mistress' life
preferring it to the h%eartless drudgery ofoth
er peoples domestic concerns, and TO tin
more fatal, though, in a general sense, les
> exposing, work of making bonnets and dres
SEES, vests and pantaloons. l would not b.
. understood to undervalue the school-teach
er's calling-far from it. There is no no
bier duty than that of training the youthful
mind; but since that occupation is not suit
cd TO the tastes or abilities of all women
none should be forced into it.
| There is no wan of employment for wo
+, mems fingers, | know; it is of the dearth o
f objects sufficient for the compass of hel
; mind that | speak. Were il M. for the re.
, deeming influence of domestic affections ant
domestic cares, women would be angels in,
deed, if they were not all gossips, and onlN
gossips. Were all women the happy wives
of noble men, and the mothers of interestin.
families, they would scarcely require larger
) nobler or more varied objects for the exer
. else of their souls than their own familie
: would afford. But those who urge the do
= nestle circle as the only sphere for woman
. labor, seem to forget that only a fraction O
: the sex are surrounded by domestic relation
; suited to their wants, if by any at all. An,
$ yet they hold old maids in contempt for be
: ing interested in others peoples concern:
: as though themselves did not deprive then
of other objects of interest. 1t AWAY