Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-01-26
WRITTEN FOR THE OLIVE DrANcu.


No inconsiderable number of the beings called
men, however great their veneraton may be for
intellect, and its right hand concomitant, educa-
ton,-yet consider these dvnties wrongly set
up, when enshrined within the bosom of another
divinity, to whom they pay their adorations-wo-
man. Though in her form they may acknowl-
edge the greatest physical manifestation the Gre
ator has made Of himself; yet the very essence of
his own existence, intellect they have presumed
he would not condescend TO bestow upon her as
marked endowment. With them she is alone a
breathing embodiment in her natural gifts of the
perfected ideas of the painter and sculptor. The
superfcialites of beauty; with an implicit resig-
nation TO man of all right of citizenship in the
world of intellect, and learning, constitute with
them the sum of her prerogatives. In their view,
a woman of intellect is a star errant, whose rays
intrusvely mngle with the sunlike glare of mind
which emanates from the "globes of thought" in
herted by the superior SEX
Though they may not, with the Mahommedan,
rob her of that distinguishing feature between
man and beast soul, yet the culture of that soul
is prescribed by them from the code of her intel
ectual economy. Let her, in her virgin, or in
her maturer years, lay claim to portion of natu-
raj understanding, and endeavor to improve it by
study, and education-and she is at once branded
as "blue" Let her aspire TO be an intellectual
and she is looked upon as transcendng her sphere.
She is allowed to address the senses with her
charms but to strike no deeper With this view
of woman, which is entertained by so many, she
is reduced in the scale of being to a creature of
ephemeral existence and when the charms of her
face and form have been disspated by years. or
the casualties of life, she is but remnant of her
self, and can no longer have place in the afec-
lions of him who may have chosen her for her
beauty alone. But, much as men may be at fault
for the establishment of this unjust standard of fe-
7 male worth, women themselves, too have contrib
utad to tho lelusivrt.
Many a wife, who complains of the waning of
the affections of her husband, which still keeps
pace with the fading of her youthful charms, may
do well to remember in her, declining years, that
as her beauty was all she taught him to love her
for when she won him, so his love may not be ex-
pected to survive the decay of that beauty. Had
she taught him to direct his affections to the charms
of her mind, and entertained him with something
more substantial in her conversation than she did
he now might be as happy in the love of her for
the qualities of her intellect, which cannot fade as
he was al first for those attractions which have
proved so short lived. Had she availed herself
of thai hallowed influence which woman possesses
over man, she could perhaps have moulded him
into her own semblance, when she had once de-
creed that the charms of her mind should surpass
those of her body
Let young women take no alarm at being called
the "blue''; but reflect that education is as essen
ia a constituent in making up the character O.
the lady, as of the gentleman. If men are arait
of having their dominion usurped by too much in
eligence in women, they may be assured on the
contrary, that intelligent women will understand
them better, and esteem them more, than ignoran
7 ones. EX-SENATOR.