The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1854-08-25
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Rights AND W tcass Of W o


We find an excellent article under the n
bove head in late number Of Dickens
Household Words. We quote a few paras. paarras
araPils IN which we me sure our readers will
hnd instruction and pleasure. g.,,
mo woman who does her duty faithfully
to her husband and children win find her
time unemployed, or her life incomplete -
The education of her children alone would
sufficiently employ any true-hearted woman:
for education Is not n matter OF school-hours.
but Of that subtle influence of example which
makes every moment a seed time of future
good or I'LL. And the woman who Is too
gifted, too intellectual, to find scope for her
mind and heart in the education of hor child,
who pants for more important work than
The training Of an Immortal soul. who pre-
fers quarter-decls and pulpits to still home
and a schooldesk, is not n sea captain, nor n
preacher By mission--she is simply not a
woman. She is n natural blunder, q mere
unfinished sketch; fit neither for auartepaccks
nor for home; able neither to command mcr,
nor to educate children. -s% i gssa@ ".
"But the true Woman, for whose ambition
a husbands love and her ,chi,iren's ,adora-
iton are sufficient who applies her military
instincts to the discipline Of her household,
and whose legislative faculties exercise them
selves in making laws for her nursery whose
intellect has field enough for her husband,
and whose heart asks no other honors than
his lovr and admiration a woman who does
not think 1t weakness to attend to her toi-
lette and who does not disdain to be beauti-
ful who believes in the yirtuo of glossy hair
and well fitting gowns, and who cschews
rents and ie;elled edges, slipshoas shoes.
and audacious makeups n woman who
speaks low, and who does not speak much !;
who is patient and gentle, and intellectual
and industrious !; who loves more than she
reasons, and yet does not love bIindly who
never scolds, and rarely argues, but who lnc-
Dukes with q caress, and adjusts with a
smile; woman who is the wife we all have
dreamt Of once iii our lives. and who is the
mother we still worship in the backward dis
tance of the past; such woman as this does
more for human nature, and more for wo-
mans cause, than all the sea captains, Judges,
barristers, and members Of parliament put
together God given and od-blessed as she
is If such q wife as this has leisure which
she wishes to employ actively, she will nj
ways find occupation, and of a right kind
too. There are the poor and the sick round
her home she will visit them, and iaanh their
children, and lecture irdyunken husbands;
she will fulfil her duty better thus than by
walking the hospitals, or preaching on Sun
days There are meetings to attend also,
and school committees, and clothing clubs
and ragged schools to organize; and her
voice will sound moro sweet and natural
there than when shrieking through speak
ing trumpet or echoing in court, And there
are books to read, anc then to discuss by the
freside with her husband, when he comes
home in the evening-thougll perhaps his
attention may sometimes wander from the
subject to her little foot, pecping out from
under the founces over the fender, or to the
white hands stitching so busily,-and is not
this better than public lecture in a Bloom
er costume ~ E.-1tf ,.... s.