Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1854-08-24
Rights and Wrongs of Woman.

We find an excellent article under the
above head in late number OF Dickens
Household Words. We quote few para.
graphs in which we are sure our readers will
lind instruction and pleasure.
"No woman who does her duty faithfully
to her husband and children will find her
time unemployed, or her life incomp etc
The education of her children alone would
sufficiently employ any true,hearled woman !;
for educaiiou is not a matter Of schooI-hours,
but of that subtle influence Of example which
makes every moment seed-time ol future
good or ill., And the woman who is loo
gifted, too intellectual, to find scope for her
mind and heart in the education OF her child,
who pants fol more important work than
the training of an immortal soul, who pre-
fers quarter.decks and pulpts to Il still home
aud school desk, is not IA sea captain, nor
!; preacher by mission-she is simply not a
WOMAN. She is natural bluuder, Il mere
unfinished sketch fit neither for quarter
decks nor for home, able neither to command
men nor to educate children.
But the true Woman. for whose ambl-
ton husbands love and her cldren's ado
ration are sufficient, vino applies her military
instincts to the discipline OF hes household,
and whose Legislative faculties exercise them.
selves in making laws for her nursery; whose
intellect has field enough for her in commu-
Mon with her husband, and whose heart asks
no other houors than his love and admira.
ton; a woman vino does not think 1t Il
weakness to attend to her toilette and who
does not disdan to be beautiful; who be.
leves in the virtue Of glossy hair and well.
fitting gowns, and who eschews, rents and
reveIed edges, slipshod shoes, and audaclous
makeups; woman who speaks low, and
who does not speak mucb 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 rebukes with Il
caress, and adjusts with smile; woman
who is the wife we all have dreamt OF once
in our lives and who is the mother we still
worship in the backward distance Of the
past; such n woman as this does more Tor
human nature, and mo e for womans cause,
than all the sea-captains, judges, barrlsters,
and members CT parliament put together
God.given and God.blcsscd as she is! II
such a wife as this has leisure which she
wishes to employ actively y, she will always
find occupation, and Of Il right kind too
There are the poor and the sick round her
home; she will visit them, and teach their
children, and lecture their drunken hus'
bands; she will fulfil her duty better thus
than by walking the hospitals, or preaching
on Sundays There are meetings to attend
also, and school committees, and clothing
clubs and ragged schools to organize; and
her voice will sound more sweet and natural
there than when shrieking through speak
ing trumpet or echoing in court. And there
are books to read, and then to discuss by
the fireside with her husband, when he comes
home in the evening-thouyh perhaps his at,
tenton may sometimes wonder from the
subject to her little foot, reeping out from
under the flounces over the fender, or to the
white hands stitching so busily-and is not
this better than public lecture in Bloomer
costume !"