The Kanzas news., 1858-01-23
From the Missouri Democrat
The Rights of Woman.

FROM tne mlsSOufl DSfnOcf1I-
The Rights Of Woman.
The following item from the Home Jour
nal is valuable In more courts than one.
1st. In grouping together some of the
prominent features of progress made by
certain "strong minded women in the di-
rection of equal privileges in the useful vo-
cations of life.
Cd. As showing the authors disposition,
even in that leading journal of fashionable
literature, morals, and manners, to come
over on to oar side, and give his forced
sanction to the Coming about of this de-
sirable era" and
Sd. AS evidencing the self-conceit of the
lords of creation. But read the extract:
WILLIS ON THE PROGRESS OF woMAN's RIGHTS.
..That women should have equal chances
with men in all honorable arts and profess
ions, and in all decent and proper pursuits
for the gaining of ivelyhood- off
from nothing except by her own sense of
propriety, or by disqualification of physical
form-has long been the Utopian ideal of
the champions of the sex. But various CO.
incident circumstances seem, at the present
moment, to indicate the spontaneous COM
ing about of this desirable era. We refer to-
1st. The triumphant claim to masculini-
ty of genius made by Rosa Bonheur in
painting, and by Harriet Hosmer in
sculpture.
Cd. The universally of female eques-
trianism as feature of our agricultural
fairs precursory to female assumption to
the lighter labors of agriculture, we
presun,e.) oEA
Sd. The regular education now afforded
to the female physicians. and the increasing
numbers of that sex in the profession of
medicine.
4th. The stand recently taken by the
London Times, against the degrading en-
ployment of men in avocations better suit
ed to women, such as selling goods behind
counters, and the practice of indoor trades
which do not require strength, such as
type-setting, book binding, etc.
5th. The Bloomer movement for the bet
ter adaptation of dress to masculine pursuits.
9th. The sewing machine, by which the
one kind of labor which has hitherto con-
stituted the chief subordinateness of wom-
n-needie-work-is essentially removed
from her domestic destiny. Home journal.
Triumphant masculinity of Rosa Bon
henr and Harriet Hosmer!" Was there
ever cooler impudence than this 1t is
belabored point with Psychologists, spirit
ualists, philosophers, anatomists, lecturers,
ministers, and savans of nearly every grade
and shape, to meet our ethiopian ideas" of
equal rights by this argument By divine |
appointment men and women are made to
fill different spheres of life. That Gods |
designs are immutable, and cannot be set
aside. AS proof, they state that every |
bone, nerve and muscle of woman's body |
Is different from mans. We have Just |
laid down learned lecture from very
learned man; no less than the Hon. Horace |
Mann, wherein he declares, 'sThat, from /
the crown of the head to the sole of the /
foot, there is not a vital organ in the two,
which, by its form, locality and function,
would not reveal to the anatomist to which |
sex it belongs
Thus have the magnates settled the quest
ION "that woman was not to be man, or
man woman 81 and this dread fact is thun-
dered through the land, to the no small
discontinue OF many timid woman, who
IN her soul believes she has a right to use
III. clients God gave her for her own best
good. yet dares not brave public scorn.
But when the womanly soul and woman
" hand flor we are all woman, from the
crown of our head to the sole of our foot) |.
of Rosa Bonheur gives living, breathing pic
lures to the canvss, that draw all eyes and Il
win all hearts, it is suddenly ascertained
that all these former positive theories are .
mistakes. The lady-the gifted woman,
Rosa Bonheur-can only '.lay claim to a
triumphant maseuiinity of genius
Is it any more masculine to be able to
paint the beauties of horse, than to be
able to see one, and admire 1t with womanly
eyess Is it masculine to understand, and /
to delineate one of the noblest of Gods
creatures? OH no-only masculine to do
1t sceH that's all.
Harriet Hosmer. has not gone into mas
culine subjects and given the impress of
her mind, to man or beast, with which to
stamp her enduring fame upon the tablets of
the centuries 10 come. But she has chosen
the most womanly of all womanly subjects
lovely, loving, suffering woman. GO to our
ownbeautiful library, and see the first great
work of her hand-the statue of Gnone.-l
In every touch of her chisel, she has delin
eated the woman ah from the crown of
her head to the sole of her foot. 1t is
woman, tender, affectionate, sensitive wom-
an. Even more than that; woman weep
ing, prostrate, subdued with love and sor-
row for man, and he faithIess one, a de-
serter, one who had broken his vows, and
given to another what should have been
hers alone. Had the gifted artist striven to
10 so, she could not have borught out
mors striking ideal of womanfy love, faith L