Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-09-17


pluck all its gleries from the spire than di,
trrb the most unsightly cemen1 Of the foan
datioRs. Better expose all the snowy orna
ments to degradation than direct the smaiIes
violence against the corner stone.
In the adjustment of the respective posi-
tions of the two sexes, we see the hand @
Him who is the God, not of confusion, bu
of peace. The woman has her place in sc
cieiy accurately defined. And let her,
she will, boast that is in the most essentia
part of the foundations upon which societ.
rests, Underneath all, and seading out o
every eide clamps Of binding power, are he
tender love, and patient endurance, and un
limited devotedness-while, over all. are tn
soft beauties of her domestic virtues. and tIi'
sweet attractions of her yelled retFacy.--
The poet meant 10 crown her with true BIB
lical honors when he said
"A womAu's proper station IS refreat.'
But, then, this does not imply that she Fs Il
| live in the social obscuriiy of either chile
or a slave God has, indeed, made her phys
ically weak, and therefore given her statior
away from the rush and storm of life. Bu
for this lack of bodily strength, and this neeC
of retiring from the public eye, she has beer
endowed with qualities which are more than
a compensation. Whilst her weakness is
her greatest protection. she, within the sfef-
ter o.: that protection, exercises u tremend.
Gus influence. The very softness which be-
longs 10 her sex, conquers the hardness o!
u rougher manhood wherever met in any o!
the conflicts of life. She cannot complain
of want of influence when she is conten,
to be true to herself. Indeed, through the
force of those peculiar beauties which throw
around her thousand attractions, she has
not only been carried up with man To CO.
equal occupancy of all the real honors OF
life, but, seized by an intoxicated imagina-
tion, has, in many countries, been lifted far
ADORE her proper place, and robed Ill honors
which angels are alone TT TO wear.
But if the Bible condemns that savagism
which makes of woman beast of burden, so
does it frown upon that false civilization
which crowns her with angelic glories. She
is no more mans dream than she is mans
slave. She is neither an object with which
to sport away the otherwise leaden hours, nor
au object upon which tyranny il to exercise
its cruel,ies. She is one-half OF the great
human unit, and is, like the other hall, just
q m0tter-of fact perSo7sa9e, whose aPproPri-
ate cork Is before her; for entering upon
which work, she is supposed TO be fitted by
nature, and up to all the requirements OF
WHICH she is to be trained, by some process
OF education which will bring into hernoni-
Gus aud vigorous exercise all her peculiar
qualities of nind heart.
A parental n.istake in training is thus
noticed
Do we not find. throughout the country. q
large number of institutions which invite our
dau1 1shters 10 their class-reoais OF scientific
instruction, and their parlors Of lady like ac-
com pllshments. and their chapels of relig-
i,us worship! Yes, but in many of these
sciiools, does there seem to float through all
their atmosphere, the idea that woman was
made more for th e play Of life than its roork
more ior the superficial gliding of society
than for its solid "corner- -stones''-more :or
show in public than for service in retirement?
Is ii not too sad truth that very many par
ents would rather their daughters captt-
uattng than see them uSefaI--rather have
them admired as household paintings for
drawing rooms, adorned to be trequented by
garded as, each one, staff o. sire ngIh tor
old age to lean upon in the quiet scenes of
home, or from whom, as parental co-helpers,
the younger lille of the family may take les
SONS of virtue, amid the secluded, but sweet,
ntinacies of sitting room and nursery.
There are, in truth, some reasons TOR such
state of feeling with regard to young wo-
men. The wealth, or the pretension TO
breeding. which makes work with the handS
unnecessary or unbecoming to the son. thus
soltens him into Ihe late sleeper and the
pariur lounger, uufittiug his soul Tor the
struggles of earnest living, tends, also tp
make of his sister mere costly flower, VIII ,se
chiet function is to ill the house with the
artficial fragrance Of her airy captVations--
u sweet companion, TO be petted for few
sears of langushng lite. and then. alas!
seut down into the real world, 10 fill with
s;ghs the entire history Of wretched wife,
hood, and exhibit the mental and moral in-
competency of u nervous mother. Oh! how
many an ill-educated daughter is lett, when
in a bewildering home of her own. and called
TO train dear household, depending upon
herself almost alone. TO mourn over those
lost seasons which parental folly filled with
vanity, and bitterly in her heart to curse the
hard lot which that folly created fer her,
She has been made unit for time, aud ul-
prepared for eternity.
What is miscalled Society-meaning not
intercourse in suitable ways with all the
! children of our common pArentage, but
merely inierchanges of formal recosnitions.
within understood metes and bounds, shut
ting out all beyond in social barbarism--this
| society demands an education for the daugh-
ter which shall keep her in constant sepera
ton from all classes which are considered
below her station of life, # gives up every
thing for polish. # expcnds lis thousands
| upon parlor boarding schools located at CEN
| trail street corners. Il patron:zes Pretension-
It gives its money TO add fresh paint to mere
ostentation. II throws its iondest arms
about those mighty head teachers who prom
| ise much and accomplish little. There l.
too little taste for the solid Id eddcatioh.-
There is toomeagre an acknowledgement o
| the existence of the responsible mind of The
pupil-a marked furge.fuiness of the awful
trust which God has committed to his intell
gent creaiures--aimost purpose manifested
i to destroy every idea of useful living IN th'
ex4ltation Of admired living - dreadiu
darkening OF the true nature of the woma'
beneath The artificial draperies of the lady
But surely this is not the education whicl
God requires US TO give to our dependen
daughters! This is not the sort of tranin:
which religion demands!
The whole discourse is worthy OF bein!
reproduced.
THE YOUN @ WIFE.
j BY TIMOTHY TIrcoNB.
Young wife, talked to your husband il
| nu last letter and nnR [ address Won.