Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-04-27

A WoYAN's TmouGHTs ABOUT WoIAN.-Miss
Mulock, authoress of John Halifax Gentle
man" has published work called "a Woman's
thoughts about Women" which, all in all, is
queer and quite readable compound. Miss Null
woman as understood nowadays. She pre-
fers to take quite Numerically opposite view
of what are women;s duties and woman's rights
from those laid down by Lucy Stone Co.
In respect to the political rights Of women,
our authorizes says, with an air of cool saga
city which must be terribly exaSperating to the
woman's rights party on this side of the At
lantic:
"Who that ever listened for two hours to the
verbose confused inanities of Ladies' Commit.
tee, would immediately go aud give his vote for
a female House of COmmonSp or who, on the
receipt of lady's letter of business-T speak
of the average-would hencef0l tn desire to have
our courts Of justice throngrd with matronly
lawyers. and our Colleges thronged by
"sWeet Eri-sraduates with golden hair'
AS for finance, in its various branches-if
you pause to consider the extreme difficulty
there always is in balancing Mrs Smiths house
keeping=bnok, or Miss Smiths quarterly allow
ance, Think, my dear Paternal Smith, YOU need
not be much afraid lest this loud acclaim for
'women'S rights should ever end in pushing
you from your stools, in counting-house college,
or elsewhere.
From this she proceeds to consider that deli
cate subject called falling in love. On the sub
ject she says:
"'Many think they fall in love, when in fact
they are only idle'-is one of the truest sayings
OF that great wise bore, IInac, in RlSseLLS aud
it has been proved by many Shipwrecked life
Ofgiris especially. This falling in love being
usually mere deluSion of the fancy, and not
the real thing at all, the object is generally I'M
attainable or unworthy Papa is diSrIleased.
lnamma somewhat shocked and Scandalized; it
lisa foolish aifair,' and no matrimonial results
ensue.
Gradually this mood wears oat;
she learns to regard love as folly, aud turns her
whole hope aud aim to-matrinonyi Matrimo-
ny III the abstract; not tie man, but any man
any person who will snatch her out of the dull
ness Of her life, and give her something really to
live for, something to ill up the hopeless blank
0fidleneSs into which her days are gradually
sinking"
Miss MullOck means that falling in love, with
most young ladies, is sort of womanly neces.
sity, because they have nothing better to do,
and she says, with solemn seriousness which
can hardly fail to touch the feelings of many Of
the class to hom she addresses herself:
'Youns ladies, tits worth grave thought
what, If called away at eighteen, twenty or thir-
ty, the most of you would leave behind you
when you die3 Much embroidery, doubtless
various pleasant, kindly, illegible letters; mod
crate store of good seeds; and a cart load Of
good Intentions, Nothing else-Save your name
on = tombstone, or lingering for few moro years
in family or friendly memory. Poor dear -
what nice lively girl she VAST For any ben.
eft accruing through you to your generation
you might as well never have lived al ALL
Miss Mulock does not appear to think tina;
b.,,s htcrI1 SI1s{;S.
judging from the following paragraph:
.'Iam afraid it is from some natural deficiency
in the constitution of our sex that it is so itii.
cult to teach US justice. 1t certainly was a mis-
take to H,ake that admirable virtue female
and even 4hen the allegoriSt seems to have found
it necessary 10 bandagc her eyes. No; kindli-
ness, unselfshness. charity, come to US by ma
ture; but / wish gould see more of my sisters
learning and practicing What is far more Difficult;
and far less attractive-seommon justice, espe-
sially towards one another, =