The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-11-11
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From the Ohio Cultivator.
HOME LIFE OF WOMEN.

BY MRS. META VICTORIA FULLER.
Home, Wife, Motherl as some one has
said, they are the three sweetest words
of the Saxon tongue"-the words
which have proved, and the only words
which have proved able to win men away
from those pursuits which would other
wise callous their souls all over with a
shell of selfshness. When a man la
bors for his wife, his mother, his home,
with its nesting brood of children, his
toll puts on a nobling aspect, elevating
instead of degrading him, and prevent
ing his too great absorption in the
meaner contests Of business and power
There has been a great deal written,
said and sung about the blessedness of
HomeI and too much never has and
never can be said in praise of the True
Home-home of love, harmony and re-
pose; where heart, soul and body find
their sweetest rest. That so many
households are not homes in the best
sense Of the word, is sadly true; they
are places of discOrd, misery, fretful
ness, disorder and discomfort; but this
no more proves the impOssibility Of the
ideal home, than the corruption of an
ofice-holder proves the absurdity Of re-
publican principles.
The Reformers of our day, as if they
had madly fixed upon the one pillar of
righteousness which alone reliably sup
ports the temple of Society, and we're re-
solved to tear it down amid a universal
fall Of all law and order, are preaching
now against what they are pleased to
call the Isolated Household" "DOWn
with our honest" is now the battle-cry!
"It is the Isolated Household which
alone NAKED a slave of woman-its du.
ties, ties and tolls it is which degrades
and enslaves her" It is not simply
that woman ought not to be inferior aud
slave,-she ought to be superior and
queenl her own ruler and governor,
making each her individual laws, at lib
erty to steal, murder and commit adul-
terry, ESQ her inclinatiOns prompt As
if license and unrestrained liberty would
surely Of themselves bring purity, and
the certainty Of only the holiest de-
siresl Were such the case it would only
be necessary TO cast every form aud pre-
tense of government from the face of
the earth, to ensure absolute immunity
from crime and evil.
tits such silly nonsense to talk about
all women being queens. AS long as
we we're placed in this life, not so much
to attain perfect happiness here, as 10
be educated, and have all our faculties
trained for a still higher development in
a coming life, it is foolish 20 talk about
any one class or sex being exempt from
duties, trials and tolls. Ennui rest
lessness, and weakness of soul are the
results Of Incidence. But since child
rem are the great hindranoe in the way
Of a woman's doing nothing, and hav-
ing as many husbands as she peases,
and since, with all their wisdom, the
Reformers can invent no other way of
their coming into existence but by the
old method-no steam-h Matching process
by which they can be brought out by
the dozen and mothered by nobody
the next best thing they can think Of
is the destruction Of Homes and the
erection o& Hospitals, where these little
ones can be huddled in crowds under
kind superintendenoe, while their moth
ers are enjoying the divine right Of
following their own pleasures exolus-
lively.
We are Of the opinion chat women
have had more than their share of the
cares aud suHerings Of life; that thew
have endured many wrongs and gen.
orally been overworked aud undorval.
ued. But that being removed from All
toll, restraint or duty, is going 10 dc
away with evil, and make home happy