The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-10-17
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WOMAN AND HER WOES.

fTf5 He world Is 1asI llihg Win oo'A
Gno about Woman, her mission, ranh
wrongs. destiny, duties. The drift {
the most of these books is in the dIref
; ton of sympathy with her, and indlgna
| ton against her prosecutor; OF thing
she has. and should not have, that ar
, burdens, and things she has not, an
I'D have, tLat arc blessings.
IN, indeed, mas, in its true sense
CO.. onor, which in the battle {
Woh.- tiles, is the post {
the post of Ii, now fashione
'Itc % III other b., christianity
"r. Tbs - tai
a"ns. .h;n called muscular, ="
qi' IGoI ' Il i the s., "asmodic fashion
Wn'cn , - . n w" i Mt among her gu,
" ond ara aos '' She j. to rGle by seeming
to submit aud to triumph through. Ipng
suffering. Her fortitude is Stronger 'n"ii
steel amor.
Man is a mulah animal, easier to len,
than to drive and woman has hard
time in getting along with him at best.
But then much as she does to human
ize him, he can do something for her. He
can drive the wolf away from the door,
if nothing more; he can keep the bears
from eating her up; he can carry her
across swift rivers, and if he climbs tall
mountains, he can bear her along with
him. But if his neighbors mako him
captain of militia, it is no sign she should
be captain too. 1t ought to be enough
for her, that all the world, rough and
hdqo as it is, has been in her arms once,
weighed less than twenty pounds once,
and did not press upon her heart with
The weight Of thistlo-down. 1t ought
to be enough that she can make pretty
much what she will of this cub of world,
for the boys love their mothers after
rude way of their own, and the girls
good girls, we moan-quite worship
them.
There arc few creatures more unlike
than real man an a true woman; as
q delicate hand ard hrier bush. Now
we fancy that there may be q lesson in
this chance Illustration. If the delicate 1
hand shrinks when in touches the bush,
The palm is sure to be marked with the
prints of the thorns. But if it craps it at
once gently, but firmly and bravely, the
thing is not so ugly after all, and you
may carry it very comfortably along.
We have always thought that woman
must be very heroic to trust themselves
to the rough fellows called men, but hav-
ING done so, nobody is so well fitted as
they to suffer long and be kindi' and
having done so, 'for better and for worse
it seems unwomanly that they should try
TO get rid of tho bad adjective, and re-
tain Only the good This is in effect the
purpose of the law that was passed by
the Legislature of New York at its last
session. Ostensibly indeed to afford re-
lief to those poor creatures whose miser-
able 'brier bushes have scratched ont the
eyes of their faith, and torn their plight
ed hands until they were red with fresh
blood; to enable these wives to save
their wrecks of homes, by giving them
the right to hold property. 30 far, and
in such extreme cases, good, but then
the tendency of this law is to mako
business women, an order Of intelligen-
ces that was not included IN the original
creation of all things. To be sure, there
is one of them named in Scripture: she
we mean, who was troubled about many
things Man likes smart woman,
of course, provided always she does not
make him so too.
But it is claimed that this renders wo-
man independent If God never made
IN Independent man. what becomes of
the women? This very Independence, is
only taking the rivet out of the scissors.
and giving rs two dull blades, neither of
which is good for anything, if Dr. Frank
lin may be credited slut to scrape a
treneher,' This independence is SIM
ply to get rid Of the for worse feature
in the marriage vow; in it dcgrades the
religious rite, and makes an abomidabIe
eyo-to the-man chance business bargain