The Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1861-1862, 1861-11-09

to regain one, Charles has ore home to his
fathers, to make prepaations .or he briide.:---
Archibald has taken aagrs1 nursery garden,
and there is some talk ina leigh that the
marriage of the two sister is % b celebrated
on the same day.--lNsiss MiBclA 'si2t "oN I
+ 81 .syl1--s1-++-ar esssenH .-az4ze pIBds oi !
Ihrs CULTIvATHNGi ,AEERcEI0Nssoz
,., Women were made to,dq ell thu lexing,,i
says some smart writer, and straightWag. the
dsmoralizing thought is Gang ht up and because
quantity and sancily said l. copied into a
thousand newspapers and read bE millions of
men, who turn from it with q fresh puff nfa
cigar, as if they had found new proof Of the
old, adage that w emen wore made lo love.
and men to reason IL ~ 57& ,s.fl
T. We pronounce an such op 'i6iIs s ttheiis--
tic. Therei Is not In The range Of God 8 Hkas Il
tiful universe, such an instance to be found of
his want of economy, as the above assertion
would imply9 1t arraigns at once, His Good
ness and His Wisdom. Look throuah al his
works and you will find reciprocity t6eeover-
ming law. Christ but uttered the unwritten
language of planets, sun and stars when he
sald-"W hatsoever yewould that men should
do to you, do ye even so to them.' ID sIeb
Was there ever a woman who loved, that
did not with an intensity such as no other
passion can produce, desire to be loved in re-
turn &, Ii she is made to do all the loving as
we are often told, how is this desire to be an
\ swered :! Is she alone to be forever mocked.
she alone to hunger and thirst in. the highest
and holiest aspirations of her nature, only to
be forever thrown back upon herself, uttering
her wall of sorrow, and pleading with uplifted
hands to God for mercy, in vain? Can this
matter be considered too seriously Not SO /:
that which is uttered in social circle, jottcd
down as trriism in books and periodicals.,
spoken in earnestness in pulpits and, ON TO-
runs, is accepted by the people, Notify, men
alone, but by, women also; and you as often
hear them repeating this atheistical idea. as
their companions. And by the daily dropping
Of this thought in the presence of their sons,
they teach them to feel ashamed of the no.
blest and purest sentiment Of the human soul.
To hide away as if it were thing to be
blushed for, the uprising Of the sacred passion
in the heart. gG.tfTg ua. .&a1 ahi9ir&! ;i'
Many brave, strong man, with spirit at
tuned to all good things could not be induced
in the face of the world, to speak loving
words to his wife or mother: cold, hard and
stern, always suppressing his truest impulses
of affection; give them no food upon which
tolive, they become starved, and a hard ascot
ism takes their place.. There is not one young
man in fifty, take the world over, that would
take the hands of his mother in his own, and
looking into her dim eyes speak to her face to
face, the love he feels for her. The father,
whose heart throbs with a quicker beat as the
light footsteps Of the fairy girl come sounding
into his presence, chokes down the emotion,
and refuses to. answer the demand her young
love is making, to be folded to his heart, and
recognized as his own. - -' '3'''''.'''''-' q
n a"Women were made to love, and men to
reason" is the voice of the public opinion,
and he turns to bis politics, law or religion,
and forgets that the dearest name Of the All
Father, is Love- 9i5al G5gg ari-.h g1ifEa
But what harm comes of.all, this ?7you will
inquire. What harm? What question fol
areasoning being TO ask What harm would
come to you, if you should. pluck out your
eyes; we, see, people that get along without
then--thc loss Of one organ, usually renders
Others moro accurate, and 'theblind man tea
ches the sense. Of feeling to do the work Of
his eyes. .,r
Men love; the little boy and girl innocent
feeling, pour outin tnisony loves for all things
dear to them. But when the world steps in
and brandishes its fearful weapons of ridicule
and contempt over the boy, compelling him
to hide the beautiful expression of love, that
would flow freelyin The home circle, and that
might there meetga full return, under cover
\ of Indifference; when those streams are dam
med up and thrown back upon the fountain
heads, they become impure by stagnation, or
4 gathering force burst their barriers, and run
!, out into forbidden places becoming that fear
full mockery Of love, the name Of which
sends the apang TofI disgust to every modest
; cheek. r>ty a, ..,,,r.,e -;,,y .,oyy
What is the harm of all this Better ask
where the harm is not. asked a beautiful
woman who had married unwisely, without
the counsel Of her parents, how, she came to
be attracted by one SO far beneath her. Her
answer was given in rsSof agony; II have
a loving heart, but my parents were cold and
stern. Ny father never kissed me after was
old enough to remember. He, watched me
with jealous care and when I was. sent away
to school, MR. was the first man r became
acquainted with !; he seemed so cordial and
i sympathizing, that my heart went out to him
, against my Wilt had no one else to love.''
4 Had this young girls affections been met
4 at home, had she dared to have written to her
4 excellent but stern father. and said to- him in
her loneliness, on every line of the sheet,
'Dear father, Ilove you" she would never
\ haYe flung her loving heart into the hands of
q fool and knave, who could tell her ere. the
4 honeymoon was, past women were made to
4 do all the loving" and leave her to sigh alone,
while he reVelled iii the club room OF the
i bFothel.. IEh laAe' hF", 3'.'' ~ 's'''.'
/ II saw a great overgroIwn boy, upon whose
chin the prophecy Of manhood was Just dis
4 cernable, playing with his mother, forty years
4 his senior He laid His head upon her, lap
4 drew his fingers. through the silvery curls, Of
her hair, called her his dear good mother,
a1What, a Ounce you are letting that boy
make Of himself, it is perfectly silly said
one standing by. lif,!'',s '92,,i sh. n7lt tih'
HeIf mothers would cultivate the loves Of
4 their boys as I have mine" /" said this much
loved mother, e'they would receive many,
kisses, that stern treatment. might send to
wanton lips, which 1eaye the deadly blisteringj
of vice FOREVER with, their, touch. The boy
who is taught to love his mother, and to give
fearless expression Of that love, will never press
the iron into the soul Of his wife or deny the
existence of God by asserting that women,
| were made to do all the loving.oM ;.l1g sss't'l
I God is love, and man was created in His
Eimage. Mrs. Frances D. Gage. ~ 2.A ,ao
i o. The following is a verbatim copy Of
the certificate attached to the return Of q post
master IN Shawnee oounty Nd TX tt yrould