Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1861-02-23

paper entitled what can Woman do 2" that th-l
vors a little OF the Spectator spirit and marks the
man who has read and thought, more than lived,
10 this work a-day' world. lie proceeds to say
that she can educate the future hero, statesman,
Is. A great and noble work, truly-but suppose
she has no opportunity to engage ir ~ Is she to
be placed in the absurd position Of advertising Tor
i'll Ae though she were to say, Here l am ready
to refine q husbands character, and train bis chill
dren for usefulness !" Whatever it may be the
policy Of men to profess in their intercourse with
women, it is we'll known that they speak with
contempt, open or covert, Of those who submit to
this kind Of degradation, while they homer the
high spirited woman, who regards herself as o
snbject or dependent Of God aicne.
There ore chivalrous and generous men like
~llildreth, who holding high the sweet memory OF
some mother or sister, or gentle wife, cannot be
brought to speak disrespectfully Of woman or her
position. Men who deplore while they see no
remedy for the evils of enforced del Evidence, con-
tent themselves with pointing out the consultations
her lot affords, and recommending patience. But
the general tone of all classes. each in it's own YER
nacular, is like that of Sam Weller, or rather biz
friend, Rum creations is vimmen." Not from
want Of innate respect, or generous feeling toward
the sex. but that their mere position in society e1
poses them to contempt.
A. word more in regard to the educating Of grea
men,. We cannot teach what we do not know. w
cannot exercise another in qualities entirely def
cient, or only negative in ourselves. If q woman
has no capacity for craftsmanship she cannot dc
velop that capacity in her son. She canno. Civ
him the thirst for great and noble achievements
If she does not possess it.
To return to the point. No one can settle til
question of appropriate nvocation for another; fire.
quently not for himself, untilShe has tested i
various ways, his peculiar bent and talent. Blu
it is well known that distasteful employment
where neither love nor duty lends its reeoncilin
influence, is q CALLING chain, while mOnOtOny to
person of great versatility is a kind Of death.
am going to advance the heretical opinion, thr
man being not only less versatile but less intens,
ly earnest than woman, could better learn to b
limited to q single round of pursuits.
Douglass Jerrold said woman is not q jokin
auimal-she takes every thing seriously" Ever
voice of life of nature is to her q De Profund
CLAIMANT, calling to her spirit for labor and sacr
fee in some direction. The age Of brains ha
come and she must work, not Ouly to live, br
for that which sweetens and ennobles life, q gran
aim, a worthy object.
What woman or girl, idling away the harve'
time of life, waiting for the husband who neve
comes, or grimaciug before the looking glass, an
growing ugly with envy or fear of old age-a
old age without honor, full Of mean and humblin
memories: has not envied Florence Nightingale
her lonely watch in the Crimea, with no compal
ion but death in its most awful forms?
Charles Kingsly has given us a lovely, il som
what melodrama,ic ideal Of womanhood in Graz
Armstrong with that "head sweeping backTai
and upUard in grand curves" those eyes oil
wells in which the mellow moonlight sleeps, fat
oms deep between black walls of rock"
Do we not all see that such an one must live
large and active life or die Tor grow mad, viii
would be worse? He made her for such q life,
III he shows her to you, telling stories wild al
sweet to eager children, on the shores of t
great sec, absorbed in care for the sick, or wra
ped about withithe sybil's sweet dreams. Eve
moment is filed with intense action, or absorb
purpose. At the first moment of inaction
Us grows morbid, and goes to nursing ~''secret' q
Gil dangerous SORROWS.
81 But enough. 'Twere vain to think of trac
'al Gu. o thousand,h part of the proof brought by
nd erary men in favor Of cur position. Give tn
time enough, and they would work out the wh
Mt problem. E. A. L