Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-09-21
NO. 26

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pose It, Mr.. Murray, By way Of argument
be precisely equal, 10 five Of the first ma
tnre years. Under ordinary circumstan
ces, the boy or rather the man will out
strip the woman and when they reacl
! thirty, he will be head and shoulder
above her. This is fact; Jennie vii
bear me witness. You men only see wu
! men when they appear their best we ar,
/ with them every day. and under every
cIrcu Instance. Why. Mr. Murray, / couIC
! go out visiting from now to this day year
and | do not think | should hear any
| thing spoken of, but the children, the
| servants, the great expenses. aud posi-
/ bly,, 1t looked very weary, the last new
/ novel. DO you think such lives as these
can ut an Intelligent being for the mo.
mentOus issues which hang upon theil
| decisions every day? John Stuart Mil
/ says That character is only a certain
state OF feeling grown habitual' IF this
/ Is true, think what a character must be
formed upon the set of feelings which we
/ know are habitual feelings never moved
| by any thing beyond the trifes of the
hour. do not wish to expose the faults
! or detract from the merits of my sex. but
i do know scores of women, who. year in
and year out, never open a book, never
think Of any thing beyond the physical
wants of those whom God has made de-
pendent upon them. IF they are Door.
there is more excuse constant Ia Dor with
the hands gives only a Wearied. inert
mind God pity the poor things and IN
his own way bring them helpl 1t is not
OF them 1 complain it is of the great body
OF well-to-dO women with which Amer
lea abOunds | think there would be far
less sin and sorrow in the world. If some
way could only be found to reach and
rouse them to a higher sense of their du-
ties and responsibilities"
Yes, said Jennie refectively, that
IS the very talng; every married woman
is SO occupied with her daily work
There is not one who will not tell YOU
that she has her hands and heart full it
takes far sighted, what Kitty would
call thinking woman, to look beyond
the wear and tear of to-day. Tt is all
true, though her life would In itself be
so much nobler, if she would only learn
to see things as Kitty proposes, to 'glorify'
them; L am sure her influence upon her
family would be wonderfully changed
do not know that she is responsible for
all the sins there, but I have seen so
many mothers drive their children into
disobedienee and evil, by the want Of
some high and seif-sustaining principle
within themselves, something to fall back
upon, when they are wearied and wor-
ried.
There is religion, (" said the minister
:, especially designed by its great Author
for this end"
And even religion, - said Jennie bold
ly, Is very much eBhanced in its effects,
by this something Of which Kitty speaks :;
W0mans nature Is toward Perfection
When she ceases tn strive for the better,
she is fallen star
Practically" said the minister, after
be had considered his wife words few
moments, and [ saw there was a slight
twinkle in his eye, practically, ladies',
allowing this new tbeology-that woman
is responsible in degree for others sin
| am sure" / broke in it is a the
ology as old as the Bible. The woman
whom thou gavest to be with me, she
gave me of the tree, and j did eat That
apple will never be finished"
Perhaps not. but practically, what do
you propose as the femedyP'
1 have told you already" I said, with
a half pOut, but / can repeat it in a way
more Ineligible to a mans intellect.
" In the first place. Mr. Murray, give
to your daughters a u idea Of the value Of
the mind which God has bestowed upon
them. Bring them early to think day
Is lost, In which they have not done some
thing to add to its growth, new fact,
new thought, it does not matter what
only so they feel that there is within
them principle that must be ted. Do
you suppose women like Mrs. Upper ev-
er regarded this, [ mean practically,
workingly? Did she ever acquire a sin
gle idea with the design Of making herself
more of a woman, Of disciplining and fit
ting herself better for her life's work to
developing her higher nature Does she
know even that she has higher nature
[ think if you could read the true history
Of her life-and l take her as the type Of
far too large a Glasgow would fnd IL
has been mainly composed of trihes
That is, after all, the bane ofwoman'
life, trifes. Not but that they must be
attended TO- [ hold the greater the trihe
the greater the woman, ii she sees to it
carefully and thoroughly. Why, the very
make and pinuing on of little ribbon
bow, will proclaim the whole inner life,
often as we'll. perhaps better, than a we'll
written philosophical dissertation; but
let the trife be the triAe, done and forgot
ten ; a disciplined mind has no place IN
which it can liDger.
!" Mr. Murray ''-and / looked the min
lister now boldly 10 the face. if we're
going to give you in Que word the cure, L
would say discipline ! l know said it to
begin with, and to make it the more en-
phatic, / say it to end with, not that my
AEstly ulBub DO1 ~ ou " teutuiyA duu
each new head be stronger and more con-
elusive than the last; but because the
hour is late. and we must have that arti-
Gle finished before we break up.
" God often does this for US, If we will
not for ourselves, said Mr.. Murray, half
TO himself as he re- opened the book.
believe we must ali have just such an
amount Of discipline to fit us for better
world and the more we need it, the more
we sin, aud the more we sin, the more
need we have of it. 1t is a curiously in
volved thing-this life Of ours"
And there will be no Mrs. Tuppers In
heaven" 1 said reverently. And then our
reading commenced.