The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1866-10-19
wearies of her, loses that love which
blinded her Weaknesses, until

IeS-here see reason for the unhap
piness so often seen in married life. TIL,
man has reason he can give it for hi
actions, it guides them. He looks for j
in his wife, but there is no sign of it, any
more than in his pet dog; they both have
instinct, which sometimes leads then
right, but neither of them have any sign
of that emanation of light, that spark OF
Divinity once breathed into man, and
which made him diving soul" Sc
contempt arises - dissatisfaction - and
hearts which seemed united in an eternal
bond Of love, like the stream that sweet
ly starts from the mountain side, looking
in its volume of clear water an emblem
of peaceful united life, but before it
reaches the valley, that stream is broken
by jagged rocks, and unperceived preci.
pices, until its waters are divided never
to meet again.
Yes, woman has right Of being con-
sldered Il reasonable creature-of being
encouraged to prove herself one-of being
appreciated when she proves she is one.
Man need not fear her entertainments
upon his province but he need fear, and
that greatly, to smother woman's reason,
and unite himself to a marble statue
The reason SO many men cry out against
"bluos,' is because they (singularly
enough,) entertain the notion that the
more reason d woman has, the less adap-
ted she is to domestic bliss. They fear
for their shirt buttons, for their darned
stockings, and lastly, for that elysium of
mans - dinner. Strange supposition
that woman deficient in reason should
be proficient in exercises in which
reason might be supposed to be q good
guide and director. DR.. Johnson-cele-
brated no less as a "gourmand" than
writer-said of the celebrated Mrs. Carter,
"She is the best Greek scholar in Eng
land, the most accomplished woman, gives
the best dinners, and keeps the neatest
and most orderly house | know" Few
writers have influenced to a greater de-
gree than Hannah More. "She lived at
place called Barley Wood her house
was the seat of piety, cheerfulness, litera-
ture, and hospitality and she received
more visits from bishops, mobiles, and per-
sons of distinction than, perhaps, any pri-
vate family in the kingdom Such is
the record Of two women's households,
who possessed in an eminent degree
reason; and l have frequently noted, that
in proportion to the brains, ESQ scorned
by man, of the mistress, is the comfort
and happiness Of home, and just in pro-
portion to the reasoning faculties, has
been the discomfort of home; nothing
superintended, nothing in its place, indo-
lence rampant, and disorder and dissatis-
faction everywhere. Has woman right
to join in conversation upon sensible sub
jects? Must she always be hemmed in by
the gossip of the day? Must she submit
to that condescending air, with which man
loves to think he stoops his naughty iu-
tellect TO her level? Has woman no power
of appreciating any thing higher or better
than fulsome fattery, silly sontimentalism,
and all that comes under the comprehen-
sive head of nonsense ? l claim that
woman was created the equal of man,
mentally, that she might understand aud
sympathise with him, in those thoughts
of his (Which wander through immensi-
ty" | claim that woman has q right to
be encouraged to put forth her energies
to the attainment of knowledge; that she
was created as oomps MON, not as an in
ferior for man, and that she can be suit
able one, only by overcoming the ridicu-
lous notion, so common, as to her rights
The man who admires cook, or desires
on as wife, | would not for the worlds
see gratifed with higher description of
woman but L aver that while knowl-
edge of cookery is an essential to an ao-
complishm woman, there are a dozen
other more important essentials which
make up the true woman
"Nobly planned to warn, to comfort and com.
mand;
With yet spirit still, and bright
With something of an angels light "
Lord Byron did a vast deal of harm in
inspiring among men false ideal of wo-
man, his "Zuleikas," his "Guluares," his
"Medores," his "Astartes," all one fierce
PHSt "hASh W buG Dl uumuu
nature, be it said, have rarely had coun-
terpart IN a woman of flesh and blood. ~
They were poets fancy; that poet stands
forth practical lesson of the danger of
cherlshing such fancy If Lord Byron
had been blessed with true woman as
his wife Instead of mourning over SO much
genius wasted and misapplied, we might
rejoice over the memory of the best and
greatest man of the nineteenth century
But thousands will hearken to one evil
counsellor, while one may perhaps turn to
a true guide, and Byron's ideal of woman
will last as long as his poems, as the
"dreams' of "Adolphus" and of "Gus-
tavus." How differently did Shakespeare
conceive his heroines. They were true,
noble women. They stand forth models
of the sex. They were truly intended as
"help. mates" fer mankind, such as his
"Portia,'' his Cornelia," his Mmogen,"
his "Qucen Katharine" and such in the