North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-07-24

Thus Selek and Sara by forced acts OF Kindness.
Ere the moon waxed and waned, saw their folly and
| blindness (!
Ye hymon-bound pair, in whose welded home
II The orangewreath fades and the ring IL SO gall
| Srhe moral to you not nntimely may come. -
Whose iovehre burns dinlly, while shadows arc
What Arabs re taught by deere Of the Cadi,
Rrchance, woNd be wisdom for you, lord and lady.
Female Righs.
Tie following graceful notes from the
"LHy Assistant of the New YoRK Sun
DAY TINES, the best paper in the United
Stats, are readlble, sensible and agreea-
bic. We think The Assistant is the fn-
est ady writerin the world except, al
| way, Mrs. Crowley, "Jennie June" for
merry of the same position on the editorial
staaof the Sundly TINES.
OIerlin Colleg. has turned out young
woman who proposes to become the pastor
of s1ne church, and another who intends
to I'd to Kansas ID plead in favor of female
suffnge. There was once baby, so the
story book says, who, whenever he became
obsteperous himself, used to insist that
the world was upside down. One would
thint that the worl was upside down to
the Intellectual visipn of good many of
Our lex, Just now. IA famous lady abroad
has Ieen pleading her own cause before
the House Of Lords, and, after getting fair
ly ulder way, it tool her two days to pass
her tw remarks. The papers say the gen
tlem,nly patience d the listeners never
tagged. One would hink there was moth
ing lift. indoors, at home, for women to
do. The old tranquil life Of domestic SOW
ereiAty, seems, for sDme reason or other,
to have departed this life, or to have be-
come unattrad1iye ard unsatisfactory, and
women are everywhere eibowing their way
into sccu pations and professions that have
no NEED of them, and which it is doubtful
if they ever adorn. A lady preacher"
seems unnatural. 1t ought to require q
great emergency, such as fire Immediate
ly back of the pulpit, or baby in danger
Of falling heal1ong from the gallery, to ex-
cuse woman speaking in meeting" A
spider crawling into the ear of drowsy
deacon, or tricky youngster filing dogs
nose with snuff, might justify poke with
ones parasol in church but if Holy Writ
has had for SO many ages suci, control ov-
er the fashions as to prescribe bonnets for
all ladies attending church services, why
| shouldn't its objections to female exhorters
be equally potent? st. Paul had even afh
objection to women receiving any explana-
ton Of the SERMON until she had quietly
returned hoDe-when it is altogether like
| ly, if the Roman women were like our
selves, they had forgotten all about it AS
for the visiting part of PASTORS duty, the
female preacher from Oberlin might give
general satisfaction by taking tea out as
complcently and frequently as only a wo-
man can but when it came to baptisms,
marriages, funerals, and, above all, presid-
ing over ministerial court-nartial for the
disciplning of refractory brother, how in
the world would woman manage? And
then low about advice-giying, which all
ask an1 few follow?
A clergyman is solemn receptacle
Many domestic sorrow, or anxious care
concerning stubborn child, as well as the.
0l0gic,l doubts, are Brought for safe keep.
ing to his ears. lie, being man, is sup.
posed 70 sit up aloft rs sits the figure ol
high up that he cannot see clearly, it il
true, md to decide impartially. How can
a woman, who, being woman, never fol
a nome mt forgets that she is such, be I'M.
PARTIAL She wouldn't be half woman
if bver judgement changed places with hel
heirt. That is the beautiful popularity oI
a foman-the right or wrong are relative
terms, and only love and allegiance are alb
solpte. Not unfrequently we read Of cas-
es where some courageous woman seems
to fake it as a sort of religious privilege t(
stahd by a man whom every body else looks
upbn as wretch and, strange anomaly
soGety applauds as an instance what j,
co1demns as a principle. Instinct is stron
erlih where everything grows tall ani
strohg. As the lawyer is in way stronger
than the client, so the advising wife is al
powerful. There is more honor in direct
ing the work than in handling the saw anG
file and any good, sensible wife gets more
applications for advice and more chances
to rpreach," il she has a taste that way
than any half-dOzen shepherds of the flock
congregational. AS for female physicians
they may do very well while baby il
teething and frets short of convulsions.-
They must do fiuely in sympathetic cases
and rs proofs OF what art may overcome
in the face of nature, they are scientific
treats but when it comes to fits, hydro
phobia, mutilations and such, almost any
body would send for man, whom on
might be sure would not tremble, nor, oy
er-come by anothers sufferings, wiring hi
hands and maybe swoon.
Science has done wonders in the world
it is true, but it has never yet been able t
entirely overcome Nature. Education ant
courage are great, but the supremacy Q
nerve is everything in an emergency. l
the Good Samaritan had been a woman, j
is doubtful If the wounded man by the way
side would have had oil and wine pOuret
into his bruises until regular doctor ar
rived. Mott women could probably lance
a babys gum, or put adhesive plaster on |
cut but who will believe that any woma,
could sew up nose Us quietly rs she coult
repair glove, or amputate leg MS com
posedly as she would cut pineapple p
If she could, one would look upon her a
a profitable sort Of contradiction, iusM
nature whom one would feel inclined t,
} classify under the head of harmless eccen
tricities.
i Speaking of usefulness, is there any
thing for an occasional treat quite so de
lightfal as that state of irresponsibility il
which you feel that nothing is expected Q
you, and therefore you have only to b
sufficient for yourself? 1t is all very vel
to talk about idleness being the parent o
vice, and that labor is ''noble and holy :
but is there anything more fascinating thar
that desperate state of idlcness when yo,
feel malicious satisfaction in KNOWN,