Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-11-24
LITTLE WOMEN.
The Superiority and % Pluck of Little
women as COntraSted with that of
Asunz0Ds.

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AmnzOns.
As rule the little woman is brave,
When the lymphatic giantest falls into
faint or goes off into mysteries, she storms
or bustlEs about, or holds on like game
terrier. according to the work on hand.
She will fy at any man who annoys her,
and bears herself as equal to the biggest
and strongest fellow of her acquaintance.
In General, she does it all by sheer pluck,
and is not notorious for sublety or craft.
Had Delilah been little woman, she
would never have taken the trouble to
shear Sampsons locks. She would nave
deGed him with all his strength unN
touched on his head, and she would have |
overcome him too. Judith and Jael were !
both probably large women. The work |
thew went about demanded certain !
strength Of muscle and toughness OF !
sinew; but who can say that Jezebel was |
not small, freckled authenticated Lady
Audlev of her time, full of concentrated
| fire. the electric force, the passionate
recklessness of her type2 Regan and
| Goneril might have been beautiful demons
| of the same pattern; we have the exc
| smnIe of the Marchioness de BrinVilllers
~ to what amount of spiritual deviltry
| can exist with the face and manner Of an
angel direct from heaven; and
nerbaps Cordelia was tall, dark
haired girl, with pair of brown
ewes and a long nose slOping dOwnwards
Look at modern Jewesses, with their
flashing Oriental orbs, their night black
tresses, and the dusky shadows Of their
oliye.colored compilations; as catalogued
nrorerties according to the ideal, they
would be placed in the list OF the natural
criminals and lawsbreakers, while IN
reality they are about as meek and
docile set of women as are to be tounu
within the four seas. Pit fiery little
Welch woman or q petulant Parisienne
AGAINST the most regal and Junoic amongst
them, and let them try conclusions In
courage, in energy, or IN audaclty the
4 Isralitish Juno will 90 down before either
| Of the small Philistines, and the faculty
} | of weight and color in the generation of
] mower will be shown without the posi-
e | hilitv of denial. Even in those old days
4 Of long ago, wnen human characteristics
. were embodied and defed, We do not find
that the white-armed, large-limbed Hebo,
e though queen by right OF marriage,
T lorded it over her sister goddesses by any
u superior energy or force OF nature. On
:; the contrary, she was rather a heavy~
u going person, and, unless moved to anger
:, by her husbands numerous infdelities,
I" took her Olympian life placidly enough,
:. land once or twice got cheated IN a way
/, that did no great credit to her sagaclty.
,f A little French woman would have
- sailed around her easily; and, as 1t was
a shrewish though she was in her speech
when provoked, her husband not only
" deceived but chastised her. and reduced
in her TO penitence and obedience, as NJ
"a Ertls woman would have suffered hersel
l. to be reduced.
g There is one celebrated race Of womeI
who were probably the powerfully built
&c lorre-Gmbed creatures they are assumed
Tia IN have been, and as brave and energeG
a IA thew were strong and blythe N0rs
N women of the SA. a., who, for good or eyI
seem to have been very influential ele
~. ment ia the old Northern life. Prophet
''7 eeses. uhysicians, dreamcr5 Of dream.
- and the accredited interpreters rs wei
In endowed with magic powers, admitted t
~ q share ia the councils of men, brave !
war, active III ltdNt4 lAAOS' idiA mare
of Scandinavian women were the fit con
lgs ralcs Of their meD, the tit wives an
aia mothers Of the Berserkers and the Viking
7st They had no time for easy life of It, if a
Ye hear of them Is true. To defend q
farm and the homestead during the hu
band 6 absence, and to keep themselv
intact against all bold rovers to whom Il
CaS Tenth Commandment was an unknov
law: to dazzle and bewilder by mag
srs arts when they cannot conquer bv OPT
lSe- strength; II unite craft ard courage. q
as ception and daring, loyalty and indope
lost dence, demanded no small amount of O
lese posing qualities Bat the Steingerd
idst and Gudrunas were generally eqr
ling to any emergency Of fate or furtui
end and sIashed their way through the his
and ry of their time, more after the manner
wing men than of women supplementingth
ular downright blows 10y side thrusts Of era
cept Ter cleverness when they had to IN
power with skill, and were fain to ov
''Eh. throw brutality by fraud The No
D"' women were certainly as large fran
''''7 as they were mentally energetic, and
,,o.. crafty as either; but we know of no OF
SaS women who unite the same characte
in tics, and are at once cunning, str.
side brave and true.
and On the whole, then, the little woI
otiDg have the best of it. More petted t