New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-22

woman who belongs only 10 her Maker Is the property
OF ms man who claimed her as his VIE lApPidnse'I
These be the fruits.
Miss Dickinson next recited passages her experience
IN salt Lake City described the professed contenment
Of the Mormon wives before their husbands and their
piessOns Of dissatisfaction and even OF loathhg Wheh
the opportunity offered to speak freely with Of their
sex continued with scathDg denuneiation Of this
tolerated religion as doctrine Of devils, and bitter
Means Com9Ttee the Rev. Dr. Todd and others who
seemed while there to give 1t their implied eOuntenance
Women everywhere are seeking for larger, broader,
and ireer lives but not from hatred or hostility 10 man.
IOr THIS movement IS simply WOmans enOTt 10 get nearer
TO mans side simply the effort OF the women OF to-day to
keep step with the music Of to-day Brain for brain ana
heart for heart she seeks TO climb the nights that you
climbing and would not be deserted In the valleys
you have left Dehnd 1t Is not true that women natu-
rally desire the applause OF senates or 10 near 'nei
shouted by peoples voice but II is true that IS
unnatural for them to cheerfully accept such wehood
offered to them today. young girl, clear Of
face pure Of heart cultured and unframed sees her
self more respected by the law than wife and mother
she sees young man Of % and young woman OF 20
standing together at the wedding altar practically equal
in intellect and ambitions while Ia other couples that
stood thus 20 years ago, she the husband almost
ways far in advance Of his wife And she sees that at q
tins man Is wepeased to be with this woman, but at ~
he has his club and e fond Of going to concerts ana Zee
newspaper than for her conversation For the sweetness
that charmed him first has coycd; he grows tired OF
his; and in how many he goes TO find woman
whose eyes look straight into his own and who becomes
too often lover and friend. And then. alas
for the husband alas for the wife, and alas for tho other
one. The social misery Of to-day IN America springs
wedding the woman Of the past Society is fond OF say.
ing that womans sphere as wife and mother Is nobler
than mans and yet society practically puts every KIND
Of life above that which IL assigns 10 woman However
noble mans work may be- it is done for time and ends in
time but wOman's work takes hold eternity What Is
Put into the first OF life is put into the whole OF life
The work she accomplishes is wrought win
not eat it. nor rust corrupt 1t, nor the
grave cover IT, nor oblivion sweep It away It's to hye
and suffer- enjoy, while the roll their rounds ana
eternity shah endure Because then her work is greater
1t should have the greater opportunity Because II Is
larger, it should have the largest opportunity Society
should not only give TO woman all that man possesses
today but If girl does not want It, II should oe IoIeea
in blessing cursing against her at the last great day
and through all eternity. tell you ministers may put
their fingers their lips, editors drop their pens ana
society keep silent forever upon this question unless
they Will 60 down deeper and ascend higher
to be "a statesman. The lesson Of lessons that woman
should learn is to reverence her own body ana soul IN
nine out Of ten the children OF WIDOWED mother
have profounder respect for motherhood imam me cl
who stands the ideal of things tender and things
lovely, and things great, In WOmanhOod ana IN Hothel
mood: and remembering her. say woman should be a
mother to loved superior 10 be Ieverenced creator
10 be adored by her children. Speaking OF the
greatness and the majesty and the GiV hcdv OF Of
a woman or OF o man, DettI I no
famous valley OF the Yosemite. vast wall OF rock on
the hand the weird, cleaning fail OF 400 teet on me
air the and mist vipe Wild and white through the
night, Below me Egyptian darkness, all ABOUT me
somber mountains inaccessible sleeps peaks ana points
and piunaces and dOmes shapes OF beauty, shapes OF
grace and shapes majesty and power towering above
This sea of Darkness tipped by the rising glory Of the
moon and fairly gtterng in Insight. maryeIOu scene
/ stood still and let IL penetrate me- and was not
crushed for something within me swelled and swelled
and cried last, Il greater than these! before
them my essence was. Above them, beyond tnem can
now soar When the heavens shall roll together as
SCROLL and the earth beneath them shall melt with IerNd
heat then shall they vanish into nothingness but sha
live and grow and reign and go from hight TO night
OF subnmer regions cOnquerng and 10 conquer for INC
Spirit of God hath created and the breath OF the Al
mighty hath given me life. since these things are So
since lie has made IN his image, but te lower
than the angels and crowned with glory ana honor
see to IT, woman that listens, God himself hath com
uanded that no man take your crown" lApphuseI