North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-07-07
McGREGoR, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, 1869.

womans Fidelity.
"The world was sad, the garden was lid,
And man, the hermit, sighed, till woman smiled.-
Who, but q fond, q careful mother
watched the earliest, most critical years ol
life with deepest anxiety and assiduous
affection 2 Who tended our baby couch by
night and day, and whose ear quickes,
caught the slightest sound of pleasure or oil
pain Who guarded our wayward fancies,
when childhood, bounding with freshness,
was upon US, and who gaxes with pride,
drops the tear OF pity, or smiles with love
go pure as a mother7 Ah me! we little
appreciate her kindness, her love, until too
late! When the death-dews gather about
her forehead, when the eye becomes dim,
the voice of her blessing indistinct, and
We but family hear the accents of her to
whom we owe our life, then comes a
startling thought that we have not enough
priced mother! Then, too, comes a
sitting sense of an irreparable loss; a
bright light is extinguished, and the day
Of existence is less beautiful! And this
mother, early loved, early, too early lest,
was q woman
Whose vacant place IL there beside the
hearth, or social board? Perchance O
wife's! Where no,o is the priced caress.
the love smile, and regardful glance of her
Who has been pillowed on thy bosom, been
Graded in thy heart? Where is the
faithful friend, whose innocent heart was
ever open to advise, to comfort, and con-
sole? Whose heart will nor as truly
respond to thine as did hers who is sleep.
ing beneath the green grass of the village
churchyard? And she, too, was q wo-
man!
Dear reader, if thou hast q partner
selected from among the gentler beings Of
this world, cherish her love close within
thy heart, msnfully ward of the rough
airs of life from her more delicate organ
ization, and receive, in return, the wealth
Of affection and devotion that only a
woman can give. Woman twines herself
tightly about the heart-strings Of mans
rugged rature, and makes him stronger,
more enduring, and more god>like. She
fi'ls q void, q want in his soul, and claims
his love all the more because of the
unobtrusiveness of hers. Let the storm
rage about the head Of man eyer SO
iercely, and with home to shelter him,
and a wife to cheer, he forgets, or cares
not for, the tamult, and goes forth again
to Lattle with the whirlwind with renewed
vigor and lightened heart. The poet sings
ever of the power and the love Of woman
The roses that come or 60 on her cheek
the lily tint of her beautiful brow, the
bright glance Of her eye, the grace ol
loveliness which fingers around her, fur.
nish him never ending theme for praise
and admiration. And, when the roses oi
health are faded, and the tintings of a
fair complexion are fled, with the sparkle
of the eye, and the elasticity Of youth.
we hear him singing of more enduring
and more loveable things than these-of
her tenderness; reaching and strong
affection, faithfulness. and gentleness.-
Landon sings:
.Dim 10 the homo of mans native strr
| While the light Of woman and lore safar;
And lips Of the rosebud and violet eyes,
Are the sunnieet flowers in Paradise"
While Moore says:
"woman. dear woman, thou'rt still thesams
While beauty breathes through soul or frame,
| While man possesses heart or eyes
woman's bright empire never dies"
And again:
| -"FOr spirit FREQ o. hers
| II always pure. cen while It crrs,
As sunshine broken in tn riil.
| Though turned aside. ts su~shias stiilr
Milton tells Us that woman 10
"The fxirest Of Creation last and best
or all Gods wUl ks; creature In whom excels
Whatever can to sight or thought bs formed
Holy. divine, good, amabls, or sweet"
Byren asserts that "Woman's vows ar,
writ in sand" But NOT Although sh,
may sometimes lose sight, for moment
of the noble sense Of her womanhood, ,ane
become, in hours of ease,
| Fantastic, wayward, hard I" please
but rouse her to o realization of her po
sition, and she will rise superior t.
everything degrading, and her whole ma
ture will shine out as unsullid as ever
There turks in the lowest depths O.
woman's heart conscious rectitude
which, even if she be led away for time
by passion or otherwise, will cause her t.
triumph over every snare, and foil he1
most subtle enemies! She has faults, OF
she would he unfit to mate with man, bu
they are more of the head than the heart
and her good qualities and merits obliter-
ate them all