Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-11-24

hosts of the heavenly world nigh to man,
the signs of whose presence in dreams, VS.
ions and inspirations, were to be daily and
hOurly-nOt by one man, or dozen, but
by all. Unless we accomplish this sooner
or later, our system is humbug and delu-
sion. Where is this close intercommunlca-
ton with heavenly things, to-day? Where
the evidences of the nearness of the invls-
ible world to our hearts? It is years upon
years since many of US have heard even a
gifts of tongues, or felt the inspiration OF q
prophecy; and as to angels, we know many
who talk of them as of the weaknesses of
the past. Supposing a Divine Hand has
taken us off this pathway of spiritualities
for its own great ends, must we not return
before we accomplish our destiny as peo-
pie? Let any man put this question to his
soul, and the answer must be that we must
return, and that speedily, and become a
greater church of spiritualities than ever,
or stand confessed before the world grand
and monstrous failure.
This is but the sFbeginning of the end. 1"
The Smiths have been sowing broadcast the
seeds of discussion for the last four months.
We do not say that this remarkable article
is by any means the results of their infu-
ence or the offspring of their teachers. :
The excommunicated elders are men of
ability, thought and culture. 1t is doubt
less their well-considered and deliberate
utterance. We allude to the action of the
Smiths only for the purpose of direction
attention to the fact that in the revolution
which this article foreshadows against the
mfdllibiIty of Brigham Youngs rule and
teachings, the Mormon elders will have
bold and able co-workers, and party to
support them SO respectable in numbers
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by bull of communication.
We shall look for the next number of the
Utah Magazine with lively interest It
will contain an article in defense of the eld-
ers against the recognized head of the
church, which will command universal at
tention wherever published.
The sentence of communication to
which we refer was published full in late
number of the Deseret News.
Russian Women.
The position of the Russian women has
long been very painful one. One of the
finest of the poems of Nekrassof the chief
living Russian poet, commences with de.
scription of the sorrows of the great masses
of his countrywomen. ages have passed, p"
he says, 'fand everything else in the world
has been often changed and improved. But
the peasant woman. And so the old type
of the strong and beautiful Slavonian wo-
men has deteriorated." Undoubtedly the
Russian peasant women too often have a
look of the kind which the poet describes
an expression such as one might expect to
find on the faces of persons who have been
subjected to much hardship, and who have
lived in the perpetual expectation of pun
ishment-a worn and anxious look, and an
air as though of premature old age.
Much of this is doubtless due to the Sc
verify of the climate, with its cutting win
try blasts and it's scorching summer suns;
but though the weather may tan the skin
and account for its unpleasantly wizened
appearance, it would be unfair to charge it
with all the restless suspicion of the eye
all the melancholy curve OF the mouth.
Much of that must be considered the result
of neglect and unkindness. Even where
the husband has not been brutal, he has al
most to certainty been contemptuous
For not only has the peasant been in the
habit of treating his wife as a slave, but he
has always looked down upon her in all
good faith as q very inferior animal. This
masculine contempt has been in part ac-
counted for by the custom prevalent among
the peasants, in the days of serfdOm, of 60
ing away from their villages to the towns
in order to procure the obrok, or sum of
money annually due to their lords.
The man went forth into the world and
experience enlarged his mind, or at least
expanded his circle of ideas; but the wo-
man remained at home, confined within a
very narrow range of thought, knowing
nothing of what was going on at distance
from her own little village, never seeing
new faces, never hearing an unfamiliar
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he has no dbroAc to pay; but the habit of
roaming about the country has been con-
frmed, and he is likely to keep it up. When
the husband returns from his travels, he
naturally comes to the conclusion that his
| wife is even more foolish than he had al
ways supposed her to be, and he is more
than ever convinced of the truth of those
opinions which have given rise to a great
number of popular proverbs, such as GA
woman's hair is long, but her mind is short. "
| ''Dont go talking with women every one
knows that women are fools" ga hen ism t
bird, nor is a woman a human being.
''A dog is wiser than woman; it doesn't
go barking at it's master"
It is true that while the Russian woman
is young and good-looking she may manage
| to exercise some influence over her lord
and master, and even to keep him away for
time from the tKabak," the pot-house,
in which he laps himself in what are to
him the pleasures of Elysium. But as soon
as she loses the fast-feeting charm of per-
sonal attractiveness, all power passes away
| from her forever. and she becomes mere
| slave, little better than beast of burden,
obliged to obey the behests of one who is
too often brutal master.
Improved Match Making.
An Improvement in the process of match
making between men and women is pro-
posed by the Revolution, founded upon
the custom of certain countries in the North
of Europe. This custom is for the mar
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