The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1870-05-27
From the Round Tablet
TRUE wOMANHOOD.

From the Round Tablet
TRUE WOMANHOOD.
Miss Logan contends that the Wild
Woman's Rights Womon are the
models OF true womanhood. We are
growing very sick Of this phrase,
" True Womanhood," and in its per-
yerted sense we loathe it. We despise
the true womanhood which vaunts it.
self on the platform and proclaims
aloud its intention of "choosin0 the
Father Of its Child" It is spurious
and its scrofulous doctrines are far too
progressive for our understanding
and too filthy for our touch. Let ii
seethe. But OF the Womanly Women,
who happily exist in reality outside
the feverish pale Of political humbug
and poisonous socialism, who never
parade themselves in print, we would
speak word. There are hundreds OF
Womanly Women who are the salt OF
this city. There are bright, CHEEKY
gentle creatures going about like living
prayers among the sick and poor and
the forsaken, and the impure, into
foetid alleys where Olive Iogan's vel
vet skirt never trailed and Susan An
thongs vapid thunder never echoed.
They are womanly enough, God
knows. although their white hands
rest on sores and horrors, and their
pure breaths mingle with contagion
and their gentle eyes see grossness
unutterab]e, and their soft tones
parley with monstrous infamy. God
bless them they take to themselves
the woman's Heaven-ordained right
TO console and solace and succor the
need and heartsore, the sick and the
sorrowful, although they dream not OF
asking the right of mixing in the sinful
maelstrom at the polls.
We would invite Mrs. Blaker, OF
Mrs. Livermore TO go and spend one
night in q hospital in this or any othe,
city in christendom managed by the
Sisters Of Mercy. and then to come
back and repeat to US whether they or
the silken-clad members Of the Sorosia
effect most honest work; to tell us
candily and in good faith where We
shall find the present sample of Wo-
manly Woman.
There is little Sister, bright, active,
helpful, farseeing. She is young
thing; not yet twenty-one, but al
though she mas never stamped up and
down the platform at Cooper Insti-
tute, or made believe to weep into a
twenty-dollar lace handkerchief, she
has more brains than Olive Logan,
and more wisdom than the whole
mouthing pack Of female reformers.-
1t is her night to stay up and watch
Look at her little bright figure fitting
around the hospital ward. See hel
small, cool hand resting on the scar.
let forehead of some poor sufferer. -
See her smoothing the pillow of one
acd giving drink to another. See hel
shade the light from the one who fol
lows her every movement with great
wide, wakeful eyes having the fire o.
deadly fever in them. See her mouti
quiyer when she hears the morta
groans of the big strong man who wa,
brought in to-day with his neither
limbs crushed. See her so and helI
him, and look at him with such muts
eloquent sympathy that he forgets fol
an instant his pangs. See her tax,
the death message of another ant
speak to him Of mercy, and close hi
rigid eyes and pray over him.
All, it is beautiful, all this, and no
BILE, and womanly, and full Of courage
and to our minds it is nobler mis-
sion" than editing the Rerolution o.
yelling Mt s::ffrnge meetings or calling
our dissentient neighbors Whit.
Sepulchers," or even wearing q velve
dress and ambusing ones sex to tht
tune of fifty cents per head.
Outside the Order of Mercy there
are also thousands of Womanly Wo
men. We do not mean to say tha
this little Sister whose night it is tt
watch and who has to call up the 9th
er sisters at half past four in the morn
ing, and who does not go to bed her
self after her toilful night, because the
following day it is her turn to do the
cooking for the establishment, an6
who is bright and cheerful and happy
as lark--we do not mean to say thai
she is the only Womanly Woman in
the whole world. Oh, no, she is but
one of q class; and thank God, there
are many classes; and thank God, the
Wonianly Woman is the rule and the
abnormal woman who scolds and
threatens, and shows herself with
bluzen 'front.'" is the exception
There are actresses, and singers, and
ballet girls, and policemen's wives,
and washer women, and slop workers
even clearinghouse mistresses-
who are real and true and hardwork.
ing and womanly to their hearts core,
although they may not read the Rero.
luton and have never heard of Olive
Logan. Aye, there are even literary
women, who make bread out of theil
brains, and who use pen, and "whe
weep for the press and wipe their eyes
with the public" and yet are Wom-
anly Women.
EDWIN FORREST.
Yesterday, through the politeness
I