North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-06-01

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could possibly be discussed by society
Woman should be taught how to marry
She believed that the same laws which
improved the condition of lower animal.
could be applied with excellent effect "a
the human racc. Muscle should be cul
tivated in women, and the moral nature in
men. What was wise for women was wise
for men. So long as women marry 70,
position, and men satisfy their lower
natures, so long will marriage be unhappy.
So long as women are pecuniarily depend
ent upon men, so long will women be
degraded and miserable, and live in horror
Of their daily existence. The personal
sanctity of the female was less respected
among civilized men than among brutes,
and until there is change in the condition
of this relation, 90 long will feeble children,
idiots and lunatics people our country.
IShe believed with Frances Power Cobbe,
that if dogs and horses are primarily Great
ed for their own happiness, and afierward
for their masters service, certainly women
should haye a. much liberty and consider
alton. She introduced the Lothario char
scteristics of Benjamin Franklin in a
startling peroration, which was altogether
discreditable to the remains of the poor
old fellow. She said that he left his wife
to practice the maxims of Poor Richard
while he had gay time with other ladies
in Europe. Henry Clay did not find praise
at her tongue in staying in Washington and
being gallant to pretty women, while his
wife was making butter at Ashland for
the Lexington market. She said he could
not be q wise statesman nor the father of
noble sons while he so degraded the mar
risge relatioe. His son, who died but
yesterday after 40 years in an asylum for
the insane, proved the wrongs which the
mother suffered 10 . wife. She saw bet
ter days before us. There would be bet
ter wives and nobler husbands when
women were pecuniarily the equals Of
men. Physical unions would cease when
women became independent in thought
and purse, and there would be less hearth
stones where the fires of domestic love
had gone ont.
"Alas for the shadows in our home
lives to-day. Almost every freside is
darkened with some specimen Of idiotcy,
imbecility, depravity, or lunacy. We de-
plore our social decentralization. We pass
laws to restrain crime, but in degrading
one-half Of the human race We manufac-
ture misery, disease, and death. With
wopan's education and enfraachiscment
new idea enters our social lifc--the mar
riage of the spirit and intellect which will
galvanize the world with new thoughts
and new ideas. In ushering in this high
er civilization, the brain must play the
most important part. That beautiful
myth Of Minerva, springing from the
brain of Jupiter fully armed, has deep
er significance than the world to day
dreams OF. When, in the new develop
ment of the race we shall have the true
marriage union of souls-then love,
wisdom, justice, mercy, liberty, equality,
and fraternity will make glad our earthly
pilgrimage, and men and women, so long
wanderers in the great wilderness Of life,
will regain the lost Paradise, and live in
obedience to eternal law. When mar
riage il true union Of intellect and spirit
betwees healthy, happy men and women,
and when mothers and fathers give to
these holy Offices the same preparations of
body and soul that the artist bestows on
his poem, statue, landscape, then will
marriage acquire new sacredness and
dignity, and nobler type Of manhood
and womanhood viii glorify the earth.
Applause with hands, umbrellas, and lit
tie boots.
Mrs. Bsrleigh read resolutions in re-
gard to the Mcfarland case which, were
adopted BY Sorosis yesterday and, as
they were not quite unanimously adopted,
they were read separately, and but few
noes responded to the many enthusiastic
ayes. The resolution in regard to the
purloining Of the letters Of Mrs. Richard
son received only af6rnatives. Two other
unimportant resolutions were struggling
amid ayes and hissss for adoption, but
they were lost in q general desire on the
part of various ladies to express their
views. This question was proposed
"Why did Mrs. Richardson pen loving
letters to man whom she disliked and
fearsd?' and it called forth some re-
markable responses.
One stout lady, who was rather hand
somer than she was amiable, declared,
with flushed face, that the vanity Of
man demanded it, and it was the only
way she could reach him, whereat the re-
sponse of umbrellas and hisses was d.
vided.
Mrs. Jennie june Croiy said that they
were written because every woman's ma
ture craved q response to the affection
which was in her heart, and which she
very seldom received.
Phebe Cosssns rose to say that Haw-
thorne had predicted women orators in
the "Blithdale Romance" ani then sat
down, having thanked heaven for Mrs.
Stanton. The meeting broke up with
formality. Indeed, it was difficult to
know when its dissolution occurred, but
it is but justice to declare that there were
many things uttered which were too true,
and many suggestions which it were we'll