Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1870-04-05

solteuS ana makes c0nQueStS Dy the very IOrct
of her perfect aoon,anRness' ss''-Mrs Browning
with womanly intuition, and the Carys with
their touching heart-melodies so much like
their. own sad hearts with their brilliantly gor-
geous dreams, and hosts of others who are
sending abroad their womany influence
Strengthening US to 60 on bravely.
How different the pernicious influence of a
Stowe-a Hamilton or their sisters in such lit
erature as the foodgates of publishers have
opened upon us. There are those Of our sex
sending out from rural and city homes their
God-given influences, filling church and State
with men who will strive to make right laws
and who preach the Gospel of the meek Naz-
arene.
AS for woman suffrage, God grant this may
never come upon us Give us the right of du-
ty faithfully performed, the right of mind COM
prehensively expanded, the right of aoonqnly
labor, the right of womanly yearnings gratifed,
but the right of suffrage, never! Ye fates, for
bid it
We Gao never be mans equal in all things,
neither is it desirable, 1t as a reform against
nature. Our Myra, as the lady ~ lawyer
of Chicago is termed by her brothers of Black
stone, looks well-at least the picture does-at
her desk in her Office with all the appurten-
ances and surroundings of womanly taste aud
culture; with her books, her pictures, her
mirrors, her birds, her flowers and her husband
In his judgeship there to protect her from in
suit, but very different picture would it be to
see this same "Myra" making her way alone,
through crowd of rabble such as must neces-
sarily convene In Courtroom. with rolls of,
parchment and documents of law up to the
bar 10 plead with men, No, the Courtroom is
no place for woman S voluntary presence The
significant answer to a question put to a young
lawyer, how he would like his wife to be law
yer, speaks the sentiment of all right thinking
men and women. Well said he, 'sif she
had sense enough wouldn't care; but if she
had sense enough for that, she acould,a't aoant
to be q ld,oyer. o., fr-,...f, .,ts III 7ea,
Let the Anthonys, the Stantons and Dick
ensons clamor in their masculine glory for such
things, if they find happiness in fulfilling their
ambition thus; but let US be content to think it
much nobler to wrap ourselves in the drapery
OF virtues, which grace ennoblipg and glorious
womanhood. We were made not with man
but for man. The Good Father saw that man
with all power given him, all domination over
creatures, all succumbing to him was not COM
plete; he was made in Gods image and had
imbued within him a protective instinct: be
needed something to love, something to share
his ambition, a help meet for all the unfolded
future; when Eve stepped forth in all her pris-
tine Eden loneliness he took her to his shelter
ing bosom and felt the first throb of perfect
bliss, and sang his first song of perfect thanks
giving That woman was not formed from
mans head to domineer, from mans feet to
be trampled upon, but near his heart to be
loved and protected contains all, and the one
who first propogated the idea has woman's
mission in full. With the heart we have to
deal, cultivating our virtues, and expanding
our influence over the lives of others. In all
ages woman's influence has welded indomita-
BILE sway-we have the first lesson of this pow
er of influence In all its strength in "the Fall"
Adam ate the apple just because Eve gave it
to hint was a little mean in him to say So
but nevertheless it was true, he could not re-
sist her influence. $500
Let our influence then be potent for good,
expanding our powers in whatever station we
are placed, in such manner that in the Great
harvest-ingathering we can come as faithful
workers, not with tares but with golden
sheaves for the Thresher's hand, come with
our talents not spent upon the rostrnm-at the
bar-in the pulpit-not hidden-not buried
but gathered from the homes we have beauti-
fed with our hands, the friends that we have
blessed and cheered with our influence, from
words of kindness which have fallen from our
lips on hearts that were weary, from words of
encouragement given to the faint hearted and de-
spairing. from beds ofsuffering we have soothed,
in fulfilling 'as much as ye have done it unto
one of these ye have done it unto Christ, from
lessons we have taught of woman's patience, of
. G. . e.