The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-02-12
Woman and Home.
BY A WOMAN.

Woman and homo words always insep-
arabic, on which speakers and writer's of
all time have rung innumerable changes,
until it has come to be received fact that
Woman cannot be truly Woman except she
be at home. If she would be amiable, if
she would be virtuous, if she would be use
full, if she would be happy, if she would be
beloved, she must be so at home. Her Joy,
her honor, her empire, abide at hon1e.-
Many excellent men are opposed to the
mental and social elevation of woman be-
cause they imagine that association with
men in the scientific, mercantile and me
chanieal pursuits of life, would tarnish her
purity; that by mixing with the other sex
thus, on equal terms, she would become
coarse, indicate, schemng, time-serving
and knavish. So, in order to preserve her
pure, loving and confiding, to keep from
her tender sensibilities all knowledge that
might destroy the romance of her heart,
or that might lower her estimation of him
who should be to her an object Of worship,
Man would always keep her within the
sanctuary of Home. The sanctuary of
homet What is home to woman TO the
active, telling, housekeeping wife and
mother? If her husband is an honorable
man, her home is place where her heart
and her treasures are, refuge from pain
and sorrow, even though encompassed round
about with the innumerable cares and vex-
ations which always attend the most con-
scientious and capable women in the best
regulated homes. But otherwise, if her
husband be passionate, jealous minded, in
delent, incorporate, vulgar-tongued, or a
foel-which includes all that is odious, and
lnsures him cruel and suspicious tyrant
what, then, is home to woman? There
are thousands who can reply with tears =
Ay nome Is prison, a .joyless place, in
which toll and fear and suffer-suffer in
body suffer in spirit, from fatigue, want,
crushed and faded hopes, false accusations,
upbraiding language, profanity, ridicule
and despair. My home is so far sane
tuary that it conceals my sufferings and my
shame from the public eye-from the pub.
lie sympathy also. which would act in m,
behalf. My home is a place where m,
children cluster around me, some sufferip,
for the attention which my toil-chainec
hands cannot possibly bestew some askin.
for necessariss which am not able to fur
nish; some INDUCING evil propensitie
which have not leisure properly to col
rect ; some quarreing, but bestowing upo
each other profanity and vile epithets whic
they have learned by hearing them applie
by father to their mother all this dis
tracts my brain, but must still toll on, o
night will find my task unfinished. And
after all, when have done and suffere
80 much, l dread to hear my husband
fost on the doorstep, lest he finish the lis
of my days home miseres with fault-fiad
ing or with unreasonable abuse
Here appears consideration worthy tn
attention of all those who fear that woman
would be contaminated by public associa
ton with man. Is not almost every maj
the master or inmate of some woman
homo? And it is at home that he laws asid
all the assumed graces and virtues which
are requisite in his outdoor intsrceurs
with his kind, and appears in his nativ