The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1871-04-13
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1ss1 xNva "SktjeetioS Of Woma."
NiS OILY ! man here aad there who:
has any tolerabls knowledge of the
character even of the women of his own
family. I do not mean, Of their cApa.
bilities; these nobody knows, not even
themselves, because most of them have
never been called out. I mean their
: actually existing thoughts and feelings.
Many > man thinks he perfectly un-
derstand 'a0men, because he has had
al.atc Il Z. atoms with several, perhaps
with 10y Of them. II he is a good
observer, and bis experience extends to
quality As we'll ss quantity, he may
have learnt something Of, one narrow
department Of their pature-an import
ant department, no doubt. But Of all
the rest ofit, few persons are generally
more Ignorant, because there are few
ftom whom it's 50 carefully hidden.
The most favourable case which man
can generally have for studying the
character Of : woman, is that Of bis own
vile for the opportunities are greater,
md the cases Of complete sympathy
20 unspeakably raro.s And 10 fact,
this is the source from which any knowl.
edge worth having on the subject has,
I believe, generally como. But most
men have not had tho opportunity Of
studying 10 this way moro than single
case: accordingly one can, to an almost
laughable degree, infer what a mans
wife is like, from bis opinions about
woman is general. To make even this
one case yield any result, the woman
must be worth knowing, and the man
not only a competent judge, but Of a
character 50 sympathetic in itself, and
90 we'll adapted 70 hers, that he, can
either Tead hsr mind BY sympathetic
intuition, % hes nothing ia himself
which makes her shy Of discl o,lng It.
Hardly anything, I believe, can be
nors rare than this conjunction. 1t
often happens that there is the most
complete unity OF feeling and commuui.
tJ u interests Is to all external things,
~ tbs one has n little admission into
t = \ sintsrnsl life Of the other as if they
wars common acquaintances. Even
With true affection, authority on The
oas side and subordination on the other
prsvent perfect confidence. ;, NV % ~, ~ |
IS AQ these difheults stand 10 the way
q 9 mans M, obtaining any thorough
.knowb dgs even Of the one woman !.
\. shon aloas, in general, he has suf
.aeisnt opportunity Of studying. When
xtsfuithsr consider that to understand
- vomas is5noss nscsssarily to under:
Sand any other woman that even if
shs could study many women Of one
raDk or ofous country ,she would not
thsrsby undcrstand women of other
isaaks. o. countries; and even if be did,
they aro still only the women Of q single
period fof history; We may safely assert
that the knowledge which men can
'aeqtiys OF women, even Is they have
bssn9 and sre, without reference to what
they night be, y wretcbedly imperfect
and superf,ral, and always will be SO
until VOL themselves have. told al
that they have to tell = -----~ =
One thing W may b certain Of,
;thaa q what 4 contrary to women's nature
. d, they never will be made to do by.
Ylirply giving their nature free ! play.
Tho anxiety Of mankind Is interfere "a
behalf Of nature, for fear lest nature
should not succeed in effecting its pur-
= % altogether unnecessary isoliei.
I'D. What women BY nature canno.
Sdo, i i quite superauous to forbid
e t Il !. from e doing. What they can do,
but not % we'll g tho men who are
tlsir competitors, composition suf6ces
"a exclude them from; since nobody.
- stor protective duties and bounties
a. iayor Of women; il is only asked
ths present 81 bountis. and protective
y, fayor Of men should Be IL
4 I'D z women have Z greater Datur.
q a. ell l. non for come things than for
!! hsls i NJ need Of laxs q social
i. 1ia a.'ll e make tho majority Of