Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-05-12
STR0NG-MINDED WOMEN.
An Eloquent Picture and a Fine Ton
frast.

true and the false strong minded
women: '.
i Gentlemen, In these days we have
many new theories put forth. II is
said to be a progressive age, and |
hope it will continue so, SO far as
progress in wisdom, in learning, in
the arts, in religion, in morality and
in a proper sense Of our duties toward
ore another shall go. But there are
certain persons who dignity by the
name of progress every vicious
thought which vicious men and
women put forward for the utter des.
truction and debasement of society.
That kind Of progress ! aUhor.
| like
THE TRUE STRONG MINDED WOMAN,
love aud reverence her-the wo-
man OF cultivated intellect, of pure
heart, of honest impulses. sensible
of her duty to her husband, TO her
children, to all her relatives, and to
mankind in general; the woman
who walks in the path of charity
and Kindness, who seeks TO reclaim
the fallen, who administers consola.
tion to the sick aud the poor and the
afflicted; who, a. the head of u
household, sets glorious example 20
her children growing up around her;
who, in the relations of wife, mother,
sister, daughter and citizen, does all
she can to make all around her hap~
py, good, virtuous and true who
exercises the blessed faculties which
God has given her in their direction;
who succOrs those who stand in need
of succori who, wherever she goes,
anh In whatever walk of life she may
be placed, carries blessings every,
where with her. These strong mind.
cd women are the crown and glory
of society. To them we owe-we
men-to their teachings, their exam.
pie, we owe all that is good and vir-
tuOus In us. To them we look for
tho correction OF our errors and our
faults. We admire, we adore. we
venerate them. 10 this class belongs
that unfortunate lady who was on
the witness stand before you, and
who, in the spirit of truth, and hon
or and uprightness, told you the sad
story of her wrongs. She had borne
much, she had suffered much hut,
with an undaunted heroism, she had
gone through all her troubles; she
had bent all the energies of her life
TO restore the happiness of that fam
lily circle. She is good, Il true, n
virtuous woman. / would not de-
grade her<by making any contrast
| now.
THERE Is.ASoT1IER CLASS
of so called strong minded women,
who have mission 10 reclaim and
suhdue the brute mcu, to reduce him
to absolute obedience and suhjection,
II class of women who are wiser than
their generation, class of women
who think the ordinary humdrum
regulations of society are not adopt-
ed to their superior intellectually /;
that these miserable common rules
that would attach the husband TO the
wife, and which would impose upon
earthly marriages certain obligations
aud certain duties-that these hu.
man laws are oppressive upon the
other sex; that man is n kind of
creature whose mission 10 is To tram
! pie upon woman who never attend
TO their own business, but are al ways
anxious to interfere in the business
OF others, who are not satisfied with
any existing social relations, or any
ordinary accepted view of social life
and social duties; who have a mis-.
sion" on earth 10 make themselves
and everybody else miserable; n class
OF women who are always pratinp
about domestic duties, but yet x,
about the streets with unclean petit.
coats and dirty stockings; class oi
women who think IL all right that
every women should seek her allini-
ty-she may marry who she pleases
In the meantime; that Is mere
earthly arrangenent--she may have
children by half dozen husbands
hut when she finally finds and dis,
covers her affinity, she has got tc
leave the other half Il dozen aud
she discovers that, although she has
already been married six times, thai
there is mission from heaven /,
unite herself with some other wo.
mans husband, and that God AL.
mighty, as this woman develops in
her correspondence, has decreed tha,
man who has been married fol
twenty five years without any idea
that he had any particular mission
except TO support aud maintain hi.
family and himself, to. educate hi,
children, to advance them in knowl
edge, anu i'm all that goes TO dignity
manhood aud womanhood-that sh,
has a right 10 take that man from hi,
wife and children, and nppropriat,
him TO her own use, and live with
him just as long as she continues Il
think that that marriage maze il
heaven lasts. She may change hei
mind ; she may discover her mistak,
the singular notion which led her L
unite with this affinity may have
passed away, and she may meet an
other man whom sl,e discovers to b,
her affinity also, aud he may have ,
wife and children. Aud So we go OF
with this progressive doctrine Of af
finity, until We destroy, all at once
all the sahctity of the family rela
tons, or peace. or comfort, or securi
ty of the husband, the wife, and th,
paren, and child until you make
perfect Pandemoninm upon earth. :
And that Is progress.
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JOSH BILLINGS says that ii ID yer,
easy 10 repent ov the sins we hav,
committed, but to repent ov thos,
we intend tn commit liz askipv To,