The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-01-26
From the Golden Age.l
STRONG MINDED WOMEN.
Their Husbands Historically Dissect-
ed-A Woman Writes mp the Matter
for Theodore TfltOn.

Their Husbands Historically Disseci
ed-A Woman Writes up the Matte
for Theodore Tilton.
| The husbands of strong minded wo
men are of no consequence; for tina
matter few husbands are but at thi
age of minute and careful scientific
investigation, when nothing seems 81
trivial as to be unworthy the consider
alton of the philosophic mind, it may
not be altogether out OF place to gath,
er few facts on this branch ofnatura
history.
The proposition that a man and
wife are one, and that one the hus-
band, has been disputed by some
heretics of this generation, but it is
useless to deny the essential unity OF
the married pair.
Observation proves that either the
husband and wife are one, and that
one the husband, or that the husband
and wife are one, and that one the
wife.
Theories are one thing and facts
another. Facts are stubborn things,
and men and women are stubborn
facts.
However much a man may have
seemed to be before marriage with a
strong-minded woman. from that IA
tai hour the process of absorption
begins, and never ceases till he disap
pears utterly as an individual exist
ence. The case of the husband of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is an instance
of this sort. Mr.. Stanton, before his
marriage, was young man of fine
culture, a broad and liberal thinker, a
young orator for whom great fame
was predicted by all who knew him,
and for some time it seemed that his
native powers were such as to enable
him to escape the action of the gen.
cral law-but there is no resisting the
forces oi nasGIs.;.ssy = slow degrees the
process OF absorption weus. On; little
by little he sank from the public view,
till he disappeared from sight alto
gether as one of the editors of the
San
The husband of Lucy Stone offers
US another variety. III. b. Blackwell
was never much before his semiunion
with Lucy Stone. He is less than
nothing now.
The husband of Paulina Wright
Davis is another unimportant fact of
,oniugal history.
The husband of Mrs. Livermore is
Known only by tradition. There is
myth to the effect that an innocent
md worthy clergyman of that name,
md of the Univeralist persuasion, once
married Mrs. Livermore. Having
himself by this feat, he
etired from the public gaze of the
modest seclusion of the domestic cir
'le-as was very proper.
The husband of Julia Ward Howe
lid not yield to his fate without a
He made superhuman ef-
orts to bring himself up by philan
hropy. He grasped at the Santo
Domingo Commission with the clutch
# despair, but it was all in vain.
Destiny, in the shape of Mrs. Howe,
vas too much for him. Let US re
peot the courage which deserved a
'etter fate.
The husbands of Victoria G. Wood
ull have climbed the hill of notoriety
olely through her mediumship. As
Agricola owed his Immortality to the
en of Tacitus, so DIR. Woodruff will 8
'e known to fame only by the annals 6
t his wife's biographer. Colonel '
blood is doing his Intellectual best to
etain his individuality in the columns
( WoodhuU 6 Clafin's Weekly. His
truggles are heroic, but he may rest
ssured that he cannot escape the
General fate of his class
Susan B. Anthony has no husband.
'hough stern, she is merciful Vari I
us desperate and devoted men, en-
mored by her girlish charms, has s
sssyed to plunge headlong into the |
naelstrom of matrimony; but with
rm but gentle hand she has withheld /
hem from the fatal leap, nobly re- {
using to accept the sacrifice.
This list of unimportant husbands i
night be prolonged indefinitely, but
hese are quite sufficient to prove the
ruth of the general principal which |
ave stated. / have spoken only of
be husbands of the most prominent
mong the strong minded women,
ut should any doubter desire further
vidences, i need only reinforce my
osition by bringing up the husbands
f the lesser as well as the larger
tars in the woman's right firmameft
)ne and all would prove that thereol
re no exceptions to the general rule
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