The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-02-02
STRONG MINDED WOMEN.

The husbands of strong-miHdeS
women are of no consequence fol
that matter few husbands are; but
in this age of minute aud careful
scientific investigation, when moth
| ing seems so trivial as to be unWoE-
thy the consideration of the phiIo.
sophie mind, it may not be altogeth
er out of place to gather few factl
on this branch of natural histOly
The proposition that o man and
wife are one and that one the bus.
band has been disputed by some
heretics OF this generation, but it il
useless to deny the essential unity
OF the married pair. a
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 factf
another. Facts are stubborn things.
and men and women are stubborn
facts.
However much q man may have
seemed to be before marriage with
strong-minded woman, from that
fatal hour the process of absorption
begins, and never ceases till he dis
appears utterly as an individual ex-
istence. The case of the husband
of Elizabeth Cady Stanton is an in
stance of this sort. Mr.. Stanton
before his marriage was q young
man of fine culture, broad and
liberal thinker, young orator for
whom great fame was predicted by
all who knew him, and for some
time it seemed that his native pow
ers were such as to enable him es-
cape the action of the general law
but there is no resisting the forces
of nature by slow degrees the pro-
cess of absorption went on; little
by little he sank from the public
till he disappeared from sight alto
gether as one of the editors of the
Sun.
The husband of Lucy Stone Of
fers US another variety. II. B.
Blackwell was never much before
his semi-union with Lucy Stone.
He is less than nothing now.
The husband of Pauline Wright
Davis is another unimportant fact
in conjugal history.
The husband of Mrs. Livermore
is known only by tradition. There
is a myth to the effect that an inno-
cent and worthy clergyman of that
name and of the Universalist per-
suasion once married Mrs. Liver
more. Having immortalized him
self by this feat, he retired from the
public gaze to the modest seclusion
of the domestic circle-as was very
proper.
The husband of Julia Ward Howe
did not yield to his fate without a
struggle. He made superhuman
efforts to bring himself up by phil
anthropy. He grasped at the Santo
Domingo Commission with the
clutch of despair, but it was ali in
vain. Destiny in the shape of Mrs.
Howe was too much for him. Let
as respect the courage which de-
served o better fate.
The husbands of Victoria Z.
Woodruff have climbed the hill of
notoriety solely through her medi-
umship. AS Agricola owed his i'm
mortality to the pen of Tacitus, so
DIR. Woodruff will be known to
fame only by the annals of his wife's
biographer. Col. Blood is doing
his Intellectual best to retain his in
in the columns of Wood
hull s. Clafiin's Weekly. His strug-
giles are heroic, but he may rest as
sured that he cannot escape the
general fate of his class.
Susan b. Anthony has no hus-
band. Though stern, she is merci-
full. Various desperate and devot-
ed men, enamored by her girlish
charms, have essayed to plunge
headlong into the maelstrom of
matrimony; but with firm but gen
tie hand she has withheld them
from the fatal leap, nobly refusing
to accept the sacrifice.