Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1872-03-30

,0omanly aspirations!
AS, however, it is really woman )
lot to suffer and endure, she will pa
tiently wait her deliverance, as come
it must. The cause of her rights and
the redress of her wrongs are slowly
but surely progressing. How distinct
lv we remember the accounts OF the
woman who first went through Med
ical College in the United States, and
earned diploma! The entire medi-
cal profession was transhXed with as
constituent and horror at the daring
innovation
However, it was great stride IN
the right direction. Who can under
stand, sympathize with, and admins
ter to the relief of women 5 diseases,
with their vicissitudes, like one Of the
same sex? She combines in herself
the two-fold character of physician
and nurse, and is thus peculiarly ti;ted
for the gentle offices Of ministry to the
suffering.
AS near perfection in speech and
gesture as we ever saw III the pulpit
was personated by a lady. Modesty,
grace and refinement, shone in every
lineament of her sweet face, and mark
ed every action of her holy life. The
religion which she not only taught but
practiced, made her little lower than
the angels" Her husband, who was
also a minister, trusted in her and
her children rose up and called her
blessed
In this paper We can only glance at
few of the wrongs of women. who,
from choice or necessity, remain single,
and who at some time later in life are
thrown upon their own resources, or
sink to dependence upon the grndsing
bounty of some relative. In the strug
gle, it may be, almost for life itself,
how marked the inequality of her
chances with those of her brothers =
The latter are brought up to take their
places in legal, medical, mercantile,
mechanical and agricultural pursuits,
while the daughters are endowed with
ostentatious and superficial accomplish
ments. When thier education, such as
it is, is completed, they have little to
do but await for somebody to come
along and marry them. TO this end
their education principally tends, for,
despite our boosted instincts and love
of liberty, the paradox is daily incul-
Gated that in marital bondage and
welded servitude exists their freedom
And as though the bias of education
was not sufficient to impress them with
limitations of their liberty, they are
required, as they step into their true
sphere to acknowledge an obligation
whose first and emphatic feature is
obsdience--an obligation, too, to as
sumed superiors, indissoluble by law.
human or divine, save in rare, cXcep-
tional cases
But we have nothing serious to urge
against this education, if truly and
fully impaired. 1t is the false idea
imbibed that accomplishcs the mis-
chieyous notions Of Dependence They
are reared with wedlock as the object
Of life, when, in fact, their future
should be provided for as though no
such expectations existed
Instance family of intelligent sons
and daughters The years drift by;
father dies, and the estate which af-
forded erewhile a subsistence, now
melts into thin air The sons possess
that of which no extraneous misfortune
can deprive them-the education and
ability to take care of Themselves
The daughters, shackled alike by I'M
perious custom and inexorable man,
perforce, become dependents or
drudges, most often both. They can
not escape the inevitable alternative
concomitant to our boosted American
civilization which makes but taro class
es of women-ladies and drudges, diff
ferent only in degree, not in kind
To attain the former, or escape the
latter, they are equally powerless
The old metaphor of the ivy and
the oak" is poetic and romantic, and
fattering enough to mans vanity, but
it falls far short of answering a great
question in an age so practical as this.
Many women from sheer helplessness,
are forced into distasteful and uncon-
genial marriages. If the fates decree
for her single life, with all It's tenn
poral privations and exigencies, it may
be the happier lot. But it is sad to
think of bar tho waal, tho 1eEcota