American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-06-07

work to look to few dependence The
greatest evil % all is the lack of the right
early training, and for this the family the
parents, and society in general must be
impeached. Society casts a stigma on
women who earn their own livelihood.
and parents pray that their daughters may
never be brought so low. As to education,
Il girls training stops just where the main
part of Il boys begins. Men are allowed
full opportunity to devote themselves to
their chosen work, and are not diverted by
social demands. Women are at the beck
and call of everybody, as it Were, and
have so many society duties, so many dis
tracing little trilies to attend to, that the
wonder is not that there has not been a
female Shakespeare, Raphael, and Newton
but that women have done so much.
The problem, what shall we do with our
redundant women in England is answered
by some philosophers by proposing emf
grafton and marriage. But emigration
has already been largely tried, and Scotch,
English, and lrish women have been sent
10 Australia and America in great num-
beers without much diminishing the gravi-
y OF the problem; while as for marriage,
there is yet to be found the woman to say
" no" when the right man appears. AS
long as the number of women in Great
Britain exceeds that of the men by six per
cent, marriage will not wholly do away
with the difficulty, unless Mormonism il
tried
True marriage is the crown and glory
of woman's life; but il must be founded
on love, and not on the desire of a home
or of support, while nothing can be
more deplorable, debasing. and corrupt
ing than the loveless marriages brought
about in our upper society by craven
ambition and a longing for good settle
mapf IOyp1psS n1arrinppS and a different
standard of morality for men and women,
are the curses of modern society.
The dignity of labor is not yet properly
appreciated. We agree that work is hon
orable in man, but are not yet convinced
that idleness is dishonorable in woman.
a contempt for work is at the bottom of
the mind of a fashionable young lady.
Frivolity is SO general that it is surprising
that so much good survives IN spite of
neglect. So long as we frown down and
sheer at the efforts TO enlarge wOman's
sphere, we are encouraging frivolity and
idleness in women. We hear the inter-
ests and rights of woman spoken of as if
these could be separated from those of
man-as if men and women were creatures
of different kind
A most common and miscellaneous error
is that which would make woman the
mere shadow and attendant of her lord, as
if shadow could be a true helpmeet.
We have long heard that mans sphere is
the world; woman's is home. But women
have part in the world, too. while men
are not ciphers in the home circle The
material need of opening fresh avenues to
women is obvious; the moral necessity is
also of the utmost importance. Women
must have such occupations as will give
them true and genuine sympathies with
their fathers and husbands, who are toll
ing day by day for. their support, while
the women dependent upon them are
wearying out the hours trying to kill time.
In this way wide gull, constantly ex-
panding, is opened between men and
women