, 1873-03-23
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young girl this reveals itself rs want OF love
with tue mature WOMAN as want Of q careor
with the most successful creature in the world
3. some time or other the flaw shows in th'
saddest share of all, loves own failure to come
to her ideal. With men, the corresponding ex
perience in poets phrase sighs itself out az
Loves sad safety.
They nre quick to find out the limit Of th
things they love. But before women have hall
begun to learn the strength and resources o1
the character that has won them, tho sudder
light in which alone heart can bo road, the
inner glow Of lore goes out, and no ono in the
world is moro strange to tie motives and secrets
of a man than the woman whom he has loved.
Love is the one SUCCEEDS Of woman, in some
shape or other, whether friend. husband, child
or protege. She puts the intensity Of her being
into either, when the rest are denied. Men
groT tired OF love in it's abundance. Women
less exacting, find even their modest wishes de:
MED. Her child grows out Of woman's arms
before ehe feels that she begins to feel the bliss
nurses, to whom her coming is lifo and day, gete
we'll and forgets her care, or dies and goes to
heaven, where people have leisure perhapa to re-
| member, but where communication ts difficult.
4 lovers fervor burns low before tho allow flame
! lights that consumes her, lifelong. She yor-
ships her husband, and sees him alone only ten
| minutes or 80 in company with the hairbEush.
An idyllic devotion to friend is interrupted by
. thousand accidents aud the heart returns upon
/ itself in mortal lauguor. Tho secret Of the
dropping eyes and inelastlc figures Of many not to
say most women. is read in these words, they have
ceased to be loved. Or rather since love il pro-
| famed, nnd i'll understood We will Say they suffer
| for wnnt OF affection, which is to them what
electricity il to life. Let woman be sad, toll
| ing, Respondent, the knowledge thnt anywhere
| IN the universe is creature to hou sho is the
first interest," whose henrt IL tender to her name,
| will suffice to nerve her and lead her confident
over struggle and dofeat to tho final victory and
meeting in which lore believes, We're this lover
| dead, 10 his shade could revisit her. and convey
to her spirit Is warm, undying consciousness OF
his regard, it would bo enough. This ASSURANCE,
whether from over Eeas or tho land beyond life,
| will quicken the currents Of her blood, send the
tush to her cheek and the tire through hor
| nerves Us no earthly cup or mortal tove-making
can. This is mystery to mon, at least many
Of them profess it is, but there mst be hours and
CONSIDERATIONS where this is revealedto them. Can
any hunger OF tho body be 60 awful as this
craving Of the soul for affection, under which
40 many noble women have sold themselves to
natures plainly their interiors, counting the ex-
change oven, if for their jewels and fine gold
they gain 3 handful OF loye7 In these desperate
bargains, the price is never paid. Tho question
il not strange, Why did such WOMAN marry
such man! ~ It is hard to make men under
stand tue answer. Il there had been 30 much Is
single warm, fnl-hearted friendship to nourish
their inncr life these women would not 30 have
denied their rink. Hungry aud thirty their
souls fsintod within then. and they were fain
to accept the first semblanco OF love that offered
itself. They say s'This man cares for me- 10
will be gentle to me, be will be his best in my
presence. and will be everything to him He |
will lovo me as my mother loved me-" Smile, |
certainly. This ia one of those things in the |
order Of Providence which most Gtly may be
labeled mysterious. |
Since lore is 80 much to q woman, Judge what |
Its loss must be- The life Of amy woman, how
ever successful. however brilliant to the eye Of
ii she has not drawn to her some one who would I
rather bo next her than anywhere else, if it were
In paradise. If her heart has not been SO alive
and warm as to gire life and warmth to another
may question whether she has notb been createdin
win. But worse ia the isolation Of q woman
bound By all the outward ties OF love without it's
aWeet persuasions. She may be dutiful to the
whether their souls revolt from such drudgery |
or not. None tho less does the: lone
llness eat into her heart, till
torpor aupervenes like that Of prisoners |
who look from the window of husbands house
on one unattainahle lover, who marry one man
when they adore another, and spend their lives
sonnetlxing the result who evoke this sympa-
and vastly prefer this hopeless pnssion thrown
in to spice what would be too commonplace |
life. I don't believe in hopeless passion after
Is. Full-grown love knows how to die when un-
married, or conscientiously-or natnrauy-didn't |
marry, but kept house. taught school, stayed ut
home, worked or leisured about Is their station
required, and find themselves secondhand in
life, filing very NARROW niches, breathing air
that does not exhllarate, hoping nothing, almost
beyond wishing, 80 passive is their lot,-thcse
Eomen deserve all the Tenderness and kindness
happier hearts havo to spare. :
The woman is not so much to be pitied who | :
vas her work or her art to absorb her. Exercise +
# body and mind wonderfully equalizes ali nor
ofd tendencies Of either. But those whose lot
Sc call retired no more escape intense suffering
nan did those prisoners Of state whose dun
icons were farthest from the light. Tho stories
u an ambitious man, herself brilliant few
ears ago, to whom in the distribution of matri-
aonial burdens fell the lot to educate her chill
ren BY her pen, while her husbands work went
ven tho elasticity visibly escaping from her
'rltinB, she suffered the last reverse OF seeing
er husbands regard directed from her to his
rosperous plans. Such another was the woman
tiers wife, and wear herself out with work che
over could understand, for which she neither
rev appreciation nor love in return.
The Little goyerness know, with tho Titan |
air and ths wild-rose face, from which anxiety
as effaced the beauty, works like q Trojan to
ipport o whole family. Her father has failed, ~
I'd she has one pupil, and copies and translates p
she watches by her youngest brother diving of
,morrhage. How blank her life looks, who
'res to think! The young widow, left to bring
, i've boys BY teaching all day and doing her
'usework nights, gave up her life for such af-
ctlon as boys commonly give their mothers
} more. The fresh-hearted. innocent woman
10 married q man welded to his ledger, and
roieally keeps her way, rearipg unlovely chill
en- With love and patience, caring for every
ty Of her station and honor Without great
miration or regard from anybody, call her
1e. No one ever heard her complaints but God,
10 only can meet them, and she wastes none
her strength in wandering desires, but faces
( blank present az men in other days faced
gulf their bodies were to fill. The woman
ose life is absorbed in care for a fractious siB-
whose temper and beauty together aro nearly
, wreck Of her, might be free and at ease il
} chose. And the young mother whip spends
self to keep her children together il the hi
'oding Of her love, when she might rcllnquish gr
care to others and be held blamelesB by most &
the world, is not the least exempt Of those so1
0 are Gagged. They arc most past the charm Bu
youth, their faces arc worn, their manner He
r1tless. Sad ones, sweet ones, the world to-
: ia il Want OF heroiems, It will find them in
|. Tho pride Of genius, OF fascination, Of
,ortunity, for which women give up the birth VT
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