The Hickman courier., 1874-02-28

! - sSFasr = :. - aoee and charity
! These, however, It will be observed
are modern saints: and as we come
down with ages and find men more con
siderate, civil and decent in their Owl
way of life, we meet at once with more
rosy eulogies and more exhaustive criti
cisms on women. God, who repenteC
of having made mn," says Malherbe
for example, "nerer repented OF ma
king woman.
= o woman lovely wman, Nature made thee
To temper man we lad been brutes withou
you.
Angels are painted far to look like you,
exclaims the path.tic and unfortunate
Otway.
Shakespeare, wlo saw all things toe
clearly to make positive staten ents, OF
lay down general hws of anything, he's
a great deal to say ibout particular Wa
men, but not single decisive word
about women in tsaabstract. unless we
choose to take Hamlit's passions for the
poets philosophy.
Alphonso of CASTLE, who had a prac-
tical plan for regene'ating mankind by
killing nine out of zen, and was sure
] that if he had been Consulted about the
/ making of the world it would have
/ been better made, dispOses of woman
| in these words "She IS human being
who dresses, babbles, and undresses. y
| Rousseau, on the other hand, who
/ went about the worldequally convinced
/ Of it chaotic condition, and equally
sure that he could put it to rights, -
/ but was as sensitive as n plucked bird,
1 aud always in hot water, declares that
! womensare the fairest half of crea
I - = ,,ouar.khalagC 10
admit that Z" it is women who uuloose
all the tempests which trouble the
world"
Chancellor Oxenstierne, who found
it easy to govern kingdoms. aud bade
his son to 90 note at Paris chow little
wisdom sufficed to rule the world,
frankly confessed that " n very little
woman may be a very great burden"
Chesterfield, who looked on the whole
OF life as n gertlemaDly game OF whist,
considered women to be children of a
larger growth, who have the faculty of
speech, and somstimes the quality of
wit Ia my whole life, he adds,
however, I" I hare never known one
woman who had common sense or the
reasoning faculty, or who could either
act or reason cansistently for twenty
Victor udSo' warize himself as a
mense Raallplss. Ral pls.s, " tS1einale sex, and was sad
T,othario in his youth, goes much fur
ther, because he goes much deeper,
than the most malignant saint IN the
calendar in his physiology OF women
A woman" observes this amlable heir
of the Proveucal bards, " n woman Is
a highly improvedkind of demon.
Casiner Deumas had already uttered
the same thought in another form
" God may have begun to make woman,
but the serpent completed the work
Cuias is worse than Alphonso OF Cas-
tile. " Woman, snarls this wretch,
" are not properly 10 be included IN the
human species.
Montesqueie was more civil and more
temperate. "Woman," mildly say the
author of the Lettres Persanes, has a
heart of starch.
Moliere, who indeed had no gre at rea-
son TO respect the sex to which the iaIr
Beiart belonged, thought the whole
sex created Just to damn the world
but Calderon, who has shown IN Ia rs
tre{la dc .SduiLla how much Justice he
would do to womanly virtues, admits
that women are dish worthy OF the
pods-when not seasoned by the cevll.
AltltOD, MIOSt III L41NAS -
was more varied than agreeable, inclines
to the view of Aristotle, and pronounces
woman a dramatic mistake of nature.
BaIzac. on the contrary, who studied
woman more profoundly than any man
who ever put pen to paper, and who has
| frightened more women by sudden
glimpses of their inner selves than any
father confessor ever comforted, comes
q the con lusion that "woman is the
most perfect of creatures, and transl
torial being between the man and the
angel"
De Stendhal, who asked that 1t should
be inscribed on his tomb Vjsse, Anao
Scrisse, and who has crystallzed the
stuff of hundred novels in his maxlms
aud reflections de amour, made up
/ his mind finally that ''woman IS SIM
| ply delicious musical instruments, OF
which love is the bow. and man the
artist. It follows fr6IpsS Ess .Slmlle,
| that, as a bad violinist ~ -EeES3soon
| spoil the best Cremone, it1s the men
who are really, after all, responsible
when he women get out of time a
| consideration worth pondering, alike
| by the judges of divosce courts and by
those who have no aeS ss<1s-to make their
acquaintance
Alfred de Musset, whose glorious
genius burned itself out in disappoint-
ment and absiqtte, ayenges his lie up on
himself by recording his doctrine that
woman is just the pres<xs.s all
known birds.
whom pulmonary consumption is the
only female religion, as might be ex-
pected. has uttered a great many out
raqeous impertinences concerning wo-
men. Heaven" he exclaims, IS in its
m -rciful providence, gave no beard to
women because it knew that they could
not hold their tongues long enough to
be shaved"
"For the sake of women" observed
the same individual, men dishonol
themselves, ruin themselves, kill them
selves; and in the midst OF this univer
sal carnage the creature. who brings i
to pass has only one thought in hel
mind, which is to decide whether sh'
shall dress herself so as 10 look like al
umbrella or like Gunner oell
Women themselves have not Away
I,sa, very complimentary to their sex
ITj1a;r criticisms on woman indeed poin
~ tha saving that there is nothing
eel no duration, no vitality in tn
sentiments of women foi each other
They are mere pretty bows of ribbon
!, 0restes and Pyfades have no sisters.
Madame Necker, the clever mothe
, of cleverer daughter, was cruelest in he
! verdict when she meant to be kind; sh
saws of her sex Women fill mp th
, intervals of conversation and of Iii
: like those wads OF cotton with whic
: baskets of china are packed; nobod
! thinks anything of the lwads, and y,
without them all the basket would l
S brokeni"
S Mirabeau, whose stormy life was OF
. long whirl of trouble about womel
4 gives them Ike value, when he e
| are not more difficult to calculate tbs
/ the movements of woman's heart, al
5 mind, and se1f-loye-- The more / see
them, he says, i" the more convinced