The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-02-11
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MRS. MANN ON MATRInONT
APIea For O!d Maids.

alive and sensible review oil DR.. Clarke Q
sex in Education" in the Herald OF
Health for February. In tie course OF
her paper she has q good word for the
unmarried women, OF whom there are
90 many and likely TO be great many
more. She Gays:
81 believe it is q fact that the higher
the state OF civilization and refinement
the mere unmarried women there are,
and yet DR.. Clarke could add his voice
to the vulgar hue and cry against them.
Such is the prevalence OF this hue and
CRY that women who are not elevated
above its influence by early inculcations
OF noble'prlnclpIes of self-respect, and OF
q lofty ideal, rush into matrimony be-
cause they are ashamed to appear to be
unsought.
The maternal feeling is as intense
and pure in many unmarried women
az in their married sisters. Indeed. il
we each take an OBSERVATION in our OWE
, circle we shall see it far more developed
in many of them than in many married
women, to whom children are bur-
den and a hindrance, and always con-
sidered and treated az if OF secondary
Importance to their pleasures, and even
to their more rational pursuits. The
world can not be divided in that way
The maternal sentiment is planted in
the heart OF every sympathetic and at'
fectionate woman indeed women Il
abnormal without it-and il not devel-
oped by maternity itself, this sentiment
may be 90 by right education, and thus
saved from becoming root OF bitter
pess such as opinions like Or. Clarkes
are calculated to plant, How many an
orphan child has found the very essence
of motherly feeling and lifelong devo-
ton ia a maiden auot? The man is to
be pitied who has not seen this In his
acau siutarce with society one almost
uishss the names to prove ones
words. Has DR.. Clarke no touchstone
within himselito prove such chsrsc-
tiers ? for he must have seen msay OF
them. The maternal feeling is often
more judiciously exercised where
the passios OF maternity-what
some moralists have called brute
maternity--hss not oeenrouseo
INTO activity by actual mother
hood. would further explain this by
a reference to those mothers IN whom
every other sentiment even that OF
! good wifehood, is absorbed by the m a.
tern a l feeling, and where, if they are
uudsciplined in mind, this feeling
makes It i'm apostolic for Them 10 see the
faults of their children, or TO allow any
one else to note them, or give them
sny aid in their correction. Even the
father is deprived o! his natural rights
to share in the care, and ls treated as
their natural enemy II be crlticlses
them. The loving but unimpsfsloned
aunt, or cooperating educator, whose
maternal feeling has been cultivated by
her vocation, can see the faults more
clearly than ouch mothers, aud can OIL
ten sugsest the remedies. l think 1t
NAV safely be asserted that the f1rst
proof OF improvement in the popular
ceiling about marriage will be there
spect for those unmarried women
whose independent lives bear the noble
fruits OF culture, benevoience and de-
yetion to human improvement. DR.
Clarke misses the truth greatly also II
asserting that the advocacy Of high
education for women emanates Chiefly
from unmarried women. None are
more eloquent in it's cause than th'
mothers-the good mothers, OF course
who have felt the pain OF their owl
deficiencies OF education when they
found Themselves mothers, and too L.
norsnt to fulfill their duties to their OWE
satisfaction. What can l do Tor m!
child? l do not know anything aoou
il, needs or how to supply them m,
own education had no system or del
nate object. and now l feel 1t worthless
Such complaints are continual an'
give oxe the feeling that every woman
should serve her time, be sne r'cn OF o.
she poor, in practical education, had o!
sctnallv being brought into contac
with children, and being taught no"
to Instruct them. l have often yentur
ed the remark that the best educated
women knew were those who mac
been practically engaged in education
I make it more earnestly than ever ,oi
education is not merely the kno"ieog'
0. sciences. languages, or systems @
philosophy, but consists in the use o
the faculties and their application Il
lite thus developed by these and otne
studies. The proper study OF man
Lind is man is an utterauce that ma
often been quoted to prove that toe e1
act sciences were inferior ooJects o
nursuit to the study Of language ana
philosophy but man can not De s'uu a
led aright without a scientific oa,l s
and this is the greatest argument 10 ::
the complete education OF women, II
: whose hands is the moulding o, u
human race. When they do not MOI;
their normal place and iunct;on-Thie'
= they can rot do if uncultlvated-.n
condition OF such portions OF the ~
d man race shows it pslpsbly."