The Portland daily press., 1874-04-16
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u; But far more often is it from high
~ ~ueI Vi marriage from true nobility Of char
aoser, a, OF from devotion TO some other rela-
oa Mn'cn seemed paramount, that woman
S,ns ;',,, T., single. How many woman, hid
d Char, -. secret heart the romance that gave
oI;ai ouarm 10 her youth, but did not find its
reanty IN life. has devoted herself m tbe .er-
M we Vi humanity with all the passionate de-
| .oeoii Vi lover to his mistressl OF sncb an
ohe, 10 wnom hundreds of belness habes
| .:N. Up as 70 guardian and protector. an
an.'st sdlu: one has the mother in her face ;,
We o"e 100 much 10 this noble class of
| women, in art, literature. and pb b.lantbronbo
and in the service OF the country i'm its most
trying hour, ever to forget their claims, and
be will be forever stigmatized as unworthy OF
the name of pure and noble manhood who
sneers at the virtue which he cannot under
siand,o vilifies with opprobrious epitbets the
noble women whom Theodore PsIker-God
bless him for the word-caled his GLORIOUS
phalanx of old maids"
Another wrong is often done 10 the young
girl, under the name of prudence or worldly
wisdom, by breaking down her idea of life,
and especially her ideal of the possible part
ner OF her future life. Tennyson speaks of
one form OF this, in addressing the vain ro-
quette as the possible mother:
see the old and formal fitted to thy petty part
"''" danah m.ae hoa'd Of maxims. preaching down
Men often speak of the pain il is to them to
see tue debasement of woman, because she
represents to them an ideal OF good, the other
noDler self Tor which they pust strive Man
should represent the same thing to woman
Love should see in its object the very crown
and glory OF creation.
The person 1--we TO us doth nt
Like mamma, hath the taste OF all In It
But the low social standard of morals and
manners for man has daoradad hin, tho,
the very ideal of manhood is betted, and the
mother warns her daughter not to expect
much from her future husband; she has no
right to hope for the loyalty OF Sir Philip Syd-
ney or the pure ideality of Michae. Angelo
1t is great wror g to man to demand so little
from him. All human beings from childhood
upwards are stimulated by The opinion en-.
tertained of them, and the claims upon them
for noble and high behavior. Whatever your
own experience, do not thrust the poison of
doubt aud unbelief in goodness into a d. ugh
ter's mind. Let her keep her faith and her
romance, and look for hero to win her young
heart. True. it is hard to see Thaddeus of
Warsaw with cigar in his mouth. or to i'm
agine Hamlet with blue veil about his hat,
but nevertheless the race of heroes is not ex-
tinct, and the girl had better preserve her faith
and her love till the knight appears, than ac-
cept the dreary belief that ali men are alike
unworthy, and that she must not ask for a
purity and truth which exist only in the dreams
of romance. Mans low idea OF woman has
reacted upon him; her elevation will restore
him to his true dignity, as equally entitled to
spiritual and moral elevation of soul aud re.
fiaement IF manners with herself. 1t is as
demoraizing to young women to hold men in
contempt as it is for young men to have low
idea of women, ''In honor preierring one
another is the true condition of love, aud no
one has truly loved who has not exalted the
beloved tar above ones self.