The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1874-10-17

Last year llItOn DuOIlsncu IN hFtlC!c IN MS
GotdeH Age, on women, which would proba-
bly, be read with attention at the present time
The article shows HIM to have been an un.
usually unhappy cynIc. But few can read
this and have much doubt about the unhappy
condition of his family No good husband
ever dashed of such abuse of the sex:
I'm tired Of hearing women called master.
iicuons that people say, because it is expected
of them. II says itself mechanically. and
only know that am lying by the bitter in
my mouth saying Il
In truth, speaking to oneself, the old monk
Was not so far out of the way, who wrote u
series Of diScourses, calling women the great.
est evils in nature. He used no gloves in
handling his theme, but called them weak
corrupt, glddy, trcacherous, selfish, wrong
bloodcd. with hearty yigor that is refresh
ing 10 read. St jerome aud St Anthony
were in the right IN despising and stunning
women, who would fam and forever set their
weak and sickly natures before man as his
object of alteration; coming between him
and his idea Of duty, patriotism, humanity,
or God. You never saw "a thin, distorted
thin.shinncd woman that didn't in her inmOst
stand AS Idle in the minds OF her friends, and
absorb every energy and thought of the man
who was her property.
selfish! There is no Selfshness ia the
world like the utter, spiritual scltishness of
women. There is not one in ten thousand
who would not rather see her husband tied
II her apron strings, or lowering about her
sofa. rather than giving his genius 10 the
world, or his services to his country, or doing
his duty in the sphere where life placed him,
provided, always he could give her Suiii-
Cicnt income to spend at the same time"
There Is 10 weakness like that of women,
and no ambition like theirs. For heavens
sake give them all they want; throw open the
lay the corner stone OF II Sage
building in every college of the land let her
turn tinsmith, barber, doctor, lawyer, mcr
chant, thief; | her come and 90, take office,
run governments, sit on jures, emanclpatc
society generally, and work out the demon
,tratlon of her incompetency TO her own sat.
siaCtion, and that of the civilized world. |
The creature cannot reach the standard, save |
by dragging il about"
They are great in novel writing: where
no mistress OF the art ever assumed or pre-
'umed an equality OF talent of men. Jane
Austen, Mrs. Edwards, Cariottc BrOntc, were
the most feminine of beings, and most hear
y rccognzers of the superiority of men.
What does Shirley say to Catharine lIestone,
and Caroline echo to Shirley, the mistress of
the Grange Find the book and read it for
yourself, the honest, hearty declaration of
mans superiority, that always comes from
the noblest women. \ good man they felt to
be their master; they delighted to find him
superior"
And superior, good and noble man al
ways will be, To any woman ever born"
Il don't mean that Simmins, the tailor, is
The superior, in all things, to Deborah, the
under the palm tree of Lachish,
br that Mrs. Cady Stanton can't outwit good
many puny men who listen to her lectures
but, taking people 10y averages, DR. Holland,
with all his platitudes and moral affections, Il
will write more that is worth considering, In
a year, than Mrs, Livermorc; and Col HAYS
lectures hold ones attention from beginning
10 end while, under Miss Dickenson's, one
-does-gct-a-littlcs sleepy"
They were made not to write epics. and
levse governments or flaunt their intuitions
over the slow reason of men; but TO marry,
bear children, guide the house, aud give mol
for anybody tc speak responsibility"
IF anything prevents their marrying, they
are To make an honest living in any way they Il
choose, without making fuss about il"
Theodore sums up tie whole matter in the
concluding paragraph:
$50, call her anything but the masterpiece
Of the race, and forswear the ignorent homage
that makes The weak creature believe her, Ii
self goddess in your eyes. There are men.
swecter, pures soundcr IN their natures than
women ever were, hope the humility of
many fine men attests, not so much the DUAL.
ity ofwhat they admire, MS of their own spir
its; and the best women simply feel offended
at the indiscretioL which cannot discover
anything lovelier in creation than ihe uer