St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-05-01

NolStH w
kind is Nature-never without restraints
that she steadily improves what We
strive to impair At the summit OF
creation are man and woman. the III
heritors of time and its entire fruitful
ness. Through them must future cycles
be formed. and each individual. how
ever humble, must discharge his i'll
tintesimal part. We are most of lis
mere automatic, incapable of doing any
appreciable amount of good but we
can refrain from certain sum of evil.
We should not retaliate for ourselves
upon oui offspring. If we he unhealthy
in mind or body, balanced, selfish.
gloomy. positively and palpably deli
cient i'll any way, we need not fear that
our imperfectiOms shall not be redun-
dainty represented inpopulation. There
are dozen crippled minds to one sound
understanding. The MANNED are al
ways starting for some prize in life, and
are so ugly from inability to win it that
they decide to reproduce incompetent
runners for the course. We should
negatively benefit our kind by refusing
to augment its failures or, if resolved
on the risk of transmission, we should
try to select as partners those who
might measurably amend our made
quacies.
The fact is otherwise. They who
should never have been in the world,
so far us we can judge. are the most
active i'll filling it. Man, like Il weed.
grows in proportion to his worthleSSneSS.
He fills space that could he better used :;
chokes products of value by his rank
ness. He of whom nature needs copies
is slow to furnish them. Comprehend
ing the full responsibility. the uncer-
tain results of paternity. he practiSeS
self denial yields offspring sparingly.
The average man Is needless of poster
ity. Selecting the most convenient
womau-hcr who offers least resistance
he becomes practically an optimiSt,
without knowing the meaning of his
own act. His philosophy is condensed
into 1T is all right ~ though on his
conduct wholesome doubt might hinge.
| His children are born OF die: struggle
into wrctchedness slip into disgrace
have some good fortune with much Ill.
Bnt whatever the warming. he takes II
not. He Solaces himself at the eXpcmS,
of his family. Its members Seem les
| to him than matter of dollars and
cents He would give more immedlat,
attention to his horses and cattle than
! to his own flesh and blood. Those must
he zealously looked after: these. as re-
spccts him. can look after themselves
1t is phenomenon of our civilization
that the product of animals Is mon,
aSSiduously studied than the product
of ourselves. Souls presumed tn bt
immortal may not he harmed 10y me-
lect. Beasts that perish claim spccia
consideration.
Woman has finer apprchcn>ions. NOR,
conscientious principle. Maternity. will
her. signifies devotion. absorption. Sh,
will sacrifice herself inStinctivcly tnl
her children. but never her children Il
herself Her love renders her wise
She would practise an enlightened
economy she would not voluntarily
bear what could not he fifty provided
for. Usually, however. this is not with
in her option. She makes the best al
what She cannot help; hcc"me> shafcl
in impIudcmcc she is unable to check
80 stuffed has She been. from her child
hood. with fallaciuu> lessons. that Whcr
she arrives ut maturity she i afraid t.
hold opinions of her own. She car
>tdltt'lN ttll Nlltl >Ilt ptlRNf>. ! ll'
conflict between assertion and reason
conNcntionalitN aud intuition. has crca
ted chaos i'll her mind. After many in
ward struggles. she accepts what is lai'
down toI her else. she would be pc
culiaI that is, judge for herself t-,n'
pcculiarity in her sex is not venial
One of her first Instructions is that Sht
must he married to what kind of man
and under what circumstances. il mat
) ters little. If he who first proposes fo
her hand he not attractive. she declines
Later. she learnt that to expect to low
Il man before he becomes husband i
the widest romance. After marriage
affection, interest, sympathy follow
She is rash To wreck her prospects h.
refusal. If She wait much longer. Sh
will he an old maid. There is nothin
terrible in the woldS and she contcSSc
she thinks it better to bc such than t.
we'd in cold blood. What Socil
. hcresy, IIer rectitude is speedily 50
! wrong. 70 he an old maid is To fly i
, the face of Providence, which must h
, fearful thing, since nobody know
what it means.
Seeing that those about her do uo
hold her opinions, nor act as she want
to act she takes the next man VIII
offers himself. and she is settled I'll
saddest SenSe-tOr life. The affectlo
> and sympathy that were to come. re
, treat rather than advance. Her hear
aches; her eyes grow red with happi
ness. She is so lonely and wretche,
and no one to tell it to. Maternity
prescribed as medicine for her giief:
: and not too early. There is comfort i
f the little stranger, who does not frowI
nor chill her impulses fast as they ris,
1t is her child. She wonders sometime
f if it he really'his. How frequently it
: baptized with tears, Other childre
> come but the father is no tendere
! Their noise is excuse for absence; an
: absence would he kindness, were thcr
] no return. Children should he born
5 mutual love, the mother thinks-not
Indifference and anxiety, of selfishne;
, and SORROW she wishes, therefor
e there had been but one. Her beaut
L and her youth are gone; her spring an
= spirit broken. She has no hope of vii
e ming without these what she could IL,
= win with them. She has fulfilled. 81
i is told, the Divine command-as
e Divinity were direct cause of wretche,
e ness as if the greater the misery. I'll
o nearer heaven. Unregenerate heiI
t that she is, she cannot help thinking 81
+ would better have kept her unblighte
:. celibacy I; that humanity, on the Who'll
:, would have been the gamer.
s Thus is woman's individual happine
!. subjected to generalization. What
: good for her under certain conditions
V affirmed to be good under all condition
!. Undeniably, she is more contente
;, double than single; her life is large