The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-06-11
Urne Nortl)erner.
PAW Paw. MICHIGAN, JUNE Id, 1875.

Ep. TKUI NoRrHERNKR:-
perhsps IL would he ~ womGnly" FOR me tC
lesist and cease to put distractions in the
oath OF Progression, as Bro. j. claims my sen
,iments are doing well. ii the car docs come
laundering along needless OF distractions,
viii just stand aside and let it pass, for dc
not intend 60 be crushed beneath It's ponderous
wheels, if / am conservative cllnging to my
one.horse cart.
Water will find It's leyel--so will society. No
one demurs that the gifted Harriet Hosmer
gave up domestic ties and love of husband and
married ART instead she was fuky aware that
her love for her marble would ortlive the love
ior husband. Thus she made wise choice,
and By that choice she is to-day the pride and
praise OF the American heart: sculptor OF
rare worth by so DOING she has simply gwen
her whole energies to the WORK for which Goa
has fitted her
Again. Rosn Bonheur the wonderful arusi
Animal pa.user" sine is called. She too 10
welded TO Art While looking at the llfe-iike
canvass, who can say she has overstepped the
bounds OF womany propriety; although IN
her county wandeings she wears, invariably,
the male attire But what il her verdict in re-
gard to domestic ties 1? Why, she says boldly !:
Art is au absorbent-a tyTant; it demands
neart. brain, soul body, the entlreness OF its
yotary Sac saws, furthermore, have mar
ried Art In it my soul finds the most entire
satisfaction" thus she ls doing the work as
signed her by the Great ARTIST above.
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Hence, is it not well for women to do what che
il best qualified to do? IL she have no do
nestic tastes she commits a grave wrong when
size becomes wife, for | claim and justly too,
Gda5 htsi help cannot take the place OF wife
and mother, and I farther claim 1t to be a
woman's duty be she ever so we'll fitted for
other pursuits to care for her own household.
When YOU, my dear brother, claim that woman
IAN care TOR her own house, direct the eduea-
zion OF her children, found and keep in moving
order Woman's Rights associations or any
other public institution, you claim what cannot
be done. The house may be kept 10y servants
but it is not home for husband or young chill
dren. Ii Ii the presence of the mother that
makes the home. Whatever woman can do
'inu uOt infringe upon ner uoHestic Ieiatiouo,
that has she perfect right to do.
] have never insinuated that men want wires
for drudges and slaves. 1t is your party who
dam that. Why had an offer OF marriage
once, ~ Rhoda said in one OF her lectures, but
while her offer came from man who wanted
to go TO Europe and wished some one to care
por his house and nine children. mine came in
this language. :" neither want a mother for
my children, housekeeper nor a companion
alone, but all combined This, / think is the
want Of avery intelligent man. l do say keep
women out OF the vortex of politics not for
rear ehs may become contaminated, but there
must be poiae somewhere or society would
lose its equilibrium. Talk about woman
rights. WlIere can you find a man who is not
governed by a woman? Even YOU, dear, gen.
erous. wholesoulei brother, you can't call your
soul your own; but the beauty is you don't
know 4. You FEEL insulted now, because
make thus statement. ! think il is plain that
women have more rights than men, in most
respect5, for even where she does conform to
mau- way OF thinking, she helps to form that
sentiment. /. these would-be political re-
formers would advocate an educational qua!lf-
cation for voters think the political atuo =
sphere would SOON be Cn5urdened Of large
percentage OF present corruption.
MELINDA