Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-12-07
r Written for the Rocky Mountain Husbandman
WOMAN'S RIGHTS.

written for the Rocky Mountain Husbandman.]
WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
Rather a threadbare subject to be dis
eussed at this late day, ONE of you may
think, but l beg leave to differ with you.
We have a great many rights and privileges,
which the world would gladly accord to us
did we but demand them.
We have the right to labor, love and pray,
TO make our homes q heaven of love and
happiness, and to have them, through our
PRAYERS. overshadowed by Gods protecting
care, and were we to stop just here, these
three privileges lavishly used are enough to
fill and beautify any woman's life, to light
her eyes with heavenly fire and to impress
on her fair brow the signet OF the angel of
be if every woman loved nobly and prayed
earnestly, as many blessed ones do.
We have the right to weep with those
who weep, to comfort our friends in their
Affections, to dry the falling tears, to smooth
the brow of care, to whisper words of COM
fort to the~.despairing and words Of warning
to the reckless, and with gentle words and
loving hands to care tenderly for all by
whom we are surrounded. We have the
right to sootlle and cheer the bed of death,
the right, when earthly hopes all fail, to
point and lead the way to unfading bliss be-
yond the veil the right to reclaim the wan
dering, to deal gently with the erring and
help them onward and upward with kind
words of sweet persuasions the right to
succor the widow and fatherless to comfort
and assist them, and in turn to have their
prayers descend as the dews of heaven on
our heads. The right to guide the little
ones in paths of purity and holiness to the
feet of Him who died that we might live,
and with gentle praise and earnest love, to
cheer and brighten all their youthful days,
the right to train the intellect, to assist the
bud to expand into a flower of wondrous
beauty to guide the soul to noble aims and
'each it to look above for comfort and to
plume its wings for heavenly flight and joys
eternal.
The right to live for those we love, to
prove day by day the undying love OF a wo-
/ mans heart, and to merit the compliment
ianlel Webster once paid to a wife. He
sald; "There is nothing upon this earth
olaG can compare with the faithful attach
iheh1 OF a wife; no creature who, tor the OBJ
l Ject OF love, is so mdomitable, so persever-
Jug, SO ready to suffer and to die. Under
Tue most depressing circumstances, woman's
weakness becomes a mighty power; her
humidity becomes a fearful courage, all her
shrinking and sinking passes away and her
splft acquires the firmness of marhle-ada-
niahtne firmness when circumstances drive
ne' TO put forth all her energies under the as
piatlons OF her atfections.n
we have the right to brighten earthly
homes and make them bear a semblance to
'iose above. If you show a smiling face,
aave a kind heart and speak pleasant words,
s'e amount of happiness one can produce is
n.alealable> Wear a pleasant countenance ;
10y beam in your eyes and love glow on
sour forehead. Kind words spoken in the
SUI a'ne does more good to heal a wound
~ = sph1t than all the gold this world can
"""> 1hey cost nothing, while they en-