Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-05-11
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
CONDUCTED BY J. F. LANGENBAUGH.
THE IDEAL WOMAN.

AccOIulnB 10 all recognized tradl-
tions and all prevailing ideas, the
chief business of woman is to be
beautiful, attractive and agreeable.
High moral or intellectual qualities
are not demanded of her. If she has
winning ways-if she knows how to
please. to charm, to amuse, she full
Ills her mission. Such being the de-
mand, how can we wonder at the
supply? III a man can form no high
er ideal OF womanhood than this. or
can heartily admire none more lofty,
what wonder that the reality so sell
dom transcends it? II the best and
foremost men pay their homage to
frivolous women with shallow hearts
ard unfurnished minds, what incen-
tive is given TO those of the sex who
are capable of something better to
strive to realize their nobler aspira-
tions? So long as man seeks moth
ing i'm her but a toy or a plaything,
she will feel content to be what he
desires. And so it is that in our day
the most cruel of woman's wrongs"
is the wrong that is done her in ig-
noring her higher nature and capa-
bilities: the most valuable OF wo-
mans rights, is the right to be
great and noble creature-not a pup
pet or plaything. The odd notion
of woman's intellectual inferiority to
man has long been exploded. The
intellectual difference is now well un-
derstood to be difference in quality,
not in degree. When we see Mrs. NJ.
J. Holmes, Mrs. NJ. A. Fleming and
Mrs. Nj. V. Victor, not TO speak of
others, distancing all male competi-
tors i'm the field of fiction; when we
see Rosa Bonheur taking the palm
from all living rivals in her line of
art, we see that women are equal to
something nobler than is demanded
OF them. But all the signs of the
times indicate to the sagacious OBJ
server, that the old ideal OF woman
hood is soon destined to give place
in the mind Of mind OF man TO a lof-
tier and worthier type.
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.
Queen Victoria was the only child
of Edward, Duke of Kent Ga son OF
George ILL and Maria Louisa Vic
toria Of Saxe-Coburg, who was sis
ter of Leopold l., of Belgium. Her
family name was Guelph and sprang
from the house of Brunswick, which
has two lines-the royal i'm England
and the ducal in Germany.
There is no written law forbidding
the President from serving three, or
any number Of terms, in succession,
II elected by the popular vote, as the
Constitution is silent on that impor-
tant point. The law precedent. how
ever, which has great force, is wholly
against ii.
The origin of the negro race is one
OF the vexed questions OF ethnology;
for, certainly, we have no reason TO
suppose that any but whites were
taken into the ark, which contained
as living beings only Noah and his
family. Massive volumes have been
written on this subject, and the solu-
ton OF the question has not yet been
attained. 1t is a suggestive fact,
however, that the further the races
diverged from the plateaus OF Arme-
nia-the cradle OF our race-the more
diverse and repugnant they became,
in complexion, language, morals, civ
ilization and religion. At the ex-
tremes they are sunk into the pa
ganism OF the Hottentots and Bush
men, of the Malays of the Eastern
Archipelago, and OF the Turanian
hordes that swept from northeastern
Asia into Europe and America. We
can see the causes OF these diversi-
ties, without having to deny the unity
OF the human race, by observing the
moral and intellectual degradation,
arising from savage lives and long
wanderings, from disease, climates,
food, habits, clothing and physical
provocations-
The Anglo-Saxon language OF Al
fred and Edward the Confessor, dif-
fer from the English language of to-
day mainly because OF the introduce
ton of an entire new element into its
life, that OF the Norman-F French
tongue. The latter was spoken by
the wealthy and ruling classes of So
ciety above two hundred years ago.
being used in the courts and in par
lament, before the mixture OF races
resulted in a mixed tongue, i'm which
the ancient speech predominated.
The Anglo Saxon was converted in
to English by contracting and other
wise modifying the pronunciation
and photography of words; by omit
ting many infections, especially OF
the noun, and consequently making
more use of articles and auxilliaries;
by the introduction of French deriva-
tons and by using less inversion and
ellipsis, especially in poetry.
A number of annivers lry-w eddines
exist, though tie earlier occurrences
are more honOred in name than OBJ
servance. These include the paper
wedding, the first annive -sary; straw,
the second; candy. the third; leather,
the fourth; wooden, the fifth; tin. the
tenth; linen, the twelfth; crystal, the
fifteeth; pewter, the twentieth; sill
yer. the twenty-fifth; golden, the fif-
tieth and diamond, the seventy-fifth.
The cards Of invitation are usually
adapted 10 the one celebrated. being
printed on paper wood, linen, crystal
lized card board in silver bronze or
gold bronze.
Owing to an unequal motion OF the
earth in its orbit, and the obliquity of
the ecliptic, the apparent solar-day-
ur the time included between the
center of the sun leaving and return
ing to the meridian of any place, is
rometimes less than twenty-five
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