The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-28
FOR THE LADIES.
From Harper's weekly.l

AS onlytLe belle OF the season can:
Made for the stolen pressure or kiss
| BT merely the toucS OF fingers white.
Her escort down on the beach that night;
Made for "prixe" for the highest bid
a thing which the honest summer sun
| Has taught his ardent beam 10 oshun,
Lest free le or tan its beauty spois.
And make IL too near q hand OF toll,
INSTEAD OF only a dainty thing,
Meant for sase and diamond ring.
OILY a sun burned, useful thing
TO which the hearts of tbs needy cling;
To which they turn who have learned the
worth
OF woriian's hand on this weary earth;
Mad Made for healing for smoo ping Ger -.
Made for honest work each day,
For driving the shadows of lie away,
For holding the cup OF water" 10 all
| Made for leading the timid on
For blessing all it may rest upon;
MSo in 10 is Rs i@Sor So " VII iSs SSar pars
Mede TO he clasped by aloyal hand,
Which cnooseth the beA in all the land.
Worth-Oi double its weight in gold.
This useful hand that can never grow old.
Ihave no faith'in that woman who talks
| of grace and glory abroad, and uses no soap
at home. Let the buttons be on the shirts,
let the children socks be mende5, let the
roast mutton be done 10 turn, let the house
be as neat as a new pin, and the home be as
happy as home can be; aDd then, when the
cannon balls and the marbles and shots, and
! even the grains of sand are all in the box,
even then there will be room for those little
deeds of love and faith, which in my Mas
| ter's name, | seek of you who love HIS ap-
pearing. Serve lobby doing common ac-
tions in heavenly spirit, and then If your
daily calling only leaves y0u cracks and
crevices of time, fill them up with holy ser
vice. To use the apostles words, AS we
have an opportunity, let US do good unto all
men,"
How easy it is to be neat-to be cleanl
| How easy TO arrange the rooms with the
most graceful proprietyi How easy it IS to
invest our houses with the truest elegancei
Elegance resides not with the upholsterer,
nor with the draper-itis not in the mosaics,
| the carpetings, the rosewood, the mahogany,
the candelabra or the marble oYnaments-it
exists in the spirit, presiding over the cham
bers of the dwelling. Contentrnent must
always be most graceful II sheds serenity
over the scene Of its abode-it transforms a
| waste into n garden. The howe lighted by
these limitations of nobler aid brighter
life may be wanting in much which the dis
| contented desire, but to its inhabitants II
will be palace far outvieing the Orienta.
in brilliancy and glory.
The American woman is being formed for
| q citizen of the world. ItlF not merely as a
teacher that the spirit OF the new world
| seeks to prepare for woman a freer develop
ment and a wider sphere OF activity; 10 seest
to open for her free paths in arts and manu-
factures. "If Unjust choose between giving
| education to the men OF the women Of q
country, | would leave the men and begin
| with the women, said neof the legislators OF
this country to me, one day; ana this is the
thought of a large number of men in the
United States The Advancement OF the
higher development of woman Is one of the
| most remarkable features OF the new world s
cultivation, its greatest merit aud its prinei-
pal labor for the future All that is now
| wanting is merely that IL shall not stop
halfway. | do not believe the right mind
edness OF the men will fail n the women
| will, with discretion and earnestness. take
the place which society here Is willing TO as
sign them. 1t is with jrstice that we are
accustomed To estimate the measure OF a
nations cultivation by the estimation In
which woman is held, and the place which
| she occupies in society, because IL requires
no small degree OF spiritual culture to value
being whose highest power is OF spiritual
character. The people OF America have
| shown themselves 10. be possessed OF this,
and IL will increase in the same proportion
as the women Of the country make them
selves deserving Of ii.
In general let woman make a mans
4 nome dRTtChDle 10 HfU anu ne viii III tiibt
prefer 1t to all other places. There are ex
ceptions To this as well as toall other rDles
but the instances ere NOT numerous The
great error which women fall into Is that
| they suppose the lover and husband TO be
the same individual, which is-a palpable
mistake. The husband may love as well as
the lover, but his passion will bear a differ
ent character. ft Is the want of tbf
knowledge which makes married women
troublesome 10 their husbands FROM sup
| position that thes are neglected. IL mas
Is out of their sisht for an honror two they
are astonished how he can be oapabie OF TAX
ing any pleasure when absent froEA them
and attribute tie want of THAI assidnous at
tentioA which pfecedeithe marriage 70 dis
gust or cold indifference, when in ruth 10 L
nothing more than ths consequence OF pos
seSsi ae what We with ardor aspireei to attain
While we arc in parsuit Of any thing the
mind Is In a Continuous ssate ot agitation
whifh gives activity to alh the. Senses but
| when once W. arrive at. tfia. goal. we are no
less happy, perhaIs, bus mone calm, an'
Consequently less ranturous In our expires
stems. IL is IN this.state 0f tranquility tina
asnaan begins 10 survey the partner Of hi
fortunes through the. optics Of reason. un
ohstructed by the vaporsof passion, and it i
at this period thasa woman should endeavor
by the strsetest attention to every wor'i ant
faction, to.ffx on her husbands mind n t>pI
lough or6dence. In hsr virtue, an apyVS :
ton of lrar.con3nct and . reflected esteem
; for her character in general These ssBti
ments will naturally produce friendshi
which, when built oa 80 noble basis, ca
never Ail lasting as hong US the merit whic
gave II birth.
Thsse wbo.laugh At the appeals of tn
woman's rights agiSstors forget that the la
ter have somehow contrived TO obtain quiz
msortant AgslatSsn In favor of tho sex 5
mach was said OF aarried women's dsabl
! ties that tie married female has been en-
powered 70 hold real estate as II she ver
single, aad the property she had before 90,
erture now remains her own. In the uear
| time other statptes imposing certain ohiigs
! tions on the husband by way OF Offset 70 hi