The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-10-11
WOMAN.
What the Poets Think of Her-Tbe Days Of
Chivalry.-Somc Noted Women.

What the Poets Think of Her-Tbe Days Of
Chivalry.-Somc Noted Women.
oh, woman lovely woman Nature made thee
To temper man we had been brutes without
you
Angels are painted fair to look like you
There is in you all that we believe of heaven,
Amazing brightness, purity and truth,
Eternal joy and everlasting love. -Ot,ody.
Woman, dear woman, thou 'rt still the same
While beauty breathes through soul or frame
While man possesses heart or eyes,
Woman's bright empire never dies. Moore.
The bleakest rock upon the loneliest heath
Feels in its barrenness some touch of spring
And in the April dew or beam of May,
Its moss and lichen freshen and revive
And thus the heart most sacred to human
pleasure,
Melts at the tear-joys in the smile-of woman.
beaumont.
Oh, woman in Our hours of ease
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light, quivering aspen made:
When pain and anguish wiring the brow,
ministering angel thou Scott.
Poetic lays of ancient times were
wont to tell how the bold warrior return
ing from the fight would doff his plumed
helmet, and, reposing from his tolls,
lay bare his weary limbs that woman's
hand might pour into their wounds the
healing balm. But never wearied
knight or warrior, covered with the dust
OF battlefield, was more in need of
woman's soothing power than are those
careworn sons of mental or physical
toll who struggle for the bread of life in
our more peaceful and enlightened days.
And still, though the romance of the
castle, the helmet, the waving plume
and the
" Clarion wild and high"
may all have vanished from the scene,
the charm of woman's influence lives as
brightly in the picture of domestic Joy
as when she placed the wreath of victory
on the hero's brow. Nay, more so, for
there are deeper sensibilities at work,
thoughts more profound and passions
more intense in our great theatre of in
tellectual and moral strife, than where
the contest was for martial fame, and
force of arms procured for each COM
petitor his shave of glory or of wealth.
Aspasia, the wife of Pericles, was a
woman of the greatest beauty and the
first genius. She taught him his refined
maxims of policy, his lofty imperial elo-
quence-nay, even composed the
speeches on which so great a share of
his reputation was founded. The best
men in Athens frequented her house and
brought their wives to receive lessons of
economy and right department. Socra-
tes himself was her pupil.
Guyot, the statesman and historian,
owed much of his success to his wife's
cooperation.
The wife of Louis Galvani daughter
Prpfnccnr lo1n 1,n
had studied anatomy, being woman
OF quick observation, noticed that the
leg of frog, placed near an electrical
machine, became convulsed when touch
ed by knife, and series of expert
ments out of this led to the discovery of
a new system of physiology, ever since
called Galvanism."
The wife of Lavoisier, the French
chemist, not only could perform his
scientific experiments, but even engrav-
ed the plates which illustrated his "Ele-
ments."
Huber, the blind man, who wrote the
best book on bees, derived his knowl-
edge of their habits and instincts from
the observations of his wife.
Mary Cunitz, one of the greatest
geniuses in the sixteenth century, was
born in Silesia. She learned languages
with amazing facility, and understood
German, French, Polish, italian, Latin,
Greek and Hebrew. She attained a
knowledge of the sciences with equal
ease ; she was skilled in history, physic,
poetry, painting, music, and playing
upon instruments and yet they were
only an amusement She more particu-
larly applied herself to mathematics,
and especially to astronomy, which she
made her principal study, and was rank
ed in the number of the most able
astronomers of her time. Her astro-
nomical tables acquired her q prodig-
ious reputation.
The wife of Alphonse de Lamartine,
the French poet, was mistress of many
languages, and excelled both in music
and painting, and was also a brilliant
writer. In the stormy days of '4S her
husband wrote diligently to free him
self from debt. She suffered acutely
for him, whose honor and fortune then
seemed trembling in the balance. The
delicate face became wrinkled and the
sweet voice was often tremulous with
anxiety. When Lamartine was finish
ing an article on Beranger, at time of
great political excitement in Paris, she
was nearly beside herself, lest by any
verbal imprudence he should get himself
into trouble. Her husbands printer
was also greatly alarmed at the political
in his article but Lamartine,
deaf to all their entreaties,
vowed that every line should go to the
public just as it yas written, or not at
all. Madame Lamartine was at her
wits end. Finally a gentleman, a
mutual friend, got leave from her hus-
band to read over the proofs and modify
the offensive expressions. All the long
night that this gentleman was occupied,
Madame Lamartine sat up, sending into
the library to him little suggestive notes
of her own. At last the poor, weary
friend was so overpowered with fatigue
and sleep that he was obliged to desist
and go to bed but, when he awoke
next morning, he found a small paper
pushed through the key-hole of his door
"a last idea from the indefatigable
Madame Lamartine, who had not herself
slept a wink all night. This gentleman
friend took all the credit of the altera-
tions, while the good wife kept silence
and sent her husbands article to the
press. Madame Lamartine was often
the amanuensis and proof-reader of her
husband. Troy Times.
Japanese Proverbs.
Better avoid blame than seek praise.
A beaten soldier fears reed.
Great men are spoken of for seventy
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