The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-06-13

her when the grave should hide her from
them.
1t seems TO me that women may be too in
dependent, too careless of human compan-
ionship and love, too Indifferent OF home
life and home pleasures. would educate
daughter thoroughly if l could. would
have her learn trade or study profession,
so that if she remained single, or was forced
to make her own living she would not be
helpless. But l would never say to her
"Under no circumstances marry" / recog-
nize the worth, the value of a married life,
and l would not change the whole nature of
a young woman and advise her against that
in which, if she is wise, she will find her
chief Joy and comfort for life. / would not
urge marriage upon her, would try to teach
her the worth and value of true manhood, of
of integrity, honesty, sobriety, truth, indus
try and the disgrace of idleness, dissipation
and false hvlng, and having thus done all
could would trust the providence of God
and the love of her own heart in choosing
her husband. would magnify the glory of
maternity, the crowning beauty and holi-
ness of motherhood, the purity and
sacredness of true womanhood. 1 would
try to reveal the pleasure and hapPi-
ness of domestic life, hiding none of its du-
ties and cares, but striving to show to her the
best way of meeting the common lot of
humanity. And if she never married, if she
should be an 'old maid" single woman,
naught of this would harm her. II she
should choose, or be compelled to walk life's
pathway alone, the advice and precepts of
her girlhood's training would only keep her
heart gentle ana responsive to every call
upon her sympathy and patience. But it is
hard thing for a woman to never receive
aught but friendship, be it ever so lasting or
true, for this must not be trenched on too
far lest it be shattered and lost, while the
love of a husband or child grows by constant
demand The more 1T is needed the more it
is given. The woman who rejects marriage
simply for selfish ambition to become fa-
nous or rich may gather money in her purse
and be known for her genius in many lands,
but as certainly as she is a woman the day
will come when she would give all to have
the arm of loving husband to lean upon.
Her lips will be hot with the fevered desire
for childish kisses, and her heart the true
womanly nature, will long for the sweet
mother called by youthful voices. She
will sigh for the home she might have made
and would not.
The women who are motherless and
wives need not envy those who are neither,
but who are out in the battle with none to
shield or strengthen them. There is no
talent that can not be developed at home if
the desire for education and culture be firm
ly implanted. Simpler, palmer living, less
frivolity, less attention to the silly demands
| of varying fashion would give every woman
in the country an hour a day for mental
| culture, for brain or skilled hand work.
The time given to ruffies and puffs to trim
the children's clothes would be ample for
mother and child to take long strides to-
gether up the mount of knowledge, and in
after years the pride of the boy or girl would
| be that mother" taught this or that lesson.
| There would be time for a book in the even
ing with the husband, and while he was ad-
vancing with the world the wife would not
be in ignorance of what the great thinkers
and writers of the day were doing. 1t is
worth while to long for talent and culture,
but as none are without these in some de-
gree, steady work to educate and to improve
those possessed is much more sensible than
vague longing for those of others. There
is ample work for all; there need be no con.
fiict of workers, no clash of duties. The
hulnblest labor well performed is as worthy,
as honorable, as that done in the broad
glare of the world, criticized, praised
or condemned by the multitude.