Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-07-03
WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1879

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affection of modern society. And tho
culture of the brain aud heart, without
physical culture, very ofton makes life a
burden of i'll health aud misery. The body
should be strengthened and developed as
wcl as the mind and heart. Exercise
(walking, riding on horseback and work in
tho open air) is the only way this can bo
done and health secured. In fashionable
and refined society this is greatly neglected
by American ladies, and dearly do they pay
for it. Parents and teachers should espe
oially attend.to this three fold education,
each equally Important in the future destiny
of their daughters and pupils.
English ladies arc more prudent IL this
respect. Coleman, the great agriculturist,
who went to England, as commissioners
from Massachusetts,, tells in his report on
the agriculture of England, of high born
Duchess, who said 10 him-."NIr. Coleman,
[ will take charge of you to-day, and show
you tho stock and farm." He says she
walked with him that morning seven or
eight miles. Had this Duchess been an ordi
nary American lady sho would have ordered
her carriage and horses to mako such an
excursion.
Moral culture includes religion as we'll as
morals, aud girls arc easily trained to follow
in it's precepts. The female sex arc moro
inclined to BIO religious than tho male scx
They ore more confdiug, moro tender,
purcr and moro loving. A man may be
skeptioal in his religious views, hut woman
rarely is. She has more faith and hope
and love in her composition. Her wisdom
is the instinct of tho heart, whilst mans is
from reason and reflection
AS much as I prizo female education,
ond admire high intellectual endowments,
with great culture and learning in woman,
I am ne, ,crthcless unwilling to SEQ them
pass out of their proper sphere and invade
the domain of man, by becoming legislators,
military commanders, lawyers, judges, doc
tors and ministers of the Gospel. Is has
been my fortune to SEQ somo of these intel
lectua phenomena. at St. Louis I
heard fcmalo lawyer, Miss Ph~bc Cousins,
address tho National Democratic Conven.
tion, composed of seven or eight hundred
of tho most distinguishcd men in America.
She was good looking, young, and spoke
well, but could but thipk she had unsexed
herself and would have done moro credit to
her talents aud learning had shc become
the wife Of some gentleman and the mother
of family of children. Several years since
I met at the Presidents, in Washington,
tho celebrated Doctor Mary Walker, who
was surgeon in the Uuion Army, and at
one time captured by the Confederates.
So for as dress was concerned, she had com.
plctcly uusoxcd herself. She wore o nice
blue frock coat, buttoned closely around the
waist with vest, pantaloons, boots and a
jaunty cup on her head. She was very
handsome, and supposed, Of course, that
she was young gentleman. l thought to
myself, what 'a heart breaker" you will
be amongst the ladies. Her appearance and
manners wcrc SO striking, that cnquircd
"who that gentleman WASP"
In my judgment, the Almighty created
everything for purpose. He created man
for one purpose and woman for another, and
gave them different properties and qualities,
suitable to the purposes for which he Gre
ated them. Ilo gave the man strength and
courage, and to tho woman hc gavo grace,
modesty, timidity and physical weakness.
The man was to provide for and defend tho
woman. She On her part was to depend
on him and confide in him. Ie was to
till tho earth and support his wife and
household, carry on business aud commerce,
60 TO war, mako useful inventions in all
the mechanic arts and sciences. She was
to nurse the children, supcrintcnd her
household affairs, mako home pleasant and
agreeable ard enjoy herself in case ond
quiet. The power and control of the
ono lay in his strength, courage, form,
endurance and intellectual ability. Tho
power and Influence of tho other consisted
IN her modesty, grace, beauty and loyciness.
Even her physical weakness is potent
agent in influencing man. He was formed
with muscles and sinews for tho rough and
tumble of life. She shrinks from tho rude
touch of the world.
Milton, tho prince of English poets,
beautifully describes tho secret of wona q
influence over man in Adams description
of Eve to the Angel in Che garden of Eden.
lie says:
"Yet when approach
Her lovelincsss, so absolute she seems,
And in herself complete, so we'll to know
Her own, that what she wills to do or say,
Scoms wiscst, virtuouscst, discreetest, best,
Al higher knowledge in her presence falls
Degraded.
Authority and reason on her wait"
The modern advocates Of "woman's
rights" as they ore nbsurdly termed, are
endeayoring to porvert tho laws of nature
and change the purposes Of God in his
creation of man and woman. The modesty
and timidity Of woman forbids her going
into battlo and living in the tcnted folds.
If she desired to do so, her very weakness
and fragile form would prevent hor. The
rearing Of her children and households
duties would render such thing impossi--
bic Nor is she moro competent to engage
direotlv in tho ,,oynrn mani of hnr nnnntru