The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-08-22
WONAN'S INFLUENCE.
Feminine Loves and Hates ns Forces
in History.

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| in History.
| (London Truth.l
In tho world Of unseen influences
women play by far tho most important
part. Their loves and hates, thcir
ianaticlsm aud jealOuay, have been
nom time immemorial forces In human
history which act but are not register
ed and when we think Of the things
| women do we seldom add that hidden
wire pulling by which We poor manui-
kins are nlado to dance, that secret
tanning by which tho fire. Is kept alivo.
In the pretty little boutioir, with Its
silken hangfngs and Satsuma china,
sits tho lady whose favors one man has
slighted and one desires to win, or per-
haps has already gained, SO that
claim is established and source of
secret influence opened when shc
wishes to spite a foe or befrfcnd lover,
to tho INITIATED, who only SEQ and do
not understand, those long tetc,n-tctes
betokcn marvellous fund of pleasant
conversation to the suspicious they
mean finding more than tho whites OF
but If ever the true history of any
event could be written, with Asmotleus
as the editor, we should find that tho
wheel of fortune had been finally
turned In that blue-lined boutloir, and
that between compliments aud carcsscs
tho war which made thousands Of
homes desolatc had been potentially
decided on-the cause, perhaps, of no
moro public gravity thRn the plqlo of
| an angry w0n1ans or tho greed OF an
| ambitious one, acting On tho moment
ary fancy OF the then master of the
! situation. Nowhere, indeed, havo
women more Of this secret kind of in
| fiuence than in that very domain
whence they seem to be most rigidly
excluded. Shut out from open partici-
patton In politics, they revenge thonl-
selves by practically moulding what
they arc forbidden to design; and In
all save technical details and tho hard
work of arrangement their influence
docs as much as, aud evcn more than,
| the direct action Of man. This is emil
! nently true to foreign politics, and tho
influence there of certain highly placed
women who, like 80 many rats with
their tails, edo and do and do" things
In the dark which never como out into
the light.
l Tho man who Is appointed nmbassa-
dor to ,--, with policy in his pocket,
and the man who Is superseded, with
his cut short, owe more to these dainty
little boudoirs than either they or tho
WOflU over KNOWS ana Wh0t passes to
and fro in tho dispatch boxcs--the
secret instructions by which Parliament
Is stultified and the throe estates re-
Iduced to onc-will never como out
during our lifetime, and would astonish
the world If ii did. This secret influ-
once works AS actively in domestic rs
In foreign affairs; gives tho tone 10 bc
| taken on such and such Legislative
proposition, and wins or wards Off
votes gets this man place which llo
does not deserve, and donics that man
ono which is his duo; takes caro- of
Mac horo and snubs Fritz therc-ulI
tho same rs 1t dictates tho spirit Of this
memorandum and modifles tho terms
OF that protocol. How much those
dainty little boudoirs, with their pea
cocks aud Japanese screens, their
pointed storks and their gold-ombroid-
cred cushions, could tell OF tho femi-
nino hands which started tho team aud
lot slip tho dogs without SO much as
showing the tips of their own little
fingers! The world knows nothing of
its real wire-pullers, In truth; and no
one suspects the power that lies in
those unsccn influences which aro over
at work beneath tho surface, and man
ifest themselves only In tho results.