The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-11-17

ON hands droop iifeless, from their barren
quest
Gods smile of sunshine floods the rosy East;
The harvest waits, 1.-The laborers are few.
Rise, WOmanhOodl and bind the golden sheaves;
His angels bear this message unto yOul
-Woman's Journal.
Grace Greenwood and her daughter are
now travelling in Italy.
One of the ablest writers on the Boston
Evening Traveller is Miss Lillian Whiting.
Women riding on horseback in the four
teenth century, were dressed in male attire,
which at that time included pantaloons.
A party of twenty.one ladies in New
York city have fled articles of incorporation
of society for the care of infants and young
children.
Susan b. Anthony and Mrs. E. Cady
Stanton have been at work together all
summer on a book that will place man just
where he belongs.
1t is said that 5000 women have
applied to the Post Office Department for
the position as letter carrier, but were all
refused because they we're women.
There scarce can be named one quality
that is amiable in a woman which is not be-
coming in man. not excepting even mod
esty and gentleness of nature.-Dean Swift.
1t Is said that Miss Yonge devoted the
profits of her most famous novel, "The Heir
of Radcliffe" 60 fit out missionary ship,
and $4,000, the profits of her ''Daisy Cham"
to building q Missionary Church at Auck-
land, New Zealand.
1t is a noticeable fact that a large number
Of women of genius have in our own time
seen fit to marry men many years younger
than themselves, prominent among them
being Marian Evans, Miss Thackersy, Rose
Terry, Grace Greenwood and Dinah Mulock.
The women of Salt Lake City have or
ganized "Woman's National Anti
Polygamy Society" 1t is the purpose of
this society to furnish the public with full
information respecting the working of the
system in Utah, in the hope that the effect of
such knowledge will be to awaken public
sentiment on the subject.
Meetings to promote the parliamentary
suffrage of women have been held all over
the United Kingdom by the English Women
Suffragists England, Scotland, Ireland and
Wales have had large and enthusiastic meet
ings Miss Helen Taylor, Miss Tod, Miss
Becker, and others have stirred the whole
kingdom with their cogency of statement
and the earnestness Of their appeals.
The chef quality of the womanly woman
| is her motherhood-that is her power of
self-sacrifce and care-taking of those who
need her care. From earliest childhood the
difference between those who demand sacri-
| flee and those who can make it is plainly
marked; and in the nursery-as in the
schoolroom and the home-there is always
one who is ready to give up, and always one
who is ready to be given up to. The former
develops into the mother-the womanly
woman par excellence; the latter is never
more than toy, thing to be caressed and
waited on, decked in jewels and clothed in
purple and fine linen, but never asked to
work, TO think, TO suffer, or to sacrifice.
These are things which she requires from
others, not gives of her own grace-in which
she is the exact opposite of her sister, the
womanly woman, who nnds her greatest
happiness in making the happiness of others,
and her best Joy in sacrifice, self-denial, and
duty.
A good wife is to a man wisdom,
strength, and courage; bad one is
confusion, weakness, and despair. No
condition is helpless to a man where the
wife possesses firmness, decision, and econ
omy. There is no outward propriety which
can counteract Incidence, extravagances, and
folly at home. No spirit can long endure
bad influence. Man is strong, but his heart
is not adamant. He neeos tranquil mind,
and especially IL he is an intelligent man,
with whole head, he needs its moral force
in the conflict of life To recover his COM
posture, home must be place of peace and
comfort. There his soul renews its strength
and goes forth with renewed vigor TO en-
counter the labor and troubles of lite. But
80 q h<v, ha n nAr and fhara lie
with bad temper, jealousy, and gloom, or as
sailed with complaints and censure, hope
vanishes, and he sinks into despair.
Ex.Secretary Mccullough often alludes to
the fact that when Secretary Chase called
upon him to organize the national banking
system, he organized the bureau with two
ladies and one gentleman. One of these
ladies, Mrs. Mccormick, at that time young
and beautiful girl of Georgetown, but now
widow, is still employed by the Govern
ment in It's national banking business. The
two most abtruse sets of sheets, figures and
reports made in the Office ofthe Comptroller
of the Currency are those prepared by Mrs.
Mccormick, and a Miss Simpson. Only a
few years since, the whole banking business
of the country was left for two months in
the hands of women, while the male heads
of the department were enjoying their sum-
mer vacation. Notwithstanding such facts
men would be shocked at the idea of wo-
man as the recognized head of the banking
department, holding the Office by virtue of
proper appointment, and receiving before
the world, the honor and pay connected
Herewith.
Social Inequality of the Sexes.
ILouisa southworth in the National Citizen.
The different inequalities existing between