The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-11-05

into my heart, suggesting ananalogy
Natures kingdom to the sill highe
moral realm.
"Earth with her Thousand voice
praises Cod" and if We lacled not th
believing heart and seeing eye, ever
blossom, leaf and shining steam woul,
reveal to US a message from he skies.
Of course you read the aracle of OF,
Editor's gifted wife upon the Co-educa
ton of the sexes" Was it nota womanl
and most just exposition of the right
and duties of our sexi In mis- day q
clamor and clatter about .tlp miscalle,
rights Of woman, it was positively re
freshing to read frsn the pen of on
evidently Injured to deep thinking an,
earnest living, old tnths regarding th
power a woman wieldi for eaecting nobl'
purposes. Nay aA w.o,aan who read that
receive fresh inpirstion from it, Justify
ting Napoleon's xell-,emembered utter
anee, that "wlat the uations needei
most was motAes."
Our dear old bishop Wilmer, in speak
ing from the ch;ncel of the life and vir
tues Of Mrs. Polkshortly after her death
said: ut may ne be given women gen
orally to do grea,things, they could al
do little things with! great motices.'
"Mxltsns in pavo," should be theil
watchword, and invite to loftier action
regardless of self-inerest, In the unfal-
tering effort to promte the highest good.
There is popular cy raised Of Unjust
leo and oppression o. the part Of the
other sex. Yet n,n in Ill ages have
shown a. sufficient willingness to allow
women share of ifluence. There is no
hyperbole in the phrse, " Vainqueurs des
saingueyrs 1e 1s terrt" and this int1u-
,ence is so potent that becomes ques-
tion whether it is usl as it ought to be,
for good.
The immense infunce which women
possess will be most hnefeial il allowed
to flow in its natural channels, viz do
nestle ones-becans it is essential to
the existence Of inf1snce that purity of
motive be unquestioed.
It is by no means armed that woman's
political principles to dictated by ab-
strac. truths of dutpr right, yet they
are surely more apt t. be il they them
selves are restrMnet from the public
expression Of thtm. Participation in
scenes Of popular emotion, has q ten
dency to warp ooneience and overcome
charity. Now, contience and charity
or love-are the vel essence of . wo-
msn's beneficial influece, ana she should
sodulously avoid whatser lends to blunt
It Is of the utDst Importance to o
man, that in oonsuing his wife, mother
or sister, he is appalling from his pas
sions and prejudice and not to them, as
embodied in . sond self. Nothing
tends to give options such weight a.
the consciousnessthat the utterer Of
them is free from II petty or personal
motives. A wom:'s influence is there
fore nullified whe'her motives or per-
sonal character tome the subject of
attack, and this f;t alone ought to in
duce her to acqnsce patiently in the
plan of seclusion tm public affairs.
It has never gled me, as it has so
many of my seq because we are ex-
cluded from the ,lls. Rather does it
testify to the revence and respect with
which mon regards, that they prefer
to sec us within b sacred precincts of
homo, safely sepated from the Gin and
| clash Of the comm world and smoke
Of party strife.
When women al emulous to "scream
on the hustings," "aey have already un-
sexed themselvessnd stepped to q far
lower level than ht whore the opposite
sex would place tom. -.--.
Examples about Of the mighty good
that women Lavachieved by keeping
to their own sphel In speaking Of how
much he owed b wife, John Stuart
Mill said that shihad handed him the
bricks, one by on with which he had
built his edifceof thought; and
greater genius TIN he-the immortal
Carlyle-called b wife the "light of
his life."
What loftier anbibn can be desired
than to irradiate lgt and warmth and
good cheer into 9TH lives-to lift to
the highest standard he plane Of human
thought and efforti
It must be confess. however, that in
some instances won,'s sphere should
he widened. Many q thrown entirely
upon their own resotccs and should be
allowed to accompln for their own
maintenance and thaof others depend
ent upon them, whaver they can do
modestly and well-:ways avoiding, of
course, conspicuous pblioity. The con-
ventional cruelty uich shackles the
Independence of worm by attaching the
loss of caste to almossll the few sources
of pecuniary emolunnt open to them,
should be cried dow and denounced.
Yet that is the extrne reverse side of
the picture.
Woman is co-equalcith man, but their
departments of wor and duty are not
Identical.
Alfred. de Musset,said that woman
should, above all thigs, be bon CANA
rade." In that wa she becomes the
pleasant and conge1al companion, en-
deared to man by n,kberless ties of mu-