The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-03-09
CONCERNING WOMEN.
My Rights.

SUSAN COOLIDGE.
Yes, God has made me a woman
And am content to be
Just what He meant not reaching ont
For other things, since He
Who knows me best and loves me most has or
dered this for me.
A woman, to live my life out
In quiet wOmanly ways,
Nearing the far-Oh battle
Seeing as through haze
The crowding, struggling world OF men fight
through their busy days.
lam not strong or valiant
would not join the fight
Or joStle with crowds in the highways
To sully my garments white;
But have rights as woman, and here claim
my right.
The right of a rose to bloom
In the own sweet separate way.
With none to question the perfumed pink
And none TO utter nay
If Il reaches a root or points a thorn, as even a
rose-tree may.
The right of the lady birch to grow.
To grow as the Lord shall please,
BY never sturdy oak rebuked.
Denied nor sun nor breeze.
For all Its plant tenderness kin to the stronger
trees
The right to life OF my own
Not merely a casual bit
OF somebody else's title, flung out
That. taxing hold of it,
Hay stand as cipher does after numeral writ
The right to gather and CLEAN
What food need and can
From the garnered store OF knowledge
Which man has heap for man.
Taking with free hands freely and after ordered
plan.
The right-ah, best aud sweetest
To stand all dismayed
Whenever sorrow or want or sin
Call for woman's aid.
With none to cavil or question, by never look
gainsaid.
do not ask for ballot;
Though very life were at stake.
would beg for the nobler justice
That men for manhOods sake
Should give ungudgingly, nor withhold till
must fight and take
The fleet foot and the feeble foot
Both seek the selfsame goal,
The weakest soldiers name is writ
On the great army roll.
And God, who made mans body strong, made too
the wOman's soul.
The wife of Judge Clifford, OF the United
States Supreme Court, is said TO have aged
so fast since the affiiction of her husband
that her friends scarcely know her.
Every lady of station in Austria knows
how to cook. They do not learn the art a
regular cooking clubs or at home, but they
90 to the house ola Prince or rich banker
where there is famous chef, and learn
from him.
Miss Ida Lewis, keeper of the Lime Rock
Lighthouse, Newport harbor, saved the lives
of two men who broke through the
ice recently. This rescue makes in all
sixteen or seventeen lives that have been
saved by the heroine of Lime Rock light.
They are shallow thinkers who declare
women to be frivolous. Depend upon it
they take life in earnest. The delicacy of
the sex makes them shrink from a Jest. Like
small sword it is masculine weapon, and
not to be intruded upon their gentle pres
ence. No sir; woman may forgive big
amy; but never joke.
A deepening sense of maternal response
bilitv must gradually raise the idea Of mar
riage, and strengthen the resolution only to
marry with men of high character. The
great power of transmitted constitution and
qualities ought to reach the most sacred
depths Ct a woman's soul, and rouse her
keenest conscientiousness. No amount of
personal inclination, tenderness or passion
should make a woman forgetful of the
great trust of maternity committed TO her.
Miss Kettrell, q new clerk in the Nevada
Legislature, had to undergo remarkable
ordeal for woman. in being sworn in. Judge
HawleY adjured Miss hettrell to support the
Constitution and the laws, not to bear arms
against her country and to pay no attention
TO the laws Of the Legislatures OF other
States when they happened to conflict with
those of her State. He assured hef that she
was not eligible as n servant of the State if
she bad, since the adoption ofthe Constitution
of Nevada fought duel, acted as second
at duel or carried challenge to fight a
duel. The young woman was able to set
Judge Hawley's mind completely at rest.