The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-06-27
AN ESSAY WOMAN.
About Washington Women in
Particular.

is greater purity and higher grade
ofvirtue in woman than in man. Ii
there was not there would certainly be
little hope for humanity: Its moral
growth b been slow enough at best,
but undoubtedly whatever of prog
ress has been made We are indebted
principally to the refining, christian
ling, pure and elevating influence of
women.
1t seems to be hard and cruel rule
that fixes one standard by which to
Judge the chastity and constancy of
the female sex, and another for the
male sex, but perhaps it is for the
best. A man can be roue and q de-
bauche, and it scarce ly lowers his
grade and position in society. His
own do not scorn nor the opposite sex
despise him. He is feted and toastel,
anu wined and dined, if he is of brill
liant parts and can give receptions as
we'll as receive, the same as if ne was
spotless as the mythical Joseph when
beguiled by the Egyptian queen.
Julius Cesar required that his wife
should DE absolutely above suspicion,
e. sa,s ,eproche. But Mr.. Cesar was
one of the greatest of rakes. and no
Mrs. Julius ever required her Cesar
10 he above suspicion. But it is, per-
haps better, harsh and rough as it
seems, to apply this rule-better for
the growth and progress of society. IT
is the only safety humanity has, the
only hope for human progress. Though
not a wanderer like the much SORROW
ing Ulysses. still | have travelled
AMONG MANY PEOPLES AND IN MANY
1t has always been curious and in
;eresting study for NE to watch the
growth and unfolding of the different
types of the human species. Race dis
tinctions and differences have many
peculiar ard interesting features for
study and investigation. Says the
witty Holmes:
The proper study of mankind is
he most pei i'4cAiu-, 10 uoGDt l. NOindn.
The study of womon is undoubtedly
the most interesting, though perp'ex-
ing it may be, study one can engage
in. The primeval recollection, and.
the first thought The infant has is for
the tender sympathy, kindly affection,
and nourishing care only mother
can give. Love goes toward love as
schoolboys from their books, says
Shakespeare, and the first and fresh
est thoughts and freest tancies of the
stripping school boy, are not of his
books, but of the blushing and daisy
faced school girl a few seats away.
And this thing grows with his growth
and strengthens with his strength.
The older the girl gets the prettier she
becomes. At his twentieth year the
boy will fight for his girl; at his thir.
tieth year he will 60 TO the wars or
defend his castle which shelters his
wife and little ones with his hearts
blood. The girl of 16 is sweeter than
the girl of II; the girl of 20 is ripper
and mellower than the girl of 10. The
widow at 80 is toOthsome and quite
delicious. And so it is that poets
sing of "sweet sixteen and the nov
elist tells us TO "bevare of the vid-
ders." And vet men will be beguiled
until the end of time. So long as
woman is charming and lovely as she
now is, man will never see anything
so inviting in this world as woman. Ii
Adam had the whole thing to do over,
i have no doubt he would prefer an
apple from the fair hand of Eve,
taken surreptitiously and underhand
with its value thus wonderfully en-
HANGED, to an eternity in Eden.
/ have said that have seen many
men and many places, and NAV say
many women also, but [ have never
seen the latter in all respects equallihg
in glory the
WASHINGTON WOMEN.
Washington is a cosmopolitan city
the capital of great country, a
country so expansive that while they
are harvesting in one section they are
sowing wheat in another portion of the
country. Men of all classes corle here.
Their bibles are not largely imported.
There is religion here, but it is confn.
ed to very few good people. Virtue
is not very robust and perpendicular.
1t is difficult for it to stand erect. The
women are too numerous to be guard.
ed with that sacredness which attaches
to rare jewels. They swarm here as
thick and
AS SWEET AS HONEY BEES.
The departments are full of the flowers
Of the land, the bud, blossom and
bloom of perfection and beauty. /