San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1882-03-02
"she was a phantom OF fright
when first she doomed upon my sight"

travelled with no Saratoga ana Walking
stick, opened the parlor door to show
her in, aud discovered, 10 my surprise,
That il had been converted into an OF
flee for tho accommodation OF my sis
ters. This Prof. 1 found 10 be quite
elevated in her own estimation. because
a certain phrenologist, having heard OF
her reputation as a mathematician, told
her she had head for mathematics
She wa, fair representative OF her re-
mining sisters. SO they came; so
they left. Each went out into the
world and followed the profession for
which she was best qualified. The first
one studied mathematics, and grew so
narrow and contracted that the most
powerful magniiying glass was required
for the discovery of her soul. The
second studied astronomy, and suffered
the good and the light" of her sonl to
reach 80 high up in tho heavens that 1
think it remained there. She lived,
worked and died in the vain attempt to
take her place among the constella-
tons.
Another devoted all Of her life to
metaphysics, and spent all OF her three
| score wears and ten in the effort to
prove that there was no mind, every
thing was matter, and died trying to
show that there was no matter, every
thing was mind.
The one who was well instructed in
the law and the prophets, contrary to
the words of Paul, assembled the pulpit.
| She was "eathered to her fathers"
The fifth assumed the title of "Dr."
and after having killed her numerous
patients she succeeded in killing her
self accidentally, of course.
One became devotee OF the classics.
| She spent the morning OF her existence
among the dusty, musty manuscripts
of Cicero and Caesar; the remainder OF
her years she spent in trying to initiate
the wanderings of Ulysses and Aeneas.
She wandered so far away that Mercury
was sent in quest of her. Neither have
been heard from since, and, it is feared
they arc swallowed up in chaos.
The others-but it would take too
long to tell what each accomplished.
Suffice it and sufficient to say that they
all died some unnatural death occa-
stoned by their different professions.
And I, sole surviving member of that
numerous family of children, was Left
in charge of the estate. for my father
had long since fallen victim to my
mothers naughty sovereignty. 1t is
needless to add that the estate declined
under my bad management, and L
seemed so ignorant and foolish that the
county had me arrested and sent to the
asylum for idiots.
I had heard g tradition, handed
down from sire to son, that during one
period of the worlds history (women
always referred to it as the Ozark age,')
man was given dominion over woman,
because of her first transgression, when
her fatal curiosity tempted Ter to
pluck the luscious apple. She was
commanded to obey. She disregarded
the command and by her baleful influ-
ence has succeeded in wrestling the au-
thority from man. Once, in the early
days of my .boyhood, discovered in
the attic an old, dilapidated volume.
Its appearance interested me, and day
after day would steal away and feast
my mind with the martial exploits,
with the tales of heroes who rose,
fought and fell, an honor to the age
and the country that produced them -
Of men who held the lamps OF knowl-
edge with frmer, stronger hand than
did these feminine desrots, and SUI
(ered it's broad and shining light to IL
lumine the waste places of the earth
and make glad the hearts of future
generations.
But these philanthropists have gone
the way of the world, and the broad
mantle of charity has been lifted from
the earth. For myself I would not
CAFE. will not long survive the cold
ness and neglect of childhood. But for
my brethren-oh, that they would lift
the voice of power and assume their
rightful rule! -.
Women, how long will you thus
wrong yourselves and us? You wrong
yourselves in that you change your
mission here on earth. You never
were, and never can be, massive rocks,
nor strong and heavy pillars, nor far
shadowing pinnacles, but rather as the
finest tracery, or the delicate lily work
used by Solomon for identifying the
temple of&he Lord.
Think not the Lord neglected You
when he made you the weaker(D but
purer sex. The tender, clinging vine
is as perfect as the oak,
'And sharon's roses are as beautiful
As LebanoH's majestic cedar-crown."
Instead of bruising the head of the
serpent, you have sought and accom-
plished your own advancement. Listen
to this voice from the grave, and make
PREPARATION to man, Lift him to his
torme: heights, and you resume your
proper sphere, for God has said: Thy
hnsira shall be to thy husband, and he