Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1883-09-29
dishonored graves and forgive them


country, its civilization and refinement
are in exact proportion to the love and
respect entertained for its women.
1t is easy for any man to love the
young and beautiful of the sex. | once
saw a picture of Eve by one of the old
masters as she came from the Divine
Hand, masterpiece of creative power
no rough apron of fg-leaves marred
that exquisite form; she was clothed in
her own innocence and purity; | real
lied for the first time that loneliness
"Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But when unadorned, adorned the best"
1t was hard to believe that she was
made from the crooked rib of man.
She looked to me as if she was formed
in Paradise, breathed upon by angels,
and handed down on a star of stars for
man to love and cherish forever! But
when beauty is gone, the eyes become
dim, the cheeks furrowed with age and
care and toll for the comfort of man, it
is then that the great Anglo-Saxon race
shows its superiority over the rest Of
mankind, by their veneration and res
spect for them, because they are wo-
men. We honor ourselves by honor
ing them, for they are the conservato-
rieS of all the morality, religion. and
even the civilization of our race. There
reward is not of this world. know
many faithful mothers who may not
have attained a high character in So
ciety for Christian graces she may not
be a member of a sewing club, for she
is the sewing machine for her own lit
tie circle she may not belong to a
missionary society, for she has the lit
tie heather all around her and she is
their missionary; she may be remiss in
her attendance upon church, and have
but little time to read the Bible, and
can only utter short and earnest pray
ers from an over.burdened heart but
when she dies and her weary spirit ap'
pears at the celestial gates, st. Peter
will ask her who she is and what she
wants? She will reply: 81 have been
a faithful wife and loving mother fol
10, these many years, and l want rest P
st. Peter will open wide those ever
lasting gates and inscribe her name in
the long list of martyrs, for having
once been married man himself, he
knows she has had punishment enough
already.
Thousands sacrifice themselves on the
marriage alter for our good, and strange
to say, that with the experience Of cen
turtles, thousands now stand ready to be
martyred on the same alter. They viii
do anything for love, and if they cam
get that, the strong-minded among
them will rush into the lecture field
join the salvation army, storm grog
shops, form women's rights societies
and do deeds to make the angels weep
The true women of the land, who are
the safeguards of religion, virtue, and
even civilization itself, are not public
brawlerS.
The administrative faculties are no
hers; she plans no campaigns, nor lead
armies to battle nor fleets to victory
the forum is no theatre for her silve
voice, she discerns not the course o
planets; Orion with his belt, and Arc
turus with his suns, are naught to he
but pretty buables set up in the sky
she guides no vessel through the nigh
and tempest across the trackleSs sea
she composes no Had the strength q
Millions poetic vision is far beyond he
delicate perception; she would hav
been aArighted at that fiery sea, upol
whose flaming pillows
"Satan, with head above the waves,
And eyes that sparkling blazed"
} For she reigns in the heart; her sea
and throne are by the hearthstone, an
they are the salt that keeps the worl
from universal corruption. / am done
AS you noticed I left my labor hardl
: touched and went off on a picnic. ]
: was too hard for tyro like me. Th
+ subject is as vast as creation itself.
The labor for existence and the d,
| sire for reproduction keep all animate
! things in constant work. We notice
/ in our great Caucasian race. the dire