The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-14

palny, anu the Otner numauer NlrtueS,Wltn
the sterner one, have entered their protest |
against selfish exactions Of every species, |
and the hailstones Of hard words are being |
superseded by the influence that lies in the
melted drops. The blow of the toughest
trip-hammer may be incapable TO mechani-
cally separate the parts OF some hard rocks
or metals, but the silent and persuasive
power Of the insinuating acid disiutegrstes
the most cohesive OF them all. The day of
logging in the school, the navy, at the pub
lie post, and-I blush to acknowledge IL
ever existed-the day OF wife-whipping and
child cruelty, for claiming and putting
helpless lunstics in cages and straight
jackets like wild beast; Of crowding crimi-
nails without regard to age or sex, into
black holes and pestilential dampS of the
surgical vivisection OF condemned persons;
OF the rack and the thumb screw; of the
iron collar with sharp spikes for the her
etic's neck; yea, even of brutality to ami
mails, has passed or Is passing to be known
no more forever. The day OF the tyrant,
public or domestic, who is but slave
turned inside out, is giving place to the era
Of gentleness and the gentleman. The
might of force" is being succeeded by the
dawn of philanthropy. Trust and conf
dence are rightfully occupying the former
posts OF suspicion, and censure, and harsh
ness, and malice and all such scrotulous
sores.
And 10 another thing. This century
has so Tar advanced that in the treatment
of our fellows we are beginning to recog-
uize no difference of sex in the adjusting OF
all social rights. And In the political path
also great progress has been made toward
the enfranchisement of women. The sick
ly sentimentality with its hackneyed phras'
eology about the mother OF the man being
the weaker vessel, with weaker faculties,
etc., ETC., and therefore demanding the
closer chivalry of leading strings is falling
to pieces and decaying with the dry rot
under the process OF inspection. 1t isbeirg
admitted that domestic restrictions and
expressions are greatest in countries most
unciyilized, and vice versa, and 1t Is being
Observed that
THE EMANCIPATION OF WOMAN
has kept pace with the emancipation OF
society. The not-long.ago custom which
prohibited the wife from sitting AT the same
table with her master" is secuted now by
US, Just as derisively as was then that older
Athenian law which permitted the citizen,
under certain circumstances, to sell his
daughter or his sister. In France, not
many years since, ifa woman assumed to
use the choicer language, she was blushed
Tor by her companions as too far advanced.
or, in the verbiage of our slang, as being
too flip" So too, it was held In Europe
as so unfeminine to write book that the
lady who should publish one was con-
sidered as having unsexed herself. In
Russia, in this generation, female voices
were prescribed from the church, women
being thought not worthy to sing the
praises bf God in the presence of
man, her lord. the big earthly |
Am thus setting himself up as the demi-
god for women to worship. Why only lat
terly we eliminated from the statute books
breeches to beat his wife in moderation, or
to incarcerate her in his room for hours for
neglect of duty to him." and we are Just
commencing to permit her to have and to
hold, as married spouse, some property
absolutely. And so too with the rights OF
children, who in the recent past were en-
forced to keep their lips sealed when in the
presence of their elders. and TO regard with
lear and trembling the edicts of their pa
rents, and to listen with wonder, awe and
admiration, to their wise saws. One o.
these was that barbaric proverb, "spare the
rod, spoil the child" and that other one
not heard" But now we are properly
enough beginning to repudiate
THE LAW OF FORCE AND FEAR,
at the hearthstone ut least. Married life
is now getting to be characterized by some
other idea than that the woman is a cy phel
or the eerf, or as q mere pretty nosegay. i
you will, 10 lavish praises on in one mo
ment, or picked to pieces at pleasure in the
next 1t is being characterized by mutua
concessions, by the bear and forbear, by
the refrain and restrain principle OF a broad
benevolence, as an equal, as Il companion
as a counsellor. Accordingly she is filling
| , n lihrarv oh aluaa mi n mn aynallapt Al
instructive literature. Concert halls and the
better theaters resound with vocal and dra
matte evidences of her genius. Art salons
are radiant with her varied handiwork with
its delicate standings. The pro
LESSONS are being vastly i'm
proved under the new regime. School
rooms, colleges and universities are be
slowing their diplomas and certificates
upon her, and she Is found as efficient here
in command as in the sick chamber And
thus we are concluding that had God in
tended her TO be mans master He would
have taken her from his head, If for his
slave, from his feet, but that as He took beI
from his ribs He designed her to occupy
the middle ground, and so be his helpmatt
and his equal. And this increasing liberty
to the mother is being wondrously supple
mented by similar regard for the child
whom now we treat rather as friend, % q
J companion, soliciting his or her ooufdeoc,
and love, with full grant to all the rghts We
accord to the man more physically power
: iul than ourselves.
, And naturally and logically enough W,
have corresponding
, IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SOCIAL ARRANGE
} MtNTs.
, From the Pickering torchlight and tallov
candles in candlesticks heavy as tables All,
, mounted on rollers for the transierenc
: from room to room, as in the last century
we have progressed to the instantaneously
e ignitible gas and the electric light. From
, the clumsy home appointments Of all de
4 scriptions, We now revel in elegance ant
convenience at comparatively small cost
J, and refining and eleyating to- the taste a
4 we'll. From the rough corduroy road o
!, Boston we have advanced to the macadam
lied or the paved street, fit for easy walk
Ing for the lightest slipper Of the most deli
Il cate lady. Instead Of the numbering stag,
i coach OF four miles per hour, we are hurle,
l. along at forty miles in u Pullman palac
e car. Instead of waiting the six weeks for
IS letter to be transported and delivers
:. a distance from Philadelphia to Lowell
n after having been read by the Cur
e rier, or, as In Washington's time, six dav
/. from New York to Baltimore, when, belor
Y making the journey, the journeyist mad
Is his Will, commented MS soul 10 the "A
70 mighty and babe q fearful farewell TO hi
Is assembled neighbors and relatives, we 4,
D. in less than week from Maine to Mexic
10 and back, surrounded by every luxury thu
70 Lucullus of old could spread at his royG
h banquet. In that same period the larme
E. worked with only his OK, his hoe and h
Al scythe, the drama was the device OF III
70 devil, the novel the emanation from an II
10 lernal iiend. Dancing was the sign Of
Il. hell bound spirit, and to kiss ones wife ,
al eat meals cooked, or be guilty Of q smile o
" the Sabbath were certain indices of Ill
ID snares SIT by the Anti.Uhrist. The "scho,
Q. marin" and the master boarded round
r. to take out their pay for the ideas they II
II, Quoted into the heads Of the pupils by II
III tie blood letting through their backs. II
OF "acc.dency,' the pedagogue.. the teache
ne mechanically put his questions from
nj book, and the children as mechanical
h. learned by rote the responses after II
u, manner Of the parrot.
y, How changed the scene to-day What q
re ALAppIS-LiKE TRANSFORMATIONS
bursts upon us of this good year of lss,
es In the length and depth and breadth OF Il