The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-24

Sweet love were slain; his dearest bono
| is this,
Not like to like, but like in difference.
Yet IN the long years liker must thel
The man be more of woman, she O.
man;
He gain in sweetness and in mora
height,
Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw
the world:
She mental breadth. nor. fail in child
ward care,
Nor lose the childlike in the larger
mind;
Until at last she set herself to man,
Like perfect music unto noble words
The general characteristics of
man and woman are here set forth
and they are in accordance with q
true philosophy OF their physical
moral, and mental constitution.
The prominent feature OF man ia
strength, and OF woman beauty.
IL has been 10 Artificial division OF
labor which has made the multi
tudes Of men warriors, sailors,
laborers in the field and the work
shop, and ths multitudes OF women
laborers in the house. So -TT
The first step In civiliz ltion is
taken when woman begins to al
the loom at home. and to make GOV
erlDgs OF tapestry, and fine linen
when she adorns and beauties the
savage life of man. His strength
allies him t, the wild beast, and
enables him to subdue it, her love
OF the beautiful opens to him o more
humane sphere. True, he uses that
strength to make a slave of the
weaker and dependent WON an, bat
slowly through tie ages the night
er strength of womanly grace and
virtue gain for themselves q
victory. Tbs history of the world
may be- said to be the history of
woman's redemption; OF the i'm
provement OF her condition; of her
attaining higher position as mans
equal and his friend. But she has
advanced not by strength OF body,
but by strength Of soul; by unfold
ing the true proportions of her
nature. and en- Toying those facul-
ties which cons itute her truly
woman. 1t ia not without reason
that Schiller sings:
Many are ye-ye are so by the still
charm of the present;
What the still one does not, never the
stormy can do.
Force l look for in man, of law the mai
eStV Wieldinpl
Woman can only, by grace, hold le-
Ultimate sway.
Many have ruled, it is true, by the might
of mind and of prowess,
But they have forfeited thee, highest
and purest of crownl
Womanly beauty alone makes a true
queen of the woman;
Let her be seen and she rules-rules by
her presence alone.
The difference of strength and
grace runs through the whole diapa.
son of manly and womanly cbsrac-
teristics. The difference in sex is
In the body, because it exists first
in the soul. II woman were ss
strong physically as man, she would
still manifest that strength in q diff
lerent manner. Remaining essen
italy woman, there would still be
the feminine or fce AMI harmonious
employment of it, II ia not strength
which woIli mako a woman man
like; but to use that strength after
a msnnish fashion. In mar, s trength
10 rough, ha sh, angular and direct.
In the mind 1t exhibits itself in a
reliance upon the naked truths of
the, understanding-in a logical
and pure love of diaiecti-
cal rea scning which overiooks the
affs cticns, which despises personal
considerations, and will lot be put
abide by the fancy and the feelings.
1t ia without grace or charm. It |
gives rise to philosophy, and with a |
tough arm grasps the great problems
Of thought. 1t is as necessary in |
that sphere as is the sword of the
land the ak Of che pioneer |
IN tie physical world. To com pill
cnent this there ia needed the beau
,iful cha 70 OF feminine grace.
Man shrinks instinctively from a |
masculine woman, and woman does
rom an efsminats man. Each feels |
hat the per ection of humanity is |
lot in entire samehess, which woul1 |
De to annihiIate natures degree of |
Inference. but in adaptation and Il T.
ness OF each to perfo m the several>
= allotted parts in the great drama |
If existence. Mans stronger limbs, |
,oarser features. harsher intellect,
'onghec voice. fir ner walk, heavier |
mould and less sensitive organiza-
on nie constituents OF his mascu-i
inc fornn
TIE dividing line of sex ia to be
l1nd in every faculty-affection,
lisp 'si 100 and tendency. Internal
y, IS well as externally, ia the di-
erence to ba found. ltie true that
We ind occasionally Q wrongly sexed
oui; az we sometimes see a refined
ind beautiful spirit in q deformed |
,ody and an unhandsome face.
There vas a woman named Marjas
Alferes, soldier with the early
Spanish conquerors to the new
To1ld. Her sex was never discover
I'd while she lived. She was noted
or her savage valor. She killed
upwards Of fifty men in duels, and
lid everywhere daring feats of
bravery. She was an inveterate
gambler, AID succeeded twice In
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