The Red Cloud chief., 1884-07-25


wssnAxs wosak.
In the c~nl.fyai;en Of her talents :
liberal ~cducatica Is not ont 81 place: In
deed. AZ uncducabi woman Is ~ much
Z mistake - au uneducated man. says
= writer In the baltimore dmcvican
But kcr education must be more than
the gloss Of accomplishments which
Cts her for . curiosity or . delicious
piece OF bric-a-brac. She must develop
womanliress-hoi the quality Of . yins
clingipg TO something strong. but the
character Of an independent being, .
worthy character in society. For some
Girls, work issnot q necessity, and they
bold themselves aloof from The business
!. life and from all interest in its
fesivitics and cxigcncies. Let me tell
sucisthsi they are = dishonor TO their
sex sp1tTailors 10 the cause OK their
Divine Mkssef. VINO placed on them as
mncir obligntioR as on me. The devil
holds a drst morfasgs on every ainllcss
life. Aimlessness fssds to drifting.
and We never drift up Effcanl. Wo-
mans contracted sphere" n continu-
ally dangled before Us. There %
sphere Of power for n human be1gS
whio, can exceed in imporsrnce th8s
sphere of home. The hope Of ciyiiiss-
ton was In the home and the hope q
the home is in the mother. She can
make her child what she will, IL her
conduct everywhere ana under nj cir
cumstances Is such IS 10 inspire not
only his love, but bis admiration. II
is often the girls fault that she does
not have this sphere opened 10 her.
Our young men refuse to marry DO
cause the young women demand homes
as good rs those of their a~fiiucnt faith
ers and ambitious mothers. In many
cases the fathers Of these girls were
poor when young. Is ii moro OF q dis.
honor TO have a poor suitor thar TO
have had q poor father? These girls
forget that the blessing Of q homo is
tho affcctionate cooperation OF the
partners No better definition of o
wife has ever been given than that in
the second chapter of Gods book-o
husbands helper. There is no time
when n young man needs o helper
more than when he is ut the bottom OF
the hill; a girl who is unwilling TO be-
gin with him then is not fit to DO his
vito when no has reached the top.
WOMEN AT FORTY
Tho period Of dry rot in the lives OF
men is said TO begin ut the age of 80
though a rcccn essayist makes il date
at 40, and if this is SO, tho period OF
decadence for women may be set at
least ten years earlier. says the Boston
Herald There is a time generally ac-
knowledged In society when men and
women seemed to have reached their
ultimate. when the forces of youth are
spent, when tho environments of life is
apparently fixed, when it is possible to
go on for a while upon lines that have
already been formed, when one seems
to have accomplished his career and
can rest with satisfaction upon what
he has done This is the point Of
danger to men, especially to profes.
sional men 1t Is she point when cl8r-
gymen or lawyers or doctors feel that
they have reached something fixed.
and need not put forth further effort!
1t is also the point where women, il
married, arc apt TO say to themselves
that they can settle down into the fixed
things of their homes, or, II unmarried,
arc apt to withdraw their interest from
active life and retire into themselves
1t is the season of danger with either
sex, perhaps the season Of most danger
to women. because they have less to
call forth their latent energies than
men have. and are more susceptible to
the agencies that promote or diminish
their happiness and usefulness.
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WIDOWS IN GREAT BRITAIN.
The elder Weller's warning to Sami
vel TO ''bevare of vidders" would seem |
particularly pertinent to all England
just now. The latest census shows
that at the close of the year 1881 there
were in England and Wales more than
1000. 600 widows, with Scotland and
Ireland to hear from. The same re-
turns exhibit not one-half that number
of widowers, SO that a solution of diff |
culties does not readily present itself.
And what makes the situation still
more appalling is the statistical state
ment that nearly Gu. 900 of these Wild
ows are under 81 years of age. Mar.
rying men, even widowcrs, will want
to know how these million widows
managed to dispose of their husbands.
More particular inquiry throughout the
kingdom for the late census seems to
have come 10 q standstill; but it was
ESTIMATED" that the number of wild.
Ows in Scotland and Ireland was three