Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-15
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THE DAILY RECoRD-UNxoH
Mon1an's Power.

From his cradle to his grave man relies
for his happiness upon the love of woman,
says a Southern writer. His light, his
Joy, his very life, depends blindingly upon
the mother love that nurses his infant
years, tends his childhood, trains his
youth, and reioices in his manhood. In
iinitely holy, utterly self-sacriicing. pure,
noble, beautiful is the maternal instinct
and knowing the nights Of it, providing
its strength, seeing its abneSation OF self,
men call it divine-and so realize the love
Of God unto all humanity. Yet even
from this fount of exquisite tenderness
they turn their steps to love more ailur-
ing, more enhancing, more absorbing; they
leave all and cling TO their wives, posses
sing in them every thiEg. Wonderful and
peculiar is the great miDgling of human
hearts, Of organisms irresistibly attached,
with souls that feel with and for each
other, of two brains forming one mind, of
two lives and loves from which springs
other lives and loves and yet another love
parental affection. This is true mar
riage, and in this state woman is most
lovely. Standing on an equal with her
husband, she is adviser and assistant-the
sharer Of his happiness and his troubles
his helpmate, his comfort his Joy.
That there are marriages far different
from this is true, most unhappily ; but
even here woman shows her power-for
evil if she chooses to curse, or good, if
she desires to bless and ennobe the life
they brought beneath her personal inlU-
once. A great poet says that
As the husband is the wife is; thou art mated
with 4 clown,
Aud the grossness of his nature will have
weight TO drag thee down.
This is entirely fallacious. 1t will always
be the strongest thai leads, whether their
strength be Of intellectual or moral force,
and a woman of mind and refinement, OF
honorable nature, Of ideality, could not
fail TO modify and even correct the mate
rislity that may exist in her husbands
thoughts, feelings or actions, as his very
coarseness would serve to lessen his
power A wife need not sink 10 the level
of the clown to whom she is mated. -
She can raise him, perhaps slowly, but
still surely, to her own standard. Let
her first touch his heart-through pity.
through shame or even through his mere
psssions-but once possess power over
that, and it viii not be difficult to inhu-
eace the brain. II the soil can he made
to respond to beautiful and refined agen-
cies, the battle is won. It may take
lifetime, hut woman can afford to spend
even a lifetime in such enuobling en-
deayor.
A man finds his warrnest, his most ten
der his most honest unseltsh friend in a
woman. Possessing no interests that clash
with his, she believes in him thoroughly
asd hopefully, and her great hope in his
powers encourages him to lie up to her
standard in belief She makes him feel
that she truly likes him. Her affection is
frank and free, and he appreciates her
sympathetic interest, her cheerful looks,
her many little wonaniy ways that make
all her surroundings in harmony with her
self If weary, her sensible, sweet talk
rests him; if discouraged, she finds thou
ssnd ways to cheer him; il too elate her
sound common sense gives him the needed
balance. The lamp of friendship burns
clear and bright between man and woman
lit by an emotion springing from the
boat impulses Of human natare.-L Sc
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