The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-04-24
NO. 20.
A WOman's Need.


in Harper's Bazar. With what delight
all readers turned from the weak or
wicked heroine of Thackeray's earlier
novels to his superb young Ethel New
come, "strong of will and proud as
they" who would have domineered
over her. Scott. with his love of
chivalry, always finds some attribute
of courage about the women he meant
to win our hearts-or he failed if he
did not. Even his graceful Ellen
Douglas is incapable of actual cow
ardice.
think with anguish, or, If e'er
Douglas knew the word, with fear.
So, in the Scotch ballads, it takes
something more than weakling to
spring up behind young Lochinvar in
the saddle, or to be ''owre the border
and ava" with Jack O. Hazeldean.
Shakespeare does not paint character
less heroines
grant am woman; but withal
A woman that Lord Brutus took TO wife,
grant am woman; but withal
woman well reputed, Cato's daughter
Even the child Juliet at IA is able to
resist her whole proud household, ! nd
there is more peril in her eyes than in
twenty of their swords.
The very disproportion between bod
lily and mental strength makes per-
sonal character more conspicuous in
women, as it was often noticed in our
army that some boy officer, if hero
IN heart, had peculiar power over
rough men who could have felled him
with blow. We all enjoy records of
womanly heroism-of the countess of
Nithisdale's rescue of her husband
from prison, of the Baroness de la
Rochejacquelein's in La Vandee, and
of Catherine Douglas, who barred the
door by thrusting her delicate arm
through the staples in defense of her
royal mistress. Our own civil war
furnished many similar instance of
courage, yet none surprising, or per-
haps equaling, tho narrative given by
the daughter of Gen. Stone of the
manner in which her mother protected
her whole household of girls and
young children in Cairo Egypt in
time of insurrection. without money
and almost without friends, by mere
strength of will No wonder one of
the Arab officers said "If all Amer
can women were like you. should
Once she sald-In voice which the
daughter elsewhere describes as soft
and low" Girls, if an Arab lays hands
upon you, expect you to save your
selves by putting bullet through your
hearts. Don't leave it for me to do"
There is many general who could
composedly give an order that would
cost ten thousand lives, and yet who
would not have the nerve to say to his
daughters those last seven words and
mean them.
We talk about women not needing
strength of will because they will be
protected. Who is protected, who
can be protected against more than
the ills of the passing dayo Men heap
up wealth for their daughters, and
that very wealth may buy them hus-
bands who win break their hearts,
and who would never have sought
them had Shey been poor. Or the
money itself disappears. Nine. de
Genlis. the only intellectual woman in
France, who for time rivaled Nine
de Stael in fame, said that of all her
attainments the one she most priced
was that in case of hardship she knew
twenty different ways of making
living. Then, apart from poverty,
think of other risks of life! The most
petted girl may marry some frontier
army officers, and find herself some
lay with her husband shot down by
Indian arrows at her side, she being
eft alone with her children among
,avages far worse than the Arabs
whom Mrs. Stone dreaded. Who has
zone by night into the. suffocatlng
;teerage or on board the sitting emil
yrant train without thrill of admira-
ion for the obscure and nameless wO-
nen who pilot their crying children
through that prolonged ordeal of
Misery, while the easier lot of her hus-
)and is to sit and smoke with ais
natesp Look at the lives of these wo-
men after they have reached their
western destination, their enormous,
lnrelieved labors, their unknown and
,ften thankless tolls. Again, who
IAN protect the most favored women
lgainst disease? We daily see that
he physicians can not. 1t seems to
ne that if we recognized more dis
lnctly in our training that girls as
veil as boys need strength of will.
Nc SuOuiN Dt luOlc SutC VI QcNtiOpiHS
hat quality, and it would also be
more harmonious when it came.
Neither a tree nor a character can
how much grace If it has to fight its
way by inches against cold and storm.
let it is not necessary to choose be-
ween the gnarled oak and the cling
no vine; there is something intermedi-
te. Grant all that may be claimed
f the gracefulness of dependence, the
harm of submission. the truth re-
lains that actual life makes little
ccount of these soft adornments. OF
Il things on earth, after love, that
'hich human being most needs is
and as the aDcients account
4 lioness with her young more dan
erous than a lion, so the very fact
lat woman is the mother of the
uman race makes it essential that
lie should have some vigor of will.
is desirable, doubtless, that man
lould be strong, but we might almost
" that a woman must be strong.
At Muncie, Ind, the Other night, Oiney Sco'1