The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-29

Expressions.

We look too high for our daily needs;
God trusts them not to the faithless air
Our truest blessings are those within
Our closest reach, and are everywhere.
The infinite heavens refuse TO hear
Our cries, and the silence that bids retreat
Should send us back with humbled hearts
TO our own good world, here, under our
feet. Julia II. Thayer.
One of the speakers announced in the reg
ular course OF the Chicago Philosophical As.
ISOLATION, being prevented from meeting his
engagement, the evening was assigned to
Mrs. l.. May Wheeler. When some OF the
philosophers. and doubling savants saw the
little, modest woman they ~prophecied fail
ure, but when she had submitted her
thoughts upon some phases of the woman
question, and also replied to her critics, some
thought a giant had spoken, while many
earn est women earnestly congratulated their
little championships New Era.
The interests, tastes, duties, and position of
women have come to the constitute a sspa.
rate department of literature, and often a
literature by itself. The time has passed
when men wrote down to women; and 1t was
the milestone OF q new era when the greatest
of modern poets put into the hands OF WON.
an at the close OF mis- Faust the guiding
thread of the worlds future 'Oas Ewig Eeio-
liche zlchet uns hinan, or, as Bayard Taylor
translates 1T.
1.-The Woman soul leadeth us
Upward and On"
Many women voted at the school election
last Monday. They came to the polls. de-
posted their ballots, and returned to their
homes. Among them were the wives OF three
men who have declared that under no cir
cums'ances should their consorts destroy
their modesty and ruin their characters by
such braZen conduct. Not q woman was in
jured in the least. All deportei themselves
as though stepping to a box Office to pur-
chase a ticke for an entertainment, to a mar
ket to order a roast, or TO q bank to deposit
money. And it would be- the same were they
to vote at q general election, where their
presence would have an excellent effect on
the men who gather at the polls. The ' are
needed much worse at general school cleo
tions.-New Northwest.
Women of the South.
Mrs. Z. B. Cheesborough in Planters Journal
Since the necessity has arisen for Southern
women as a class to join the army of women
workers, there seems @ disposition to blame
the men of the South that the women of that
section were not enrolled sooner in that vast
company.
The necessity did not exist for the mai srity
OF Southern women TO earn their living. aud
those that were compelled to do Sd met with
no opposition from the men. That these
ladies should have contented themselves with
such occupations as teaching, sewing aud
keeping clearinghouse. was not because
mans preludices barred the gates to some
thing higher, but because women themselves
had neither the training nor wish for auy.
thing else. Is to entering the professions,
they showed no disposition to do so 1t is a
notable fact that the first woman physician
in this country, Elizabeth Blackwell. an
English woman, studied under Dr.. John
Dickson, of Ashville, N. c., and subseq uent-
ly under his brother, DR.. Samuel Henry
Dickson, of Charleston, s. G. These gentle.
men were refined, heightened, and foil
of courteous chivalry to woman. They
did not deny her the right to work in
her own way and to pursue the bent of her
talent; and these two Southern men it was
who gave to the first woman who studied
medicine in the United States her early in
struction, and this in defiance of all es-
tablished precedents- Did any other woman
follow her example at the South? Not then,
and up to this day very few have. 1t re-
maine for the Northern and Western women
to do what the Southern women shrunk
from, and now at the North there are many
lady physicians in lucrative practice, while
at the South there are very few.
The Southern woman lacked independ.
ence. She would not, for the world, do what
other women were not doing. and she tied
herself to her g~randmother's apron strings
and would not break loose. Reared in tue
privacy OF . charming aud refined home. in
dulged In Q way that only southern fathers
dreamed OF doing. looked upon by her broth.
era - not Of common clay. waited on aud
6attered by the old family servants, who
walked after her to school With her books,
and when she came out' took pride