The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-10

Mrs Henry Ward Beecher. in an ar
ticle in the Brooklyn Magazine, discuss
ing the reason for discontentment
among women. says:
We think dissatisfied women have
been affected with those pernicious
doctrines which have led on to the
most ridiculous cutlery about woman
wrongs "-woman defrauded of her
rights, her cruel subjugation, and
doctrines with which we have less and
less patience, because we see daily
more clearly mistakes and mischiefs
which have sprung up, and will con-
tinue to flourish through those doc
trines unless the plague is stayed.
We are well aware that there are many
overtaxed, broken-down women, who
by kindness and just appreciation
might have been saved and been alto
gether lovely and refined. making
their homes like Paradise before the
fall. But we can usually find two sides
to every question. So, on the other
hand, we know of many broken-down
men. dispirited. tired of life, because
ruined by the frivolity, irritability, and
extravaganza of their wives, who they
hoped would be their helpmeet through
life, men whom a refined, sensible, low
ing woman would have redeemed from
a life of shame and misery. making
them happy, noble, godlike. Ii
weighed in Just scale, we imagine the
rights and wrongs are about equally
divided on either side. The directful-
ness of the human, left to roam wild
and ungoverned, never seeking the
peace and happiness of the partner
they have chosen, but their own selfish
qualification, has changed many a man
whose youth gave promise of nobility
into a reckless, unprincipled husband
or an arbitrary, harsh, domestic tyrant'
On the other hand, the same selhst
indulgence and unregulated passions
have also changed many q woman
capable of shining in her appropriate
sphere as a helpmeet-God' best gh
to man-as mother, home rehner
into irritable, fault-tinding, unsatls
fed, tireside torment.
But this is partially wandering from
the main point. We believe many are
injured and much dissatisfaction anC
unhappiness occasioned on both side
by the growing disposition to travel
roaming each year away from hom'
and too frequently without the com
panionship which would naturally b.
/ secured.
Keep together while you can. Dealt
will sever the bond all too soon, o
sickness compel absence full of tear
and sad forebodings. If possible, neve
allow either to feel that they are no
dependent. necessary-onet to the other
! You can not be separated, even for
! few weeks, without noting some littl
| change on their return. We all hav
some peculiarities of character or dis
position which are not altogether an
gelical. But if married young, befor
habits and peculiar traits are fixed pas
change, all these little infelicities ar
softened and lost sight of in the dali
communion man and wife assimilate
and, if happily, grow more of one heal
and one mind. But let separations
even if short, once begin, and the hu:
band and wife begin to grow apar
They learn that they are not absolutel
necessary to each other as at first SUI
posed. All the natural dissimilarities
which constant association have hel
dormant, make up and are less and lie:
easily lulled to sleep, after each sep;
ration.