New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-11-17
"OU1DA ONsWonIEN.. .
''The Great Female Novelist Dissects Her Sex
Mercilessly.

North American Review.
As we again and again see the wom-
an expecting from her son the purity
OF manners OF maiden, and making
no account, because she ignores them
entirely, OF the imperious necessities
Of sex; so we should see her in matters
OF national or universal import SINH
larry dlsregarding Or ignoring all facts
of which she chose to take note. Sci.
ence, indeed, presumes that in educat-
ing herit would strengthen her reason
ing powers and widen her mind into
the acceptance Of true liberty. But
what proof is there that science would
do anything OF the sort? It has new
er yet showed any true liberality itself.
The woman is the enemy of freedom.
Give her power and she is at once des-
potic. The enormous pretensions to
the monopoly OF mans life which
women put forward in marriage are
born OF the desire to tyranize. The
rage and amazement displayed by the
woman when a man, whether her lover
or husband, proves inconstant to her,
comes from that tenacity over the
man as a property which wholly
blinds her to her own faults or lack of
charm or power to keep him. A very
clever woman never blames a man for
Inconsistency to her; she may perhaps
blame herself. Women as rule at
tach far too great a value to them
selves. A virtuous woman is above
rubies, has said Solomon; but this de-
ponds very much on the quality ofthe
virtue: and the idea prevailing among
women that they are valuable, adj
mirable and almost divine, merely be.
cause they are women, is one OF the
most misch:evous fallacies born of
human vanity and accepted without
analysis.
In marriage, moreover, the influence
OF the woman, wherever popular pref
udices plead to the contrary, is con-
stantly belittling and injurious to the
intelligence OF the man. How MANY
great artists since the days of Andrea
del Sarto have cursed the woman who
has made them barter their heritage
OF genius for the pottage ofworldly al
huence.
A lady very much given to gadding
was suddenly taken i'll at home and
sent her husband in great haste for
the doctor. The obedient man ran
part OF the way, then returned to put
his important query: "My dear,
where shall I find you when Il get
back?" We have no sympathy with
women like this, who are never Eat
home" except on their invitation
cards; nevertheless, we can but see
that, if husbands need vacations, so
do wives. We do not agree with the
old writer who SAID that g. woman
should only leave home three times
in her life-to be christened, mar
ried and buried. Doctors tell US
that more women break down mental
ly than men, and they also tell
us that this is because they have more
cares to carry, and havet to carry them
continuously When mans work
is done, he can lock it up in his
Office and put the key in his pocket.
But a wife never locks her work up
till sleep comes and turns the KEY up
on it. Her work is never done, and if
she does not want an occasional holi-
day, who does? And she cannot get
it at home. The more quiet and rest
full the home is to her family, then
evidence that is g. care, if not bur-
den to her. A housekeeper can no
more take a vacation in her home
than merchant in his counting-room
or q Prime Minister in his Council
Chamber. Husbands, then, should oc-
caslonally try and induce their wives
(if they are good ones it will not be
easily done) to take a short holiday
away from home, where they can have
the luxury of not knowing what is for
dinner before they see it, and 20 to
sleep without listening with one ear
for the crying of the children.
Without going so far as Lucordaire,
who in his letters to young people
fixes the age of seven as the period OF
weaving a boy from the delights OF
home life, we still think with him that
time does come when he should pros
ecute his studies and meet the trials
of life away from home. The shelter
Of the parental roof, if never quilted,
becomes enervating. Boys are too
much at home who never meet their
equals or encounter rivals and hard
struggles. Some mothers believe that
they are exhibiting the proper ''ma.
ternal feelings" In keeping their children
at home when they should send them
forth in the world, where they can be
taught the virtue of self-dependence
Nothing is better for a young man
than to love his home; but if by stay
ing too much at home his activity
and enterprise are checked, then one
OF the greatest OF LIES blessings has
become a curse.
Death by Slow Paralysis.
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