Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1886-05-08

ago, says the chronicler q visitor TO the Marcus
church at Venice, where the ex-empress IL now
staying, observed a lady dressed i'm deepest
mourning, kneeling in long, silent prayer be-
fore one OF the side affairs. When at last sh-
rose, she looked about her in search OF some
thing which She missed. and then walked slowly
away, and supporting herself by the wall, to
ward the entrance. The stranger politely
offered his arm, which was gratefully accepted
the lady meanwhile explaining that one Of the
beggars must have taken her silverheaded
walking SUCK away, without which she Was
very helpless" Outside the church two iv-
cried footmen were waiting; the stranger on
retiring offered his address card lalas for cruel
Nemesis, he was "A German from Berlin D glanc-
Ing at which the lady was seen to shudder
slightly and then return the civility by whis-
pering, Empress Eugenie. and-homsless."
WOman's Mtssl0n.
From the Woman's Journal
The end OF woman is to marry and raise Q
family. She starts out in this direction when
she carries doll I'm childhood. Your girl
who leaves home and goes out for herself
does SO because she has tailed to ind the man
she wants to marry. BY and by she does fnd
him. and when she does she drops every
thing and goes with him. She stops short In
her music, her acting, her art, her literature or
whatever IL is, because, after all, her instinct
tells her to marry, and she follows her instinct
instead Of reason.
A man can marry and 60 ahead In the psrti.
cular pursuit or profession he Las chosen, but
the woman stops and subjects everything to
the one duty of wifehood. That is the reason
women do not succeed well as men, They
tall short. Grant all this for the sake of argu-
ment Admit that IL is the general mission
OF woman 10 marry and raise up q family. But
l am now writing about the exceptions. There
exceptions To all classes, all rules, all theo
ries and all PHILOSOPHERS. Most women do
marry young, and that Is right That Ia AS far
as most of them want 10 go. They are f1tted
for this sort OF life, and have desire or tness
tor another.
But are you going to make one kind OF q girl
do this when IL is q straight-jacket and an
IN har IN lords L..
marry simply for the sake OF marrying, and
"settle down" simply for the sake of settling
down? Why not allow her TO follow her natu-
raj bent well the young man? True she
may, my objector says, hnd some man. while
herself following a successful career, whom she
will love and whom she will marry, thus cut
ting short a work that might otherwise have
women are not as completely successful as men
in the more Independent pursuits Of life But
the point wish to make clear and emphatic 10
that society, and the woman herself, and the
man she marries, and all direct or remotely
concerned, are the better for her having done
even something for herself, however little.
repeat that the seli-reliant woman is a civil.
ger. The busy world is improved by her having
been a participator therein. Her words are gem
tie and KIND and her presence Ia q restraint TO
the headlong fmpetuosity Of men. Even
though she NAY not remain long with us single
let us be thankful that she has come at ALL III
she falls in love and marries. even at the sacri.
fee OF an independent career, her life after all
is not in vain. Her own views have been
broadened, her sympathies have been deep
ened, her capacity Tor enjoyment made greater
and her scope TOR usefulness widened. say
again and again, let the ambitious girl zee what
she can do for herself