Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-10-25


possible. But since there are 80 few
whom this proposition affects, II need
scarcely be considered. IL Is, OF course,
fullest In man, since woman's nature, DO.
ing more exqalsity emotional, and impress
siole, Is incapable OF entire aud unalloyed
Indifference, A woman, II she Ia cunning
and shrewd, may seem more Indifferent
than the most Indifferent man, aud vet all
the while be suffering the EXTREMIST tor
ture. BY this do not wish 60 insinuate
that woman Is more conscientious than
man, for that would be declaring man the
less moral OF the two sexes--a thing
which there Is much reason for doubling.
Man Is strong, and morallty--when Ii
exists In degree beyond tho sweep and
sway OF sense---must, necessarily, be an
attribute OF strength. So its opposite, or
perhaps should say Its counterpart, iul-
morality, standing In the same relation to
weakness that morality stands 10 strength
Is most likely TO be q part OF woman's
nature; far too often her chief trait The
pecularites which make woman the peer
OF man In religion, make her also his peer
in immortality, She Is bundle OF con
tradiotions and Inconsistencies, aud has
million chords, which, II touched,
vibrate In her heart; and therein lies her
peril. Heart aud soul are more to her
than brain and conscience. In fact, when
the lrst two are stirred, the others are
forgotten. Nay, even more, they are
stlhod aud crushed out for the time. She
acts Independently OF them, without tho
power OF resistance--without knowledge
or volition Alone, by herself, she does
bravest battle against that which Is at
once woman's bliss and her destruction;
but to turn her back upon the man she
loves-if she. does that she is too Inferior
a woman 10 be worth any mans thought
or love. A true woman--one in whom
| there Is genuine hobility---nnds more
sweetness in trusting than In doubling;
and 10 doubt her lover, when all the
yehemence of her heart and soul are stir
red, is to her the greatest and the most
damning sin abe can commit. She may
doubt the proprlety OF a thing, and argue
against II mentally, but set her pulses
throbbng, aud then--away with ration
alityl Repentance may be and nearly
always Is hers, but resistance
Woman plunges into senuous sin with all
her faculties dulled aud blunted, save
those which impel her on. She does not
act indifferently, but unconsoiously. Man
In this TX directly her opposite he acts
recklessly, and regardless OF conseqnence.
With woman, there are for the time no
consequences Every tiber of her being
has been set vibrating, and no longer
rational, reasoning creature, she goes on
as II swept forward by resistless stream,
| into the very thing from which her delicacy
/ shrinks In her calmer moments. Man sins
voluntary and against the constant ad-
monitions OF his conscience. Indifference
/ IL the same to him that tenderness and
qulvering sensibilites are 10 women;
only, In the end, she weeps bitter tears of
wo and repentance, while his Indifference
still stands him In good stead, IL Is gen-
orally the nature OF man 10 be Indifferent.
That Is tho reason why mans love seldom
lasts beyond his honeymoon. And per-
haps IT. Is wisest 10. II mans nature was
as tender, clinging, and sympathetic as
womans, commerce would have never
been organizedj because with the propen-
] stiles and finer Hensibillties OF the two
sexes alike, man could never tear himself
away from the recipient OF his caresses,
and 30 the great world OF business would
stand still Those whose glimpses at life
| are wholly superficial, cannot, OF course,
understand this but no man or woman
with enough courage to look below the
surface can fall 10 see that nave spoken
the truth. do not believe that II Is CON
science which keeps woman from or makes
Der regret excuses, mental or otherwise,
1 but that IL Is the same eXqIlsiteness Of soul
which ever sends her In the direction
which the world calls wrong. She sins
and she suffers, and both from the same
cause. She suffers because the Sin she
does shocks and hurts the same sensblli-
| tres whose pulses tempt her into sin. Man
stiles and smothers his conscience Will
! -premedltatedly. II Ia ahard battle
for him, but II IL one which he never has
| TO fight the second time. With the hrst
blow his conscience IL wounded past heal
| ing, and each succeeding shock but dulls
and bunts him the more, until his In
difference is as complete as piece OF fine
] art. With woman no such thing 10 posi-
ble--at the first plunge she resolves her
1 self into two distinct aud separate person
alities. One Is seeming indifference, the
other Is a perfection Of misery and de-
graduation which deepens and increases
with each new sln--almost with each sue
cessive breath From this she never re-
deems herself; suffering becomes a part
OF her existence, aud the clashing con.
tinues upon the tender, sensitive, ana
| vibrant chords Of her heart until death
breaks the last one.