Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-13

cal manhood and all that belongs to it.
Who IS to generate and care for all that bat
| woman? IT'S she that for months has to
give strength and power to it. Life once
on ITS course, who is its guardian and nurse
but woman? When i'll assails it, she is its
guard. When it fails she sustains it.
| When it sickens, she watches over and
nurses it. When it comes to decrepitude.
| she is still doing her work, saving. prevent
ing. nourishing. See how the God who
made US has fitted her for these tasks.
IN her perseverance, her power of endu-
| rance, her quick perception, her gentleness
and all the qualities that equip her TO con-
J serve life. Now, we want the citizen to be
! physically strong and powerful, SO we must
grow boys and girls fitted to carry out
all the purposes of physical being in their
fitness. To this end woman, as mother.
mistress, ruler in the home, is the great
conservator 81 these qualities in those to
Wnoni she gives life. The citizenship that
! belongs purely to the physical being is due.
| then, 10 the care of the woman Man NAV
bring the thread and the cloth, but i. is
woman who must fashion and fit the raj
ment to its uses. We talk about the won
derfui progress Of this age and the English
speaking people, but take up the story of
the Greeks and the Romans and see how
! they watched over the human form aud
! fostered its highest development. The
very idea of culture with the Greek and
| Roman taught the truth, that woman is
the protector of the physical life of the
citizen. The speaker here sketched the
| life and duty of woman in the home. in
every branch OF which she labors only
/ With honor. man was cursed by the de-
cree that III the sweat of his brow he
| should earn his bread. Yet it was not
merely punishment, not merely retri-
! butlye, but curative. The idle man is the
unhappiest in the world No woman
wants an idle man about her or one
! dawdling about the house and rneddlinc
! with her concerns. She knows that labor
! IS his blessing and idleness bis curse. The
curse OF labor has become the Joy of man
| hood. Labor in this day has come TO be
ranked dishonorable, alas. 1t is on the
contrary dignifying and ennobling. He
/ saw nothing mental in preparing his food
or ralment or doing anything honest 10
I supply his need, nor should any man. He
| scored severely the helpless woman and
! idle girl. He paid high tribute to the women
/ OF Austria, every one of whom is taught all
the arts of housekeeping, no matter how
rich she may be. More noble specimens
OF men do not exist than the Tyrolese, who
| scale the mountain nights, hunt out the
rarest game, labor with sinews hardened By
/ with skill, or spend the evening hour in
reading works of art and science and phil
! osophy and discussing them with intelli-
! gence. The mother is to teach her chill
/ dren TO work, show them that she fears il
not, and that it will not dishonor them.
but increase their joys and enlarge their
! capacities. There mast be those to mix
| mortar and those to carry it; food, if eaten.
must be prepared by some; It's no disgrace
To- Il 4l,oca .l.ll IL.
! scTlDed the dude as he had seen him, and
asked il. of such should be composed the
citizenship of the nation. Are they the
men TO man ship, or mount a breast
work III defense of home and liberty
Are they of the stuff of which brave
doctors, courageous lawyers, skilled me-
chanics and workingmen are to be made?
no; but they constitute an element-these
idle young men-bfinlful of danger. The
true mother is not ashamed of labor, and
she sees to it that her boy is not ashamed
OF It. She knows that all play brings mis-
cry. as all work brings dizziness. She brings
her children up TO the realization and love
OF the idea that there is honor and power
IN work. After the physical education be
placed then the moral, and, in this woman
IS the chief educator of the citizen Give
him the man with head and heart.
and he would put his finger on
: great man. Thousands, nay, mil
lions of men have heads, and a lesser
number, hearts, but fewer still are
there with the conformation of head
and heart. Humanity is suffering and
working humanity. The first requires the
head, the second the heart. There is no
power in intellect without soul; so for good
citizenship we want moral character head
heart and soul and intellect he must have
tenderness and courage, aud be truthful In
word and deed. Give rs such men. and we
have nation of nobility. Subtract the
moral quality, and we have a nation of
creatures only. He dwelt at length on the
power of woman to mold moral character
and recalled his male hearers memory to
the influence of mother, sister, wife on
each. If these were now gone. then he
asked them to recall the thought of mother.
wife and sister, and analyze the influence
their memories eXerted upon their man
hood. in the hour of trial, if mother
could reach US, it was she who
protected and sustained; if she could
not reach US, it was the memory of her that
was the war to uphold and f0rtify. 1t is
the memory Of the love If mans mother
that READS him his duty. It is the purity
of mother. and the greatness and goodness
OF her heart, that teaches US what it is to be
men. a sisters love and gentleness
gives courage TO the man the love of the
wife sustains The husband and nerves him
to all trial. The man developed by the
true woman is just, brave, good. gentle.
true. The child that suckles the mother
IS a part and parcel of her flesh, and dav
by day, and hour by hour, and moment bv
moment with j! developing it, guarding
molding and conserving its life.
She waters the plant, prunes and
shelters IL, until il no longer
needs the ministra;ion of her hand
80 she plays the greater part in the educa-
ton of the citizen. Going to school is
as nothing to her training-unceasing tire
less, constant. The most worldly of moth
ers will sacrifice all things to protect the
child, and deem it no duty. Give me the
opportunity to observe the mother. and
will tell you the character she inpresses
upon the child Give me study of the
child, and | viii tell You the character of
the mother" Pursuing this thought, he
declared that if women would exclude the
dime novel and the newspaper, with the
filthy advertisement and vicious article,
from the home the dime novel and obiec-
sionable newspaper articles and advertise
inents would cease Where he asked.
is the merchant who will advertise with he
paper that the women of the land cast forth
from the home because ofits perncious in
huence2 As a sheet of ice reflects the
Clouu anu SKY ana starry arcn, so glance
al the stories OF e activities of the world
here and there will reveal the characters of
the people. So with US in the history we
make viii reflect our characters The
dime novel and the vicious newspaper Of
today will be reflected in our record, and
seen OF peoples to come when We shall
have passed away, and 10 future genera
tons our characters shall be revealed. The
speaker, referring to woman's rights" in
dicated that he believed home to be her
sphere, and the duty of educator
Of The citizen to be her Hottest
purpose and the work that she
best Oils and rounds out her life He be-
leveiihe women of small cities and towns
and Of rural sections capable Of greater
work as educators than those of large cit
les there the policies of the home are
clearer reflections of the women of the