Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-03-24
PRAISE FOR WOMEN.
Some Of the Pretty Things said About
the Sex.


Some Of the Pretty Things said About
the Sex.
Mary E. Spencer in St. Louis Globe Democrat
III the Bible had said man was made out OF q
woman's rib, would believe it: for OF all things in
this world man Is most helpless alone A chicken
two hours out Of the shell can take better care Of
Itself than man can. so 1t is all right that q
man by twenty or twenty-five should be looking
around for woman 10 take care Of him; ana u
woman never is permitted to look around for q
man. The women do not need to go counting. I
am sure there Is some mistake in the translation
II should read that man was made Of rib OF q
woman.
cannot stick pin down in literature but I
come upon the praise OF women, and It Is not for
me 70 say IL II not an deserved Let me give you
Their said: earth has nothing more tender than a
woman's heart when It is the abode OF pity -
Mfchelet said: "Woman is the sunday OF man: not
his repose only, but his JOY, the salt OF hts life +"
That is little mixed as figure, / allow, but MI.
Michelet meant well. and when one is In love he
cannot help getting little Hurried. At least 1t is
so with women. John Adams said: "All that am
my mother made me-" Lord Lansdowne said: "If
the whole world were put into one scale and my
mother Into the other, the world would kick the
beam" like that, because of all things am sure
the very best Is noble mother. The Arabs saw /:
"One may get hundred wives, but he can never
get but one mother; therefore a mother is equal
TO hundred wives" But Leopold Shelter has it
better yet, when he says: "But one thing on earth
Is better than the wife, that is the mothern
However, the wife gets enough praise ana need
not be jealous. n. p. Willis said, as sweety as he
said all things: rhe sweetest thing in life is the
unclOuded welcome of q WIFE," Richter that is
the divine Jean Paul, said: NO man can either
live piOusly or die righteous without a WIFE, y
Emerson said: "a beautiful woman Is practical
poet, tanning her savage mate, planting tender
ness, hope, and elOquence in all she approaches +"
l have. however, never heard that Mrs. Emerson
had much tanning TO do-only she must see that
no INF onr
Among the very pretty things said OF women
Whittier has given US this: "If women lost us
Eden. such as she alone restores it, VOltaire
said: at is woman who teaches us repose, civil
ity and dignity" Ruskin says a great many fine
things OF woman. shakespeare has no heroes
he has only heroines.' This is always true In a
ruder, earlier stage of society. Woman always
begins civilization. The honor OF woman has
always been the cornerstone In building socially
A race lacking respect for woman has never adj
vanced politically and socially, or has speedily
decayed. LEASING said: mature meant TO make
woman It's mas srpiece;' COnIucius, 1900 years
But Malsherbe spoke the mind OF all Frenchmen
when he said: There are only two beautiful
things In the wOrd-wOmen and roses: and only
two sweet things-women and melons This
was gallant DuJ natural; and il gave woman her
true place as blossom and fruit OF nature
Concerning women and men as equals Rusktn
says: ave are foolish and without excuse in
claiming the superiority Of our sex to the other
One completes The other, and they are in nothing
alike. The happiness OF both depends on eacn ask
ing and receiving from the other what the other
only can give Thackeray drew this contrast :
"Almost all women VIII give a sympathtzing hear
ing 10 men who are In love. Be they ever SO old.
they grow young again in that conversation and
renew their own early time. Men are not quite so
generous" voltaire said: s'An the reasonlnVs of
men are not worth one sentiment OF women. :"
Gladstone says: "Woman is the most perfect
when the most wOmanly." DIR. Clarke says:
'Man Is not superior TO woman, nor woman TO
man. The relation Of the sexes is one OF
equality not OF better and worse or OF higher and
lower. The loftiest ideal Of humanity demands
hat ahun rprfQ In BIZ,
be hindered In its best work. The lily is not in
ferior TO the rose, nor the oak superior to the
clover, yet the glory OF the lily is one, and the
glory OF the oak is another; and The use OF the oak
Is not the use OF the clover" woman saws an
other writer, must be regarded as woman not "a
for assimilation 70 man. Dr. Clarke says again:
educate q man for manhood, a woman for
womanhood: bot for humanity Roger Williams
tified Is Glorified and wears that Golden Chain
as well as the Wisest ana Strongest OF
Mankinde." The author Of sour Heredity from
God" tys: "There Is today In human language
no word OF love and loveliness that was not born
OF the sexual division OF primal unity; for In
primal lte-forms sex is perfect In each individual
Dol OF that innate predeStinatcd singleness which
IS involved In the idea OF sex The lover seeks in
his beloved himself, that he may be completed.
marriage, but Self-completfon.r Theodore Parker
said: "a nan Is an old maid organized. When wo.
man has the same rights or mind, body, and
estate that man has, then you Will rot lind s, O5
widows IA Boston," think that ali peo-
pie OF common sense Are getting over the
Idea or making men out of women. The aim here.
after will be TO let women make women Of them.
selves. Woman will at her best be the queen
man at hts best the king. Each Will worship the
other Man must so live that woman at heI
highest shall honor him, ana woman so live that
| man at his highest shall turn joyously to her
Miss Abigail D60ge says: mo monarch has beer
so great, no peasant so iOwy that he has not teeT
glad 10 lay his best at the feet OF woman" But
am sure that this picture may be reversed, fol
| there Is no worship so great es that which
| woman bestOws on princely man.
| an bound 10 say now, that In my collection
there are also some shafts OF different character
| Cowley said: "What Is woman? Only one OF ma
turr's agreeable blunders." Cervantes said some
| what dOubtfully: "All women are goOd-gOOd To-
| something, or good for nothing" solomon salt
some very mean things about US; and then bic
himself under the cloak OF inspiration. However
| despise him. But B0ucicaulJ hit hardest whei
he said: II wish Adam had died with all the rib
| In his body" will not let John see these thug
which l have gathered, for he has inherited al
idea that woman Is vain. 1t IL not true; but II Il
not John who thinks II, but some crispy old an
| cestor. Yet am proud to find such words In on
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