The Osceola times., 1888-06-02
WOMANS DEPARTMENT.
ABOUT US.
some Passages From Eminens Authors On
the Relation of Woman TO MAE IN"
the World In General


ont Of woman's rib would believe;
for all things in this world man Is
most helpless alone. A chicken two
hours ont of the shell can take better
care of,itself than man can. so IL Is
nil right that man by 20 or 20 should
be looking around for woman to take
care of him; and a woman is never per-
mitted TO look around for man. The
women do not need to 60 counting.
am sure there is some mistake IN the
transaction. 1t should read that man
was made Of rib of a woman.
can not stick pin down in liter
nture, but come upon the praise OF
woman; and it is not for me TO say II is
not all deserved. Let me give you
taste of my collection of nice things
Martin Luther said: Earth has moth
ing more tender than woman's heart
when it is the abode Of pity" Niche
let said, woman is the Sunday OF
man; not his repose only, but his joy
the salt of his life" That is little
mixed rs figure, | allow, but MIR Niche
let meant well, and when one is in love
he can not help getting alittle Hurried.
At. least it is SO with women. John
Adams said: "All that am my moth
er 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" l
like that, because of all things l am
sure the very best is noble mother.
The Arabs say: 'Onc may get n hum
dred wives, but he can never get but
one mother; therefore mother is
equal to hundred wives" But Leo
pold Schcfer has it better yet, when he
says: But ono thing on earth is bet
ter than the wife, that is the mother" h"
However, the wife gets enough praise,
and need not be jealous. n. 7. Willis
said, as swcctly as he said al things:
"The sweetest thing in life is the I'M
cloudcd welcome of a wife" Richter,
that is, the divine Jean Paul, said; mo
man can either live piously, or die
righteous. without wife" Emerson
said: "A beautiful woman is n practical
poet. tanning her savage mate, planting
tenderness, hope and c.oquence in all
she approaches" | have, however,
never heard that Mrs. Emerson had
much tanning TO do-only she must see
that her mate had his hat on when he
went abroad.
Among the very pretty things said of
women, Whittier has gwen us this: "lf
woman lost us Eden, such MS she alone
restores itr' Voltaire said at is
woman who teaches us repose, civiity
and dignity" Ruskin says great
many fine things of woman. "Shak-
spcare has no heroes; he has only hero
ines" This is always true in ruder,
earlier stage of society. Woman al
ways begins civilization. The honor of
woman has always been the corner
stone in building society. A race lack
ing respect for woman has never ad-
vanccd politically and socially, or has
speedily decayed. Lessing said: "Na-
ture meant to make woman its master
piece" Confucius, 2,200 years ago,
said: woman is the worlds master
piece" But Malherbe spoke the minds
of all Frenchmen when he said:
"Therc are only Two beautiful
things in the world--womcn and roses;
md only two sweet things-womcn
and melons," This was gallant, but
natural; and it gave woman her true
place as blossom and fruit of nature.
Concerning women and men as
equals Ruskin says: 1--WE are foolish.
and without excuse, in claiming the
superiority of our sex to the other In
truth each has what the other has not
One completes the other, and they are
in nothing alike. The happiness of
both depends on each asking and re-
ceiving from the other what The other
only can give" Thackeray drew this
contrast: almost all women will give
} n sympathizing hearing TO men who
nrc in love. BE they ever so old. they
grow young again in that conversa-
ton. and renew their own early time
Men are not quite so generous Vol
tairc said: "All the reasonings Of men
are not worth one sentiment of wo-
men," Gladstone says: woman is
the most perfect when the most wo-
manly" 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 that each
shall be perfect in its kind, and not be
hindercd in its best work. The lily is not
inferior 10 the rose, nor the oak supe-
rior 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 tho clover"
"Woman," " says another writer, must
be regarded rs woman, not as monde
script animal. with greater or less ca
pacity for assimilation to man." DR..
Clarke says, again: Educate n man
for manhood, woman for woman
hood; both for human ty" Roger
Williams said: "Woman is Predest:-
mated, is Called, is justified, is Glori.
fed, and wears that Golden Caain rs
well as the Wisest and Strongest of
Mankind" The author of Our He
rcdity from God" says: There is to-
day in human language no word OF
love and lovelinoss that was not born
OF the sexual division of primal unity;
for in primal life-forms sex is perfect
| in each indiy,dual-the mao Ia nm.