The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-02-24

| woman's vote, / have not much faith In
that Women are harder on women than
men are. Masculine employers arc mean
enough in treatment Of women. but II
you want to hear heating down Of prices
and wages In perfection, listsu how some
women treat washerwomsn and dress
makers and servants Mrs 6hylock IL
moro mercilsss than Mr.. Shylock Women.
fear. will never got righteous wages
through woman's vote, and - to un.
fortunate womanhood, women are far more
cruel and unforgiving than men arc.
| After . woman has made shipwrsck Of
her character, men generally droD her,
but women do not % much drop her ~
hurl her With the force Of . catapult clear
out, and 81. and down. and under.
have not much faith that woman will
| ever get merciful consideration and
justice through woman suffrage, yet like
experiments, and some Of my friends, in
whose Judgment have confidence, are 50
certain that alienation would come by
| such process that l would, il I had the
power. put in every woman's hand the
vote. can not see what right you have
| to make woman pay taxes on her prop.
erty to help support city, State and M
tional government and yet deny her the
opportunity Of helping decids who shall
be ma yor, Governor or President. But
let every wife. not waiting for the vote
| she may never get, or, getting it, find it
overbaianced by some other vote not flt
to be cast, arise now in the might of the
eternal God and WELD the power of n
sancified wifely ambi ton for o good ap-
proxi mating the infinite.
No one can so inspire q man to noble
| purposes as a noble woman, and no one so
| thoroughly degrades O man as q wife Of
unworthy tendencies. While in nv text
we have illustration Of wifeiy ambition
| employed in the wrong direction, society
| and history are full Of instances of wifely
ambition gloriously triumphant in right
| directions. All that was worth admira-
ton in the character Of Horny vi. was a
reflection Of the beroics Of his wife Mar.
garet. William. Prince Of Orange, was
restored to the right path BY the grand
qualities of his wife Mary. Justinian, the
Roman Emperor, confesses that his wise
laws were the suggestions Of his
wife Theodore. Andrew jackson, the
warrior and President had his
| mightiest reinforcement in his plain
| wife, whose innrtistic attire was
| the amusement of the elegant circles in
which she was invited. Washington, who
broke the chain that held America in for.
eign vassalage, wore for forty years q
chain around his own neck, that chain
holding the miniature likeness Of her who
had been his greatest Inspiration, whether
among the SHOWS at Valley Forge or
amid the honors Of the presidential chair.
Pliny's pen was driven through all its
poetic and historical dominions BY his
| wife, Ca'purnia who sang his stanzas to
the sound of flutc and sat among audi.
| ences enraptured at her husbands genius,
herself the most enraptured. Pericles said
he got all his eloquence and statesmans nip
from his wife. When the wife of Grotius
| rescued him from long imprisonment at
Lovestein by means of q bookcase that
went in and out, carrying his books to and
| fro he was one day transported. hidden
| among the folios, and the women Of be.
besieged Weinsberg, getting permission
! from the victorious army to take with
them SO much of their valuables as they
could carry, under cover Of the promise
shouldered and took with them as the
most important valuables their husbands
both achievements in . literal way illus.
trated what thousands of times has been
done in q fiyurative way. that wifely am
bition has been the salvation Of men.
De- Tocqueville, whose writings will be
| po tential and quoted while the world
lasts. ascribed his successes to his wife,
and says:
"Of oil the blessings which God has
given to me. the greatest Of all in my
eyes is to have lighted on Maria Motley"
Martin Luther says Of his wife:
II would not exchange my poverty
with her for all the riches Of Cr9s US
without her."
| Isabella of Spain, by her superior faith
in Columbus, put into the hand of
Ferdinand, her husband, America John
Adams, President Of the United States,
said OF his wife:
''She never BY word or look discouraged
me from running all hazards for the sal.
walton of my country's liberties"
Thomas CARLYLE spent the last twenty
years Of his life in trying by his pen TO
atone for the fact that during his wife's
life he never appreciated her influence on
his career and destiny. Alas, that having
taken her from a beautiful home and a
bril- liant career, he should have buried
her in the home Of a recluse and scolded
her in such language as only q dyspeptic
genius could manage, until one day, while
in her invalidism, riding in Hyde Park,
her pet dog got run over, and under the
excitement the coachman found her dead.
Then the literary giant woke from his con-
jugal injustice, and wrote the Iamen ia.
tions OF Craigen. Puttock and Cheyne
Row. The elegant and fu!some epitaphs
that husbands put upon their wives
tombstones are often an attempt to make
up for lack of appreciative words that
should have been uttered in the ears Of
the living. A whole Greenwood Of monu.
mental inscriptions will not do a wife so
much good after she has quit the world as
one plain sentence like that which Tom
Hood wrote to his living wife when he
said: II never was any thing till knew
you"
woman, what is your wifely ambi.
tion, noble or ignoble? l. it high social
position: Tina: will then probably direct
your husband, and he will climb, and
scramble, and slip. and fall, and rise, aud
tumble. and on what Level, or in what
depth, or in what height he will after
awhile be found I can no. even
guess. The contest for social position is
the most unsatisfactory contest in all the
world. because il is so uncertain about
your getting it, and so insecure q posses.
sion after you have obtained it, and so
unsatisfactory even if you keep it. The
whisk of a iady's fan may blow it out.
The growl OF one bear or the believing of
ono bull on Wall street may scatter it
knew a highly moral man, useful in
the church and possessor of a bright
home. He had useful and prosperous
business. but his wife did not think it
genteel enough. There were odors about
the business and sometimes they would
adhere to his garments when he returned
at night. She insisted on his doing some