Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1888-03-16
A PRESIDE sOLMO0UY.
u aERs. 9. D. sPAULpNa.

By MRS. @. D. sPAULDNG.
It is strange what spell ct times
holds our thoughts and how. they
Wreathe themselves into pleasing forms
and We lose ourselves among them.
Some pretend to believe that women
are not thinkers; that nature has not /
given them tie qualities of mind neces-
sary for dealing with great subjects
that as a class they prefer to make /
themselves beautiful and bewitching, /
and that they are wholly engrOssed /
with the work of their dressmakers and /
milllners; that they do not care to /
| bother" with matters requiring much 1
/ thought. There are women and there /
| are LCOnIen. As for me. am disguised /
at the thought of q strong
/ minded" woman. A terrible vision /
( of a female with a brOOmstick In |
! one hand and temperance pledge in
! the Cther-nOt to mention the dress O
] Ia hnickerbOcker- Uses before me-a
! person trying to fill two spheres, both
/ good, but neither suitably attended to.
1t Is useless for either men or women
/ to attempt too much. Disappointment
only awaits them If they do. Yet, L
believe q woman can perform what she
thinks IS her Gfe-wOrk equally as well
as a man. The beautiful thoughts of
Mrs. Browning, caught and made tan
gible to us by her pen, the great suD-
lact of slavery so clearly and ingeni-
OusIy brought out by Mrs. Stowe, be-
sides the literary efforts Of Harriet
Martineau and many others, prove that
women sometimes have large capacity
for thought.
And this brings me to the chief
point in my le-building L to
make choice, which Of the professions
would L choose to follow? The four
clerical, medical, journalistic, and law
to choose from. A difficult quartette
) to pick from, I do believe, and weary
lie in store for me. Still, there are
hOnOrs connected with each one; and
that, in this world, is worth living for
: and worth daring a good deal for.
Some persons think clergymen have
! nothing to do; that they sit around all
I the week and stand up in their pulpits
s on Sunday, and the sermons flew
i forth of themselves. Not long since L
8 heard the remark made that Mr.. --
+ did sO-and-so to "amuse himself"
Q smiled. Fancy q minister amusing
q himself! Not having enough to do!
@ A true clerg. man works early and late
O in the interests of the great cause he
: represents. He feels a certain burden
n of responsibility for his flock for the
next life as well as this one.
could not be a clergyman.
n The law is a grand profession II
many respects. It can defend the IN
7 nocent and right the wrOnged; but L
! think lawyers must be perfect cata
- combs of secrets. How disagreeable Il
must be to have persons coming to one
I. with complaints-or it would be werO
II it not for the fee. On this point the
d lawyer has the advantage over the
N minister. The lawyers fee IS a sort o
/ bulwark about him; but a clergyman
N not being paid for individual cases I
q, harassed with quantities of secret
p every time he ventures out calling
Ia People, when they can do something
is for nothing, often do a great deal of Il
IN Alasi I could not be a good lawyer
- for might not be irst-rate at keepin
j, secrets.
n I think 1 would like the medical pro
II fessiOn. Still, there are so many idiot
'n who think doctors have a supernaturs
2n power-the keys of life and death
d their own hands, as it were-that 1t
Is, discouraging to think of the pOssibilit
n. of losing a patient. Yet, it must /
IN intensely gratifying to see the blOOl
o. of health returning under ones trea
It. ment. It must dOubly pay for muc
inconvenience.
The journalist has the hardest an
most checkered and thankless caree
it seems to me. IN proportion to Il
other professions, the hardships, not
say indignities, are as Niagara Falls
ma small rivulets. An editor is liable
ar. almost anything. The other profe
sions have ghost Of a chance to d
lily fend themselves from too severe ce
ed sure; but the unfortunate editor! /
is surprised of a Sunday morning
wake and find himself alive; he Is t.
'9L one who must work night and day, /
ar- doors and out, to crafty his reader
he who is obliged to exhaust the ner
NO tissues to so great an extent as to ma
I,0 a long account with Mother Natul
IN who will not be cheated.
70- Still, the editors field is broadcast
all. Thousands of eyes and ears s
b. and hear him, while only hundred
be perhaps, are affected by the other pl
of LESSONS. His pen may turn many
dull aimIess life into activity, a
bring sunlight into many cloudy {
ore nestle horizon.
ak In spite of all this, I JUOuLd91't be
ere editorl
And now I have been thinking
this over-as to what I would like
on be-and heave a sigh of relief to II
OF myself what I am. 1 would rath
and though my sphere be narrower.
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