Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-17

them In the RESTAURANTS so oYerpoWeret
with wine and beer that they can hsrdl
sit mp, while there are many so-calleG
respectable restaurants where they csI
60 and taketheir champagne an hotltoddJ
all alone. Mighty temperance voter
those women would make. Besides that,
the wives of the rum-sellers would have
to vote in the interest Of their husbands
business, or have q time the inverse oil
fel icitous. Besides that, millions Of re-
spe ctable and refined women in Americ!
NO uld probably not vote at all, because
they do not want TO go to the polls, and
on the other hand, womauly roughs
would all go to the polls, and that nigh
make WON ans vote on the wreng side
There is no IN my mind mucn prospect
OF the exp alslon Of drunkenness by
female suffrage.
As to womap's wages to be corrected
by womsn's vote, have not much faith
in that. Women are harder on women
than men are. Masculine employers are
mean enough In treatment of women, but
If you want to hear beating down of
prices and wages in perfection, listen how
some women treat washerWomen and
dressmskers and female servants. Mrs.
Shylock is more merciless than Mr. Shy
lock Women, I fear, will never get
righteous wages through womsn's vote,
and as to unfortunate womanhood. women
are far more cruel and unforgiVing than
men are. After woman has made ship
wreck Of her character men generally
drop her, but women do not SO much
drop her IS hurl her with the forces of
catspult clear out and Of and down
and under.
have not much faith that woman will
ever get merciful consideration and JUS
tice through woman suffrage, yet like
experiments, and some of my
friends in whose judgment have
confidence are so certain that allie
Walton would come by such process
that would, il had the power, put In
every woman's hand the vote. 1 can not
see what right you have to make
woman pay taxes on her property 10 help
support city, state, and national govern.
ment, and yet deny her the opportunity Of
helping to decide who shall be mayor,
governor or president. But let every
wife, not waiting for the vote she may
never get, or getting 1t fad 1t unbalanced
by some other vote not ut to be cast,
arise now in the might Of the eternal
God and WELD the power of ssnctifed,
wifely ambition for q good approximating
the infinite.
No one can 60 inspire man to nooler
purposes as noble woman, and no one
80 thoroughly degIades man as q wife
Of unworthy tendencies. While in my
text we have illustration of wifeIy smbi-
ton employed in the wrong direction,
SOCIETY AND HISTORY
E1ll of 80 rriH ais
ambition gloriously triumphant In right
in the character OF Henry vi WAS 8 re-
ret. William, prince OF Orange, was re-
stored to the right path by the grand
qualities of his wife Mary. Justiniau,
| wise laws were the suggestion of his
warrior and President, had his mightiest
reinforcement in his plain wife, whose
insrtistic attire was the amusement Of
the elegant circles in which she was in
vited. Washington, who broke the chain
that held America in foreign vsseaIage,
wore for forty years chain around his
own neck, that chain holding the miniature
likeness of her who had been his greatest
Valley Forge or amid the honors of the
Presidential chair. Pliny's pen WAS driv-
en- through all IL, poetic aud historical
dominions by his wife .Cslpurnia, who
sang his stanzss to the sound Of flute and
sat among audiences enraptured at her
husbands genius, herself the most en-
rsptured. Pericles said he got all his
eloquence and craftsmanship from his
wife. When the wife Of Grotius rescued
hin from long imprisonment at Lovestein
by means Of q BOOKCASE that went In and
out, carrying his books to nnd fro, he one
day transported, hidden amid the folios,
snd the women of besieged Weinsoerg,
getting permission from the victorious
army to take with them 80 much of their
vsluables as they could carry, under
cover of the promise ehouldered and
took with them as the most important
vslusbles their husbands-both achieve
ments in literal way Illustrated what
thousands Of times has been done In fg-
uretive way, that wifely ambition has
been the salvation of men.
De Tocqueville, whose writings will be
potential and quoted while the world
lasts, ascribes his successes to his wife
and says: "0f sll the blessings which
God has given to me the greatest Of all in
my eyes is to have lighted on Maria Mot
ley" Martin Luther says OF his wife:
<sI would not
EXCHANGE NY POVERTY
with her for all the riches of Croesus
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 al hazards for the saliva
ton 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 wiie's life he never
appreciated her influence on his career
and destiny. A as, that having taken her
from beautiful home and brilliant
career he should have buried her in the
nome of recluse and scolded
ner in such language as only O dyspeptjc
genius could manage, until one dag while
In her ipvslidisn riding in HydePark her
pet dog got run over and under the ex-
citement the coschmsn found her desd
Then he literary giant woke from his
ccniugel injustice and wrote the lsment6-
tions Of Craseen-Puttock and Cheyne
Row. The elegant and fulsome epitaphs
that husbands put upon their wives
tombstones are often an attempt to make
up for lack Of appreciatiye words that
should have been uttered to the ears of
the living. whole Greenwood Of mon
rmentsl Inscriptions will not do wife