Telegram-herald., 1888-02-13


trs4tInsas of sosslsA. bUt II y0u wall " heaT
beating down Of pflsss 2aa wages Ia perfect
ioa. listen hoN sonls women Ire4E sasheTs0-
men and .ll aasu4.lksEs a1d fasI4Ale sefvaals-
Ms Shgi0ck . ulors ulorcliess tlsn Mr.
Shyi0.k Woalsz. 1 fear, ~iu aeser get
rigate5us ~zs-s thEoaSh wofuan's vote, and
a. - uafgrtGEats ~oManhood, No1lAn aFe
Tar more cruel aud ,lEsfaEz wing than uen are.
After n woman hAs nzzas sb8gNrsek u her
ch4ractsr msa generally drop her, 0ut NO
men 40 not 50 n1ch drop her IS hurl her
With tbs force II = e4taPalL clear Oat and or
aad down and under.
l have uot much faith that women win
ever get merciflI consideration and justice
through woman suffrage. Jet l Ike expert
menss, and some Of my friends Ia whose judg-
menG have conEdence are 80 certain that al
ieviarlOn would come by such process that
would 4 | bad the power. put ia every
woman ; hand tho vote. | cannot see what
right you have % make woman 10 pay
taxes Ca her property 70 help support city,
state and national government, and yet d-ny
her the opportunity Of helping % decide Sho
shall De mayor, governor or president. But
let every wife, nOs waiting for the vote she
may never get, OF. getting (, find IL oatbal-
ariss now IN The might Of the eternal God and
WELD the powsr Of sanctiaed wifely aInbl-
ti0a for good spproximating the initiate.
No one can 80 inspire to noble pur-
poses as a noble woman, and no one so thor
Oughly degrade a man as a wife OF unworthy
tendencies. While Ia my text We have illus
tration Of wifelF ambition employed IN the
wrong direction, society and history are fun
- " ole zfU
triumphant in right directions. All that was
worth admiration ia the character Of Henry
VI was a redsction OF the heroics Of his wife
Margaret William, Prince Of Orange, was
restored to the right path by the grand
qualities OF hrs wife Mary. Justinian. the
Roman emperor, confesses that his wise laws
were the suggestion Of his wife Theodora-
Andrew jackson, the warrior and president,
had his mightsst reinforcement ia his plain
wife, whose inartistic attire was the amuse-
meat OF the elegant circles in which she was
invited Washington, who broke the chain
that held America in foreign vassalage. wore
for forty years a 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 hoaors Of the presidential chair.
Pliny's pen was driven through all its poetic
and historical domin4ons by his wife Calpur-
MA, who sang has stsnzas to the sound Of
dute and sat among audiences enraptured
at her husbands genius, herself the most
enraptured Pericies said he got all his
eloquence and stateSmanship from his WIFE
When the wife of GrOtius rescued him from
long Imprisonment at Lovestein by means of
a bookcase that went In and out, carrying
his books 20 and fro, he one day transported,
hidden amid the folios, and the women Of
besieged Wsinsberg getting permission from
the victorious army 10 take with them SO
much OF their valuables as they could carry,
uader covr OF the promise shouldered and
took with them as the most important valu-
able-s their husbandS-both achievements in
; literal way illustrated what thousands OF
times has been dons in a fguTative way, that
wifely ambition has besn the salvation OF
men
De Tocqueville, whose writings will be po-
tential and quoted while the world lasts,
aScribes his success to mis- wife, and says: ''Of
al the blessings which God has given TO me,
the greatest OF ali in my eyes is TO have
lighted on Maria Motley" Martin Luther
saws Of his wife: 81 would not exchange my
poverty with her for all the riches of Croesus
without her. Isabella Of Spain, by her SUI
perior 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 salvation OF my country's hberties.'
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
hfe he never appreciated her iniu-
ence on his carer and destiny. Alas,
that having taken her from beautiful homo
and brilliant career, he should have buried
her IN the home Of a rscluse and scolded her
In such language as only a dyspeptic genius
could manage, until one day, while IN her in
validism riding in Hyde Park, her pet dog
got run over and under the excitement the
coachman found her dead Then the liter
airy giant woke from bis conjugal injustics
and wrote the lamentations of Craigen-Put-
tock and Cheyne Row. The elegant and full
some spitaphs that husbands put upon their
wives tombst0nes are often an attempt to
make up for lack Of apprcciativs words that
should have been uttered in the ears Of the
living A whole Greenwood OF monumental
Inscriptions will not do a wife 20 much good
after she has quit the world as one plain sem
teuce ike that which Tom Hood wrote 20 his
living wife when he said: Il never was any
thing TIL knew you
Oh, woman. what i your wifely ambition,
noble or ign0bles Is is high social poSitioni
That VIII then probably direct your husband,
and he viii climb and scramble and slip and
fall and rise and tumble. and on what level
OF IN what depth or on what height he viii
sftsr a while be found I cannot even guess
The contest for social position Is the most un-
satisfactory contest IN all the world, because
it Is - uncertain about your getting il. and
80 insecure a possession after you have OBJ
tsined Il. and unsatisfactory even il you
keep il The whiSk of a iady's fan may blow
Il out The grOvi II one bear OF the below
ing OF one bul On " al street may scatter Il
T. the vife's ambition The political prefer
u1ent Of her husbands Then that viii prob
sbly direcs him. What God fursaken
rsslm IS American politics those best Know
Who have dahhed IN them After they havs
ssse<se,l usn who = candidate for ofics
whlch he dos not get. or aSsessed him for
some cffice attained. and he has been whired
round and round and round and round among
the drinking. smoking. swearing crowd Who
oftsn zet contrul 4 pablIc sffaigS. al that .
eft u his sef-respect or moral sfami1s
would fnd plenty Of roons on a gaoHetricsl
point. which sid 20 have neither lsuzth.
breath or thickness Mary wife has rot
hesn satisfied till her husband went into poli-
tscs brit would aftervard havz given al shs
prssesse.i % get him cut
knsw highly moral nan. usefIs in th-
church and poSssssor Il a bright home he
had ussfai and prosperous business. but his
vlfe did not think II zsnseel enough There
~sre odors about the business sad sosnetines
teev wculd adhere - bis garments vhe1 -
r~ssIrr~i st night She insisted on his Do
iug sczuefhing naore elegant. sithouzh b vss
snsiiaed Cor no business sxorpt hat n ~hlch
~ va ~nzsr@i 70 rieess her ~ char~ei