The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-24
PRAISE FOR WOMEN.
BY MARY F. SPENCER.

IOI Ot dll llllLSS iil lHlS Wol lNl d uldll is most helpless alone. A chicken two hours out of the shell can take better care of itself than man can. So 1t is all right that man by twenty or twenty-five should be looking around for woman to take care of him and woman never is permitted to look around for man. The women do not need to go courting. l am sure there is some mistake in the transla- tion. It should read that man was made of rib of woman.
 l cannot stick pin down in litera- ture, but l come upon the praise of women; and it is not for me to say it is not all deserved. Let me give a taste of my collection of nice things. Martin Luther said, Earth has noth- ing more tender than woman's heart when it is the abode of pity" Mich elet sad, "Woman is the Sunday of man: not his rcpose only, but his joy the salt of his lite" That is q little mixed as figure, allow, but Mr Michelet meant well, and when one is in love he cannot help getting a little fiurried At least it k SO with women. John Adams said, All that am my mother made me Lord LaHs- downe 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 am sure the very best is a noble mother. The Arabs say: "One may get a hundred wives, but he can never get but one mother; therefore a mother is equal to hundred wives" Beopold Schefer has it better yet, when he says: But one thing on earth is better than the wife, that is the mother.
 However, the wife gets enough praise and need not be jealous. N. P. Willis said, as sweetly as he said all things: "The sweetest thing in life is the unclouded welcome of a wife" Richter, that is, the divine Jean Paul, said: "No man can either live pi- ously or die righteous without wife" Emerson said: "A beautiful woman is a practical poet, tanning her savage mate, planting tenderness, hope and eloquence 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 given us this: "If woman lost us Eden, such as she alone restores it." Voltaire said: "It is woman who teaches us repose, ci- vility and dignity" Ruskin says great many fine things of. woman. shakespeare has no heroes; he has only heroines" This is always true in a luder, earlier stage of society. Woman always begins civilization. The honor of woman has always been the corner stone in building socially. A race lacking respect for women has never advanced politically and so- cially; or has speedily decayed. Less ing said, "Nature meant to make woman its masterpiece" Confucius, two thousand two hundred years ago said, "Woman is the worlds master piece" But Malherbe spoke the mind of all Frenchmen when he said "There are only two beautiful things in the world-women and roses: and only two sweet things-women and melons" This was gallant but nat ural; and it gave women her true place as blossom and fruit of nature.
 Concerning women and men as equals Ruskin says: "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 hap piness of both depends on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give" Thackeray drew this contrast: "Almost all women will give sympathising love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again in that conversation and renew their own early time. Men are not quite so generous" Voltaire said: "All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women." Gladstone says: "Woman is the most perfect when the most womanly." Dr. 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 hu- manity demands that each shall be perfect in it's kind, and not be hind cred in it's best work. The lily is not inferior to the rose, nor the oak su- perior 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 the clover" "Woman," says another writer, smust be regarded as woman, not as a nonde- script animal, with greater or less capacity for assimilation to man." Dr. Clarke says again: "Educate man for manhood, woman for woman