The Southern herald., 1888-09-15
WoMEN As MoNEY-MAkERs.
They DO Not Succeed Is Well as Men Be
rausa They Arc BETTER.


They DO Not Succeed Is Well as Men Be-
cause They Are Better.
When woman has to concern herself
with the material necessities Of life she
descends from higher plane than man.
She must often stoop to conquer. HUI
manity has made immense strides since
it was first heard Of, but it has great
way yet to get before it reaches the re-
pose of perfect harmony and crowns a
finished world. The angel in man has
fatally bruised the head OF the brute in
man, but the brute still bites at the
head Of the angel.
AS between the angel and the brute,
think our own country leads the
world. The unquestionable claim OF
women, the Difference due to women,
the sacredness of her physical inferior
ity and Of her spiritual superiority, are
not only q commanding instinct, but
clearly defined idea in American man
| hood.
A thousand violations on the part OF
both men and women do not annihilate
this fact. Thousands of women earn
ing their own living, thousands Of wives
working harder than self-supporting
maidens, thousands Of both doing their
work with or without protest, nay, even
with rejoicing, do not affect the fact.
Even America, advanced as 1t is, has
not reached the ideal life. 1t is much
that we have reached point where we
can catch glimpses Of the Promised
Land.
At first sight 1t seems ideal to say ia
women who are wearing themselves out
in doing work that should be done by
servants, or to world in which a large
part Of the household work not only
but of outside work as well, Is done BY
women, that ultimately and ideally
they out not work at all. But In any
comparison Of their effectiveness witt
that Of men, 1t certainly should tevel
be forgotten, 1t should always be KEEP
well in sight, that however unsuccess
full their efforts be, it is in q field which
they are not made TO cultivate. It i
better that they cultivate thatfeld thai
that they be idle in their own or the,
starve in their neighbors'.
Many women are not sufficiently de
veloped to discern their own peculia
, work,
Without discerning 1t they do a grea
! deal of it instinctively in the lowe
/ fields where they are forced to live, bu
from which they will one day be gradu
ated. But always Il should be hel
upon all sides to the light that w6meh
: real work Is on character, her sures
!. weapon is influence. She can buy an
3 sell, and cook and sew, and wash an
9 irc;,i ic.i, because she is still of the cart
earthly, but she can not do 1t as well
d man because she Is not 80 much OF .
T. earth creature DIS he. As d matter
y fact, even III this favored countryi whsl
g men pay 10 wotdeh as wolnen; not
= ladies, Or bellies, Of beauties, an extr
r ordinary Difference, the mass Of Wiv
. work al hard al the mass u husband
J, Tneir spiritual superiority is signif'
~ chiefly in this-that the women wol
- for love, the men for money.
b. The woman who fails in her busine
10 is not necessarily the woman who sin
y beneath the toll Of the kitchen, or WI
y pricks her life out with the needle,
- who can not make both ends meet In
H. dry-goods establishment or milline1
y shop. Such q woman fails In midi
lg business, not In her own. The won
=, who makes d real failure, failure
fg her own business; Ii the unloved v
Nv man, the ungracious woman, the gra'
'h ing, the selfish, the repressive, the
no sympathizing, the censorious, the
Nv truthful, the woman who is a center
"s discomfort, source OF anxiety, an
'AS iect Of avoidance, instead Of being IL
gu gu gentle, consoling, considerate, moth
lie ly magnet which draws unto itself
rs' human want, and Woe, and bliss
on aspiration. Minneapolis Stdt.
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