The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-03-15

fear. will never get righteous wages |
through woman's vote, and as to UNI
fortunate womanhood, women are far more |
cruel and unforgiving than men are.
After woman has made shipwreck OF
her character, men generally drop her,
but women do not so much drop her as
hurl her with the force of a catapult clear
out, and off, and down, and under.
I have not much faith that woman will
ever got merciful consideration and
justice through woman suffrage, yet like
experiments, and some of my friends, in
whose Judgment have confidence, are %
certain that alienation would come by
such process that l would, if l had the
power. put in every womau's hand the
vote. l can not see what right you have
to make a woman pay taxes on her prop.
erty to help support city, State and Ma
tional government and yet deny her the
opportunity of helping decide who shall
be ma yor, Governor or President. But
let every wife, not waiting for the vote
she may never get, or, getting it, find it
overbalanced by some other vote not hit
to be cast, arise now in the might of the
eternal God and WELD the power of
sancified wifely ambi tion for good APP
proxmating the infinite.
No one can so inspire man to noble
purposes as noble woman, and no one so
thoroughly degrades man as wife of
unworthy tendencies. While in my text
we have illustration Of wifely ambition
employed in the wrong direction, society
and history are full of instances of wifely
ambition gloriously triumphant in right
directions. All that was worth admira-
ton in the character of Henry VI. was
a. I - l., l., e.
garet. William, Prince of Orange, was
| restored to the right path by the grand
| qualities of his wife Mary. Justiniau, the
Roman Emperor, confesses that his wise
| laws were the suggestions Of his
wife Theodore. Andrew Jackson, the
warrior and President, had his
| mightiest reinforcement in his plain
WIFE, whose inartistic attire was
the amusement Of the elegant circles in
which she was invited. Washington, who
broke the chain that held America in for
| eign 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
i amid the honors of the presidential chair.
Pliny's pen was driven through all its
poetic and historical dominions by his
wife, CaIpurnia, who sang his stanzas to
the sound of flute and sat among audi
ences enraptured at her husbands genius,
herself the most enraptured. Pericles said
he got all his eloquence and statesmans hip
from his wife. When the wife of Grotius
rescued him from long Imprisonment at
Lovestein by means of bookcase that
went in and out, carrying his books to and
fro. he was one day transported, hidden
among the folios, and the women Of be-
besieged nsberg, getting permission
from the victorious army to take with
them so much of their valuables as they
could carry, under cover of the promise
shouldered and took with them as the
most important va'uables their husbands
both achievements in literal way illus
trated what thousands of times has beer
, done in figura tive way, that wifely am
bition has been the salvation of men.
De Tocqueville, whose writings will b.
pc tential and quoted while the worl'
n lasts, ascribeds his successes to his wife
and says:
, ''Of all the blessings which God ha
| given to me. the greatest of all in m,
! eyes is to have lighted on Maria Motley
3 | Martin Luther says of his wife:
{ II would not exchange my povert,
, with her for all the riches Of Cres u
, without her." ss
Isabella of Spain, by her superior faitl
in Columbus, put into the hand Q
II Ferdinand, her husband, America. job
, | Adams, President of the United States
j. said of his wife:
S ''She never by word or look discourage
4 mo from running all hazards for the So
0 walton of my country's liberties"
n Thomas Carlyle spent the last twent
2 years of his life in trying by his pen
a atone for the fact that during his wife
Y life he never appreciated her influence o
his career and destiny. Alas, that havin
4 taken her from a beautiful home and
a bril- liant career, he should have burie
h her in the home OF recuss and scolde
!. her in such language as only a dyspept
$ genius could manage, until one day, viii
II in her invalidism, riding in Hyde Parl
q her pet dog got run over, and under IL
= excitement the coachman found her dea'
d Then the literary giant woke from his col
It jugal injustice, and wrote the lamen t.
n tions of Craigen- Puttock and Cheyr
IT Row. The elegant and fulsome epitapl
IS that islands put upon their wive
al tombstones are often an attempt to NAL
ar up for lack of appre ciative words tn,
,s should nave been uttered In the ears
the living. A whole Greenwood of mon
mental inscrip tions will not do wife
!. much good after she has quit the world
10 one plain sentence like that which To
- Hood wrote to his living wife when
70 said: ~ never was any thing till / kne
ys YOU"
N Owoman, what is your wifely amb
ID ton, noble or ignoble? Is it high soci
"a position? That will then probably dire
"a your husband, and he will climb, al
q. scramble, aud slip, and fall, and rise, al
tumble and on what level, or in VIII
=. depth, or in what height he will aft
- awhile be found l can not ev
:. guess. The contest for social position
=. the most unsatisfactory contest in all ii
Nv world because it is so uncertain abo
:. your getting it, and SO insecure posse
~ sion after you have obtained it, and
=, unsatisfactory even if you keep it. T
y whisk of a lady's fan may blow ito'
~ The growl OF one bear or the believing
u one bull on Wall street may scatter it.
Is the wife's ambition the political pr
90 ferment of her husband? Then that W
So probably direct him. What God-f'
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