Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-16

weary people in your cities for i've
nights OF tho week there are mono more
weary than the public school teachers.
Within stones throw Of this tui ding
there died. years ago, ono Of the princi.
pals OF our public schools. She had been
twenty-five years ct that post. She had
left the touch of refinement on . multi
tude Of the young. She had, out Of her
slender purse. given literally Thousands
OF dollars for the destitute who came
under her observation a. . school teacher.
A deceased sisters children were thrown
upon her hands, and she took caro- OF
them. She was q kind mother to them,
while she mothered whole school. Worn
out with nursing in the sick and dying
room of one Of the household she herself
cams to die. She closed the school book
and at the same time the volume of her
Christian fidelity: and when she went
through the gates they cried: "These are
they who came out Of great tribuIation,
and had their robes washed and made
white in the blood of the Lamb"
Oh the opport unity which every woman
has OF being queen. The longer live
the more admire good womanhood. And
have come to form my opinion Of the
character Of a man by his appreciation or
misrepresentation Of woman. II q man
have depressed idea Of womanly char.
ac'er, he is . bad man, and there is no
exception to the rule. The writings OF
Goethe can never have any such att ac-
tions for me as Shakespeare, because
nearly all the womanly characters OF the
great German have soma kind Of turpi'
tude. There is his Mariana, with her
c'andsstine scheming, and his Mignon,
of evil parentage, vet worse than hsr
ancestors, and his Theresa, the brazen,
aud his Aurel;a, of many intrigues, and
Philina, the termagent, and his Molina
the furnished, and his Baroness
aud his Countess, and there is sell
dom a womanly character in all his
voluminous writings that would be worthy
Of residence in q respectable coal cellar,
yet pictured, and dramatizsd ard en-
blazoned till all the literary world is com.
peeled to see. No, no. Give me William
Shakespeare's idea of woman, and see 1t
in Desdemona, and Cordelia, and Rosa
lind, and Imogen. and Helena. and
Hermione, and Viola, and Isabella, and
Sylvia, and Perdita, all of them with
enough faults to prove them human, but
enough kindly characteristics to give as
the authors idea Of womanhood, his
Lady Macbeth, only a dark background
to bring out the supreme loveliness OF his
other female characters.
Oh, women of America! rise to your OPP
portunity. Be no slave 10 d., or world
illness, or sin. Why ever crawl in the
dust when you can mount a throne? Be
queens unto God forever. Hail, Vashti!
7 20 Vochki
the vailed. Had she appeared before
Ahasuerus and his court on that day with
her face uncovered, she would have
shocked all the delicacies Of Oriental so
Getty, and the very men who in their in.
toxication demanded that she come, in
their sober moments would have despised
her. AS some flowers seem to thrive best
in the dark lane and in the shadow, and
where the sun does not seem to
reach them, so God appoints to most
womanIy nature, a retiring and uncb-
trusive spirit God once in while does
call an Isabella t. throne, or Miriam
to take tbs timbreI at the front Of host,
or Marie Antcinette to quell a French
mob, or a Deborah to stand at the front Of
an armed battalion, crying ont. Up!
upi This is the day in which tbs Lord
will deliver Sierra into thy hands" And
when women are called to<such outdoor
work, and to such heroic positions, God
prepares them for it; and they have iron
in their soul, and lightnings in their eye.
and whirlwinds in their breath, and the
borrowed strength of the Lord Omnipo-
tent in their right arm. They walk
through furnaces as though they were
hedges of wild flowers, and cross seas as
though they were shimmering sapphire,
and all the harp;es of he'll sink down to
their dung con at the stamp of their wom-
anly Indignation. But these are excep-
tions. Generally Dorcas would rather
make a garment for the poor boy :;
Rebecca would rather fill tbs trough
for the camols; Hannah would rather
make a coat for Samuel; the Hebrew
mad would rather give a prescrip-
ton for Mammals leprosv; the woman Of
Sarepta would rather gather q few sticks
to cook a meal for famished Elijah;
Probe would rather carry letter for the
inspired apostle: Mother Lois would
rather educate Timothy in the Scriptures.
When / see a woman going about her
daily duty-with cheerful dignity presid-
ing at the table: with kind and gentle,
but firm discipline presiding in the
nursery, going out into the world without
any blast OF trumpets, following in the
footsteps of Hin who who went about
doing good say: "This is Vashti
with a vail on" Bat when / ses a
woman of unblushing boldness. loud
voiced. with tongue Of infinite Glitter
chatter. with arrogant look, passing
through the streets with q masculine
swing, gayly arrayed in a very hurricane
Of millinery, cry out: "Vashti has lost
her vail" Whom I ses . woman strug-
Cling for political prefsrment aud reject
ing the duties Of home as insignificant,
and thinking the Offices Of wife, mother
and daughter of no Importance, and try
ing to force her way on up into conspicu-
ity, say: "Ah, what q pity;
vashti has lost her vail" When see .
woman Of comedy features. and Of adroit.
ness of intellect, and endowed with
high social position, yet moving in so
ciety with superciliousness and hauteur,
as though she would have people know
their placs. and an underlined combination
OF giggle, and strut, and rodomontade, on
dowed with allopathic quantities Of self,
but only homeopathic indnitesimals of
sense. the terror Of dry goods clerks and
railroad conductors, discoveries OF sig
nificant meanings Of plain conversation.
prodigies in badness and innuendoes-I
say: "Vashti has lost her vail"
But do not misinterpret what say into
. depreciation OK the work of those 81 ORR
Gus and divinely- called women who will
not be understood till after thsy arc dead,
women like Susan B. Anthony, who are
giving their life for the betterment Of tho
condition Of their sex. Those Of you who
think that women have, under the laws Of
this country, an equal chance with men,
are ignorant of the laws. A gentleman