New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-04-18
PRAIsEFoR WOMEN.
Some of the Pretty Things Said
About the Cherished Sex.

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Some of the Pretty Things Said
About the Cherished Sex.
Mary q. Spencer, in Globe Democrat.
If the Bible had said man was made
out of a woman S rib, would believe;
for of all things in this world a man is
most helpless alone. A chicken two
hours out Of the shell can take better
care CT itself than a man can. So it
is all right that man by 90 or rs
should be looking around for wom-
an to take care of him; and woman
never is permitted to look around for
man. The women do not need to
go counting. am sure there is some
mistake in the translation. It should
read that q man was made of rib OF
a woman.
can not stick a pin down in Etera-
Gure, but 1 come upon the praise OF
| women, and it is not for me to say it
is not all deserved. Let me give
you taste of my collection of
nice things. Martin Luther said:
Earth has nothing more tender
than a woman's heart when it
is the abode of pity. Michelet said:
woman is the Sunday OF man; not
his repose only, but his joy-the salt
OF his life" That is little mixed as
a figure, I allow, but Mr.. Michelet
meant well, and when one is in love
he can not help getting a little fur
rled. At least it is so with women.
John Adams said: 'sAll that L am
my mother made me-" Lord Lans-
downe said: IF the whole world were
put into one scale and my mother in.
to the other, the world would kick the
BEAM" / like that because of all
things [ am sure the very best is no.
BILE mother. The Arabs say: Zone
can get hundred wives, but he can
never get but one mother; therefore
mother is equal to one hundred
wives" But Leopold 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: 1.-THE sweetest thing in life is the
unclouded welcome of wife" Rich
ter, that is, the divine Jean Paul,
said: 'No man can either live pious-
" or be righteous without a wife"
Emerson said: "a beautiful woman
is a practical poet, tanning her savage
mate, planting tenderness, hope and
eloquence in all she approaches" 1
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:
elf woman lost us Eden, such as she
alone restores it," Voltaire said: cit
is woman who teaches US repose, civ
ility and dignity" Ruskin says
a great many fine, things of
woman. Shakespeare has no heroes;
he has only heroines." This is al
ways true in a ruder, earlier stage of
society. Woman always begins civil
cation. The honor of woman has al
ways been the cornerstone in build
ing socially. A race lacking respect
for women has never advanced politi-
cally and socially, or has speedily de-
cayed. Leasing said: Mature meant
to make woman its masterpiece.
Contucius, 22OO years ago said:
"Woman is the worlds masterpiece
But Malherbe spoke the mind OF all
Frenchmen when he said: s'There are
only two beautiful things in the world
women and roses; and only two
sweet things aad melons,"
This was gallant, but natural; and it
gave women her true place as a BIOS
som and fruit of nature.
Concerning women and men as
equals Ruskin says: eve are foolish
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 happiness OF both
depends on each asking and receiving
from the other what the other only
can give" Thackeray drew this con-
trast: almost all women will give a
sympathizing hearing to men who are
in love. Be they ever so old, they
| grow young again in that converse
ton and renew their own early time.
Men are not quite so generous. Vol
taire said: Gail the reasonings OF men
are not worth one sentiment of wom-
an" Gladstone says: woman is
the most perfect when the most wom-
anly." DR.. Clark 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 Hottest ideal
OF humanity demands that each shall
be perfect in it's best work Thelily is
not inferior to the rose, nor the oak
superior to the clover; yet the glory OF
the lily is one, and theglory OF the oak
is another, and the use OF the oak is
not the use Of the clover
a Weather Fable.