The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-07-05
ABOUT wOMEN-wHAT OTHERS SAY,

Sot ihto Impossible ulIncultleS, and
with impossible results and villainy
went unwhippied, and virtue fell
dead. The fact is, that many of the
young unmarried people of this day
get their heads SO. filled With the false
sentimental notions-in regard to the
plain, serious, ED fashioned institu-
tons OF marriage they are unfit for
the common duties of life.
The Marlborough Review says, that
which the Creator at first planted in
the creature Of his own hand can
never be eradicated The place as
signed to woman in the eternal de-
cree is hers, and hers alone. Her
function, her very name is eve"
the mother of all living. Hence, deep
down in the heart oil every true
daughter of L We lies the hope, the
passionate desire Of being mother.
1t is part OF her very nature. Con-
scious or unconscious of this motive,
tor a portion OF her existence her
whole being is scarcely touched and
Swayed by it, as the life-blood that
mingles with the whole stream of her
aspirations, impulses, graces and
emotions. There is no purer delight
or JOY .han that of q mother over her
first barn child no intensity of grief
more bitter than her sorrow at it's
loss. AS girl of she Rugged her
baby doll, however battered, old and
ugly; as a woman of 20 she clings to
her newborn sou; olings to him
when, after wandering far from home
he at last comes back, stained, defil-
ed, degraded, and asks for pardon.
Blind to all his faults and failings-
nay, TO his deformities-a only to
the thought that he is her child, and
that she is his mother-she welcomes
him with love and blessings. To de-
NY this supreme truth were impossi-
BILE; to ignore it, madness. AS to
women of the future, they must grow
out of the present. Il they would in
deed attain 90 the high dignity which
is their birthright, to the full light
and grace which is their noblest pos
session, they must obey the supreme
law of their being-their aspiration
to become. mothers OF great men.
And this Is to be achieved, not hy
aping the work or the ways OF men,
or by seeking to surpass innocent
tenderness, reality and truth. Such
weapons as these are the tried armor
OF all time, and the noblest victories
ever yet won by woman have been
thus won, and thus alone. Thus
equipped she is invincible. Array
ed in any other garments, academic
or mundane, shipwreck is inevitable
and that, too, shipwreck Of her
brightest, fairest, and tru9st hopes
of all that the world counts most
worthy OF all that she herself deems
most precious, dearest and best.
A writer in the Marlborough Re-
view says, however we may affect TO
deny it, there is a vast amount of
married unhappiness in all classes.
The fault is sometimes ascribed to
the present degeneracy OF women,
and sometimes to thu deterioration
Of the men. The fault really lies in
our social system, which gives wo-
man neither work nor money and OBJ
liges her to sell herself before she
has lost her only salable commodities
youth and beauty. AS there ex
lists four "superhuous women" to one
man, the female has no choice, while
the lordly male has the greater num-
Der from whom 70 pick and choose.
Therefore in this century, many wo-
men have not only no chance Of mar
rying at all, but no freedom Of selec-
ton whatever
What is so-called the progress Of
civilization in the last seventy years
has been disastrous TO the female sex.
To some few women of the none yed
class these changes have given luxu
ny and leisure, which they misuse
On the whole, women have suffered
bitterly instead of robbing men O.
work, females have been despoiled O
their time-immemorial trades, and O.
their monopoly in the labor market
Also, their influence in home life has
decreased, The rearing Of children
has become difficult or Impossible il
almost all classes. The chances O
happiness in marriage are lessened
And lastly, alter having become lesl
useful and less loved, women are, il
consequence, less respected than the,
nave ever been in time past.
The Church Press says women
should be educated as women, not al
men. The attempt to educate then
otherwise is to masculinize them, and
that is to lower and corrupt them
The world must have the moral PROF
and support which women alone can
give it. God made her different from
man, and, save where she is debauch-
| ed by sin, and the knowledge which
comes from sin, she is nobler and
purer than man is, or may hope to
be. All that keeps her is woman