West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-04-27
more virtue. What duty for us?
Nature confides her innocent daugll-
for to tho ma0usn;m;tv Of man.

ter to the maguanfmfty OF man.
This is great and terrible fact.
The conclusion is overwhelming for
the heart of man. What. Has Ma
ture donu so much for him. favored
him to this degree?
He, too, who makes the laws, has
favored himself, armed himself
against poor, weak creature whom
suffering has delivered up to him !!
With this double advantage, bow
gentle he should be towards the
woman, how tender in his protec-
ton!
Every folly of woman is born OF
the stupidity of man.
With what perfect harmony, with
what astonishing regularity, is com
posed the great movement OF life
and of ideas. The details come all
confused, it seems, and quite by
chance. Stand of, and look at
the ensemble; yet you are more than
surprised, transfxed with admira-
tion by the singular appropriateness
with which pieces quite unlike, and
apparently disconnected, knowing
not each other, fit together and ar
range themselves, to build up the
eternal poem. Behold her then
revealed, both in her destiny and in
her personality. By as much on one
hand she commands our pity, on the
other she compels our admiration
and respect. On both sides an un-
expected happiness is opened to us,
that of increased love, an infinite
prospect into depths of love.
If the first words Of woman seem
rebellious, who can mistake the cries
of pain which comes from that poor
invalid?
Care for her, and love her. !. :.
All! but the proudest of her sex
would gladly give all the glories Of
the world for moment of true love!
The book that woman longs to write
in, the only book, is mans heart
to write there in letters of fire, never
to be effaced.
Literary demonstrations have
much exaggerated the changes that
have taken place. All this agita-
tion is on the surface Woman is
what she was. Wherever she is
alone, where the world does not spoil
her, she is good and docile crea
ture, willingly submitting to our
habits, which are often very offen-
sive TO her, subduing mans rude
will, civilizing him and ennobling
him.
Women and children form an aris
tocracy of charmingness and grace.
The bondage of business debases
man, and often renders him coarse
and avaricious. Woman's bondage
is simply that of nature; it is moth
ING but her weakness, her suffering;
and these render her touching and
poetic.
Corregio never tired of painting
very young children, at the period
when the lacteal life, the physical
and helpless life, being passed, the
first ray of their little freedom ap-
peared. 1t is then revealed, with
unspeakable grace, in their pretty
motions. The child is pleasing be.
cause he feels himself free and much
beloved, because he knows instinc-
lively that he can do everything that
he pleases, and that he will always
be loved the more for it, The moth
er is not less delighted IN this first
transport. She adores him in his
resistings, in his charming rebel
lions. Does he love his mother
the less for that? She knows too
well to the contrary. If he sees her
looking at all sorry, he throws him.
self in her arms again. Why was
not the man to the woman, at the
first outbreak of her individuality,
what the mother is to the child?
To speak frankly, between US men
(but let it not come to the ears OF
the women), we have made ourselves
very ridiculous by getting angry,
and scolding. The duel was all q
mock one.
They have not used the warlike
words which have been uttered in
their name. Where they have not
obliging female friends to teach them
the arts of war, they are peaceable,
gentle, and ask for nothing but to
be loved.
But this is their utmost wish, and
for it they spare nothing. A lady,
Madame de Gasparin) in q book
mystically beautiful, eloquent, ten
der as it is solemn, declares to us
that their happiness is in obeying,
and that they desire the man to be
the stronger. That they love those
who command, and do not dislike
the rigor of the command.
This lady, who believes that she
follows the Apostle, but leaves him
far behind in the spring other yonng
heart, assures us that q passive and
patient obedience does not suffice for
woman; that she wishes to obey for
loves sake, actively, obey even in
advance of the possible desire, the
divined thought.
A true and profound revelation
this. 1t is much more mans indif-
torrance than his TYRANNY that tor