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Are Women Fitted to Govern?


Most men who have associated much
with girls and women remember how
many Leeded lessons they have learned
from them in refinement and benevolence
and how they have had, on the other
hand, writes Professor E. 8. Cope
in the Ppular Science Monthly, to
steel their minds against their aimless-
ness and pettiness. And from youth to
later years they have observed one
popularity for which no remedy has
been yet found, and that is, pro-
nounced frailty of the rational faculty in
thought or action. This characteristic
is offset by strength and elevation of
the emotional nature, which shines with
inexhaust:ble lustre in the wife and
mother. It is to this that man renders
the homage of respect. admiration and
such devotion as he is capable of. But
are these the qualities for our Governors?
Men who display personal bias in ever
so small degree, unless accompanied
by unusual merits of another kind. are
not selected by their fellows for posit ons
of responsibility and trust. Strong un.
derstanding, vigorous judgment and the
absence of "lear, favor and affection, u
are what men desire in their Governors,
for only through minds of that character
can Justice be obtained.
On account of their stronger sym
pathies girls always think themselves
the moral superiors of boys, who are
often singularly devoid of benevolence,
especially toward the lower animals.
Some women imagine, for this reason,
that their entire sex is morally the supe.
rior of the male. But a good, many wo-
men learn to correct this opinion. In
departments of morals which depend on
the emotional nature, women are the
superior; for those which depeId on the
rational nature, man is the superlcS.
When the balance is struck can see no
inferiority on either side. But the
quality of justice remains with the male.
1t is on this that men and women must
alike depend, and hence it is that wo-
men so often prefer to be judged by men
rather than by their own sex.
The CorSetierc OF Got ham.
There is q dressmaker here in New
York, says correspondent of the Chi
cago Nrrs, who has borrowed an idea
from the famous Partisan corsetiere. upon
which Worth fits his dresses, for he
won't touch you until you have gone
aud provided yourself with one of Nine.
Quelquechose's corsets, which cost like
fun and fit like gloves. Now this cor
setere was very splendid and elegant
parsonage indeed. Worth always made
her gowns, too, and took especial pains
with them. Her house was on fash
ionable avenue, and was luxuriously fur
nished. 1t had the air of a private
dwelling. Every afternoon she had tea
and chocolate set out on tables with the
daintiest of silver, napery and china,
and she received her customers like
guests. They dropped in for a cup of tea
after their drive, they met every one
they knew, aud madame. in the most
adorable tea gowns, fitted about circu-
lating the very latest and most pl1uant
bit of cws. Her parlors were always full,
she always had something fresh and
amusing to tell, and she preserved with
infinite tact an attitude that, while easy
and not subservient, never offended the
haughticst Duchess. She made great
fortune and owns the ancestral chateau Of
a ruined marquis, but her daughter-in.
law still carries on the business. Now,
q certain clever costumer of this city
heard of this, and has to a certain ex-
tent initiated the Partisan example. Last
spring che began to fit up her front
drawing room with artistic upholstery
and hired pretty, graceful girl to look