Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-06-14
WOMAN's DEPARTMENT.
ABOUT US.
Some Passages From Eminent Authors on
the Relation of Woman to Man and
the World in General

Some P84S3X6S FRO" EulhnC0t AoSshOED On
the Relation of Woman to Man and
the World in General
If the Bible had said man was made
out of woman's rib / would believe;
for all things in this world man is
most helpless alone. A chicken two
hours out of the she'll can take better
care of itself than man can. So it is
all right that a man by 20 or % should
be looking around for a woman to take
care of him; and woman is never per-
mitted to look around for man. The
women do not need to go counting.
am sure there is some mistake in the
transaction. 1t should read that man
was made of a rib of a woman.
can not stick pin down in liter
allure, but l come upon the praise OF
woman; and it is not for me to say it is
not all deserved. Let me give you a
taste of my collection of nice things
Martin Luther said: Earth has moth
Ing more tender than a woman's heart
when it is the abode of pity" Niche
let said, woman is the Sunday OF
man; not his repose only. but his joy
the salt of his life" That is little
mixed as figure. l allow. but MIR Niche
let meant well. and when one is in love
he can not help getting a little Hurried.
At least it is SO with women. John
Adams said: "All that am my moth
er made me-" Lord Lansdowne sail:
'.If the whole world were put into one
scale. and my mother into the other,
the world would kick the BEAM" l
like that, because of all things am
sure the very best is a noble mother.
The Arabs say: ''One may get hum
dred wives, but he can never get but
one mother; therefore mother is
equal to hundred wives" But Leo
pod Schefer has it better yet. when he
says: 'But one thing on earth is bet
ter than the wife, that is the. mother"
However, the wife gets enough praise,
and need not be jealous. n. T. Willis
said, as sweetly as he said all things:
1.-The sweetest thing in life is the I'M
clouded welcome of wife" Richter,
that is, the divine Jean Paul, said: ''NO
man can either live piously, or die
righteous, without wife, Emerson
said: "a beautiful woman is practical
poet, tanning her savage mate, planting
tenderness, hope and e!oquence in all
she approaches. l 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 sad of
women. Whittier has g ven US this: ''If
woman lost us Eden. such as she alone
restores it!' Voltaire said: at is
woman who teaches us repose, civility
ard dignity Ruskin says great
many fine things of woman. ''Shak-
speare has no heroes; he has only hero
ines" Ibis is always true in Il ruder,
earlier stage of society. Woman al
ways begins civilization. The honor of
woman has always been the corner
stone in building society. A race lack
ing respect for woman has never adj
vanced politically anu socially, or has
speedily decayed. Leasing said: ''Na-
ture meant to make woman its master
piece" Confucius, 1920 years ago,
said: woman is the worlds master
piece" But Malherbe spoke the minds
of all Frcnchmen when he said:
''There are only two beautiful
things in the world-women and roses;
and only two sweet ,hings-womcn
and melons" This was gallant, but
natural; and it gave woman her true
place as Il blossom and fruit of nature.
Concerning women and men as
equals Ruskin says: 1--WE are foolish.
and without excuse. in claiming the
superiority of our sex to the other In
truth each has what the other h S not.
One completes the other. and they are
in nothing alike. The happiness of
both depends on each asking and re-
cciving from the other what the other
only can give" Thackeray drew this
contrast: 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: "All the reasonings of men
are not worth one sentiment of wo-
men," Gladstone says: Woman is
the mostperiect when the most wo-
manly" DIR. Clarke vs.: 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 loftiest
ideal OF humanity demands that each
shall be perfect in its kind, and not be
hindered in its best work. The lily is not
inferior to the rose, nor the oak supe-
rior to the clover; yet the glory of
the lily is one. and the glory of the
oak is another; and the use of the oak
is not the use of the clover"
woman" says another writer. ..must
be regarde rs woman. not as 4 monde
script animal. with greater or less ca
pacity for assimilation to man" DR..