Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-14

ward celibacy, aud one of the reasons
assigned is that education renders women
less likely to marry. This is readily
granted If it is also admitted that rnarrv-
ing simply to escape spinsterhood is
meant, but there is no woman, whose
education Is broad enough, who does not
readily confess that woman g happiest
lot is to be truly mated, sheltered in
home and in rearing sons anddaughters TO
go forth to benefit a world. Not to women
educated or not is the decadence of mar
riage chargeable. 1t is true an educated
woman will not marry so readily as if
her powers of observation and reasoning
had not been trained. She holds passion
in allegiance, and when it would blindly
lead her where her judgment cannot fol-
low, she bids its wild waves be stayed.
Marriage means more than a legal
union of man and a woman, and it is
no woman IS duty, educated or not, to be
a party to a compact which robs that re-
lation of its sacredness, and 1t were bet
ter the race cease to be than that woman
come to regard marriage as aught but a
holy relation. The point is. women, by
sharpening of their faculties, are
learning to form some correct
estimate of men, and men in
an age where sensuous luxury
so abounds, who find in club rooms and
bachelor apartments such creature COM
fort as in simpler forms of earlier civili-
zation were only to be attained in a
home, have grown shirkers and volup-
tuaries. The hardy manhood that
cleared forests, spanned streams,
founded cities in the wilderness and
opened avenues of trade has no repre-
sentative in this class, and woman
H.
them. preferring to cherish her ideal.
Is it any wonder? But if this woman find
brave man and true, will she not readily
recognize him and as readily yield to the
demand of her nature by entrusting her
self TO his protecting care? It may be
said such men do not abound, granted,
then it behooves women not to marry
whoever they can, but to fit themselves
for self-maintenance and to carry out
some purpose in life second only to the
higher destiny of genuine marriage.
The woman movement, like all reso-
lutous in their first efforts, has been
characterized by extrayagancies and ILL
judged measures, but slowly the work of
crystalization is going on, and pure,
white and sparkling will be the result.
Good women in every station are looking
for fields of usefulness, and in most
cases they have been generously met by
men who are not afraid of the effect
upon women nor of contrast or of
cPowding. ''Buslness women is fast
becoming an accustomed phrase, and
what women now need most to learn is
the full import of business as attached to
their name. They need TO learn that any
pursuit to be successful must be
faithfully followed, that no one, man or
woman, leaps to success, step by step
the ascent is made, and there must be
patient, persistent effort in the mastery
of details, a hxedness of purpose and
thorough apprenticeship before the top is
reached. For the want of this the cellar
is crowded and the garrett sparsely occu-
pied.
Women in business must learn business
methods, and just here it may seem ir-
relevant, but true it is, the tailormade
gown, the hat and gloves, that require
no mirror for the adjusting, are powerful
accessories to business methods. The
counting house and the office, the store
or she seh6pITooHs, are not the places
Ter eoquetry &C dress display. The most
winning dnaiities Eere are asIllgenee
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