Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-05-31
WOMAN'S REALM.
Under God The People Rule" Mottoo
ofSouth Dakota.
ARE WOMEN PEOPLEg7
Conducted by LoElla II. Blank associate ed!tor)
1of'1ucteu by I.OElla Fl. Blank associate editor
Great Mems Wives.

Inc events that occur therein are more
dear and effecting to us than those
Which are sought in senates and aca-
denies. Domestic events are certain
~ our affairs. What are called public !
events may or may not be ours. If al
man wishes to acquaint himself with !
the real history of the world, with the !
spirit of the age, he must not go first to
the state house or court room. The
subtle spirit of life must be sought in
facts nearer. 1t is what is done and
suffered in the home, in the constitu-
tion, in the temperament, in the perso-
nal history, that has the profoundest
interest for US ali"
And yet what a record of selishness
and Indifference some of our greatest
men have left of their domestic life
Through ignorance,no doubt of the far
reaching consequences of every word
or action, yet the penalty is as swift
and sure as if the law were knowingly
violated.
DR.. Franklin, the far-famcd utiiita-
rian kite-fyer, went to Europe, leaving
his wife behind him, and never saw
her face for eleven years. She had
shared his poverty, practlced his poor
Richard maxims, pinched and econom-
lied. patched and darned, worked early
and late, bred children and nursed
them through jaundice, red gum, chick
enpox, whooping cough, measles, scar
let fever and fits, while Benjamin en-
joyed the splendor of a court, velvet
couches, good dinners and choice So
ciety. When he came back the poor
drudge was no match for the great
philosopher; there was wide gulf be-
tween them. Like too many woman,
she expended all her forces Oh the ami
NAL wants of her household without
one hour in the day sacredly kept for
her own cultivation and Improvement
That her heart rebelled in her solitude
and neglect is manifest in the head
strong acts of her children. F-art-;n
quarreled with his sons and disinheri-
ted one OF them. Thus were the
mothers wrongs rsysrged. A just
retribution for every injustice to; we-
men is sure to come in the vice and
crime Of her children to the third and
fourt generations. Harmonious
children are born only to happy, con-
tented mothers.
The less said Of Franklln's private
life the better William, governor of
New Jersey at one time, was his natu-
raj son. How many more of the same
kind he had, probably Franklin him
self never knew. This son was tory,
and disagreed violently with his father
in politics. Undazzled by the glory OF
Franklin stoves and lightning rods
one sees-much to disapprove in the life
of the great philosopher.
Henry Clay, too, thought he could
safely leaYe his wife at Ashland to
bear children and make butter for the
Lexington market, while he made laws
for the nation, and love too lovely wo'
men in Washington. There his heart
stood always open at any boarding
house door, but shut against her, who
was playing Solomon's wise woman
on Alarm in Kentucky, cutting out
linseys and jeans for the negroes.
His dream of ambition over, sick and
sad he went back to Ashland, to FIND
that the domestic drudge, called by
that holy name of wife, had reared uI
for him a race of degen
crate children. He was filed with
Disappointment, but his sorrow meas
ured the depts of the mothers humili
alton. The angels of evidence anc
retaliation were but equal. Was it tht
unhappy mother that made one so1
crazy with hopeless love, another {
sour. discontented man, overcome
through life with sense Of intirmity
and jockeys and gamblers of the rest
Truly wisdom is justified of her child
rem. We do not gather grapes O.
thorns or figs of thistles. We canno
quence our thirst at sweet and plea
SAINT streams whose fountain we hav'
poisoned. Henry Clay, thu great pa
clficator, the staunch protectionist, il
dead; his compromise measures arr
scattered, to the winds, but his mis-
deeds lived long after him. His sol
Theodore fingered in the insane asy
lum upward of fifty years, LONG
weary life of hopeless despondency.-
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in Omah'
Republican.
The average woman walks furthe
lin week than a drover, she stand
on her feet more than blacksmith
she deties the laws of health NOR
than an Indian, and then wonder
why she "isn't well like other folks.
detroit Free Press.
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