Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-09-07

obliged to carry so much the greater half Of the
burden of sin.
In his address to the students at Fayetteville
University the Hon. W. NJ. Fishback closed with
the following to the young ladies':
Nov, young ladies', one word to you before
concluding.
II sincerely trust that you have not allowed tbe
pomp and pageantry of mans ambition and
achievements to lead you to seek the ADVANTAGES
Oh 'he institution that you may unsex yoursel YES
by entering the field of action belonging more mar
ticularly to man. ''',' P'i7
line part which has been assigned to YOU in the
economy OF nature may not be as eventful and
varied IN incident; it may not be ACCOMPANIED with
as much ostentatous glare and glitter, vet if is co
much grander in results so much more exalted in
It's responsibilities and so infinitely higher and
holler in its character that it would seem sacri.
ege to desert it for the gitterng pomp of the am.
billions of the rougher sex.
Gas wife, daughter mother, it is your biob
privilege to make man what he is, to make society
What IL IS, to make governments what thew are.
You are absolutely the architects of our whole So
clal ana national public. To you more mpera-
tlVely than any Others is broad and comnreben.
slye education necessity
ut is said OF cAatSoble Christian, than whom no
more virtuous and exalted private character was
ever produced In this or any other age-the late
Robert r.. Lee-that when he was made nresdont
OF the Washington-Lee University, he was accus-
toned to call the boys who matriculated before
him, and say to them: Now, young gentlemen. 7
shall watch your conduct closely, and it will not
take me long to find out what sort of a mother Won
have"
This advice is the same old effort of the old con.
servative elements to discourage women from
trying to better their condition by endeavoring to
seek work in the avenues which lordlv man has
usurped for his own especial benefit, but women
have long since crossed those old routes and made
for themselves a new road. This is now a fact ac-
complishee, and they are proving every day that
they are fully competent to disregard the advice
given by eloquent advisers, who are falling behind
the times. The honorable speaker evidently draws
his inspirations upon the subject of woman from
St. Paul, but the difference lies in the fact that
st. Paul kept abreast Of the times, while Mr. Fish
back has spoken in manner which would have
been in accordance with the conditions which ex-
listed at the time st. Paul spoke. st. Paul being
progressive man, he would doubtless have said
to those young ladies, not las wife, daughter and
mother let your highest privilege to make man
what he is, but "as the purest' and best of Gods
created-as wife, daughter, mother or to what
ever sphere you may be called-"let it be your
highest privilege to make man BETTER than he is"
All must agree with Gen. Lee in his method Of
judging mothers; but the question arises, if her
influence has effected so much for the first
fifteen years of the life of the American citizen,
why not continue it later in life? If she can guide
SO successfully for fifteen years, why not for ffy2