The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-14

home, she is the paragon of all that is lovely
and beautiful; and to her in that relation
ship true men yield to her homage second
only to that they pay to God. But to the
independent woman, who prefers to walk
through life alone, who pushes her way into
the lists where only men should be seen to
struggle-men show to her the outward
tokens of respect, as perforce from sense
of gallantry they must, but in their hearts
they have no admiration for her, little or no
sympathy, but much of pity and perhaps
disgust
By nature or by natures God-choose
which expression suits best-woman is evil
IDENTIFY designed to be associated with man,
and such is her nature, the quality of her
mind, that she is dependent upon him for
protection from the deeper cares and
rougher struggles of professional and bust
ness life. Instead of that condition of de-
pendence being intolerable to her, from
that failing of absolute trust, that sense of
safety in her husbands arms, she draws the
sweetest draught of happiness vouchsafed
to womankind, in this melancholy vale.
And nothing yields to a generous, noble.
manly man so much delight, pure and I'M
defled, as the consciousness that he is
trusted, that woman has confidence in his
power to protect and provide for her. To
the end that each may be equipped for the
part assigned in life by God, mans consti-
tuition is made more robust, his body
stronger, with heavier muscles and
tougher sinews, a mind holder and
more aggressive, a soul that laughs at dan
gers, where woman's is distilled with fears: :
and is daunted not at fortunes frowns
Women are cast in more beautiful mold,
but with bodies soft and weak and smooth
untitled for the rough toll by sea and land
such as men delight to endure What is, or
what can be more revolving than to see
women placed at manual work such as men
only should engage in. A modern writer
gives the following description of the
women who once worked in the coal mines
in the British islands; he takes his descrip-
ton from reports of commission appointed
during the existence of Sir ROBERT PEEL's
administration, 1916. This commission
had been appointed at the instance of Lord
ASHLEY, better known, afterwards, as the
Earl of SALISBURY, but best known as, and
his best title was; the friend of the poor and
the brightener Of the lives of those con-
demned to unceasing toll
In some of the coal mines women were literally
employed as beasts of burden Where the seam
OF coal was too narrow TO allow them to stand
upright, they had to crawl back and forward on
all Tours Tor fourteen or sixteen hours day,
dragging the trucks laden with Goals The
Trucks generally fastened n = cbai oh
passed between the legs of these unfortunate
women, and then connected with belt which
was strapped round their naked waists. Their
only clothing often consisted Of an old pair of
trousers made of Sacking; and they were I'M
covered from the waist up-uncovered that is to
say, except for the Crime and filth that collected
ana clotted around them. All manner of hideOuS
diseases were generated IN these unSeXed bodies.
UnSeXed almost literally. some of them became:
for their chests were often hard and fiat as
those of men: and not few Ct them lost all re-
productive power: a happy condition truly,
under the circumstances, where women who
bore children only Went up 10 the higher air for
n week during their confinement and then were
back at their WORK again. IL woul be super
huouS 10 state tnat the immortality engendered
by such state of things was in exact keeping
with the other evils which it brought about.
No more in mind than in body is woman
suited to occupy the sphere for which man
only is suited. AS one writer expresses it.
NOLISu nave inc leWeSI OF In6 QQallIleS
which make good political leaders, and to
give preponderance into the hands of
women is simply national suicide"
AS for the talk about women purifying
politics you might as well expect
City creek to make the Missouri river as
clear and sparkling as its own crystal
waters if by any manner of means it could
be turned into that muddy stream
Nature plainly indicates the place de
signed for both men and women; and happy
for our race will it be if we are wise enough
to educate each for the sphere designed for
them both by God and nature Our object
then will be to prepare our daughters, not
for business life, not for political leader
ship no more than for manual labor in fac
tory or field, but for the honorable position
the proudest and the best to be obtained
by women-that of wife and mother.