Wichita eagle., 1889-07-23
For the Eagle.
WOMAN


ion has been regarded as a sufficient
guarantee for enslaving the feeble and
defenceless, hence it was because OF
weak muscles and a tender frame that
women became slaves or inferior to man
and were doomed to drudgery and de-
graduation to promote mans pleasure and
his pride; hence it was necessary to keep
the book of knowledge from the woman
in order to keep her a slave
at the feet of her husband
or Lord. But wherever civilization has
dawned upon the world and the influ-
ences of Christianity mas been felt, her
chains have fallen off and her letters
broken. Since this time female charac-
ter has risen and female education has
become of greater and greater and
greater Importance. But much as she
has advanced in this direction, still there
is room Tor improvement that she may
be the better instructor of her children;
that she may be an ornament in society
and the free and equal and happy COM
paniOn of man.
Woman's happiness and usefulness is
in the domestic and social circle. Be-
yond this her influence by its moral re-
Elections on the hearts and lives of man
hood is lost. This is not the result of
any system of education, but it is the
distinguishing circumstance of her exist
ence; one that God never intended to be
otherwise. What then is the highest OBJ
iect of woman's ambition? 1t is that in
which she feels the greatest interest and
from whence she draws the great
est happiness. 1t is to be loved
to call one her faithful
true, her own. Poverty, slavery
and death have no aspect to her so
gloomy as to think she is forgotten.
She will smile at poverty but Will fol-
low her lover from the rivers to the ends
of the earth. She will meet and over
come ali difficulties with fortitude like a
heroine, to find and enjoy the society of
one she loves. But to be neglected, for
cotton, forsaken is more than she can
endure.
The largest portion of woman's happi-
ness is derived from her relation to the
other sex, yet it is not the only
source of her enjoyment nor
the exclusive object of her
ambition. There is kind of aristocracy
of which she is more ambitious than
man. She may be the founder of dis
tinction in the circle in which she moves,
but all others except those founded on
wisdom and goodness must sooner or
later tumble into ruin on the heads of
those who aspire to them. One-half of
the poverty and misery of this world
grows out of the misguided ambition to
be great.
Now | would say to the women of this
day: Beware, as you stand ,as it were. upon
the dome of mems hearts as the goddess
of liberty stands upon the dome of our
great capitol. not aware that she is occu-
plying the most exalted place in the ma
tons we call the; best. SO do YOU occupy
the most exalted place in the hearts of
all true men. Then be content; do not
seek 10 bring man under your rule and
bring discord and strife to the many
happy homes where peace and happiness
now dwels. Let no fierce. bowling
winds come to ruffie your tranquil stream
of JOY; let no falling floods come
from above to lash your quiet
depths into fury. Pine not, struggle not,
therefore, oh, child of humanity, for the
broad places, the high places of life.
There the storms of adversely NAV beat
'
sphere you now occupy. Please remen-
Der, too, that if the sunshine of prosper
ity and glory beams around thee, IL
sometimes dazzles, even 10 binding, and
the warmth which WHITES NAV Vet in
the end consume. Thy existence. oh
child, is real. yet thou wilt pass away and
the place that now knows you will know
you no more. Another surplanteth thee,
but that which thou hast said. thought
or done will remain unchanged forever.
You will have TO consider your action as
gone forth; II cannot be recalled be il
veal or woe TO myself or others.
Thou sweet singing siren, the soft cooling
dove.
Love. harmony burdened with strife.
The throne OF affection, the tyrant of love.
The bane and the balm Of mans life.
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