Daily Republican., 1889-10-24
SOMETHING ABOUT WOMEN.


Extracts from the Hindoo vedss on Women.
India Of the Vedss entertained a re-
spect Tor women amounting almost to
worship. A fact which we seem little to
suspect IN Europe when we sccuse the
extreme Eatt OF having denied the dig
nlty OF woman, and of having only made
OF her an instrument of pleasure and of
passive Obedience.
What was true Of antiquity was not so
with regard 10 ancient India, and the
sublime efforts of Christ did but restore
to woman the social position which she
had enjoyed In the ear lest ages OF hu.
manly. Let 1t BE- well understood, that
u was but sacradotal influence and
Braminical decay that, In changing the
primitive condition OF the East, reduced
woman to state of subordinat!on which
has not yet wholly disappeared from our
social system.
Let us quote these maxims taken at
hazard from the sacred books OF India:
Man Is strength-woman Is beauty; he
Is the reason that governs, but she Ia the
wisdom that moieraiee; the one cannot
exist without the other, and hence God
created them two for the one purpose.
Man Is incomplete without womao,
and the man who does not marry at the
20 " '"iey nnouiu pe btiRnhuZeu a.
Infamous.
lie who despises woman, despises bis
mother.
Who is cursed by woman is cursed
by God.
The tears Of woman call down the
fire OF heaven on those who make them
flow.
Evil to him who laughs at woman's
sufierings, God shall laugh at bis pray
ers.
The songs Of women are sweet In the
cars OF tho Lord; men should not, If they
wish to be heard, sling the praises of God
without women.
The priest shall allow women to burn
perfume upon the altar when he ofiers
sacrifice for fruits, for flowers, for house
holds ani for creation.
Women 81 ould be proiec ed with ten
derness and gratlfed with gifts by all
who wish for length OF days.
IL was at the prayer Of a woman that
the Creator pardoned man; cursed be he
who iOrgets it.
A virtuous woman ne ds no puriflsa-
ton, for she is never dedlsd, even by con-
tact Of impurity.
Who shall forget the sufferings Of his
mother at bis birth shall be re born in
the body of an owl during three success
sive transmigrations.
There is no crime more odious than to
prosecute women, and to take advan tspe
oil their weakness to despoil them of the r
patrimouy.
In assigning her portion 10 his sister,
each brother should adj to II from his
own, and present to her the finest heller
of his herd, the Iurekt ffron OF his crop.
the most beautiful jewel Ia his casket.
The woman watches over the ho use,
and the protecting div inilies (devas) of
the domts lc hearth are happy in her
presence. The laoors of the field should
never be assigned her.
Woman should be for man the soother
OF labor and the consolation of mislor-
tuue.
Women should be shielded with
fostering solicitude by their fathers, their
brothers, their husbands, aud the brothers
OF their husbands, If they hope for great
prosperity.
Wherever women live IN affection, the
family becomes extinct, but where they
are loved, respected and surrounded with
tenderness, the family increases and
prop re- IN every way.
The onsehods cursed by women, to
whom they have not rendered the hom-
age duo them, find themselves weighed
down with ruin and destroyed, as If they
had been struck by some secret power.
The sentiments expressed in these cita-
lions are not isolated, or only found in
one work; all OF their ancient books are
illed with the same love and respect for
women. The abridgement of Marou,
by the Bramius in support of
heir own Ideas Of domination, although
lacing women IN a position more sub
ordinate, more obscure, could not, in
many. circumst noes, escape making
Itself the echo of those primitive princi-
p es which might not be so soon forgot
,en. JAMES B. WEIGH.