The morning call., 1890-10-31
THE WOMAN'S COLUMN
Mans Kingdom Is W0man's
Heart.
How the Matter Of Woman's Rights Is Viewed
by Woman in the Hawaiian Islands.
Women Who Demand Rights.
MANS K1NGDoM-woMAN's SPHERE.


His Kingdom Is womnn's Heart - Her
Sphere the Circle of His Life.
Editor Woman'S Column, Morning Call:
Seeing such frequent illusions to ''man'S
kingdom" and woman's sphere" the
thought arises: What would either be with
out the other? How could mans kingdom
exist, or would he have any kingdom to
exist, if it were not for her sphere? And
where would the woman's sphere be ii it
were not for his kingdom? In brief, could
either be without the other? If we say with
Gay, the poet, in the "Beggar'S Opera:
How happy could 1 be with either
We're t'OIher Gear charmer away,
We must still wonder in what happy hunt
ing grounds that same poet would have been
had it not been for mans kingdom and
woman'S sphere.
God, alter creating man, found that II
was net well for him " to dwell alone" so
to perfect him and his prospective kingdom
he created, as "a heip-meet for him."
woman and her prospective sphere. Male
ana female reaied he Them knowing that
the life which he had given would be to
either rather a curse than a blessing without
the love. sympathy and comranlonshlp OF
the other. As Burns so APPLY says
on man lie tried his prentice hand
And then he made the laSSes, Oh!
was first and greatest, knows that his first
effort, even II satisfactory and perfect in
many ways, is still lacking IN many other
things, and SO his second effort is ever the
more erlect. Tie imperfectiOns in one
delicate piece of mechanism need to be toned
down or elevated by the perfectiOns of
another Will his OF still finer workmanship.
Was hot this also true in the creation Of
man and woman?
MANS BEST KINGDOM
Is woman's heart, and her true sphere is
the circle of his life. Sphere is indeed an
apprUpria,e term by which to designate her
iie-path, for the circle OF her gentle but
! dominating influence rounds AMI parmeates
his whole existence from the cradle to the
grave. The hand that rocks the cradle is
the hand that rules the world" whether
that hand is encased in a velvet glove is
deck ed with the jewels of the Orient, or as
in too many cases. is heavily mauacled by
mans 5 tTUngly forged letters. Shelley says:
Nothing in the world is single,
All things ty u law divine
In one aEother'S being mingle.
And another writer, speaking CT these lines,
! adds: He might have gone further and
| SAID: Nothing in tile universe is single ;
! cold and heat, storm and sunshine, good
! and evil, joy ard sorrow, all 90 in pairs.
| This double life extends to all the spheres
and above the spheres"
Ii this latter clause be true how much
comfort 1t contains for the otherwise furlorn
! bachelor and bachelette VINO have, through
no fault Of their own, missed their earthly
atlinilies.
ii woman is the correlative of man in
some respects, III others she is as certainly
| his counterpart.
Man often asserts that woman is an
| enigma aud 50 indeed is or should be
| every woman save to the one man who holds
the key to their dual life, and to all others
| she should be 4 yertable sphinx, sternly
| issuing the edict: Thus lar shalt thou come
| and no farther
Should woman insist upon exercising this
| her one lreIoSatiye, the verdict would not
50 often be given that marriage Is a fail
ure" there would b. fewer divorces, though
| there may be more of those deyUtreS of St
| Catherlne-the old maids. II woman only
| surrendered the citadel Of her heart to that
one man, his kingdom would be
| HER KINGDOM.
And her sphere would lie his sphere for they
twain would indeed be 50 completely one
that there could be no dividing line between
| them. Each would double the joys while
| dividing the sorrows OF the other. Many
| duties, of course, fail 10 the lot of each
which it would be utterly, perhaps physi-
| cally impossible for the other to perform,
but these are not the duties about which
| discussions ever arise. 1t is only those
| which may and can be as well performed
! by one sex as by the other that cause the
war tocsin to Instantly resound, and the die
| yum sOSS luI III llldk Woman ID OhGIoltDDill5
| the boundary OF her sphere-infriuging upon
| tile kingdom of man. II is not to lie expected
| that man should willingly resign any of his
| inalenable rights which lie has possessed
and exercised from time inmemoral, neither
| does wuman-the alien TO all rigntS-the
weaker vessel. but the one whose endurance
| is always put 10 the Severest test-ask it of
! him. She only asks, other things being
| equal, the privilege Uf hearing tie heavy end
| OF the burden, as the Scotch say, while re-
ceiving thcli-ht end of the remuneration.
A man would be thought lacking IN brains
if he demanded so little a woman is re-
| garded as presump;iye while asking so
much.
Alter ALL the line of demar alton between
| the kingdom and The sphere is only one of
| usage, more imaginary than Otherwise, a
sort Of equatorial line upon the chart Of life,
and as man ascenGs the plane of civilIza-
| ton and becomes more enlightened lie Will
| ultimately, think, lay aside this last re-
| naming relic OF barbarism, and lifting his
sister
| TO HER RIGHTFUL POSITION
On the throne by his side, make their king
| dom one and iudivislble, with equal rights
| for both. Pending the arrival of these
halcyon days, however, the writer OF this
| would like to make one sGgge ton to her
| sisters women, who, like MArtha of old are
careful and troubled ab ut many things"
| numbered about much serving, and that is.
do the best you can in the sphere in which
you are placed and under the circumstances
by which YOU are surrounded, and God Will
| care for the reSt-the result
In your patience possess We your souls"
Before concluding L. ). wishes to thank
the editor of the WUman's Column for
kindly publ fishing Mrs. Cars very able aud
brilliant aItIrle upon The Influence of the
| Printed Page" 1t was read by her with
much interest, and if the good seeds sown
in her mind, and no doubt in the mind Of
many another seeker after light who as yet
sees Through glass darkly," from its pc
| rusal only ta&e roo!, grow, blossom and
| bear fruit, leach alter lis kind" Mrs. Carr
| will realize somehow and somewhere that
"she has bulded better than she knew"
| San FrdHCiSco OctoJer GS 1890 L. S.
| wnMHN'S