Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-03-15
THREE TYPES OF WOMEN.
MARTYRS WHO BELONG I'd THIS NINE
TENTH CENTURY.
Fashionable Hearts That Are Warm =
Brave and Uncomplain-
ing Women.

Often has it been said that the age OF
miracles is past, and that there are no
martyrs in the nineteenth century. Per-
haps there are no miracles, because we
look at things in practical way, and are
less superstitious and ignorant than FORM
erly, and know that, however extraor-
dinary effects may be, they always result
from natural causes. But there are now,
and will be martyrs as long as the world
lasts, says Miss Palfrey, in the New York
Star. The sweeping away of ignorance
and superstition will not do away with
martyrdcm.
And who are the martyrs?
Women, of course.
Who does not know them? They do
not make the air resound with their cries
nor do they tell their friends conidentially
the story Of their woes. A martyr suffers
silently. There is little opportunity to-
day for heroic acts. We do not need, at
least in this country, a Joan of Arc,
Charlotte Corday or an Ellen Douglas
But we do need Just such women as Amer
lean women are-brave, strong, true,
warm-hearted, sympathetic ami Christian.
Alas that some of them are martyrs.
I saw a woman the other day who was
brought up in luxury, married to the man
she loved and who expected to inherit a
large property. The money was diverted
into other channels, the husband proved a
good-for-nothing, and the young wife, her
pride wounded, her health failing, was
obliged to return with her three children
to her fathers house. Did she complain !?
Not word of unkindness, bitterness or
jealousy of others has ever passed her lips.
Her Oldest child is mentally deficient, her
second partially deformed, while the third,
daughter is just growing into woman
hood.
How does this unhappy woman bear it !?
Slender and silent, with hair that has
been as white as snow for years land she is
only little past forty), she bears her sad
dened blighted life uncomplainingly,
while compelled to exercise the closest
economy in her household expenses and in
the education of her children.
Is not this martyrdom? Compare this
life with that of Charlotte Corday or Joan
of Arc. The one silent, suffering deep
disappointment, the other full of excite
ment, activity, the consciousness of doing
great deed for the sake of humanity and
the knowledge Of enduring fame.
Many women VINO are not martyrs in
any sense are as full of good works as
have been many Of the good women of
early times who now figure as saints. One
day last week l spent the morning with a
slender, pretty woman, whose luxurious
home is in one of the most fashionable
quarters of the city. Sic has money, So
cial position and as much attention as any
girl could desire, and yet her life is de-
voted to mission work among the poor In
tenement houses. She likes to do it; it is
her choice
In the afternoon I attended ''tea" given
bv one of the most fashionable and exclu-
sive women in the city, where few women
fingered until late, and conversation be-
came serious.
All the women present were of the ex-
| tremely wealthy and fashionable set:
women representing millions of money in
their own or their husbands names, and
whose names are read in the newspapers
every day as being present at this and that
ball. One of them had spent the greater
part of the previous day in remote part
of town, visiting poor family and minis
tering to a sick woman. Another is well
known among her friends for her devotion
to the church and the charitable societies
connected with it. A, third prefers to dc
good in a different way, and does 1t in help
ing her poor relations and in helping
young women who are trying to help them
selves.
As l said, the conversation became seri-
Gus as we sat before the blazing wood-tire
in daintily furnished room. It turned
upon duty and the various virtues upon
art literature and music. Serious views
were expressed, and life was spoken Of
earnestly. One woman told of the studies
| of two young artists in whom she is inter
ested and whom she is helping to educate
Life to her is earnest. With her large
means she helps whom she can, and the
calls upon her are numberless. She hur-
ried away to see a poor, sick girl, and that
night she led the cotillion at one of the
fashionable balls. The next day the news.
papers described her ball gown and the
size of her diamonds, but no mention was
made of her large heart and her numerou:
kind deeds. These things do not get into
the papers.
1 wish / might mention names, but il
would be a breach of confidence. ! can
only say that American women of fashion
are not entirely given up to frivolities.
And then there is another class of women
in this great city whose names are never
seen in papers-the great army of refined
women, who, through mismanagement OF
| fraud, have been thrown upon their own
resources for support, and VINO face life
bravely, doing the work their hands find
to do without complaint, without repining
and without regret. They are heroines as
much as were hundreds of the women ia.
nous in history. They have been obliged
to give up luxuries, and in many instances
almost the necessaries of life, and TO alter
their whole mode of living. They go pa.
| tiently day after day to Office or workroom
and do the tasks allotted them faithfully
| and industriously, returning to their sim
pie homes too tired to do anything but eat
plain dinner and go to bed.
| We all know them, and their number
increases daily. Many Of them have not
! only themselves TO work Tor, out some one
else dependent on them. And they sup
port these Others cheerfully. This is q
noble army of women, not martyrs, like
those who suffer silently, but as deserving
of praise and encouragement. Because
they are obliged to do without the luxurie:
of life they do not grudge them to others
they do not allow any of their fashionable
sisters to embitter them or destroy theil
ambition. They enjoy their work and
their small pleasures, making the best O
what they have.
Here are three types Of women. Which
is the noblest? Who shall say2 If eaet
person performs her duty in that state .
life in which she if placed, there can be NJ
comparison.
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