Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-03-06

considered to be the greatest beauty
Miss krarer has been eight years ir
this country, and has no desire to return
to Greenland. She says she never will
go there again to remain permanently
Saratoga Cor. n. Y. Sun.
RIPE MIDDLE AGE.
The Liberal Spirit of the Present Age
and One of Its Results.
a quarter of Il century ago a married
woman of thirty was extinguished under
cap and remanded to the regions OF
dizziness. Her growing daughters mo.
nopolized he thought and time. They
were first in every thing-their wishes,
tastes and inclinations were all in all.
AT forty she had quite done with the
! active interests of life. All that re-
manned to her was the supervision OF
the domestic economy, the missionary
society, and the endless making of
patchwork. Her time was not some
thing to be economical, too valuable to
be wantonly wasted. It involved no
choice of duties, no substitution
of the more important for those
less pressing, for she had none beyond
those which were classified under the
head of natural responsibilities. The
existence of unmarried women was even
more circumscribed, for they had not
even natural responsibilities-ho
husband and children with which to oc-
cupy themselves. 1t was this disregard
of the experience and wisdom which
ought to come with years well lived that
won for us the plying contempt of Eu-
ropeans. The American spoiled child
was Justly looked upon with horror as
dominating society and arrogating to it
self the place and distinction which in
Europe were reserved for it's elders.
We have learned at least one whole
some lesson from our neighbors on the
other side of the Atlantic, and the won-
an of maturer years-married or I'M
marriod-is slowly claiming and taking
her rightful place. 1t is astonishing
what things are being done by grand
mothers-women past fifty, who have
raised their children and have them
settled in homes of their own" Once
they would have droned in the chimney
corner over their knitting or the patch
work above mentioned. Now they have
been inspired by the universal spirit of
tho work of the world outside of home.
Nearly all the philanthropic work of
the present has been originated and
is controlled by mothers of grown
children, or by unmarried women
past forty. They constitute the
larger part of the membership of
art and literary clubs, of the societies
connected with the churches. They
hold conventions, influence Legislation,
and keep a sharp eye on those in au-
thority who need watching.
The writer visited friend several
years ago and saw upon her walls sew
eral studies in oil. remarkable for their
strength and originality. When the
hostess was questioned she said: They
are my mothers work. She never knew
that she mad any talent, and never took
a lesson in drawing until she was past
fifty. Now she paints necessarily, and
it is constant pleasure to her and to US
all" China painting has been taken up
late in life by women who served an ap-
premiership, not in the line of art. but
in cooking, sewing and housekeeping.
In Western city the organist in one
of the large churches is n grayhaired
woman between fifty and sixty She is
an enthusiastic musician and could not
read note until she was fifty years old
Helen Hunt Jackson was forty years
old before she found in her writing
solace for bereavement and sorrow.
In the country the farmers wives are
themselves in temperance
and politics. The general circulation
of the newspaper has been godsend to
them, and they have been quick to act
upon its suggestions, and so broaden
and brighten their lives.
The days have passed in which women
are to be wives and mothers, and moth
ing more. Their duty in that direction
will always be paramount to every other
but for the cultivated and
active mind it is not enough. knowl-
edge and wisdom confer power, and
power in either man or woman will find
fitting scope, as water seeks level The
education of women within the last
twenty-five years, has revolutionized So
ciety, and the blessings which have
come with it are not only permanent,
but they will be increased.
The ultra conservative who can not
ad lust themselves to the new conditions
may we'll say, with the doughty Sir An
thonv Absolute: "All this is the natural
of teaching girls to read"
But what is done can not be undone,
and no feminine human. being in possess
sion of her faculties Will give up one
inch of the solid ground which has been
gained.
Old age, instead of being full of ter
rorS, so far as women nowadays are con-
ought to be anticipated with
pleasure. No one stops to ask the age
Of an interesting person, and with the
full opportunities which our times and
our country afford no woman of average
has right to be uninter-
esting, though she may have passed the
allotted three score and ten.-Mary Ii.
krout, in Chicago Inter-Ocean.
4 Confusion of Tongues.
The prohibition of the use of the Ger
man language in the courts of the Baltic
provinces by the Russian Government
has created great confusion of tongues.
The majority of the population on the !
Russian side of the Baltic knows little
Or no Russian at all. and the scenes in
the courts, where the peasants seeking
Justice and the lawyers pleading their
clients cases are unable to communicate
their grievances to the learned Judge
who knows no German, are any thing
but pleasing for those concerned One
barriSter on being required to SIGN an