Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-03-15

Uue Opposite ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1dolllo uCoCOuouS
avern" Ibsen would have gone deeper; he would
have contrived to make the cobra the brake, and
the wheels would have felt stouter resistance
than they had ever known.
Besant's sequel bears no stamp of thinking man
as Ibsen's creation heralds it. Too many cooks
have spoiled the broth in the beginning, but may
hap the protector thereof knew what he was about
Ibsen's mora" was not the doll wife she
seemed to lie. She had two personalities as dis
tinct as DR.. Jeckyl from Mr.. Hyde. Her playful
manpulations on the vanity of her husband to ac-
complsh her ends were not the perceptions of the
child wife, but rather of the clever actress she
knew so well how to be. Ibsen's portrayal as far
as this point is most natural.
When she says, "Nly duty is to myself will
go out in search of myself she plants her foot
where few women have dared-have wished-to
tread.
Grant Allen proclaimed in the English Fortnight
ly Review that imam is the race woman is mere
ly the sex told off to reproduce it.
He WIS courageous and irritating, but not alto
gether mistaken. He we'll expressed the existing
condition of affairs
Since the world began one sex has been alb
sorbed by the other. The Bible puts it after the
same manner. ''Man born of woman is of few
days and full of trouble" So all the vices have
accrued at her door, and when the occasion de-
manded, she has lain meekly down at the threshold
and if the substance from the vices, be it dust or
moisture, has adhered to her skirts from the'pass-
ing feet, she has brushed it off as best she could
and been glad it was no worse
Her resources at cleansing and skill in remodel
ing are great.
Hpprik to 4 Il
owes greater duty to herself than to anv one else.
She reads-and reflects. Think you she
cannot see-see with the eyes that look from the
mother heart of the world?
Think you she needs Walter Besant to come and
help her bump her own head against the wall?
Has she journeyed down into the valley of the
shadow, alone, for nought?
Has she felt the graphing of life and death in
her behalf for nought?
Has she gathered burrows and wrinkles for gen.
erations and bequeathed the mother heart to her
daughters, the mother love for humanity, SYM
pathy for sorrow and suffering, all these ages and
gained nothing, so that the trace must arise and
tell her her duty?
Some one has written that the creator in his
wisdom, In order to bind together more firmly the
human family, has placed the happiness of every
one in the hands of some other person.
The happiness Of the world is truly in the hands
OF woman, and of many an unhappy woman.
lbsen suggests that while she has her hands fu]l
.nere are too many of the other sex quite empty
handed r'
There are too few women to remind them of
this fact.
lbsens Nora is reminder.
but out OF the disturbed waters peace will come
~ '''V' HARYoT Holt
MISS Hardsense-Is see you advertise for sales
lady, OO ~ '"''''
Mr. ,Qulcksales.-YeS, madam, you are the fifty
seventh applicant and the position is still vacant.
You will not do
u. MISS Hardsense.-Oh, but don't want posi-
ton as saleslady P''
Mr.. Quicksales.-You don't?