The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-10-19

wager that tomorrow they will be most
proper. They change their opinions with
their dresses. He who takes u woman al
her word is like man who holds an eel by
the tail, he has not much to depend upon
register your oaths in air." and yet the
judge says he loves rs!
II any woman wants to get a good opinion
/ OF herself and her seq, let her 60 and inter.
| view Col. Robert g. Ingersoll. the great
| hearted man, Of whom it may be truly said:
| He loves his fellow men,
talked with him at one of his famous
Sunday receptions about women, and he
made me more glad than ever was in my
life that was q woman, and someway he
woke in me a wish to be a better woman
than have ever been.
1T takes hundred men to make an en-
| campment," said Mr.. Ingersoll, '.but one
woman can make homo. not only adj
| mire woman rs the most beautiful object
ever created, but reverence her as the re-
deeming glory OF humanity, the sanctuary
of all the virtues, the pledge Of all perfect
qualities of heart and head. It 10 not Just
nor right to lay the sins Of man at the feet
OF women. y 10 because women are &C
much better than men, that their faults are
considered greater. mans desire Is the
foundation of his love, but q woman's de.
sire Is born If her love.
''The one thing in this world that 10 con.
slant, the one peak that rises above ali
clouds, the one window in which the light
forever burns, the one star that darkness
cannot quench, 10 woman's love. II rises
to the greatest heights, it sinks to
the lowest depths, 1t forgives the most cruel
injuries. It is perennial Of life. and grows IN
every climate. Neither coldness nor
neglect. hardness nor cruelty can extin-
guish it. A woman's love is the perfume Of
the heart. This ID the real love that sub
dues the earth; the love that has wrought
all miracles of art, that gives us music all
the way. from the cradle song to the grand
closing symphony that bears the soul away
on wings OF lire. A love that is greater
than power. sweeter than life and stronger
than DEATH"
Wasn't that tribute to be proud Of?
And Henry NJ. Stanley, whom no one ever
accused of sentiment, proves that he has it
by his written answer to my query.
I'm the whole course of my life 1 never
md woman, from the fat-nosed female
of The tropics to the snow-white divinity
of New York, who had not q touch of ro-
nance.
.Repulsiveness could not change it; age
could not extinguish it; vicissitude could
not change it. have found it at all times
and in all places, springing into life as
spontaneously as the flowers. And this
romance is wonderful thing. It cheers
the cheerless, softens the insensible, reno
Yates the withered. A secret whisper in the
heart Of every woman alive, that to the last
wOos passion to hutter its rosy pinlons
about her brow" Now, who Gays STANLEY
explored for nothing.
w. D. Howells, VINO creates upon paper
30 many lovely women, says Of the sex:
The women of America owe their coun-
try double debt. It is tho paradise Of
women, their promised land, into which
they have been led up ont Of bondage worse
than that of Egypt. Il is the home Of their
freedom, for in America people recognize
the fact that women have consciences and
souls More than that. the women repre-
sent the aristocracy Ut America. YOu are
born TO the patrician leisure. You have ac-
complished manners and ideals. We men
are commonsiity. born to business, news
papers, cigars and horses. it is pity shat
women have to work upon such poor mate
rial a. men. The youngest Of them has
more wisdom in human nature than the
sages of our aex."
And now Listen to hobart Louis Steven
son, another man Who writes about women.
He says:
II nsver had much tolsration for the to
male sex; possibly do not understand
them. am mot . bold man, and havo
rather ehunned the society Of women. and
shen ] mark the unhappy consequences
which come upon thosD q my sex Who an