Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-10-18

oearch 1or your girl, and she is nowhere to be
found-but by and by you will come to fence
corner and hear piping voice hummng little
tune and catch glimpse of pink gown, and
there she is with few broken pieces of china and
a doll baby keeping house in the quietest, most
approved fashion. There she will play BY herself
for six hours at time, or until you call her awav
to hept boy gather up the see-saw and the tools,
quench the bonfire and fill up the well-in fact to
clean up the cyclone generally.
Ii the home had not suffered SO terribly from
the evil OF lntemperance, the women would not
have joined hands so vaiantly against it,
In this crusade they have proven their capabili-
ty for organization, and the future will bear the
fruit.
"Women are frivolous" True, many are. It
is theory with wise parents that if child cannot
be allowed to do a certain thing, then they must
provide something for it which it can do
Ii woman forfeits her best interests in being
frivolous, then why not provide something for her
which is agreeable in another direction? There is
the woman with dog in her arms. She is always
an object of ridcule, and of all women she is the
most to be pitied 1t is the yearning of the
stunted instincts of mothers nature So stunted
that she little dreams of the capacity for expan-
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dreams how the love of little child would pene-
trate into every fibre of her being, causing her
heart to vbrate in responsive sympathy and her
life to blossom with noble and generous deeds. |
heard young married woman, for whom had been
provided all the luxures that wealth can bestow.
complain to her husband of feeling starved" 1t
seemed queer expression to him, no doubt, but
1t well described the feelings of many woman
with mind superior to frivoity free from envy,
and living in an atmosphere Of feminine useless
ness.
Naught develops character like responsibility
and how many hard rap the delcately nurtured
girl receives in the school of experience, because
she has been brought up to believe that some one
will always stand between her and the affairs of
the world.
The woman of the future is to be individual
The faint away girl who fell OPPORTUNITY into the
arms OF her lover has gone out of fashion.
The sewing-machine laid the song of the shirt
away among the annals of the past, and the baker
brings warm bread to the door for breakfast; so
there is nought left for the modern girl to do but
to improve her mind and think about things gen.
orally.
Women as temperance agitators women in the
spectors and members Of the board of education,
and in a hundred avocations unknown to them but
a few decades ago, all goes to prove that she is
recognized benefit to the worlds affairs She will
infuse heart into the science of government and
help to loose the bandage from the eyes of justice
When young women are taught 20 think for
themselves to realize that they are individual, that
they are born alone and must die alone, and that
it rests upon every pair of shoulders to liquidate
their measure of debt to their Maker by assuming
their proportionate interest in the human race and
its affairs, marriage will be such union of head
and heart as the old hand and heart era knew not
Of, and the land shall abound in earnest mothers
and noble sons.
Civilization has lighted the torch, progress has
placed it in the hand of woman, and with it she
will blaze path to the millennium.