The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-12
WHY WOMEN MARRY.
ms sHERWO D DISCUSSES III Z
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TO,-a and It's E1oCS Oh I1OA lang CTS
- at5irhsr Education" for Women.
-, the North american Rerielo for March.
IT.. very difficult task to answer Mrs.
- f.annett Wells brilliant paper in the
-. ,,,,,ober of the ReUielU, because she goes
a'. .r.uering herself. However, / differ
Scrastly from one or two OF her opinions,
- shall eadeavor TO say 50 respectfully. l
=. rot believe prudence or 1.-THE original sin
s.-,nsss of man" has ever kept woman from
n.rrying. Mrs. Wells says that 1.-THE work
- rornan breads man. She knows him as
Tractor. boss, night fiend, betrayer. and
- vrants none Of him." With this postu-
20 disagree. Who has not had supe-
.ior bousemaid, nurse, or even nursery gov
-aoss who went wild over this contractor,
Ioss night fisnd and betrayer." and would
D,sTrv him willy nilly. and be poor, de-
.a-tad miserable, but fond and atfectionate
aver afterl
Eyre loved Rochester, although we see.
rho are looking on, that she was far his
Eperior. He was simply mssculnlty on a
Tsck horse, the Centaur-sublime allegory
~ strength. Hs was her man of men.
gow snlendidly the little Yorkshire woman
-iotpres il for us in her noble English, as
re naints the vapid manikins and woman
Fins of fashion who gathered in that stately
Srswinp room. AS Rochester tries to make
1--we 70 one Of them who would like to
marry him for his money, we feel. all the
time how inferior she is to the plain little
lane in the corner in this great power of
living: aye. and we feel how illogical is
lane TO love Rochester so much; but we re-
snect her for 1t; it is womanly.
NJ apic NJ Nancy SvknS tails
The whole story. 1t is sad truth. One
hates to acknowledge IL. Women love
brutes, they adore strength; they love, as
The dog does, the master; and, although
civilization has brought in some terrible
cornpl1cations. there is something honorable
and natural in this strange contradiction.
The man should have just enough of the
brute in him to kill, as Adam did, the deer
for the family dinner. He should be able
TO knock something on the head-presum-
sby not his wife. Even through all the
grades, from Adam down to an English
d Ike. women have in their secret hearts
this alteration of masculine power, and l
remember hearing at dinner table in
London, three years ago, where the differ
ences of a certain noble couple were being
discussed they had just gone through the
divorce court, this remark from a delicate
and elegant countess, who was a friend of
the wife:
you see, Anastasia was one of those
women who needed kicking downstairs, and
Marmaduke was gentle; he was not up
t. it.n
This is putting it brutality; it is the plain
English of it; but who does not know some
dissatisfied woman of fashion who loathes
her rather stupid husband, who does not
know enough ITO kick her down-stairsN
That is, he has not inspired her with a re-
spect for his strength. She ought to be (she
wishes she could bel afraid of him. but she
is sorry to acknowledge to her own heart
that she IS his superior. 1t saps her love for
him. They are in a false position toward
each other.
THE JANE EYRES OF REAL LIFE.
And rising above the housemaids aud the
nursery governess, do we not all know some
gentle, superior, educated women who have
loved and married men whom they knew to
be gamblers, drunkards and brutes? 1t is
the superior woman who does this. Jane
But Mrs. Wells will say, and very truly,
that every woman Is not a Jane Eyre, that
some are SO prudent and SO selfish that they
ask if halt the husbands wage viii be given
70 them; If 1t will not be more comfortable
TO live alone, and to save the money earned
Tor ones self. These are very rare women.
Dld Mrs. Wells ever reason with house
maid in love, or a schoo,mistress, or a
fashionable girl who wished to refuse fifteen
millions and marry the man of her choice?
| do not agree with Mrs Wells in the sup
position that the higher education, or phil
anthropy, or the pursuit OF an honorable
profession drives out of woman's head the
idea of marriage. A profession is a refuge
for woman who has not been able to
marry the man of her choice, or, having mar
red him, has found him utterly unconge-
NAL, or as some witty woman said, ''insup-
portable, and therefore to be supported" l
nave seen the most educated, the busiest
and the most superior woman at 40 years of
age glad to marry some very inferior weak
creature, 80 great a craving had their noble
hearts Tor love. Women who are excep-
tionally strong can Stifie this hunger of the
heart. ut requires" said Miss Sedgwick,
a very superior woman to be an old maid.
Almost anybody can be good wife"
higher education has opened much that
gives dignity and peace to woman who
nas missed her destiny, which is marriage:
out 1t does not keep a "double first" from
wishing to marry, although it does I'M
doubte1ly make her less attractive to men
10 be so very superior"
For to return to that savage idea of
nature which makes the brutal man attract
I've, man likes woman to be his in,
- -NA h0hO tAiuoG 10 aS FEMININE as ne is
masculine, and the first claim Of femininity
!! ISL Inls that the woman looks up to the man.
VINO that has read Mrs. ELEPHANTS excellent
story OF Miss Marjoribanks" but recalls
4 lan dozen such very superior women Of
ms own acquaintance who were wrecked as
70 marriage by their very superiority The
man 1elt chat he could offer neither protec-
tion, assistance, nor help to these very SUI
Perior creatures l often hear of such
women, who are apt to be heavily frsighted
WIN self-conceit. 20, she could have
married anybody, but she does not wish to
marry" never believe this. l think the
legend should read: She would have mar
req almost anybody if she could" am
sure, mad been man. I should not have
wished to marry her.
DANGER OF HALF EDUCATION.
woman who thus gives the idea that
1ae is law unto herself loses her power of
a.lICraction, and it is one argument against
u half education, which we misname the
u gher education, that it sometimes pro-
m TuceS an unhappy mixture of this kind.
NC True education, the higher educatioD,
places woman exactly on level with her
tnale' she loves a man who is her superior.
Que azores his superiority of mind, as she
IeJolc IS In the bigness of his hands and the
11Gperlor largeness of his feet, which give
t ~. Inc physical strength for mountain
Silulo or the power Of pulling at the sails of
as yacht he and she are the compliments
riage
no doubt there are many women-very
ggrano women they are, too-who, like Miss
%1ar tlneau, refuse to marry for physical