Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-26

| ity has not fashionable society with its ar.
| tificiality, its selfishness and its mercenary
scheming is not to be deplored, but any
ment, genius and talent united with moral
excellence is a loser If such per-
sons are not brought together
| in social intercourse; and for each
I individual there is stunted development
because of isolation. Love for ones kind
is the sunshine that fosters growth, and the
attrition of mind with mind gives brilliancy
and keenness to wit and intellect
1t is therefore wiser in newly settled
towns to refrain from efforts to organize
Fashionable society, with its idle display, its
extravagances and its follies, and to seek
rather to knit together by truth, loyalty and
affection fellow mortals to whom friend
ship is not name nor disinterestedness a
seeming. tits under the fostering influence
of society thus constituted that mortals
ind their highest happiness, and through
mutual sympathy they are enabled to bear
up under the trials that at some time come
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advantages for young women, then the
South needs a Vassar Wellesley and a
Smith, Who is there among the patriotic
Southerners that will start a fund of
$1,000, 900 as an endowment for some higher
grade college? This is the ''woman's cen
fury" of the world and not of sections. The
South in her efforts to rise superior to her
misfortunes needs the aid of intelligent,
cultured women, and as yet the majority of
her people are not able, however willing
they may be, to send their daughters abroad
for the necessary training. Women of the
South merit university, and the wiser
plan is to concentrate money and talent at
some point where the educators are in
sympathy with the people. If a sectional
difference is so marked as has been said,
then should the training be adapted to the
peculiarities of each section. An education
unsuited to an individuals surroundings
and out of harmony with their individualism
is of doubtful benefit, and whatever of book
learning may be acquired counts for little if
it serves for no better purpose than to min
lister to dissatisfaction with the land of
ones nativity and with the conditions OF
their life. One does not study chiaro-
oscuro in order to become pianist nor
comic sections to be fitted for literary pur-
suits. If higher education in the North is
adapted only to Northern girl, then in the
name of justice give higher education in the
South TO Southern girls, whose ability to
profit by it is not a matter of question. Is
there not 4 Vassar or Miss Smith in the
broad expanse of Southland
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In the American Garden for November
mention is made Of new industry for
women that has been started in London.
An association of women re about to start
the business of taking care of conserVato-
ries, window boxes, balconies and small
gardens in that city by the year, season or
month, employing men for the digging and
rough work only. They will also receive
and tend plants during the absence of the
owner from the city. AS a business, Fort
Worth is hardly ripe for this in any extern
sive way, but there is in this move hint
that some lover of plants, and who under
penny, and it is very possible that in this
town there are those who would in their
absence, if not at other times, gladly avail
themselves of the service of one willing to
to take charge of the household pets.
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Whatever may be the mistakes of r G.
Ingersoll in theological fields, when lie
enters the sphere of women he is certainly
orthodox in his appreciation of them, and
sets high valuation on love between the
sexes.
In recent lecture delivered at Chicago
in reply to the oft-rung charge that Eve
was the primary cause of all grief, pain
and tears, he said:
''But would rather live on earth with
the woman love than in heaven alone with
men. A man who destroys the happiness
of wife and child is murderer. 1t is a
duty to get married-the noblest ambition
to have home. A man who has loved and
been loved has made success, even if he
dies in the gutter "
In the matter of divorce he is an extrem-
list; he would have no woman live with a
man she has ceased to love, even though
her husband continued faithful to what the
speaker terms the contract between the
parties. Were the laws governing divorce
of his liberal devising the love he values
would soon be Invested of its purer form,
and be degraded to mere passion which
often dies of surfeit. To love righteously
is to love through evil and through good re-
port, or as the church ritual has it. ''for
better or for worse,'' and as woman is a
creature prone to be swayed by impulse, it
would be dangerous to the well-being of So
ciety, the happiness of the individual and
the home, to allow her that license which
Mr.. Ineersou would so generously grant
In loosening of the marriage tie MIR. In
gerson would prove an injudicious friend of
the sex whose rights he so CALAMITY chal-
lenges. The hope of wives is not in de-
stroying the sacredness and inviolability of
the marriage bond, but in making its obi
cations rest equally on men and women. The |
right to perjure ones self belongs TO nei- |
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