Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24
IN BRIEF.

\ statement was made recently at q
| pioneer meeting, that women aided as much
! i'll the development of a country as did the
men, and although made by a woman, the
men warmly cheered. There is no doubt
| that in every progressive move man kind
| has made women have played an impor-
| tant part, but it is well to remember that
| pioneer wives and mothers We're not
women with a mission, or the dainty crea-
ture who must be carried on downy pillows
above the stern realities of life. They were
women of pluck and energy, of courage and
| endurance, full partners in all the trials
| and depriyatlons attendant upon the first
| settlement of 4 new country.
While earnestly advocating for women
all the culture possible, it is believed by the
right thinking that woman's place in the
worlds economy is not identical with that
of man She was created to be the mother
of all living, and whether the motherhood
consists in the bearing and training of
children or in a fostering of all those things
that tend to the elevation of the race, it is
all mothering When n woman begins to
deprecate her calling, it is time she began
looking TO herself.
Women who read for amusement or for
diversion from duty, who visit for gossip
and for dissipation, women who give to
dress undue consideration and attach vital
importance to the adornment of the perish
able body, permitting the soul and mind to
be hungry and unclothed, are in a sad way
and have little appreciation OF that higher
calling of which they pirate. Women who
aspire to be something without wise I'M
derstandin of what that something is
| are prone to complain of the routine of do
nestle life. These forget that life is rou-
tine, that the days and seasons move in
regular procession, that each star moving
1 through space moves in routine, that flower,
+ shrub and tree obey law that has no de-
Walton, and that were the routine of Gre
alton disturbed confusion and chaos would
| ensue.
Oh! workers at home, be patient and be
pleasant. The woman who stands before
the multitude, although she worthily wear
4 laurel wreath, is not SO happy as she who
contendedly sits amid the little family
ItacnlHS lHelil LESSONS Vi pTOHJ lOf diuSr
years. Let not the one who wisely
rules her household envy that woman who
wears a crown or who wields influence in
Legislative halls. To the wife and mother is
given Il kingdom that revolutions do not
overturn, and where the subjects are loyal
because of love.
1t is right for women to prize the exalted
and the beautiful, right for them to seek So
cety and to be entertaining, but it is not
right for them to create for themselves
imaginary positions and to live in unreal
ties, and selfishly to ignore the duties and
rightful pleasures that are q heaven be-
slowed heritage, and for the proper use of
which everyone is responsible.
Routine only becomes hateful when it is
made so, and it is within the power of all
to magnify their Office. Neither does the
right performance of routine work in the
home mean slavery to needles and to
broom If Lucy Larcom could think out
her sweet songs among the whirring
spindles and Lady Somerville delve into
the abstruse science of mathematics at the
same time exercising careful supervision
over large retinue of servants and be
devoted mother to five children, no woman
need sigh for time and opportunity 10 de-
velop her intellectual nature
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Female suffrage in Wyoming is taking
effect. The state university has Miss Cora
Mcdonald in the chair of history at salary
equal to that received by men for similar
service. If the contagion spreads, the
opening clause of the Declaration of hide
pendence will have to be changed so as to
read that all men and women are born free
and equal, and the church of England will
have to change the form of marriage serv-
ice, for while emancipated women may
enter Into life contracts, is is not probable
that they will swear obedience to husband
and become subjects and not partners.
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BY the late census in England there are
1864 women to every 100 men. Exactly
what tenth of q woman is we do not
know, but should suppose the fractional
parts might be married to tailors and thus
relieve future census-takers. England's
women seem to be in need of a Kate Field
to advocate a tax on bachelors, thereby to
encourage marriage, for in the market
matrimonial, as in others, excess of supply
tends to lessen the demand.
-.
1t is somewhat discouraging to women
who are striving for Bostonese culture to
read that Otero, the noted Spanish dan
seuse, carried to her Andalusian home the
pretty sum of $4,000, and that Carmencita
has banked for her two years in America
$4,000. High kicking is profitable when
others pay the fiddler.
Lady William Gordon Cumming is said
to be repenting already her marriage with
the nobleman who did not believe in mo
blesse oblige'' at baccarat. She ought to
have known that if she played at the game
of matrimony with dealer she would not
win. Matrimony may be a lottery, but
girls ought not to buy known blanks or
worse.