Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1891-08-24

much talent with 50 little self conceit;
so much reputation with so little
sfrctation; 30 much literature with
80 little nonsense; 30 much enterprise
with SO ii tie extravaganza; so much
tongue With 70 little scold; 90 much
sweetness with 90 little sottness; 60
much Of 80 many things aud 80 little
Of 40 many other things"
Yours for the day when husbands
shall glory in the talents and ind,vid.
uality Of their wives, instead Of look.
ing upon them % mere ornament Is
and adJunots.
FRANCES f. WILLARD.
We may be some what obtuse, but
confess that We fail to discover any
grounds for Mrs. Willard's criticisms
i" Nj. Stanley's utt-raoces. Having
penetrated to the utmost recesses of
the Dark Continent, carried with him
and implanted there the torch of civil.
ization, braved death in . thousand Of
i,s most horrible forms, Stanley Is
justly regarded ~ hero. When, in
the flush Of success, the social world
At his command, he laid his heart and
hand At the feet of Miss Dorothy
Tenant, and she accepted han, such
union ensued ~ poets have ever
enshrined in choicest verse, and every
woman has dreamed of. That Stanley
should desire to spare this wife Of bis
bosom the, communicating sights of
barbaric Africa, where men and
women 60 about nude ~ 1t birth,
where cannibslism 10 an hourly oc.
currence, and other scenes equally
revolving are = matter Of course, i
not to be wondered At. Nay, more:
his solicitude is only an evidence Of
that chivalry which the world would
be much the better for were there
moro OF it. Stanley is not alone
among the great Of the world in his
mode Of thought. julius Cesar in
slsting that his wife shall be above
suspicion. and Napoleon Bonaparte
casting aside his Josephine despite
that absorbing love for her which
prompts him to cover her disgrace
with tho suppositi.ious necessity Of Sc
curing an heir to his throne, are con.
spicuous examples OF this.
Tho contrast between the Stanleys
aud the Stoves Is inapposite; yet Mr..
Stoves tender regard for his wife is
likewis commendxble. An obscure
preacher, evidently poor "as . church
mouse" an exponent Of the gospel OF
mildness, whose affection had been
mellowed BY years of closest inter.
course, the passionate feeling which
would At first have found expression
in , Jealous ou,burst had evidently
been tempered by time until reco9.
milton, without ignoble self. ID asemeut,
Of the superiority Of his wife, became
not only possible but positively agree.
able.
The two men are SO utterly 1t var.
lance in achievements, temperament
And circumstances that it 10 impossible
that they should look upon their wives
from the same standpoint. Stanley il
young. vigorous, famous, wealthy;
Mr.. Stowe was aged, uukno VII, almost
'en;le. poor. Stanley is . lion; Mr..
Stowe Was = lamb. Each can or
could therefore love his wife with the
whole power OF his being, and tina,
love h"d different way of expression.
Mrs. Willard has been prominently
before the public in connection with
the allied causes OF temperance and
woman suffrage for = quarter OF =
century. She is therefore neither as
young nor rs weak or tender hearted
A. she once was, and can hardly be a.
unbiased Judge Of affairs Of the
heart. But, as "all the world loves a
lover" as much now as in the dis,in-
Eu,shed woman's earlier years, we feel
assured that her verdict can be sue.
cess!ully appealed from, with the re-
suit that four-ffths OF those capable
OF forming an intelligent opinion with.
out slAvlsh obedience to tho conyen.
tionalities Of society will decide in
favor Of Stanley, properly surnamed
"The African"