Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-20
IN BRIEF.

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pioneer meeting, that women aided as much
III the development of country as did the
men, and although made by 4 woman, the
men warmly cheered. There is no doubt
that i'll 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 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
aud deprivatlons attendant upon the first
settlement of new country.
While earnestly advocating for women
all the culture possible, it is believed by the
right thinking that woman's plaoc 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 i'll a fostering of all those things
that tend TO the elevation of the race. it is
all mothering. When i woman begins to
depreciate 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 10 the adjournment Of the perish
able body, permitting the soul and mind to
be hungry and unclothed, are IN 4 sad way
and have little appreciation of that higher
calling of which they pirate. Women who
aspire to be something without wise IN
dcrstaudin 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
through space moves in routine. that flower,
shrub and tree obey law that has no de-
Walton, and that were the routine of ere
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
a laurel wreath, is not so happy as she who
contendedly sits amid the little family
teaching them lessons of profit for after
years. Let not the one who wisely
rules her household envy that woman who
wears 4 crown or who yields influence in
legislative halls. To the wife and mother is
given kingdom that revolutions do not
overturn, and where the subjects are loyal
because of love.
1t is right for women 10 prize the exalted
and the beautiful, right for them to seek So
ciety and TO be entertaining, but it is not
right for them to create for themselves
imaginary positions and to live in unreali-
ties and Selfishly to ignore the duties and
rightiul pleasures that are u 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 a slavery to needles and to
broom. Ii 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 a large retinue of servants and be a
devoted mother to five children, no woman
need sigh for time and opportunity to 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 Tito life contracts, is is not probable
that they viii swear obedience to husband
and become subjects and not partners.
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BY the late census in Eng land there are
1864 women to every 100 men. Exactly
what a tenth of a 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 Kate Field
ITO advocate tax on bachelors, thereby to
encourage marriage for in the market
matrimonial, as in others, excess of supply
tends 10 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 5000, and that Carmencita
has banked for her two years in America
$4,000. High kicking is profitable when
others pay the fiddler.
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Lady William Gordon Cumming is said
to be repenting already her marriage with
the nobleman who did not believe in s.no-
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 q lottery, but
girls ought not to buy known blanks or
worse.