The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-22
WOMAN AND HOME.
Achievements of Mothers
Who Have Become Fa-
nous Through
Their Sons.
SHALL A WOMAN TELL HER AGE?
An Anecdote About the Empress
Frederick-The Nine Muses..

In these remarkable days of the waning
Nineteenth Century. when much that is
wise and much that is foolish is written
and talked on ''The Woman Question" it
would appear to be eminently proper to
pause aud reflect upon what woman has
done in her sphere before there were any
agitations as to her "rignts."
"We are the equals of man," says the
disputaJieus woman. 'Give us tn oppor-
tunities and we will distance them in
their own Occupations"
, 10 this the male tyrant makes rejoinder:
VERY true and very pretty, but when
women have children, would it not be
wise for them TO see what they can do in
the circumstances thus imposed upon
them? And would not this be better
perhaps than to step down into the arena
with the brutal SEX and do pattle with
them?"
In the achievements of those mothers
who have exercised this sweet privilege
and have sent sons into the world whose
deeds have made them famous is the
answer to be found. When Tennyson
wrote ''The Princess" he exercised the
privilege of every tru poet and preached
sermon while told the story. We all
know the story, but the sermon Is not SO
familiar.
Why should the poet have interjected
the exquisite bits such as "Home they
brought her warrior dead" GAS thro' the
land" etc., into poem that deals ap-
pareutlY with the question of the higher
education of women The reason is OBJ
vious. Examine the poets work careful
ly and it will be seen that each one of the
dainty lyrics that has found it's place in
prinnnSSO @ nj Of
the love of mother for her child. And
so the meaning of the poem is, after all,
Woman is most and foremost mother,
and not all the learning of classic halls
can ever divorce her from this, her nat
ural sphere"
who admit that TO the training and
equipment received from their mothers
they owe their wonderful success-Wash-
ington, Greeley. Goethe, Schiller, Carlyle,
Ruskin and Emerson, John Wesley and
Victor Hugo, George Herbert and Cow
per, ST. Augustin, Cowley and Curran
and NAPOLEON. Each one of these great
men has left in evidence the fact that the
maternal influence was the strongest in
the formation of the individual who af-
terward stood forth pre-eminent among
his contemporaries.
No IDLE dreamers they-not men noted
merely as well bred and polished but
names that have shaken empires, over
turned religious creeds and stimulated in
thought the best men of the times in
which they Hourished, There are cases.
to be sure, in which the father assumed
the role of mentor, but these great names
stand out as conspicuous patterns of
paternal raining-Hannibal, who was
brought to the altar at the age OF nine
aud made to swear the oath Of lifelong
hatred aud who died a suicide; Horace,
the poet, who wrote What we should now
call society verse, and John Stuart Mill,
who found the world so hollow at the
age Of thirty-tive, after having been M
der his fathers care all his life. that ne
could get no relief from settled melan-
choly except in music, and after awhile
even this failed.-St. Louis Post Dis
patch.