Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-12-30
WOMAN AND HOME.
ACHIEVEMENTS OF MOTHERS WHOSE
SONS BECAME FAMOUS.

Women In Political Work-Swee Words
In h Home-Hints About Garnish-
Ing Dishes-Girls and Low Cut Gowns.
Information for Housekeepers.
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 and reflect upon what has
done in her sphere before there were any
agitations as to her rights"
"We are the equals of man." says the
disputatious woman. "Give us the oppor-
tunities M we will distance them in their
own occupations"
To this the male tyrant makes rejoinder:
every true and very pretty, but when
women lave children would it not be wise
for them to see what they can do in the cir
cumstances thus imposed upon them? And
would not this be better perhaps than to
step down into the arena with the brutal
SEX and do battle with them?"
In the achievements of those mothers
who lave exercised this sweet privilege
and have sent sons into the world whose
deeds nave made them famous is the
answer to be found. When TennysOn
wrote ''The Princess he exercised the
privilege of every true poet and preached Il
sermon while he told the story. We all
know the story, but the sermon is not so
familiar.
Why should the poet have INTERCEPTED
the exquisite bits such as "Home they
brought her warrior dead" Gas hro' the
land" ETC., into poem that deals appar-
emily with the question of the higher edu-
cation of women? The reason is obvious.
Examine the poets work carefully and it
will be seen that each one of the dainty
lyrics that has found its place in "The
Princess" deals with some phase of the
love of a mother for her child. And SO the
meaning of the poem is, after all. woman
is first and foremost a mother, and not all
the learning of classic halls can everdivorce
her from this, her natural sphere"
What a formidable array! These sons
who admit that to the training and equip
ment received from their mothers they
owe their wonderful success-Washington,
Greeley, Goethe, Schiller, Carlyle, Ruskin
and Emerson, John Wesley and Victor
Hugo, George Herbert and Cowper, St.
Augustin, Cowley and Curran and Napo-
leon. Each one of these great men has
left in evidence the fact that the maternal
influence was the strongest in the forma-
ton of the individual who afterward stood
forth pre-eminent among his contempora-
ries.
No idle dreamers they-not men noted
merely as we'll bred and polished, but
names that nave shaken empires, over
turned religious creeds and stimulated in
thought the best men of the times in which
they flourished. 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 train
ing-Hannibal, who was brought to the al
tar at the age of nine and made to swear
the oath of lifelong hatred and who died u
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-ive, after having been
under his fathers care all his life, that he
could get no relief from a settled melan'
choly except in music, and after awhile
even this failed.--St. Louis Post-Dispatcl