St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-03-05

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honest man is a
man who. can be trusted with other peo-
pies money and his own word. The
honest woman sometimes tells lies; the
honest man sometimes is false TO his
wife.
Certain virtues have come to De the
necessary furniture of wOmen's minds,
just as certain other virtues have come
10 belong especially to men.
There is no blinking it; in some I'M
portant respects the average good
woman" is inferior to the average
good man," in fact. man making
no pretensons TO Saintliness Will re-
coil from turpitude in politics or
finance that does not stir hair OF MS
good wife's head. 1t is shocking, If one
looks at the matter dispasslonately, TO
view how women charge down on any
moral obstacle in the way OF what they
believe moral change for the better;
and, commonly, that social plan, that
legislation commends itself 10 them as
best which will promise the most recK-
lesSly!
Women and Money.
Everybody will recall Mrs. Howe's
bank. But did the credulity of her
dupes exceed so greatly that of the
women politicians who expect laws to
enforce themselves, or of the women
philanthropists who expect to make all
men thrifty and yirtuous by abolishing
the punishment of improvidence and
vice? Women's notions of citizenship
are crude and meager, as might be eX-
pected.
know of public man of brilliant
gifts, who had great fortune before
him. but was ANONYMOUSLY pushed
from public life because he could not
explain charge that he had used
knowledge that came to him officially
for private speculation. although the
specializing had been done by his wife
without his knowledge. and quite innO-
Gently she thought. Yet the charge
could rot be refuted without implicat-
ing her. He was quite ignorant of the
whole business until the thunderbOlt
fell.
This wife was as false to her husband
as it it was possible to be. She ruined
his career, she smirched his life. Yet
in the usual sense of the word she,
though young, beautiful and admired
woman. was absolutely faithful to him.
doubt whether she ever realized that
she had done anything OdiOuS and
wicked. She was bitterly grieved and
mortified. of course, but it was for the
result. not for her own crime-which, to
be sure, she never called by that name.
Women Lacking in "Sense of
HOnOr.''
Consider, also. for a moment, with
what ease women cOndone public
offenses in their husbands, especially if
such moral obliquity makes them pros
percus. Women with all the medieval
virtues, who would 20 to the stake for
their religion, who keep their marriage
VOW Immediately. will be the
happy and contented wives of poll
ticans that deserve the pillory or
financiers that deserve the gallows.
Now, a virtuous man could not be
happy with an accomplished rObber fer
his wife. no matter how confident he
might feel that she would outwit the
constable! But virtuouS woman
quiets her conscience by not knowing
anything about business, or by the as
Surance that the newspapers tell lies.
Considerations like these have right
to influence people, but do they have all
the rights?
Is the welfare of the odd sixty millions
Of her countrymen not to be reckoned
in the matter by the good woman who
prays Sunday, IN one form of words or
another. for 'all sorts and conditions of
men?"
Women are dishonorable, because of
all the virtues honor has the least COM
merce with the affections; and the af-
fections in women have been put under
a kind of StraSbourg goose liver treat
ment for 1000 years.
BY consequence, whatever virtues de-
pend on the affections, those virtues are
faithfully cultivated by women. SO far
as those virtues go they are better than
men. They do not even feel certain of
the more bOiSterouS temptations. Few
men, also, can bear pain with wom-
ans tertitude. Men generally are not
so unSelfish as women.
MagnaniImity.
On the other hand, magnanimity is
masculine rather than a feminine vir-
tue. There are women that are large
minded. There are women that are
honora BILE. So there are women that
can be generous and even (haIder and
rarer virtue!) just to their enemies. l
only speak for the majority.
AS to courage. women are supposed
to be Drawer morally than men, and
men physically Drawer than women.
In simple devotion to duty, lndepend-
eIlI VI Iil0 UOulSSllC duCClIOllO vi llIC lC-
iigious emotions, men are superior to
women.
Very typical as we'll as noble is the
story of the staunch old Puritan, Abra-
ham Davenport, praised by Whittier,
who, ON that strange day when the
sun was darkened at midday and
all his fellow Legislators trembled
and were for praying, rose to
declare that whether day of
judgment or not, the Lord should find
him in his place, doing his duty, and
moved, therefore. that they bring in the
candles and proceed with the business
before them-namely, AN act to
amend an act to regulate the shad
and alewife fisheries"
1t is easier now-I Go not say that it
will be easier hundred years hence
to imagine man behaving i'll this Ro-
man fashion than to imagine woman.
Women and Power.
How many men, also, devote their
lives to some science where the ma
terial rewards, wealth or fame, are far
below what is promised them else
where. And don't we all know what
their wives think of their choice?
Far better women than Rosamond
Lydgate have rallied and wheedled and
bewept their husbands away from un-
| profitable researches that could only
help other peoples suffering.
My dear" says the Doctors wife, ''if
| you do discover that nasty germ you
spend SO much time over, will they pay
! You anything?"
mo. certainly uotr'
Then l don't see why you want to
find it.'
"But it may save thousands OF lives.''
"Well, anyhow, l think some man
without family to support ought to
hunt for it,
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