The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-22
WOMAN And HOME.
achievements Of Mothers
WHO Have Become Fa-
u 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
neteenth Century. when much that Is
he and much that is foolish is written
talked on 1.-The Woman Question" it
Id appear to be eminently proper to
and reflect upon what woman has
in her sphere before there were any
tons as to her ''rignts."
e are the equals of man." says the
~tauious omar A'Give us tn g oppor-
es and we will distance them in
Town occupations"
is the male tyrant makes rejoiuder:
y true aud very pretty, but when
lave children. would it not be
OIL them TO see what they can do in
q circumstances thus imposed upon
hem? 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 AVE exercised this sweet privilege
and have sent sons into the world whose
deeds have made them amous is the
answer to be found. When Tennyson
wrote ''The Princess" he exercised the
privilege of every true poet and preached
a sermon while he told, the story. We all
know the story, but the sermon is not SO
lxiliar.
by should the poet have interjected
lexauisite bits such as Home they
hight her warrior dend," A thro' the
+" etc., into a poem that deals ap-
3eutly with the question of the higher
kcation OF women? The reason is OBJ
Us. Examine the poets work careful
and il will be seen that each one OF the
hnty lyrics that has found its place in
|#IEI Ms DIT, aa.el daaIc vuifb sn,nn phosa of
e love of a mother for her child. And
the meaning of the poem is, after all,
Woman is most and foremost q mother,
nd not all the learning of classic halls
an ever divorce her from this, her nat
raj sphere"
What u formidable array! These sons
who admit that to the training and
equipment received from their mothers
they owe their wonderful success-Wash-
ingtou, Greeley. Goethe, Schiller, Carlyle,
Ruskin and Emerson, John Wesley and
Victor Hugo. George Herbert and Cow
per. St. Augustin. Cowley and Curran
and Napoleon. Eucn one of these great
men has left in evidence the fact that the
) maternal influence was the strongest in
the formation OF the individual w no az
terward stood forth pre-eminent among
|. his contem poraries.
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 fourished. There are cases,
to be sure, in hich the father assumed
the role of mentor, but these great names
stand cut as conspicuous patterns OF
paternal training-Hannibal. who was
brought to the altar at the age OF nine
! aud made to swear the oath OF lifelong
! hatred and who died a suicide; Horace,
\ 1.-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-five, after having been un-
der his fathers care all his life. that ne
Attouttd get ne relief from a settled melan-
choly except in music, and after awhile
aver this failed.-St. Louis PoSt-DiS-
match.