Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-01-02
THE FLEETING SHOW.
Some of Its Facts and FancIcs.

II r
Written for the JOURNAL AND CoURIER.l
THE NEW YEAR.
How shall we greet the stranger' he who comes
With face averted that we may not know
If he be foe Or lover Is his brow
Gloomy and dark, and do the paliid lips
But threaten sorrow. wearness, and toll?
Or is he like an angel strong and grand,
With smile divinely sweet, and heart that throbs
With tenderest love and pity for us all?
We know not yet: only clasp his hand
And follow where he leads through sunny
wales,
Or up the rugged mountains, white with snow.
For some the way is long, and many guide
In turn shall lead them ere the journey end,
But others falter in the toilsome way
Or faint among the roses; these shall Death,
The waiting angel, lift in mighty arms
And bear away to endless bliss or bale.
The years are tireless servants of the Lord
That wait his message, and submissive, speed
To do his holy will: each fastening through
Times narrow confines to that shoreless sea
Unknown, illimitable Eternity.
''oF INTEREST TO WOMEN"
Woman ought by this time to be accus-
toned to criticism and fault 1t
began some years ago in the Garden of
Eden, and the last of Adams sons will
probably injure the feelings of Adams
last daughter with unkindly comment or
rasping ridicule.
But, as fact, woman has never be-
come hardened to censure; it bites, and
cuts, and rankles-it causes heartache, re-
bellion, and retaliation. That this is a
powerful argument against the theories of
the evolutionists may not appear at first
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| a woman O woman still and not a pachy-
derm!
| The latest criticism upon woman relates
| to her gait, s'the order of her going,"
| or disorder of it. She is told that she
does not progress with "the easy, equable
| grace that would seem to proceed from an
easy, equable mind" but hurries impstu-
ously or dawdles aimlessly." Decent
mental reserve" is to be maintained.in the
walk as in her conversation, as sit is
| doubted whether we have the right to in
trude our business and worries, and en-
nuis, upon public observation, as we do
by any other than calm and easy motion,
| whether tho motion be swift or slow"
The champions of equal rights ought to
have something to say about this. If a
mans house is on fire he ''hurries i'm
petuously;" if he desires to catch that last
train, pronounced exertion" and "evi-
|
movements; if he shrinks from his engage
ment with dentist or creditor, he dawdles
and droops; why, then, should not woman
do the same?
The baby is sick, and she must fly, half
distracted, to neighbor and physician for
help; the stove leg has come out, hot Goals
are dropping on the floor, and assist
ance must be procured; COW
has entered the yard and is gal
Looping off with fragments of the
family linen futtering from her horns;
how under such circumstances can she as
sumo the easy equable grace that heI
critic insist upona She is weary, the day
is sultry. her spirits are dropping, she ID
out shopping with a twenty dollar list oi
household necessities and Eve dollars in
her parse; she Is oppressed with care
grieved on account of a misunderstanding
, quivering with hysical and mental pain
why then should she not NOPE and delay
if she wishes, careless whether she does o.
, does not tsintrude her worries upon pub
, lie observations? Go to! Are the genera
public mind readers9 Or if they are
do the affairs of others, as judged by thei
l gait, long remain in their minds to affiic
g them. The advice here given is TO ego a
q you please" or as circumstances permit
and heed not the carping critic, rember
ing that wise man has said: st Is ridic
ulous for any man to critioise the work
o Tor the walk) of another If he has not dil