The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-11
characteristics Of the Sexes.

uO any anu every buAuky uA any tfno ivory
position, and be at home in any sphere: A
fanatic on any subject never reasons clearly.
closely or logically. Possessed of an idea.
| he or she RUS wild with that one idea. Col
lateral truths go for nothing. Like some
| one idea religionists, one verse garbled
| from the Bible is enough for him upon which
| ternal thinkers on any subject should be
watched and least of all followed.
Woman has her sphere, and in some
| respects peculiar, binding, exacting and
natural A woman can be a soldier, or a
sailor, or a car conductor, or a civil engi~
neer, or a mining engineer and many other
things; but the question arises, is she not
naturally out of her spheres2 The laws OF
nature, the laws of God as we have them in
the Bible. the laws of common sense will put
woman in the proper relation to society
| she should fill and occupy. Asa wife and
| mother, her sphere becomes bounded and
limited. To be a good wife and good
| mother must necessarily limit her field of
action. AS a single woman her field is
larger. yet circumscribed. Certain things
she can do to make living; but to assume
| leadership, to ask for authority TO rule msn,
Is like young man of % trying
| to instruct his senior double his age by his
| experiences and observations in life. 1t
only creates q smile, and the old men say
to him: young folks think old folks
| fools; while old folks know young folks to
| be fools"
Let US look at some OF the peculiar char
acteristics Of the sexes Woman has the
credit Of having tact, quickness of pre-
ception, a delicacy of feeling. a kind Of un-
erring Justice and governed more by her
love, feelings and sentiments than man.
That is, speaking in general terms. Man
he's more logic, more force, less feeling; aud
| his love is the result Of passion. The greater
his passion the stronger his love; and when
| his passion burns low or grows Indifferent
| his nature changes. Stsadfastness, patience,
| tenderness. pity and forbsarance marks
| woman's chief characteristics, for her
| sphere 10 life calls more loudly for those
virtues and qualities A man may admire
q brainy woman, but he loves womanly
woman, for womanly woman MAKES a
| manly man.
| We do not ask q woman what she is. We
| do not ask young girl: What are you
| going to BET We do not ask woman: Can
you make a living and support husband
But to know what young man is going to
| be is Of the first Importance when be enters
! life as a worker. Whya Because he Is ex-
pected to earn his own living. Yea, do
more; to marry and support wife and rear
| a family. Woman looks forward TO being
supported; In other words, she looks for
\ ward to marriage as her natural sphere,
| motherhood her fate and household duties
her main care. IL she has high ambitions
and aspirations, then abe should never wish
for q husband or the duties of a wife.
Woman naturally falls prey to the love
| feeling of her nature, and to try to crush il
| out would not be womanly. A woman's
| desire to be loved will even rack her brains.
- The difference between the sexes is a nat
| ural and not an artificial one; fact of nat
| ure and not an invention Of society. The
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races, not individuals. The growth of a
| race and not few special individuals is
| what nature demands. 1t was never the in
tention of nature that men and women
should be alike. Not an identity of natures,
| but reciprocity of natures, thus strength
| ening the tie between the sexes.
The air we breathe is our life. Yet 1t is a
| physiological fact that the two sexes
breathe very differently. The rising and
| falling of the chest, so conspicuous in
| woman, Is hardly at all noticeable in man.
| One would think that woman took more air
into the lungs than the opposite sex. But
just the reverse is true. Man takes in
more air, he is deeper and
abdominal or diaphragmatc respira-
| tion Of man which furnishes larger supply
| of oxygen, but it is not shown by the ex-
| pansion of the chest. AS man then takes in
moro he is better laborer than a woman
IOr tue D6GEeF DTedJBeF makes the better
| worker. Woman prefers to carry weight
on her head rather than in her arms, and
this is natural instinct For since the
pectoral muscles which move the arm in
holding and carrying are attached to the
chest, and women breathe solely by expand
ing the chest, the exertion Of manual labor
| incommodes her breathing far more than in
man. y boy instinetively wants to throw
at what he sesS. A girl cannot throw.
Another point. A good supply of oxygen
is necessary for brain work. From the best
and most recent Investigations, there is an
average difference of five ounces between
the male and female brain in favor of the
former; thus with fine quality and quantity.
with a rich blood supply and q correspond
Ing supply OF oxygen for the mail brain,
it stands TO reason that man has more nat
ural power physically as well as ment-
ally. He can stand more brain as well as
physical work. Intellect is at all times de-
sirable, but too much of it may repel rather
than attract. Double flowers may look
better than single, but use has been sacri-
feed to ornament, for they are sterile, have
ceased to be what nature intended they
should be, reproductive
1t is the law of nature that woman should
attract by her personal charms She was
made beautiful in form for that purpose.
She feels it in her Utmost Dature, and hence
her desire TO look pretty at all times; thus
her IonunesS Ior dress, JeWelry, flowers, etc.
1t is with her that pretty feathers make
pretty birds, Thus she will sgt more value
upon her personal looks than upon the
beauty or attraotiveness OF her mind. To
say of her, She is ugly but bright, wounds.
But to say Of her. She Is as pretty as she is
bright, Ia q double compliment which she
will never forget. To say of man that.
He is ugly but intellectual, he will say, -
the looks; l am for brains every time. Il
would be like telling a man of wealth that
his clothes were very common; his clothes
are secondary consideration with him.
a woman prides herself upon her figure
and dreSs; jewelTy aud ribbons bee cme her.
Let a man put on snowy clothes, dress like
a dude, support rings, flash diamonds, etc.
and he is denounced as a conceted fop or
dude brainless tailor-made-up man But
not so with q woman. Her dress becomes
her, and In looking at man, she says: He
has no figure worth talking about The
sexes have their characteristics, not only in
figure aud form, but in their mental make
up. Women may havs what we term
Weaknesses, but men have their vices.
Women may be silly and vain, but men
may be brutal and profane. Is it better to
be learned, gifted and great, or to be loving,
gentle and goodl Is it better to be a manly
man than q womaaly womaul A womanIs
ambition should be 10 be womanIy, and not
a mannish woman; for mannish woman is
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