Arizona republican., 1892-11-09

they show not a trace OF those sympa-
thetic and self denying attributes which
make other women the light and joy of
q worthy mans existence
God pity the wife of such man-and
she need look for no other pity, for the
man towhom she is tied knows not what
pity means, and the world will only
scott should she be so i'll advised as to
ask for its sympathy.
To be sure, as O whole, the world can
not comprehend her sufferings and aches
in perplexity.
"Of what do you complain? He does
not beat you or starve you, does heT"
"No; no indeed"
"He is not openly unfaithfu1y'
"Not that know Of"
"Well, what is the matter? What does
he do or leave undone for you to COM
plain Off
But the china vase remains silent.
The very essence of being china is to be
delicate, and delicacy is very silent in
the presence of the world. It is SO hard
to put things into words that he who
runs may read, although they may be
more real than most of the things to be
found in print. There is nothing harder
to fight than noncomprehension and
nothing that entails more perplexed suf-
fering. One has seen q sensitive child
utterly misunderstood by those who had
it in charge perhaps its attendant, per-
haps its parents--and the look Of be-
wilderment and pain and questioning
that comes over the ingenious face, not
yet capable of concealment, is exactly
what comes over the heart and mind Of
the china vase when she first discovers
that she has set upon the voyage Of life
in company with brazen pot. And as
a general thing the woman is as in
capable as the child of putting into
words just where the pain, and the
amazement, and the disappointment
come in.
l remember once trying to explain
some mental disquietude to man
whose intellect and eloquence had cap
tivated my ear and given me an idea
that he must necessarily understand
everything. He listened for awhile to
my efforts to put almost unutterable
things into words, and finally replied
with jovial laugh:
"The trouble is with you as with most
women. You fancy yourself unique,
whereas you are only one of wonder
fully uniform species. All women have
these fads aud fancies, and they are all
pretty much alike. Just give up the
idea that there is anything peculiar to
yourself IN all these notions and realize
that nearly every woman of your ac-
quaintance cherishes the same. Then
go to work at something. There is moth
ing like sewing-common plain sewing
to bring fanciful woman like You to
her sober senses; or, il you like better,
go and visit the poor and play Lady
Bountiful; that is what occupies the
time and mind of great many of our
better class Of women"
Perhaps it is unnecessary to say that
this gentleman was English-very Eng
ashland also that he was a first clas.
specimen of brazen pot. Very fortu-
nately had never thought Of floating
down the stream in his company, and to
our mutual content we soon drifted out
of sight of Zach other.
Another gentleman, and a right down
good man he was upon the lines Of his
own little circuit, always said to me in
reply to any little fight of fancy or the
orizing or in fact anything except pure
commonplace:
What funny woman you arel
never knew such funny woman in my
lifer'
On one occasion, when was confiding
to this gentleman, as 1 might have done
to my little dog, some Of those feelings
Of mild discomfort and aspiration for q
wider and nobler life which torment
most women from time to time, he re-
piled as one would to fretful child:
Come, come; You are unreasonable.
You have all the necessities and many
of the Injuries of life. You are dead
sure that you never can need for food OF
clothes or shelter so long as you live,
and the rest is all nonsense, you know
Well, this gentleman was sort OF
brazen pot-not one of the quiet, massive
things that in men we call brutal, but
just little Benares cup, or let us say
saltcellar. as he SO abounded in Attic
wisdom, but the thinnest and prettiest
bit Of brass, if constantly knocked W
against the edges of china cup, will
fret and chip and spoil it if it does moi
absolutely crush it.
And which is the worst after all, tel
me, oh, china cups? The two or three
blows that absolutely destroy and efface
or the little Earrings and scratches and
hicks and nips that deface piece oi
china and cover woman's face with
wrinkles and worry lines before its time.
For my part incline to think the lat
ter torment the more uncomfortable. One
of the tortures of the Inquisition was tc
shave the top of a mans head and then
place him under tank Of water which
fell one slow drop after another upon
the defenseless scalp. 1t is said that
prisoners who laughed at the rack and
jeered at the flames succumbed under
this torture, the effect of which was to sc
irritate the whole nervous system that
it thrilled with agonies not to be pro