The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1893-11-24

his own intuitions than the whole col
lege of cardinals with the pontiff includ-
ed, but when he propounded these the
cries he found himself opposed to the
solid phalanx of the ages in the form of
governing class, who intended to re-
main governors. He was defeated by
frowns and sneers and smiles and jeers,
behind which lay the power of life and
death. Beaten down and overwhelmed, he
signed the recantation of his profession
of truth, made humble apology for
having been brighter than his masters
and went away muttering the re-recan-
tation which we have quoted. wonder
how many women have walked out of
the office, the study, the back parlor,
the vestry when they have held an inter.
view with some male arbiters of their des-
TIMES, their heads upright, their cheeks
glowing, their eyes bright with anger
and unshed tears, their hearts hot with
defeat and humiliation, muttering to
themselves in one form or another, "But
for all that it does novel"
Another element is woman's helpless
ness in her relations with man in her
love of being loved, and this desire in its
various developments is perhaps the root
of awoman's nature. Every woman has
it, even the coarsest termagant, the hard
est and boldest wrangler for her rights
every one Of them in the core of her
heart longs to be loved by somebody, to
be the first object in somebody's life, to
have some one to whom she may turn
and be sure Of welcome and of sympa-
thy. 1t is one of the very best and most
| precious factors of womanhood, but, alas!
1T is one of its most terrible dangers.
A woman with no one to love her is
the most miserable of creatures. She
loses half her value in her own eyes.
She is unable to do justice to the best Of
her nature. She either hardens and be-
comes cold, defiant, bitter and narrow,
or she withers and languishes like spring
flowers in an east wind. Perhaps she
does not know her own need. Perhaps
she SCOTS at love and declares herself
strong enough to live without it and
says, as did famous literary woman:
81 am of the oak oaky and do not
understand women who are of the vino
whey and must have something to cling
to-"
And yet this very woman chung to her
kindred and her adopted child with a
really noble devotion. Sometimes love-
less woman cherishes dog, q bird, a
cat, and bestows upon the little brute
wealth Of love enough to enrich mon
arch; sometimes she buys the love of
companion or of a servants sometimes
she becomes philanthropist and dis
tributes her unused affection oyer whole
armies of orphans and phalanxes of wild
ows; sometimes if she is of certain
temperament she becomes ga religious
and joins sisterhood devoting their
lives to good works and their hearts to
God. In that case she tells herself that
she needs no earthly outlet for her affec-
tions; that her entire nature is turned
into the channel of adoring love for the
Divine Being, and she probably feels that
she thus secures a higher place in his af-
fections than her more mundane sisters
can hope to hold.
1t is heroic choice, noble life, but
who can doubt that it must hold mo-
ments of chill disappointment, of with
ering insufficiency, of terrible despair?
In this world human creatures live in
bodies. They are surrounded by earthly
needs and cares and sympathies, and to
deny or to starve all these is to defeat
the very purpose of our being. A NOR
tai woman needs mortal love, and she
will seek it in one form or another, if she
is at liberty, as surely as housing pi-
geon seeks her dovecote or q perishing
deer seeks the water.
/ do not say that this all powerful
thirst applies always or entirely to the
love of man and woman naturally ter
minating in marriage. A woman cares
for the love Of her own sex, for the love |
of her employees, for the love of her |
friends, her circle, her society, be tia large |
or small body. Men say women have |
a passion for admiration, an appetite for |
fattery, q thirst for applause. True, true |
enough! But all these cravings are but |
forms of the great craving for love |
which lives at the root of all. One who |
loves does admire, does flatter, does ap. |
plaud. These are some of the almost |
invariable signs and signals Of love, and |
the instinct Of the woman leads her to |
seek these signs and signals, although |
her reason whispers that they are false |
lights, mere igni fatui poorly counter
feiting the real sun and moon of her ex-
istence and very likely to lead her into
dark and dismal bog whence she issues |
mired and torn and weary.
1t is not well to accept these shams,
even though we bitterly tell ourselves
that since we cannot have the real thing
we will take what at least resembles it.
If person cannot have diamonds, she |
had better not try to persuade herself or
the world that rhinestones are Just as
good, although she may choose to wear
them; but, just as there are women who
,ciu glitter, though it be in rhinestones,
so there are women, and probably the
majority of the sex, who will have that
ornament more precious than diamonds
that crown of love which proclaims it's
wearer queen indeed, and if it be but |
q pinchbeck and tinsel crown she will |
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