The herald., 1893-05-07
A BACHELOR'S MUSE.
NO LACK OF SENTlMENTALITY IN A
DULL MANS REVERE.

An EstImate Of Women That Appears Luz
dicrous TO tIio Student Of Changing Con-
diticns-A Few Criticisms and Henind-
ers For tho Single sIan.
However little may be the logic dis
played bythosc who argue against equal
rights, it Is certain that there is no lack
of sentiInentality on their eide. In "A
Baoheimss Revcrie" the bachelor la
ments the fact that woman's work now
lis whatever she chooses 10 select and
sighs for the old fashioned woman who
had no ambitions Judging from an
other part of tho reyerio the old timo
woman had ambitions. but they were
scriotly of theydomestic order.
Her first ambition was to be a wife,
second mother, third a mother again,
fourth again aomothar, fifth once more a
mother, sixth mother, seventh moth
or, eighth mother once more, ninth o
maternal parent, tenth q parent on the
mothers side, eleventh, twelfth and
thirteenth ditto, ditto, ditto. These
numerous but rather monotonous am
lbitions were cherished, 1t is to be sup
posed, in memory OF the Emperor Ma
lpoleon, who once informed Mime. do
,Stael that ''tbe finest woman is tho ono
who gives tho most children to her coun-
try"
This estimate Of women, which may
bo called the Dorlling hon estimate, is
Iudicrous because ii is tho limitation Of
q limitation. II is safe to assert that
the emperor's famous saying Is IN great
or favor with bachelors Of dreamy tend
encies than with parents of practical
minds. The most enthusiastic mother
builds up her hopes on tho quality, not
the number Of her offspring, and the
best mothers train their girls for moth
erhood no moro carefully than they train
their boys for fatherhood
"Life approaches its sere and barren
STAGE continues the dreamer, "when
man Ia forced to meet loveliness in the
Ruise of competitor" II does seem un-
fortunate that loveliness should occa-
sionally have TO compete, but If her hus-
band does NOT. support her or If sho has
uO nubDttitG Ntfo ti4Vtoo 'Iop'NNhh Nv
Ing o competitor with q man or n hnan-
oial dependent on him. Sere and bar
rem ~ it may be for man TO meet lowell
ness In the guiso Of competitor, it is
even more sere to be forced to meet the
same loyelinees in the guise of half q
dozen ahlebodied feminine dependents
"The young girl" muses. the bachelor,
LII 1.okw
love could never be the embalmed es-
sence Of all that is adorable, the inspi-
ration to all that is worth living for"
That depends entirely on the girl. 1t is
a foregone conclusion that her mind will
not be divided very long
If she decides on the office, she may be-
come the embalnied essence of all that
is clear headed and true hearted, tho in
SEPARATION to all high thinking and right
doing. If she prefers tho other alterna-
tive, tho fact that she once aspired to
Office will broaden her interestin affairs,
rescue her from the narrow nindedness
which is too often the accompaniment
OF n monotonous domestic routine and
keep her thoughts securely above tatting
and tattle.
We have no grudge against the en-
balmed essence Of all that is adorable
Accompanied by large mental grasp,
an accurate knowledge Of what is being
thought and done by tho worlds best
thinkers and workers and q livelier in
terest in the universe than in one small
person inside OF it, the embalmed essence
would be rather taking. Otherwise it
amounts to no more than so much blanc
mango.
just before rousing from his reverie
the bachelor points out that several wo-
men in the worlds history have endeav-
ored to meddle in It's affairs and always
with deplorable results. 1t would be
easy to give larger list of women who
had been political benefactors, but such
an argument is no moro worthy of con-
sideration than tho argument that be-
cause there are hypocrites in the church
therefore the church is rotten, or that
because there are quacks physicians
should not be trusted or that because
there is bad money in circulation one
should empty one's pocketbook into the
fire.
But we are taking tho reverie too Sc
riously. Dreams, however fantastic, are
always laughed at when the sleeper
awakes and by no ono so heartily as by
the dreamer himself. Wives and Daugh.
ters.
A Punotilious Man.
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