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as much as on its outer strength. and
great and powerful country
may seem to be. If these domestic rela-
tons are unhealthy if the wife has not
her place in the social polity that coun-
try is rotten to thecore. and its complete
decay and demoraliz alton are inevitable.
Speaking general y, there are four as
poets or idealsso the status Of the wife
four ways ia which her position is re-
garded by men.
There is the method Of the barbarian, y
that Of the oriental, that Of western civ
ilization, that Of corrupt civilization,
which last is practically the degraded
form Of the third. The barbarian re-;
CARDS his wife as d mere slave-a squaw
to cook his food. carry his burdens, sub,
Iait to his i'll usage. The oriental sees in
his wife a play thing to crafty. his pas
sions. to be kept in the strictest seclu-s
sionss and to be treated altogether as
5brainless being: regarded by him, ia
fact, 50 far as any respect is concerned,
much as the squaw lis regarded by the.
savage =
lily k1sliAg GllSIWl0S
position is very diff rent. True, she is
the mother Of her husband = children
true, she has duties. to perform which
her husband would disdain; true, her
husband is the head of the family and
she bears mis- name. But with all this
she is looked upon as her husbands
equal, is the sharer Of his connsels, his
intelligent partner and has . right to ex-
spect from him the fidelity which in the
case Of the savage Or the oriental is So
one sided
The credit OF placing this yiewof mar
ried life before mankind has been
claimed by Christian writer's for their
religion, But although we must admit
that Christianity has done much to inn
prove the position Of woman. yet the.
high ideal which we have termed that Of
western civilization existed in b very
strong degree in ancient Greece, still
more strongly among the Romans and
the nations of western Europe. whom.
they conquered and ilized long before
Christianity was preached. and the noble
qualities which hive admire il those races.
may often be directly traced to the in-t
fuence Of wives and mothers. ID
8 But high asis this IDEAL. history shows
that there are dangers which threaten
those societies where it prevails: dan
ger the outcome Of that very civilization
which 1T has e,,one 50 much to perfect
Luxury. prosperity too great liberty,
want Of mutual respect and continual
striving after new sensat ions are too apt
to- destroy that Who'll esome state Of things,
which has been the pa ladium Of every
great nation and We too Of ten have e1-
amples Of the fourth ideal. which, though
5sprlnging from the third. IS 50 distinct,
from it that IL deserves to be classed by
itself g IN here j wife IS no longer con-
tent with taking her share ii the battle
lot life: no longer content to recogn
the fact that there are things which il
better becomes the woman to do than
the man. and vice versa !: when she insists
on aping and sharing the follies and:
vices Of the man, on casting rom her
that nnodesty and reserve which are
womanss greatest charms: when she
sspurns mater and dom stic duties as
trivial OF monotone then indeed The
marriage state nlnst ffallll into disre pute;
3 then the fat erland3 must snrely suffer
was this which led to the unspeak
able horrors 81 imperial Rome; II was
the unsexed women their ofiigacy only
sequaled by their acity, who were re-
ssponsible as much 81 as Neros and Donni-
stian thenselY he q of Isso-|
an II IN I