Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-12-28
WOMAN AND HONE
FEATHERwEleHr TYRANNY MAY OF
CRUSHING IN ITS EFFECTS,

Responsibility Of Fsrcnts-Nu In chlna.
kmpty Lives How women Increase
cars-rhinr. She nAtrs-Nake Home
happy-Turnish tho Halls.
An tyrsnts do not 40 about menatinr
thelrvictims with clubs and alarming them
with tho clsnk ot chains and click IL tho
bolt IN the dungeon door, There arv lyrani
with sweet faees and soft voices, with eve
that laugh, aud lips that WOO, and fingers
that oaress Their Tyranny Is very gentle.
but withal \ "a as difficult to resist us the
hott steady, blmketlike pressure OF the
iog when il comes stealing IN from the sea
or creeping up from the valley, Who does
not know the tyranny that is harder 20
escape than any other, because it wears the
gtlise and uses the vocabulary of Lowell
Such dcspotlsm Is sometimes exercised
by wife, who, caring only Tor material al.
vantage, STILES day by day and little by III.
tie her husbands aspirations after better
things, who becomes, as Rosamond "a Iiyd.
gate, her husbands basil plant Ia plant TIA.
dltlonAlly supposed to thrive ON the brains
Of murdered men. Pink and white tytan,
! ny Mrs stowe characterized this Kind Of
despotism, exercised by beautiful, frivo.
lous and selfish woman over large hearted
and noble but in her hands badled and
helpless man.
This fcatherwelght tyranny IS sometimes
found IN a family whcre ono or the other
parent refuses 10 allow the growing young
people IN the house the ilght 70 devotion
along the lines nature intended and ia
their own way, Who has not seen thu
child I'm whom dwolt no love aud no aptl.
tudo for music compelled to waste years In
an endless, proiitless stunning at key,
board, while another child whom art IN.
vited and solicited was condemned Ia
drudgory OF another orderi The man VI
business who is resolved TO make bust.
meas man Of his son. when the latter pre-.
ters TO be a sailor or u soldier, the profcs.
slonM man who elects that his hoy shall
adopt his vocation, when art or landscape
gardening or mechanics are the boys ayo.
cation-each o. these IS through his very
love, exercising featherweight tyranny.
which may be crushing In It's ELECTS.
Women are, It must b. admitted, mont
prone TO this defect than men. Agoman'
methods are more subtle. She uses iinesse,
Where man goes crashing on with AK aud
hammer, she puts aside an obstacle or In,
terposes one with Standardization. llers
is the habit OF featherwuight tyranny rather
than his 1t is like death 20 her sometimes
the discover that comes Ia due course Of
events that her sons and daughters have ia,
dependent ideas Of their own; that they
not she, must work Que their individual
problems.
The mother Of this type is capable OF
heroic sacrifices, Of marvellous self deuials
Of umstintcd generosity, but she demand
In return the right to legslate, Her chill
dren, to her thought, arr never grown up
They must adopt her standards, accept hei
views-in everything, small md great, con
form 10 her measuring line, Naturally
they rebel, and then come troubles ant
hcartaohes, for feathorveight tyranny cat
bear az heavily aud hold its own against
odds as stubbornly rs any other tyranny II
this strange world larpcr's Bazaar,