Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-08-29
From Baltimore Sun. August 20th.]
MORE OF WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
Ii. Ii. j. Says Female Sufi'ragists Want IL
"Play Out of Their Glass;


As a contribution to the discussion
of woman's rights, awakened by the
recent sermon of Rev. Walter Rhodes
at Fulton Avenue Baptist Church, B.
B. j. expresses his sentiments in the
following rendering of an ode of Anac-
reon:
Mature that horns and hoofs
To the bulls and the horses gave,
Her fieetness bestowed on the hare,
Fierce teeth TO the lion in his cave,
TO the fishes to swim through the food,
TO the birds through the air to soar.
To men their proud intelects gave,
But to woman? She had nothing more
As gift that could worthily serve
Save beauty, she held in reserve,
Better than sword or spear could be,
Conquest and fire and sword, all three,
In beauty, oh, woman We're given to thee"
Surely" says B. B. j., the concur.
renee of SO ancient an authority. SO
calamity expressed, with the scriptur
al testimony ought to be conclusive !:
There is one glory of the sun, and an
other glory of the moon, and another
glory of the stars. Il Cor, XIV. Al The
woman is the glory of the mani
Cor. XII, z.
SIT seems to me that the fact en-
phasized by both Anacreon and the
Bible is that nature has bestowed on
each of her creations distinctive func-
tiOns, all honorable in their place
The difficulty with the modern suffra
gist woman is that she is, to employ
base ball pariance, trying to play out
of her Glass;"
Among additional communications
received by the Sun are the folio wing:
observer" - THE woman who
thinks she ought to 60 into politics to
save men from becoming drunkardS is
something ike the minister no thinks
he ought to 90 into politics for the
-a'u- purpose. Both the woman and
the preacher have all especial voca-
! ton, which, if properly followed, will
go farther toward saving men from be
coming drunkards than any political
endeavors on their part. The woman
can so order her home in the power of
that most potent influence. love. that
sons and husbands will be nIagnetiZed
to it; and ministers, by preaching the
love of Christ more than the power of
the law, can enlist men under the ban
ner of spiritual love. Thus, Letween
properly displayed love OF woman on
one hand and a love of God Cd the
other, none but the most abandoned
men would be tempted by the love of
liquor.
1t is altogether unnecessary for
ladies to take their stands alongside of
ward bummers at the polls, and it is
altogether disgusting to see ministers
preaching from their pulpits that the
drinking man must be suppressed by
the stern hand of the law. If the
world is to be made better let each
man and woman do his or her duty in
the respective lines. Certainly do not
let persons who have the highest voca
tions leave them to attempt reforms
through the aid of those that are low
err"
AN Old Lady, am quite old and
can remember mole than fifty years
ago Woman has had her rights all
along. Indeed. some have had too
much right. | think every minister
ought to put this woman suffrage plan
down. 1t never was intended by the
lhleSsed Lord for woman to hs the head.
L it had been intended | am sure He
would have put Eve at the head in
stead OF Adam. | think it is shame
for ii woman to want to push herself
into such Il thing as politics. a good
woman can do ii great deal of good.
but If she gets 10 voting her work in
Ihe church will -tid All she will then
think about will b. politics She will
urglrct her family if she has one.
Some say they want to put dawn the
dreadful drinking places: They can
-tny At home aud pray IT, sod to pro
i-,ct their hnsbAudS aud ms aud
d tughTprs frOH those dens.'