The herald., 1894-03-11
bich produce such dsrolicta OF woman.

which produce such derelicta OF woman
hood.
For it 10 because the laws and usages
OF men have condemned women to social
sud civil inherently to thensolvoe, that
so many cursble abominations flourish
unchecked. Womsn has been Rrtih-
cially degraded from hor natural equali-
" with man. Those rights end p;ivi-
leges, which he claims for himself, no
denien to her. In all things shs must
be aubservient. She mutt say to him
40 Eve WAS taught to say to Adam:
''whrt thou hidst
'Unargued 1 ooey; so God ordains;
God IL thy law thou nine"
This language Of slave to q master is
admirably adapted to mems sslfshness.
But no community where more than
one-half OF the adults are disfranchiaed
and otherwise incapacitated by law and
cuatom can be free from great vices.
Purity is inconsistent with slavery.
The man who has q good and loyal
partner in wife, will consider to whom
he owes 90 priceless a gift. Most good
women have had good mothers. We do
not believe in the prodigies that, we are
told, occur in novels, where sensual
men and women have children who are
paragons Of virtue, and foolish parents
produce wise offspring. Such things
may take place at very rare intervals,
just like other abnormal births, or
through what is called Throwing back"
But this law of nature is like from like,
and 50 we never look for blackberries on
hazel bushes, or nuts on brambles. The
woman who is herself wise and virtuous
will refuse to link her life with
any other than an intelligent and
honest man. Should there be no bad
strain in the blood OF either, they will
produce children with natural bent to
virtue and knowledge. The mother will
train her daughter with care and dill
gence, and leave little or nothing to
chance. Her watchiul eye will suppress
any inclination to indiscretion, her
CHEEKY emile will approve all that is
good. And as her child grows to woman
hood she will open the maiden's eyes to
the perils that beset youth and beauty.
No false modesty will restrain her from
inatructing in the mysteries OF mater
pity and wiiely duties. She will aleo
teach her, according to her rank, the
value of domestic management and the
worth of usefulness. If she be rich, the
daughter will learn how to avoid waste !;
If merely we'll to do, how to eoonomize /;
and il poor, how to make the most OF her
hushand'ss hard-earned wages. What
ever her position, she will be 90 trained
that che will be the careful guardian of
her husbands home, filling it go far as
che can, with love and cheerfulness, and
ready in her turn to bring up daughters
az her true mother trained her.
A man who receives such girl to wife
must be both foolish and ungrateful il
he despise his mother-in-law, or object
to her continued interest with his young
wife. We cannot believe that any man
with ordinary giits OF sense and feeling
would do so. We are, therefore. com
| pelled to admit that the prejudice
against mothers-in law has been created
| by themselves. 1t is because their
sons-in- law find that their daughters are
not by any means such as they antici-
pated, because they have, in fact, been
| matrimoniallv chnueed, that they turn
| aeainst the mothers. They find their
wives deficient in wifely attributes, and
they Justly lay the blame on their
mothers-in-lsw. They discover that
| their maternal vista are followed by
diaeartantL nnrsrt ~ahallinr oPsA
discord, so that at length they are dis
allowed. In fact, they find that man
may marry, and that his Eve may in no
sense be bone OF his bone and flesh of
his flesh, the while there is an ever
present tempter in the shape of a
mother in-law who leads her farther
aetray.
As soon as mothers generally educate
their daughters on the lines which we are
always urging. they will be regarded
with strongest affection by their sons-in-
law. There is a great number of such
mothers, and to them the prejudice re-
fsrred to does not apply. Indeed, we
know Of many man who loves his wife
in such manner that her mother is as
dear to him es though she were his own.
Nor have we known case where good
mother-in-law was not atfectionately re-
garded by her son-in-law, provided he
were worthy of her. Thus the remedy
for the popular SCOTS lies with them
selves.
We hope the day will soon come when
every girl will be a member OF great
union of unmarried women, pledged to
refuse an offer of marriage from any
man who lie not an advocate OF their
emancipation. In this way the ''supe-
rior" sex will soon be open to convic-
ton, and the odium against mothers-in-
law would speedily cease.