The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-03-23

men were stronger morally and women
physically.
A modern historian says: moral
and rational faculties may alike be
dormant, and they will certainly be SO
if men are wholly immersed in the
qualification of their senses. Man is
like a plant, which requires a favor
able soil for the full expansion of its
natural or innate powers" If men
had been shut out, as women have,
from the exercise of their physical
faculties, is it certain they would have
developed excess of physical powers?
Notwithstanding her social disad-
vantages in this respect, woman has
made her mark in the annals of brav-
cry. History affords numerous exam
pies Of great heroines, many of them,
too, at a time when her general posi-
tion was that of a slave; but we can
only note a few. Leaona of Attica bore
the severest torture without word
Telesilla, the poetess, made the Argo-
lie women fearless of death, and dis
comfited the Spartans Theodore saved
the eastern empire. Artemisia drank
the ashes of her consort. Camilla,
queen of the VolscianS, was slain
fighting at the head of her troops.
Boadicea encountered the veterans of
Rome. The Maid of Orleans drove the
English from France. ARIA stabbed
herself to encourage her husband 10
die See, it does not hurt, dear Pae-
tus," she said. The tales of martyr
dom are fertile of heroic women. Young
maidens met the most horrible deaths
with placid contempt, If not with We
hement joy. No fiendish tortures that
devils could devise were able to shake
the fortitude of numberless brave wo-
men. Whether under Nero or the
bishops, under the inquisition or the
French revolutionaries, it was noted
with surprise and admiration that the
women died more bravely than the
men. With what grace and calmneSs,
and infinite tenderness for others, did
Anne Boleyn and Mary of Scotland
lay their fair necks upon the block.
Even the fearless Raleigh suffers by
comparison, for their queenly dignity
excelled his half jocular carelessness.
When we come to physical self-sac-
rifice, to giving ones life to save the
most dear TO US, women stand almost
alone. Whether to suck a poisoned
wound, or to intervene and receive the
assassin's dagger or to nurse the
wounded in the midst Of battle, or to
watch by the couch of pestilence and
death, or to commit suicide to save
their own and their husbands honor.
they have acted without a parallel on
the part of men. Womans
love is stronger than her fears,
and there is no sacrifice which she
will not cheerfully make for him who
sways her heart. What she does by
impulse man feebly tries to do by cal
culation.
But it is in moral courage that
woman shines. Just as the greater
and training Of man makes
him physically superior, so the moral
strength and training of woman makes
him morally her inferior. In loyalty.
truthfuiness, chastity, fidelity, pity,
sobriety, honesty and general perse-
in well-doing, she is i'm
above him. This has been
noticed by great writers in every age,
and it would not be difficult to dis
cover why she is so much mans moral
superior Vaudeville thought it was
because her brain was more accurately
balanced. We think, however, that it
Is largely owing to a higher standard
Of moral conduct having been con-
stantly demanded from her from re-
hottest times. But she must insist
upon further physical advancement,
and man should look to his morals,
that sexual harmony may result.
It is no wonder that the towards and
larroW-hearted among the men are'l