Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-06-30

them with her, as with the man Often
tlmes more delighttully even, OF course
hgt u you regard an this from another
point % view. Is il good thing for the
country to have SO many women, who
prefer. philosophy, history. politics. ART.
etc, to-mlihcrlnod? Ii is a serioua
ana delicate question; as my chief pnr-
pose y not TO mpralize. | shall not dis
cuss u, but merely allow myself 70 bog
my charming readers to reflect on this
matter seriously.
Aid that tho American woman. like
her Partisan sister. likes 10 shine IN sn-
ciety. but | must establish little shade
OF diuerence In THE respect between the
Two women, While the Partisan makes
Az posfihle EFFORT to attract and please
the men, the American woman Il suf-
ncient to herself and can got along
/ quite wei with thn society of her own
sex; az least. she leads one to think
mat she can. Often one OF my fair
friends has said To me.
was Ut a whist marty veater1av-
Who were therc3'' | asked.
"oh, only ladibs.r
And dld YOU enjoy NJ"
~ph, We had . lovely tlmer'
Just think o. It, such lovely time,
anu without the monl a Partisan
would never aay that; In Paris n ,eon.
an does not understand pleasure Win.
cut the society Of men any more than n
man Understands pleasure without the
society OF women.
From 1850 20 1910 twenty thousand
immigrants crossed the Atlantic. ali
r.nsllsh ana sincere Protcstants; the
women were no less earnest ana cour-
ageous than the men
IN the RELIGIOUS revolution which
turned ENGLAND from Catholicism 10
frotestantism women had an tnport.
ant part aud were influenced greatly
4 by the reform.
| Christianity made her free. proteat.
antsm. omanclpatod her frum ail tutc.
lage II rave her equal riuhts Win
men, u recognized In her the same
| faculties uf appreciation and rcnNon-
/ ing, the same duties and tho same
RESPONSIBILITIES ~ NE,
She became free In the great affair
OF her existence, the choice Of her COM
pNnion, she moved at her caeN lu n
wider circle Of religious IDEAS. dnpend-
Ing only on herself, In this state az
conscience, whore no one could penc-
trate. where God alone could enter
she collected her own thoughts
feeling ut responsibility without limit
was substituted for blind obedience
without discussion. In her womRnly
body thore existed nm Independent ana
manly soul Those women were
worthy ~ men.
II Ia the church and the school TINT
FORM tho character OF tho American
woman
What strange education and
strange school Boya and girls take
their lessons together II ~ there ii
y In this ruda and rough environment
mat the wompn OF tho future lH OUT
lined, II " rude ana rough. but ir this
mlngling of tho sexes there ~ going To
he revealed md strengthened tho
chlvalrous Instinct which slumbers.
lH ~ ID - n. a.
Npect Tor woman which later viii jus
tily the American axiom.
queen"
simultaneously with the type OF tho
woman Of thr North another tyne nn-
poarcd. very different not IN origin
hut IN cCndition--tho woman NJ INC
South, In our days these two types
have been united. from their nnlon
oomcs tho American woman whom we
know, tho characteristic product Of "a
civilization different from ours dos.
tinod one dnv, perhaps, to replace ours
and the influence OF whom wo are al.
ready undergoing, infenslbly, uncon.
sciously.
In America the socni llfc NJ witch
she ie the soul, IN an for hcr and
American customs assure her liberty
ns complete na II Gnu be-
EurnpcanH sometimes have nm oNhE-
kefutou opinion or this liberty. on ne
count of the too lively behavior Of
few young mlaaoa, who arc Noisy cNrcp-
lions To- the general rule The reality.
me- n exists, ~ sufficient FOR uur ptr-
nose. and, without any enlargement on
The truth, presents a very strong con
trant 10 our customs
IAN this ~ beautiful" nm walp1le
snid, hut, how do we ind lhcm at
homer"
Nine out Of ten of these Americans
mike delightful wives II were
Obliged tn rive my opinion between the
French nnd American wife, ! would
nay that with Tho French wife her hus-
band IN pretty sure 10 have the FIRST
kiss but not the Inst; that with the
American womnn her husband very sell
dom has the first klas. but he almost
always has the lunt.
As there iH no consideration Of
dowry In America. marriage there II
only n question Of personal taste. 10
the young KIM belongs the rlRht 10
choose her courtiers. to admit TO The
number ~ hur followers those only
who pCem TO roasosr the qualities which
she deaircs In a husband.
His Joke accoiicd.