Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-01-30
SOCIETY CHRONICLE.
Local News Of Soeiai and Frsternal
Events.
nAraHrrRs on Nvr.

Marys are the incarnatlons Of all th'
! varied passions that move the world
The women of the present time are
only as yet making their history
The mother OF Washington and the
heroines of Lexington will be better
remembered I'm the centuries TO come
than they are now. 1t was woman
that put heart into the weary soldiers
with the grandest war song ever writ.
ten. 1t was a woman's taste in bunt-
Ing that gave us the glorious stars and
stripes, and it was for women, mothers,
wives, sisters and sweethearts that
these same soldiers sang, and singing
died. ] believe that intelligence and
a sense Of freedom and equality with
men does not unfit a woman for the
cares of home and children; rather
that contact with the world Of
thought and action widens her SYM
pathes and strengthens her judgment.
And her influence with her sons and
daughters as they grow up Is ten fold
greater than that of the old fashioned
mother. She may be less cOnfding,
less cllnging, but more knowing. Let
us educate our daughters not only to
love, honor and obey(?) their husbands
but to have other aims In life than
the timid, yielding, old fashioned
mother 10 whom a frown was as a
blow, while cross word saddened her
for u week. Marriage need not
necessarily he failure. Like
every high condition IL is diff
cult Of attainment; but IL is so
fine In It's perfection that one success
compensates for many nOn-successes. |
A woman's soul and mind must reach |
out and be an inspiration to her hus-
band. Learn something Of his affairs:
interest yourself In his work. What
you don't possess, cultivate. A hus-
band soon ceases TO care very much
for wife who Is mentally greatly
his inferior. Thackery says. "Love Is
immeasurably above all ambition
more precious than wealth, more
noble than name. lie knows not life
who knows not that; he hath not felt
the slightest faculty Of the soul who
hath not enjoyed it," While the
new woman asks, "Is love alone
worth living fOr-worth dying forY "
Is II the only satisfying good we /
can grasp among the shifting {
shadows OF our brief existence &? Q
La It's various phases and |
iliferent workings is IL after I'll the c
brightest radiance known In the c
struggling darkness of our lives ? 5
And does love always satisfy? Men {
ina Their pay for living In various {
ways. Hope may lie to them, but they b
always believe her, nevertheless. The n
'etter things 20 come of which she
ellis all men become indeed the sub.
stance OF the thing desIred: that Ia
5, expectation is constant Joy and
aspiration. The pay for this DAVIS te
rouble and toll Is In the reward
which Is expected tomorrow. That
eward may never come but the hone I
emains, and 80 long as that remains,
ld so long as that lives II pays them "
o i've that they may make money ht
nd command the power that money
rings liza truth II is that "man's :,
,Ve Is OF his life Il thing apart" why y,
mould IL be "woman's whole exist. -
hceY' To what enormous toll and
lcrlbces the love and pursuit of III
loney urge a great multitude OF mon Sl'
htil they become so absorbed in the
Ncltlng struggle as to almost forget tw
nc things that were once so dear Ia su
lemi or at least forget togiye expres. w
on TO words or acts that mean so
'uch 10 our own, given us to be good
, oiteh times they love dearly. vet
We q stingy, misery life I'm regard
thelr richest inward treasures o,.
heh a Few words or deeds expressive ha
'nls love would make them both so 80
uch happier And some women are w.,
weak so helpless, so self.sacrilleing n"' ,"l
curing a strong and steady arm 10 ~ ~
an upon II is very dlnicult for S,' M
'her man or woman to go ON beliey. 80 W
x IN a love that never takes heed ~
the object loved. The greatest ~, -,
rolsm ! have ever found I'm buman y" m
.'nre has been in the lives OF women W, ,,,,
ne man who risks his own llre 10 Ia,' W"
'cue some drowning creature is NOT 'So ,So
oraNe as many n wife who cndures @ ~"
glecI indifference, aud even dlsloy. wv, "S
y from one who has sworn TO he her on' ~"
o'ee'oE and sits through long ta'
iely evenings at home, looks almr. n',, I,
: temptation In the eyes. and turns nun "n
'ay, carrying Il smiling face 10 tbe Sa' o."
'rlo' The physical pain, the heart. Sa' ~"
niger the lonely hours thar NAH '''
u the life Of the average woman 4
uli' drive the average man 10 the last
'sne asylum before ne reached Mot
uuie age How much We m,ght ON
NE OF our family life n We onIy tn,
ul , OF our social intercourse OF onr was
enuShlps' How many kind wor1, whi