The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-26
OF WOMEN.
CONFLICTING ESTIMATES OF THE
BETTER AND GENTLER SEX.


Mans inclination, says some one, is to
examine all, to know all even at the ex-
pense of his well being, and the more
fraught an object with mystery or danger
the greater, usually, the allurement.
Hence, in large measure. the fascination
for man of electricity-an u~nexplored
country-and woman. That he may meet
possibly with a fatal shock or lose his
head in investigating either unpredietable
attraction seldom deters him when inclina-
tion urges.
The object of mans speculative study
and interest, at once most elusive and
stable. most constant and variable, most
tantalizing and delightful, most rich in
possibilities of trickery, tribulation and
treasure, Is woman. He has seldom found
her just what be faneiel her, SO prone Is
man evidently to thin his feminine COM
plement something so radically different
from himself, uninindful of the fact that
human nature-delicious and mischiev-
GUS, big souled ard small tricked, self
sacrificing and self seeking-produces
much the same elements in the average
being of either sex. So often in his con-
temptation of women does he forget that
"God Almighty made 'em to match the
men" though they be, alas, sometimes
tools Be it granted that the feminine
vessel is Of 1nor clay, the differences be-
tween q good MAJ and a good v oman be-
tween a bad man and o bad woman, are
chiefly those which society-not nature
have produced. when one writes of wo-
man, !, remarks some one, she must re-
serve the right to laugh at his ideas Of the
day before, Z and Boufaers has declared,
ssIhere will always remain something to
be said of woman as long as there is n
on the earth. As q result of his inyesti-
cation and experience up to the present
day man has aaid some very beautiful
things about her-also some other things.
In such contrasting opinions lies some
thing surely Of enlightenment and not a
little Of amusement.
George Meredith causes one of his phil
losophers 30 remark, II expect that wom-
an will be the last thing to be civilized by
man, while Voltaire observes. aGod ere
ated woman only to tame man" Said
Montesquieu, ssThe society of woman en-
dangers mems morals and refines their
manners, = while Alfred MERCER declares,
Woman, naturally enthusiastic of the
good and beautiful, sanctiiies all thai she
surrounds with her Affection"
Here are some observations which can
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Is paved with women i tongues. . 'sIf you
would make a pair Of good shoes, take for
the sclo thestsngue Of a woman; it never
wears out. who takes an eel by tho
tail or q woman at her word soon finds he
holds nothing = stWomen ave an enter
tanning tattla and sometimes wit, but for
solid reasoning and good sense I never
knew ona in my life that had it n who
reasoned and acted consequentially for four
and twenty hours together. ssThe nat
ural tendency (of women) is to scorn the
ileeced-I appeal to the ladies. Would
they rot If they beheld an ostrich walking
down a q1aeIl 8 drawing room, clean plnok-
ed. despisa linn, though they were wearing
his pluniess'
But list 10 the gallant souls, quite in
the van being delightful Bobby Burns,
with his pretty declaration:
Aud nature sNears the lovely dears
Her notaast work She classes, O;
Ser prentice han, she tried on man,
An then she made the lasses, 0.
"a lamp Is lit in woman's eye, that
souls else lost On earth remember angels
by 8 Woman is Il creation between man
and the angels ssEarth's nobles6 thing
"a woman perfected" Woman is the
Sunday Of man" There is something of
woman In everything that pleasee."
ssThere is a woman at the bottom of all
great things etWoman is a delightful
musical instrument, Of which love is the
bow and man the artist. " Woman has
. smile for every joy, a consolation for ey-
cry grief, All excuse for every Aault, a pray
er for every misfortune and encourage
menb for every failure.
OF women and love men have spoken
thus: 1.-THE destiny of women is TO please
and TO be loved. Those who do not love
them are still moro in the wrong than
those who love them too much. A woman
by whom we are loved is q vanity; a wo-
man whom we love is a religion" Says
Balzao: when women love US, they for
give us everything, even our crimes. When
they do not love us, they give us credit for
nothing not even our virtues.
women wish to be loved without a
Why or d wherefore; not because they are
pretty or good or well bred or graceful or
Intelligent, but because they are them
selves. The feminine triumph par excel
lenca is to convict Of obsourity mans
vrile intelligence which makes SO much
pretense to enlightenment, and when a
woman inspires love it is then especially
that she enjoys this proud triumph" l ain
Inclined to think that for q woman love
is the supreme authority-that which
Judges the rest and decides what is god
or evil.
1.-The heart of a never grows
old. When it has ceased to love, it has
ceased to live.
Napoleon is credited with saying: "A
beautiful woman pleases the eye, a good
woman pleases the heart. One is a jewel,
the othsr a treasure" Disraeli declared:
sMan conooiyes fortune, but woman con
ducts it. 1t is the spirit of man that says
Il will be great, but it is the sympathy
Of woman which usually makes him SO.
] Another great mind has observed: If we
wish to know the political and moral con-
dition of a state, we must ask what rank
women hold in it. Their influence EN-
braces the whole Of life. A wife, a moth
err; two magical words comprising the
sweetest sources of mans felicity. Theirs
is the reign OF beauty. Of love, Of reason
always a reign. A man taksscounsel with
his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys
her long after she has ceased to live, and
the ideas which he has received from her
become principles strong- even than his
[ passions
Indeed 1t would seem that the handsome
and appreclative things which have been
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