Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-03-26

dressed. and comes downstairs, ana Il
he looks rosy and pretty, everyone
Fsays: How beautifully. Mrs. Blank,
you do; bring that child up! You must
let me- know how you manage it." And
if, on the other hand, he looks pale and
| heavy-eyed, and weak, and anaemic
and languid, we say sweetly: Poor lit
tie darling! He has had such bad
night, and he is so feverish-we must
send for the doctor in the morning"
lit is really terrible annoyance, this
illness, but what can we do? OF course,
to the fashionable mother her baby is
really a nuisance. 1t prevents her
dancing before it is born, and her fig
ure being so smart afterwards, and,
worst of all, the expense is SO consider
able. So mamma goes out with papa
to little parties and receptions and din
ners, and poor little baby is left to
thrive, if thrive it does, and live, if live
it does, in the nursery, and all the love
it knows and all the attention that it
gets is from "a paid servant. Mark
you, I do not
BLAME THE MALE PARENT.
A man nowadays has to work hard,
and his hours have to be very long,
and his brain haSlto be very, very keen,
and his intellect very, very clear, be-
fore he can make living sufficiently
to satisfy the wants Of his wife and
family; and, in return for his labor
and his industry, he wants a womanly
woman-a woman who is veritable
helpmate to him, perfect mistress
over his household, a tender mother to
his children-a woman who is the en-
bodiment of King SolOmons words,
that her husband shall rise up and call
her blessed, and her, children also.
But, of course, we are stoo advanced for
that, too educated, too cultured, too
fond of talking about the equality of
the sexes. Just as if we poor Wretched
women could ever be the equals OF
men! Of course we could not. 1t is
absurd We have not the brain power,
the physique, the nerve. Upon my
word, it is just as ridiculous for us
women to think we are going to cope
with men as when the jackass dressed
himself I'D in the lions skin and went
and brayed. 1t is this wretched craze
of education; thoug'h,\ mark you, l be-
Iieve that women shoslld be educated
and taught to think for themselves,
to regulate their lives.Aan not to be
pretty and useless toys, and narrow
minded, and petty, and malicious, and
spiteful; but l do detest' and despise
that saying that what man can do
a woman can. She cannot. What a
man can do with impunity a woman,
if she does it, will do it with sorrow.
What a man can do without risk a
woman, if she does it, will do it with
THE WORLDS CENSURE AND CON-
TEMPT.
I tell you, what constitutes the most
precious jewel and diamond a woman
has is her purity, her womanliness,
and her love of maternity The AL
mighty meant women to be mothers.
He meant them to bring children into
the world, to love and care for them,
to teach them to love Him, and to
teach them to be good men and pure
and innocent women. He meant her to
be a helpmate to man, wife to man
and a mother to his children. He
meant woman for the most sacred of
all missions, and that was to bring into
the world innocence and purity, and
by her sacred and beautiful example
to guard and instruct them, SO that
they should walk in the way of Truth,
and Virtue, and Charity; and I tell you
that the mission of woman is wife and
motherhood, that her most sacred
charge is the bringing up of the young
lives that are entrusted to her. I do
not mean that a woman is TO neglect
her husband for the sake of her child
rem. No true woman would. Because
she would love him as the father of
her children. But 1 say that there is
a growing Discrimination of the classes
(and no one can dispute the veracity
of my statement) for US women to be-
come mothers, and God help us as a
nation if this is allowed to grow.
AN UNREALIZED DREAM