The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-15
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 character. Notice what comes from mans love for a woman. Beginning In primitive society and moving onward through the ages, moved by this love for her, man bears the heavier burden kindles the fire at night-fall, pitches the tent, builds the house, adorns It with beauty, and tolls that she, more than he, may have the joys ot lie. That black-coated army which every goes down town and tolls in factory, store and office does so that that other army on dress parade may go down town in the afternoon clad in fine raiment and crowned with Won- derful coronets of flowers and feathers to shop and visit, and that they may have pink teas, receptions, matinees, excursions, vacations and whatever else will add to their pleasure. This indicates a great change wrought prl- marily by the power of love; for in barbarous and primitive society it is the man who is most elaborately tat tooed, who wears the feathers, who or naments his garments and who takes the vacations. In modern society, the fine dresses, the ornaments, the lec- lures, the concerts, the plays, the holl- days and the vacations are for women far beyond what they are for men. All this is the flower of that love by which, like Jacob, man is impelled to work and to deny himself for the woman he loves. It has issued in those senti- ments and customs which have given women their present position. If that position tempts women to selfshness 1t is an any rate a striking evidence of the unselfishness of men. They have learned through love not to live unto but to others. But women, also, in this process of development, find fulfllment of high ideals. Faith, confidence and devotion are evoked in them by love and they adorn them selves to please, they entertain to give pleasure and in the opportunities which have come with leisure and culture, their sympathies are enlisted and their energies are directed in manifold min istries The sentiments, sympathies, conservation and customs now common to women by which they bless man. kind are so ample they can say in a larger sense than that of Juliet
 My bounty is as boundless as the sea; My love as deep; the more I give to
 thee
 The more I have, for both are infinite.
 Love also idealizes its object, T wish, said mother to me, lamenting the unhappy marriage of her daugh- ter that young women did not ideal- ize lover and so meet with disap- pointment," But the power to ideal ize, to see the best, to spread that best over the whole, to believe in the possi- be more than in the actual, is the greatness and the glory of love. Ra- chel, no doubt, was commonplace enough-a rustic maid, a shepherdness, girl to be bartered and sold by a commercial father, a wife bought by so much labor like piece of property; nevertheless the love of Jacob which enhanced her beauty and esteemed her person sacred was a holy thing which made him a better man and which, perchance, inspired het to fulfill his ideal of beauty. Beatrice, according to all tradition, was very ordinary Flo rentine maid; but the love of Dante for her is not thereby made less beautiful and noble, "Ah, all the tongues which the muses have inspired" he says, "could not tell the thousandth part of the beauty of the smile of Beatrice as she presented me to the celestial group, exclaiming, Thou art redeemed" !" Love, like this hallows the heart, purifies the desires, makes the speech chaste and the deeds gentle The rude village boy leases the girls of the vll- lage school. But one day a little girl arrives whose eyes as he looks into their clear, sweet depth surprise and soften him. Awe, reverence, tlmidity take entire possession of him. Her he cannot tease; he is conscious of her personality and of his own; he will gladly carry her satchel, bear her bur den lead her gently across the brook show her where the flowers grow and do anything to please her. Nay, he cannot tease the other girls with his former zest In his gentleness to one
 
 he is put in training to be gentleman to all Jacob, prior to his meeting with Rachel, seems to have been entirely willing that women as well as men should serve him. After that meeting by passion ordained of God, he is put in training to serve others, is love for that one woman gives all women g higher place. In the process of human education and history, habit, heredity example, ,custom--all rooted in this original love of one for one-produce sentiments, principles and practices which make men respectful, thought ful, gracious and gentle This is no. where more marked than in the treat ment of women. The barbarous mar treats woman with less respect and often with less kindness than man A man in civilized society lifts his ha' in passing an acquaintance if he hap pens to be accompanied by woman he rises in the car and gives a woman his seat; he represses any rude speech which might otherwise flow from hi! lips; he is a gentleman in the presence of woman whatever he may be else where. The old forms of courtly ad dress, still current, might be applied tt her such as your majesty, your rever
 ence, your worship; for there is in tn, common treatment of her a certain worship. This is the result of long ed
 ucation and training and indicates tn,
 moral development of man. It may b,
 said that not all women considered in dividually deserve this honor iron
 men. That may be true, with the ex ception of less natural disposition t,
 the gross forms of physical excesse
 expressed in the various forms of in 1 temperance, women cannot be said t
 be better than men. In truth, integri ty, charity, generosity, devotion t,