The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1910-03-19
Her Real Burden.
From the Baltimore American.

No one needs to be reminded
that upon the wives and the
mothers, the sex that is called
the weaker are laid the heaviest
burdens of life. The man goes out
into the atmosphere of buoyancy.
He is keyed up by the prospect
of gain or advantage of position
of power. He is instinct with the
spirit of sovereignty and of con
quest. When he thinks of himself
as the home provider it is with
satisfaction that he is indeed a
man and can do a mans work
with men.
The woman who remains in the
house, who bears the petty ex-
actions of its routine, who sus-
tains the chief concern for the
health and welfare of those in it,
is at all times beSet with dreams
for the future for the well-being
of her brood, with fears that at
times overweight the spirit and
with forebodings vague, but,
nevertheless, finding a place in
the protective instinct of the
mother. The wife shares with her
husband his burdens and his
cares in addition to the things
that that she cannot share with
him, for they appear to be either
petty or else are so out of the
range of his thought and inter
est that he cannot weight them in
the fine scales of her acute men
tality. She bears and forbears,
and then with prayer takes up
again the burden of life. 1t is not
a matter primarily of riches or
poverty. No woman worthy of
the name has ever exacted of a
husband worthy of the title that
he shall bring her riches, that he
shall adorn her with the garb Of
luxury and surround her with
the factors of exclusive refine
ment, as much as these things
may enter into the dream of her
life. She only asks of him love,
she only desires of him considera-
ton, she only wants to feel that
as he goes about in the world of
affairs he thinks Of her, longs
for her company, vows to fealty
so that as she cultivates the
cheerful mien in order to hide
the little anxieties that seem al
most amusing to her in the pres
ence of her exuberant natural pro
WIDER he shall be ever a part of
her life.
1t is to be hoped that amid the
many voices that call to woman
in these days she shall not take
any of them for that prompting
voice of her sex, the voice that
from Eden has always been her
mentor, the voice of gentle and
loving regard for life as it is pro
vided in the facts that constitute
her real happiness. She is capable
of sustaining public duties, but
not at the sacrifice Of domestic
felicity. She is capacitated for
bushes life, but not that she
shall lose any element of her in.
trinsic self. She is capacitated as
man is capacitated, but with NOR,
finely attuned nature, and her re.
sponses are truer because she j:
closer to the center of moral gray
ity. This makes her the burden
bearer. She is closer to the center
of truth. The genesis of life ha'
been disclosed to her as not Il
man, and so she has the intuitivr
sense that, after all, is but thu
keen registry of the realities o
life, thought and experience. TIL
gauge of her intuition is love; ev
erything in her life finds its 70
Gus here and so love is TO he
fulfilling of the law.
Is it any wonder then that sh
has always been of a religion
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