The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-03-12
HER REAL TRIALS

goes out into the atmosphere of buoy
fancy. He is keyed up to the prospect
of gain, of advantage of position of
power Els instinct with the spirit
of sovereignty and of conquest. When
k1e thinks of himself as the home pro
WIDER It is with satisfaction that he
sustain that relation; that he is indeed
man and can do mans work with
men.
woman who remains in the house,
who bears the petty exactions of its
routine, who sastainss the chief con
Germ for tae health and welfare Of
those in it, is at all times beset with
dreams for the future, for the we'll
being of her brood, with fears that at
times overweight the spirit and with
forebodings vague, but nevertheless
finding place in the protective in
stinct of the mother The wife shares
with the husband his burdens and his
cares in addition to the things 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
intecest that he cannot weigh 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 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 refinement, as
much as these things may enter into
the dream of her life. She only asks
OF him love. she only desires of him
consideration, she only wants to feel
that as he goes about in the wcrld of
company he thinks of her, longs for
her company, VOWS to her fealty, so
that as she cultivates the cheerful
mien in order to hide the little anx-
ieties that seem almost amusing to her
in the presence of her exuberant nat
ural provider he shall be ever part
of her life.
! 1t is to be hoped that amid the
many voices that call to women in
these days she shall not take any OF
them for that prompting voice of her
sex, the voice that from Eden has al
ways been her mentor, the choice of
gentle and loving regard for life as it
is provided in the facts that constitute
her real happiness. She is capable of
sustaining public duties, but net at the
sacrifice of domestic felicity. She is
capacitated for business life, but not
that she shall lose any element of her
intrinsic self. She is capacitated as
man is capacitated, but with more
finely attuned nature, and her respon-
SEES are truer because she is closer
to the center of moral gravity. This
makes her the burden-bearer. She
is closer to the center of truth. The |
genesis of life has been disclosed to
her as not TO man, and so she has the
intuitive sense that, after ALL is but
the keen registry of the realities of
,jife, thought and experience, The,
guage of her intuition is love; every
thing in hire life finds it's focus here.
and so love is to her the falfilling of
the law
Is it any wonder then that she has
always been of a religious temper? Is
it any wonder that she bears her leg
itimate burden of affection-even with
the imposed load of misunderstanding
and mistreatment that some glimmer-
ings of the heroic nature of her deyo-
ton is felt by the one for whom she
bears the load? Woman has never
asked for a tightening of the real ex-
actions of her existence; she has only
pleaded for relief from the extraneous
exactions made of her, only that as
burden+bearer she shall not have the
way of life made hard and dreary. only
that she shall be permitted to swing
cheerily the lamp of love in the high
way of her passage, Given this and
she is glad to assume with her natural
partner such portion of his labors as
will tighten his task This is the real
woman question; it is the spirit of un-
|selfish sex-seeking further expression
In loving cO-nartn arshin. with ,,ap