Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-05-28
as wrinkled ugliness is the sequel to

the story of year after year spen
amid ugly things.
To any woman her life Is a mys
tery she cannot probe. She can tel
the reason why for anything sooner
than for the unknown entity, herself
when the truth Is that she is untrans
latable in spoken terms-she canno
find a word for a feeling whose de-
scription battles her powers Of analyst!
and forever eludes and is just beyond
her-as one poet Of singularly femin.
Inc susceptibilities found the margin
,of the untraveled world always just
over the edge of his furthest seeing
She cannot give reason for the
faith that is in her, for certain subtle
truths are hers by instinct and intu-
ition. "a cry springs in her." as
Meredith has set forth, for music and
color and the various fragrance Of life
and then, beyond aught that the
senses can perceive, for the things
that lie within the veil, in the debat-
able land Of dreams and eternal mys-
teries. If it is any question Of explor-
ing in worlds not realized" in the
realms of the spiritual, the super
natural, the metaphysical, there are
always women among the first to vol
unteer for such an expedition.
What woman knows herself? Men
write Of women and paint them better
than they can depict themselves with
pigment or with words. They are
fearful Of being idealized; they ap-
preciate q chivalrous Difference, but II
makes them uncomfortable to be re-
garded as angels who should not be
allowed to set foot upon solid earth.
The woman of today wants to be
humanity treated as a rational, re-
sponsible being. She does not seek a
pedestal or shrine. She is eager to
try untested powers and spread wings,
and dare new ventures, and she can
not always see why tedious legal
circumference is necessary when she
would go straight.
In a real woman pride is a ruling
element. II she Is defeated and con-
Germs dear to her are wrecked she
would hide 1t as long as possible from
the world. She believes in her hus-
band long after everyone else has
found him a sorry specimen. she law
ishes affection still upon the child that
is generally seen to be an ugly duck
ling.
If she is mateless and familyless
she must espouse a cause, as the
Venetian Republic welded the
She gives the whole thirsting ardor of
her nature to propaganda, a crusade
when it is unused by the trivial con-
Germs Of domesticity.
"a woman is only a woman" No;
she is a refining, uplifting influence,
and that she may be free for her min
istry she must be neither the drudge
nor plaything Of man, neither the
faint adumbration of husbands
greatness nor the mere scintillatine
ornament Of his house and table.
Yet, the greater happiness Of wo-
man will not usually be found In q
world entirely her own, from which
her partner by nature is excluded
There is a reason why there should
he marrying and giving in marriage
quite apart from the dreary prolego-
menia of Nautilus.
There Is in the sympathetic associ-
alton Of man and woman, divinely and
naturally designed, the first and the
final stimulus to "scorn delights and
live laborous days." when that is ne.
cessary for the sake Of the work to be
done; on the other hand, when pleas.
ure has','its rightful, salutary innings
the enjoyment is doubled when there
are two to divide it. A woman, fol
various reasons, may elect to be
solitary, but rarely is this her con.
dition without the accompanying
sense that something has been missed
out Of her life.
A man stands isolation, loneliness
a great deal better-his points Of con
tact are more numerous, his experienc,
more various; he can go where HI
chooses when he likes, and, by socia
tradition, he does not have to lear
as heavily upon the preference Of thu
custom of others in formulating hi!
plans Of work and travel and amuse
ment
The volunteer bachelor deserve!
little sympathy as compared with thu
involuntary spinster. 1t is a tragedy
to behold the winsome personality o.
a woman who might have made s
corner Of paradise in a home Of hel
own shrivelling and pining in an un
congenial task, feeling herself day by
day becoming devitalized and les'
susceptible to those vital feelings o.
delight" that makes it worth while
to live. 1t is a part Of the mystery
that a woman so often preserve.
against such odds her essential wo
manliness.