Year: 1874

/ tween them 1t consist IN a great de
I gree from different combination of the
very same faculties. E lucation and cir
cumstances change in great measure
the character and religion of both sexes
! There can be but little doubt had either
of US been born in Constantinople hun
/ dred years ago but that we would have
prostrated ourselves upon the ground


five times day with our faces towards
We had been born in Hindoostan, and ac-
cepted the Hindoo Bible for our guide
we would have forbidden our wives to
| look at people while they were dancing,
to listen to music, to wear Jewels, to
blacken their eye brows, to eat dainty
| Tood. to sit at an open window, or to view
herself in a mirror during our absence.
If we grew tired OF her and wished to di-
vorce her, we could do so, if she would
injure our property. If she scolded us
1t she was not the mother of boys. If she
quarreled with another woman Or il
she presumed to eat before we finished
our meals. | have no doubt, but most
OF our young ladies now-ad days would be
slow to marry with such stipulations
awaiting their vows. Take a boy and
girl of about equal natural abilities, sur
round them with the same intellectual
bearings until the ir minds are thoroughly
matured, and you will. without doubt.
find their logical deduction as closely
allied, and as nearly equal in mental
for<a as if they had been both Of one
sex.


Ones early religious training makes its
impress for good or bad through life.
will illustrate my idea by telling you ali
anecdote OF good old Scotch Presbyte
rian lady. This good old dame had a son
John OF whom she was very proud. She
had brought him up in the right way.
pointed out the straight and narrow road
to him, taught him the shorter and
longer catechisms, and filled his head
full of the comfortable doctrine of de
grees John in due time became a man,
and nothing would satisfy him but the
sea; he must go to sea. This worried
his mother verv much, but much or lit
John would go. Consoling hers elf as
best she could with the comfortable
doctrine of degrees, she at last gave her
consent and John started on good
staunch ship, with his mothers blessing
upon his head After a year or more
had elapsed John returned The moth
ers heart was overjoyed to meet him,
and forgetting that John was man, she
bade him, like good boy. to take his
little STOOL, sit down at her feet and tell
her all he had seen. lie began relating
many marvellous stories to his good moth
er, and among them he told her, as they
were sailing along one day a fish few out
of the water and few over the ship.
She placed her hand on Johns mouth
exclaiming stop John, stop John, you are
in Christian country, and you must not
tell me such stories as that. John re
membering his mothers faith exclaimed
why, mother, that is not one half of the
wonderful things that we saw. Why,
continued he, as we were crossing the
Red Sea, the Captain weighed anchor and
when the anchor was drawn up there was
a golden chariot wheel upon it, all stud
ded over with rubies, diamonds, and all
sorts of precious stones, and the Captain
told US that it was one of the golden
chariot wheels that Pharaoh himself
had lost off his own chariot while pur
suing the children of Israel in their pas
sage across the Red Sea. All, John. says
She you may tell me this kind or stories,
and find as many chariot wheels as you
please, and the Captain was a good
Christian gentleman, but never, John,
never, tell me again, John, about fish
flying over ship. A little different ed
ucation, and the mother would have be-
lieved the true story of the fish flying
across the ship, and laughed at the one
of the chariot wheel.


Still, educate as we may there will be
left an individuality about woman char
acteristic OF her son.


Woman is seldom wrong in her i'm
pulses. she arrives at her conclusions 10y
kind of intuition Hence it has become





in 1T is so because know it is so " at
is right because know it is right" Ard
she seldom forgets TO add, when her
point is fully established, II told you
| so"


If woman wishes to carry special
point she does it by persuading by pleas
ing, all of her intellectual energies are at
work quick and to the subject matter.
As a Diplomatic she far excels man, simply
from the fact that her diplomacy is Pc
culiarly her own, it is inimitable by man.
| Her logic is tempered with smiles and il
need be with signs. Man finds himself
yielding his strongly fortified positions
to her appeals, feelingthat he is actuated
! by magnanimity, and by sympathy, but
he is mistaken, she is not indebted Tor
her success either to his magnanimity or
his sympathy any more than Patrick
| Henry was indebted to the passions OF his
hearers. which rose and fell at his bidding,
swaying them to and fro like some mi ghty
! tempest the trees of the forest. 1t is not
to weakness, it is not to beauty, it is not
to smiles and sighs that woman owes her
triumphs, it is to that wonderful combin-
alton of intellectual triumph powers that
enables her to dertly bring into the field
all of her forces, at II lance to see and


take advantage OF all vulnerable points
of attack and with the happest coup de
grace carries the citadel by storm making
the vanquished believe that her own will