Year: 1874

eyes stand open while mans have to b'


propped.


She is more patient in suffering, she Is


less trouble to wait upon while sick.


would rather have the care of two sick


women than one sick man. Her powers
OF enduring pain and suffering and sor-
row are much greater than mans. She
is called upon to endure much more than
man. The Persians have this proverb.
that there was nine portions of talk let
down into the world when God created
it, and woman got six of it. 1t may be
said with great deal more truth that of
the nine portions of disappointment. and
suffering and sorrow, and pain that was
let down into the world, woman got six
of it.


Woman by nature is more inclined to
be religious than man, her moral iacul
ties are higher, she shrinks from crime.
until her natural sensibilties are blunted.
And once plunged headlong into crime
us she is by nature purer and higher, she
sinks, if it is possible, even lower than
man.


Such combination of faculties pecu-
liarly and eminently fits woman for the
position she occupies as wife and mother.
1t has been truthfully remarked that
every mother is an authoress. Not that
every mother literally writes book, but
that she is constantly setting type over
which must be rolled again and again.
the brains, the minds of her children,
stamping characters there that time can
never efface. Her books are the lives 'oi
the great and good men. of the present
and all past ages. Grave as the charge
may be, terrible as the responsibility is,
she has for some of her books not Il few
OF the present and all past ages. The
impression of good and bad, Of right
and wrong that, are made i'll early child
hood. will generally give tone and
character in manhood.


"The pebble in the brooks aslant,
Has changed the course of many river;
The dew-drops on the baby plant
Has warped the giant oak forever"
Every effort that is made for the ad-
vancement of woman in morals, religion
and literature. are so many steps taken
for the Advancement of man in intellect
and wisdon-for the nation in strength
and influence.


would not confine the mind of either
man or woman to the study of any spe
cial science. without regard to it's fitness
or adaptability to the individual mind
| have seen young girls compelled to sit
for hours each day upon piano stool.
drumming away upon the keys, without
having either ear or taste for music,
while at the same time they derived a
real pleasure in solving d. .fficult problems
in mathematics. They have been called
stupid, dull and indolent, because they
were compelled to study that for which
| they had neither taste nor genius. To
mark out course of study for a girl be-
cause she is girl, or boy because he is
a boy, is treating the mind as if it was
simply machine that merely had to be
put in motion by boiler and engine. The
fact that there are only Il few truly intel
lectual men of any age, and few intel
| lectual women Of any age, is worthy a
| passing notice. 1t carries with it this
/ lIutIi III d pdISIlG uliIlD6T IudL tLlS aver
age man or woman is within the grasp of
almost any sane man or woman.
| 1t is only the intellectual giants of the
! day, manor woman, who create a sensa-
tion. The one has the reverence given
him due him, the other has from the
average man the epthet, "strong minded
! They are both necessity to stimulate
the young of both sexes, to show them
what the carefully governed intellectual
energies of a life time may bring forth.
! 1t does not follow because woman has
proven herself intellectually the peer of
man, or that man has rivaled woman in
religion, in charity, in affection. in kind
ness in tenderness, in love; in short in
all that makes woman womaaly, that
they are both intended for, or should act
and move in the same sphere of life.


find, to complete my photograph of
woman, must refer to what is called
Woman rights" She has created quite
sensation by entering in considerable
numbers the three leading professions.
Her success has been suffic emily great to
aatter the vanity of any woman.
Has she right to enter these profes-
sions and to practice them? Unique i
tionably the same right technically and
| legally man.


Do these professions add to her graces?
Enhance her charms2 Render her more
useful? Or fit her in more eminent
degree tn ELL the position assigned her
| by her Creator as wife and mother
These are questions that take precedence
to her rights. They are of higher or,
der; they address themselves to the con
| science, to the heart and soul OF woman
To any woman who can answer these
questions in the affirmative l say it is
not only her right but it is her solemn
duty before God and the world to make
all the energies that her Creator has Civ
! en- her. -....-.


have seen woman reaping grain,
cradling wheat, plowing for corn and
blowing corn, have seen her driving
horses and oxen on the farm have
seen her chopping wood, husking corn,
digging potatoes; in short, | have seen
her perform all kinds of manual labor.
Tor her They did it well. Has woman
any right to perform such kind OF labor,
Unquestionably. technically and legally
she has Che same right as a man. l ask
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