A WOMAN'S OPINION OF HUSBANDS.
As a funeral rule, we know that men have, by nature, a superior] t,y in strength which enables them. u> ijo through labours and daugera, mental as well as bodily from which females should lie exempt: and that, by education, thoy are qualified for exorcising the several trades or professions by which they aie to maintain their families. On the oilier hand, women are endowed (besides all the prices and ami.ibilitie» nf the sex) with a great .superiority of quickness. iftot', and delicate discernment, in all the wvery-day affairs of life. tn sill these, therefore, tho husband oujht to be completely guided by his wife. And this shows the wisdom of our ancestors i • making the husband 'endow with all his w irldly goods' the wife ho has chosen. The wife is dependent on tho husband, and clings to him for support, just as a hop plant climbs on its pole, and a sweet pea on the sticks to support it, and as the vine in I'-'ily was, according to the language, of t,h•• poets, 'married to tho elm.' Bub if you could conceive a hop-hole, or a pea-stick, or tin elm, imagining that those plants wern put 'here on purpose for its adocument, you would tell them til: it. thi.i "MX quit..! :\ misI; •.'• e '.hat the oliinnors -tre cultivated I'"' i;li" 110-\-oi'B of fruit—and ' lei,: tie <!. Ik a ov pined tliere. merely (~,■ r.uvii .ike. ,i,;nl •uu«*. nob claim any .superior >U_'int \ or .eortli ov.-r the plants tliev suppori. N >w- just such is the office'<>f the Uusbtn ; n,ud mi state of things I.S i what poopl,. 'approach'to more in proportion as they 'advance in civilisation. Among mere Savages the wife is made to yield to brutal force, and is a mere drudge ; 111 barbarian conntrios women are shut up ; in more civilised they are left free, and have more' control; and in dear England, the glory of all nations, they have a higher place, proverbially, than anywhere else.— 'A Matron's Advice to a Young Married Lady.'
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 581, 18 November 1880, Page 1 (Supplement)
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342A WOMAN'S OPINION OF HUSBANDS. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 581, 18 November 1880, Page 1 (Supplement)
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