THE GLORY OF WOMANHOOD

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1716, 18 January 1905, Page 24

THE GLORY OF WOMANHOOD

Perfect human life needs sweetness as well as strength, the element of tenderness as well as of force. Life is not all lived in the arena and the street, and behind the victories of the market-place lies the fact of the home. AVhen a man steps out into the glare of public labour he is already what the home has made him. It is "the eternal and inalienable heritage of woman to v ould man: to nurture his body into strength and his mind into soundness; to equip him for the warfare of life and inspire him for its victories; to breathe through him the wishes of her soul, and teach him how to gain the ideals which her purity reveals, her ambition craves, her love demands. The good woman by her intuitions reaches a realm of truth often denied to man in his most logical deductions, and then she becomes virtually the inspiration of man, and it is thus woman who makes the world.—Pev. vv . J. Dawson. The organisation of the home depends for the most -art upon woman. She is necessarily the manager of every family and household. How much, therefore, must depend upon her intelligent co-opera-tion ! Man’s life revolves round woman. She is the sun of his social system. She is the queen of domestic life. The comfort of every home mainly depends upon her —upon her character, her temper, her powe- of organisation, and her business management. A man may be economical; but unless There be economy at home his frugality will be comparatively useless. ‘‘A man cannot thrive,” the proverb says, “unless his wife lets him.” The man at the head of the house can mar the plea,snre of the household, but he cannot makfl it. That must rest with the woman, and is her greatest privilege. —Sir A. Help.