WOMAN'S TRUE SPHERE.
The best use to which a woman can be pjit is to be made the honest wife of some good man, arid the judicious mother of healthy children. All the art and learning that she can compass are not of so much value to the world as the example of a life passed quietly in the exercise of domestic duties and social righteousness, in the gift to the country of children who shall carry on the national traditions of courage and generosity, of unselfishness and virtue. This, pace the emancipated, is the ideal use of woman, and no pictures that she can paint, no books that she may write, no prescriptions that she can frame, equal the worth of such an existence; By marriage and maternity she completes her own being and fulfils her raison d'etre, also she secures for herself the-best kind of immortality in the race on which she stamps her impress, and which she makes still more beautiful and civilised. But theD, marriage to be of value pre-supposes one of two things ; the love which creates its own title to respect, or the respect, which, by time, ripens into love. It js not marriage for a settlement —marriage for a title —marriage to escape jrota the social and personal disabilities of .girlhood, with the determination of 'letting all restraints go by the board ( wheu ouee the\ magic formula of modem ireesom-^WJ)'ejsri spoken. It is marriage with Tsomething of heart and conscience in itv 'and* something of the policy..of responsibility attached to it. Such marriages arei unfortunately, not fashionable in these latter days. They \s,w not the marriages of the season—not the bargain struck in the liuman shambles, where so much flesh^fend blood is bought for so much mon^y jiettled by law, for so many diamonds to/be added to the title as a tangible sign of its inherent lustre. In the season, as. we have it, marriages of this true Mad are not, but man traps with their living#»it abound.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4022, 18 November 1881, Page 3
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335WOMAN'S TRUE SPHERE. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4022, 18 November 1881, Page 3
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