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Show The Shim of Woman. The world It beginning to accord to woman a higher itatui In II, letut hope bo will ap rociate the conception and t-dui'atu hertelf up to the itaudar I uf lllttcal an 1 aoclal eminence to which hecun, If the will, attain. Man, wheu he flnJt that woman bat fitted horn!, by lUdy aud obn rvatlon, to eland ihouldcr to tlioulder with him, will uotlietltito long about elovatlug her to that poiltlou. The mtjorlly of womtn have been taught to Iwlleve that thtlr only dettlny It to ba wlvti aud insthtrt, and their uducatlou fr other tiheret hat been neglected accordingly. ac-cordingly. Havlog betutralnel for tbal, they have Itautdupoii their can and retted then. After they marry their butbandi, many of them at lent, encourage and toitir the Ilea, 'lralltlou warraolt them In io doing, but It It a rello of tartaric and amil barbaric Hjrtt, and mu.t be eradicate 1 at many other an clel.t Idiutand aollltlriet bao bleu. The) will die ft natural ititth, tut not a premature nno by an imam Old ago will tend tbcni to tho grave aud conttgu them to obliviou, while the world will wonJer why they wero permitted to exlit to long aul thnck our ttnilbllllletwlthtbelr Imteclllty. Thote who nuku the atiertlou that woman'! tphere It only to be a wife and mother and that the ought not to go out In the great world oftcltnre, att, pollllctnr religion, teem to forget that If the maorlty of women are to be wlvet anl mother., the mtjorlty of men mutt be butt and t in I father". How rldlcul-nut rldlcul-nut and unreitonable It would be to taythatmeu mutt devote thonitelvei tolelytu their patemtl dulletl Ilia I they mut not lit tliemitlvea for any other iMltlin or occu-allou. Why, it wiuldl-e like aiklngtbli oil world not to turn upoiiltaaxl", ir tbe moon to ttauiilllllu Iti orbit. Hitlory, rcclatla.llcal au I trcular, furiiltheenumeroutlntttucea of women who wrrc wlvet and motLerr, and at the tame time patrhla anl teacben; devoted In their love cf country, firm In tin Ir rcllglotit faith, lralout and ttealfatt In giKil worka, halpmevtt anl eucouragi it of their butbandi In tbelr ttrugglet for freedom, whether I-ullllcal ur religion!. Phytlcally man It tlrongcr than woiutti, but itot biaver ur hardier. Woman euJurea rlvallont and hardrhlrt to which man would uctumb, and Hint too, for bit tike. Mentally the It lilt equal. Kathloti, and Ibe lack of n higher etanJarJ of edmatlon are In fault, when the It found not lo be ruau'a eiMial In mental capacity. Happily, tbe meant for obtaining iilucatlon lu uvery form reiti.e for her lo have, In order that the may uccuiy the potltlon attlgucd to ber lu I den, It nuw within her reach. Tiiou.andt are availing Ihenr-elvre of the rlvlle(e accoMol them In our araJemlet, college., anl utilvertlllrt but there la atlll a liliflmr ttandard ih fried- which tho.e noble tent! of learning eauuot beitow, Thlt It a lutjeel to whlcli another article mutt t e devoted. M. A. V. OnRi-iiiAUill. |