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Show If Women Were Men. By W. D. HowoIL. aaassaaa, NH often hears Hie .ipresslou in womeo: "Oh, If 1 were f J ouly a man!" "1 shuuld Just like to bo a man, once!" I 1 sassaasv 1 would glvo ftnythlug to bo n niati." In nil honesty, then, or In If 1 I m much lioiiori 1 y as she Is obliged to buve, la nut woman, when I 1 J 8 ahe Is thinking of living her life nut auiilu, thinking of living I saaaaw I a inan's life? Ia not she w ishing lo set au example to her bua I . m bund, who lias shown himself s IHHo able to ai l an example saaaaaaaaaaaaw to her, and for whoso discipline sin la hellevid oftenest to Indulge In-dulge mint seeiua a vnlu anplrntloii? A very atraiKe thing In rcunril to thla la that uicu are never heard sighing to bo women. The weakest, the unliuppiest, the most abject of men la not known to wish hlinsrlf a woman, aud when he ronaldcrs living bla lire over agnlu It la certainly s man's life that he haa In mind. He Is perfectly willing to allow that a wuiuhd la much better by nature, wiser by leaching, sweeter, lovelier, gentler, and yet he diva uot ask lo change his lot with licra; If be were a beggur, and ahe a iiuien, he would nut. He la found saying, In print and out ot It, that women lime !y Tur the safest, eaaJast and plfuauiitcnl time of It, but still, eumchow, he dons not cuvy tbrui ennuKb to nffer changing places with them. He will tell them, as be bus often told llieui, Hint they a 10 the real rulers or tha world, and that lu the ui-r-! (imillty of iluughter, wife and mother they are the holiest lielt" on earth; be bona down lu worship of them, but he leave them their altar. II doea not think It any great thing to be a man. but he la not surprised that tut objects of bis idolatry should somctliuca declare themselves eager to descend from their high places and bo men. In the dust and grime of attain, the din and heat of battle, and Ilia wilj, useless efforts to em-ape from the struggle of lift'. He ind-' alamls that they wish to be men lu order to show men what men ouulit to be, and would be If they were women, and that they are not ui. aiilnu' lieiiiiaiieuily to lie men. and be forgives lo their Ignorance and liiexp(rlcnce what lie could not otherwise sc-couut sc-couut for. U fuiglrci It with a smile, and toi.lbiy with a tliuvkla ' ' , |