Woman's Wrongs

Mrs. Henry AVard Beecher, in an article in tlie Brooklyn Magazine, discussing the reasons for the di.content fimong women saji: We think dissatisfied womon have beon infected with thoso pernicious doctiinos wbich have led on to tho most ndiculous outory about 'woman'd wrongs" - woman. defraudad of her rights, her cruel subjugation, and doctrines with whicb we have lesa and loss pationce becauso we see daily more clearly mistakes and mischiefs whioh havo spning up. and will continue to flourish through those doctrines unless the plague is &taved. We aro well awaro tl. al thoro are many ovortaxed, brokon-dowu women, who by kindness and iust appreciation might havo been saved and been altogethor lovely and refined, makiDg their home líke a Paradise bofore tho fall. But wo can usually lind tvro sides to every question. So, on the othor hard, we know of many hroktn-down mes, dispirited, tired of life, because rumed by the frivolity, irritability, and extravagance of their wives, who they hoped would be thoir helpmeet through Ufo, men whom a refined, sensible, loving woman wou'd have redeomed f rom a life of shame and miiery, making thoin happy, noble, godlike. If woighed in a juit scalo, we imagino tho rights and wrongs are about equally dividod on either side. The directfulness of the human, left to roam wild and ungoverned, novor seeking tho poaco and happiness of the partner they have chosen, but their own selfish gratification, has changed many a man whose youth gave promise of nobility, into a reckless, unprincipled husbacd or an arbitrary, harsh, domestic tyrant. On tho other hand, the same aelfish indulgonce and unregulatod pa3sions have also changed many a woman capable of shming in her appropriato sphero as a helpmeet - God's best gift to man - a 3 a mother. a home-refiner into an irritable, fault-findÍDg, unsatisüed, flresido torment. But this is partially wandoving froia tho rnain point. Wo bolievo many are injured and much dissatisfaction and unhappiness occasioned on both sides by tho gruwing disposition lo travel roaniing eack year away from borne and too frequentiy without the com psnionship would naturally be secured. Keep togother while you can. Death will sever the bond all too sood, or sickness compel afcsenoe full of íears and sad forebodiDgs. If possiblo, nover allow eithcr to foel that they are not dependent, neeessary- ono to tho othor. ïou can not be soparated, even for a few weeks, without noting gome little change on their return. We havo sonie peculiaritios of character or disposition which aro not alt.ogether angelical. But if married young, before habita and peculiar traits are fixed past chango, all these littlo infolicities aro softened and lost sigbt of in tho daily communion man and wifo assimilato, and, if happily. grow moro of one heart ancl one mind. But let separations, even if short, once begin, and the husband and wife begin to grow apart. They learn that thoy are not absolutely necessary to uaoh "other as at first supposed. All the natural dissimilarities, which constant association havo held dormant, make up and aro less and lesj easily lulled to sleep, af tor each separation.