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What Women Should Be

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Parent Issue
Day
30
Month
July
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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Very few woinen uro qnnlifioi citnor bv iwiiire or training to play tlio part of a judicious donicstic providcmce, uurmtrained by any otlier infliienoo; nml the abilication of the husband is rpnerallyattendcd by humiliation mul sufforingto the rest; tur without a balance of power we inay expi-ct abuses to steal in, vrhetlior states 01 families are victimizud by an unlortuluUeadjustment of circunisWnces. i or it ia lucí on whom the stern and more .lious resi.onsibilif.es of existence f, 11 Men who be.ir the bur.len uuct heat of tlieday, husünudsniid brothers who'nve their lives tbr tlieir country, amt Uie by thousniids ufeyery huujferin ■ torture nnder tbc ioreign sky, tliey must act oiten uiuler heavy mental Dirssiut' and distress; while woinen, wuoare aenerally ted by allY ?tllr bi-is save their ju igmciit and intellect, mav indulge hystoricaj views ot evervtln'ng at tlieir ease and at lioiuc. Mar'na-e protects vromen, wlio in return, are expected to eiubellisü Ule, s a.'nits trials, and with woinau y ,■, nuiles and kindness avert Llio thi-entcning clouils of Uvewity froui buratiug i" uuchecked yiolenee on tlie family circle. lt is a line rield ol cntliuaiiisui, actiou and enlerpn.se, m wliiuli woinau rnay onlist, and the more higlily toneil tlieir moral Otilios the betier ; tliey inny torin ehaniutcr, direct aüns, soothe despair, and by tlieir delicate taet, instüicts, and perception, (wnat in oaUijfivtiuK mucli crnel suflferiag and uiKippointment. VVoiiien saouid repreBèat beauty ot souie kind or anotlier. Tbere is nothiiv -i man so niuch detesta as a masculuTe woman : slie expects to slnire bis equality ; while at the same time rcnwuijf to'aocept lus elaims aud lü, spoiisiuiiities.

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Ann Arbor Argus