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lords." She must gire up the office or the nursery. Who can doubt what her choice will be if she has already broken down her morality by employing the usual political intrigue? Indeed, with female suffrage "political intrigue" will gain a new and even a worse significance than it now enjoys. It will certainly prove an additional and very powerful danger for woman's chastity.
Undoubtedly the special destiny of woman is to be wife and mother. If, from mysterious causes, she fail of this destiny, there are the poor and motherless, the forsaken and the down-trodden, the sinful, and the sorrowful, and the suffering—behold her charge! Behold the spiritual children of "old maids!"
Reforms are needed—none can be more sensible of this fact than we—and the remedy can be applied by woman; this we not only concede, but claim. But it is as woman, as wife, as mother that she must do the work: as woman, to soften asperities, and to refine what else were coarse and brutal; as wife, to render home bright and cheerful, "the sweetest place on earth;'* as mother, to direct and inspire the noble and righteous aspirations of her sons—to train and mould to exquisite beauty, grace, and loveliness the character of her daughters—to implant in all her children that piety, and filial love, and obedience, which are the surest guarantees of respect for civil law and authority.
Then let us have our daughters educated as women, and not as men. Let us have them trained for the duties of the household and the nursery, and the sweet enchantments of the domestic hearth. "Be that you are—that is, a woman; if you be more, you're none."
