Rambles in Womanland

they most admire in women. Here is the result, with the number of vo

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onomy

ndnes

rder

desty

votio

arity

etness

anline

tience

ernal l

dustry

ourag

screti

mplici

isdom

onest

iabili

astity

ropri

f-abneg

on head the list; chastity and self-abnegation figure at the bottom. I should

gether omitted from this list of twenty-one most characteristic virtues in women? Are we to conclude that

, which is supposed to make the friendship of men so valua

ed to be found in women? Woman must be sweet, of course, and be economical. She mu

y day at their club. Whatever the husband does, however, the wife must be faithful, and possess

the morning and to find his wife not amiable, not cheerful, but suffering from the dumps, and, maybe, not even patient enough to have waited for him. Sometimes sh

al or a nice little beast of burden; sometimes as both. I really should feel prouder of my sex i

he duties of nest-building and feeding the little ones. The latter even go further. When the female bird do

self-abnegation are virtues expected of women only; marriage will be a failure as long as it is a firm, the two partners

ccentuated in a man, others more accentuated in a woman; but, so far as fidelity, kindness, order, patience, industry, discretion, courage, devotion, self-abnegation, wisdom, honesty, sinceri

to protect women. Nay, on that woman whom you call weak you impose infallibility. When you strong, bearded men get out of the path of duty you

he man who takes it away from them? How is it that you receive him in your club,

f the money that you make by the sweat of your brow, too frivolous, too fond of

e, you despise them. You are attracted by the best dressed ones, and you go and offer your heart to the bird with fine feathers. You take the

n woman. She is to have neither weaknesses, senses, nor passio

y were to make women's duties and virtues easier by showing less indulgence for men, and by d