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CIIL'RCIIES, MINISTERS, &.C.
Presbyterian Tlzr. D. ITarbisox, Pastor.
Preaching every Sabbath morning at 10 J
Vclock. and in the evening atG o'clock. Sab-
oath School at y o'clock, A. M. Prayer meet
ing every Thursday evening at 6 o'clock.
C.Mtthodist Episcopal Church Rev. J. S. Lem-von-,
I'reacherin charge. Rev. W. II. M'Beide,
Assistant. Preachingevery alternate Sabbath
morning, at 10 o'clock. Sabbath School at 9
o'cloc k, A. M. Prayer meeting every Thursday
evening, at 7 o'clock.
Welch Independent Rev Ll. R. Powell,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath morning at
10 o'ciock, and iu the evening at 6 o'clock.
Sabbath School at 1 o'clock, P. M. Prayer
meeting on the first Monday evening of each
month ; and on every Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday evening, excepting the first week in
taeh month.
CahinUtic Methodist Rev. Morgan Ellis,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
2 and G o'clock. Sabbath School at K o'clock,
A. M. Piayer meeting every Friday evening,
a: 7 o'clock. Society every Tuesday evening
At 7 o'clock. "W .
Disciples Rev. W. Lloyd, Tastor. Preach
ing every Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock.
Particular DoptistsRE . David Evans,
Pastor. Preaching every Sabbath evening at
3 o'clock. Sabbath School at at 1 o'clock, P. II.
Cj'holic Rev. M. J. Mitchell, Pastor.
.Services every Sabbath morning at 10 o'clock
and Vespers at 4 o'clock in. the evening.
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Eurgett A. A. Barker.
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Dand J. Jones.
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Uiam Clement. ,
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4Hfoorxhomas M. Jones.
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tovn Council John Douerhertv. O
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THE WOMANLY WOMAN.
AN ADDRESS DELIVEEED BEFORE THE ALATHEAN
LITERARY SOCIETY OP JACKSONVILLE ACADE
MY, INDIANA COUNTY, PA., OCT. 7, 1864.
BY REV. J. S. LE1IMON.
Correspondence,
Jacksonville, November 18, 1864.
Rev. J. S. Lemmon Dear Sir : We, mem
bers of the Alathean Literary Society, and
also the citizens of Jacksonville request a
copy of the Address delivered by you at the
Exhibition of the A. L. Society, October 7th,
1864, for publication. If it meet your appro
val, we shall feel gratified.
Our best wishes for your welfare.
Respectfully, yours,
LID. J. NEELE.
R. E FURGUSON.
JF ANNIE P. MOORE.
M. A. LAFFERTV,
IIATT1E A. NEELE,
SUE E. SMITH.
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MAGGIE A. GIBSON,
Ebensburg, Pa., Nov. 30, 18G4.
Respected Friends : I herewith send you a
copy of my Address to the Alathean Literary
Society, which you are at liberty to have pub
lished. With the best wishes for your wel
fare I am - Very respectfully, yours,
J. S. LEMMON.
ADDBESSi . ,
Young Ladies of the Alathean Literary
Society: In obedience to your call, I stand
before you to-night to address you. I ap
preciate your consideration and the honor
you do uie by summoning me here on such
a mission as this, and yet 1 need scarcely
tell you that it is not without deep solici
tude I respond to your kind invitation.
In casting about me for a subiect appro
priate for the occasion, I have selected
"The Womanly Woman." And while I
would prepare my caova3, brush and easel
to sketch the portraiture. I am not insensi
ble of the diiiieulty of the tak. I am rot
blind to the fact that it is a delicate thins
for a speaker to attempt the discussion of
such a theme before such an audience,
and I know I will be held to a strict ac
count for what I say.
omau is a sacred name, around whih
cluster the fondest memories of home. At
its enunciation, we involuntarily wander
back, iu imagination, to the "fair bounds"
of Paradise, when man rerarn'rmlatprf its
bowers wrapt in his own solitude. He
felt an "aching void" within for some no
bler object of companionship than any
thing by which he was surrounded. Then
it was said by Him who is the author cf
as being, "It is not good that man should
be alone," and by the fiat of His power
lie ushered into existence a congenial
fepirir, well calculated to complete the
happiness of him for whose society she
K-as created. - Of this tragic event, it has
been sung:
"Edea was a waste, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit bighed till woman
smiled."
Here, then, we have & perfect tcoman, a
paragon of excellence, blushing from the
creative energy, of the Almighty. But,
amid the wrecks of our degenerate race we
look not for a faultless mndpl. "Wnm.
8;l-?r, u !' 1 stands not forth in the moral perfection
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aim iueunes3 or XiUen, ior tne crown nas
fallen from her head. But we would take
her as we find her, and enrobe her in the
investiture of all those noble qualities
which may be acquired by our
"Sky-born, sky-guided, sky-returoing race."
I We would fix our eyes upon humanity
, clothed with Divinity, and ic the walks of
I the '-Higher Life" would we seek the
model of a Vomanly Woman.
We mould " distinyui&h such an one from
the mere iroman of accident, who is gov
erned by the circumstances by which she
is surrounded, who is just such a woman
as ebe happens to be, who is the creature
of the whims and prejudices of her :liego
lord," who dozei away her life with the
reflection, if she Teflects at all, "lam only
a icoman: xvhal can 1 do ?" Tho Wom
anly Woman, on the contrary, is conscious
of her individuality. She appreciates her
God- given faculties, and is alive to her
destiny. Not willing to be satisfied with
a passive character, she has an aim and a
principle; she thinks for herself, acts for
herself, and, under God, is the fabricator
of her own destiny.
Very much has been said in these mod
ern times about "woman's rights," and
"woman's sphere," and the opinions of
different individuals have been as antipodal
as the poles. We are not ambitious to be
classified amoDg the pseudo modern agita
tors and reformers, who would drag woman
from her instinctive privacy, and crown
her a Joan of Arc. We would not ask for
her a place at the ballot box, the hustings,
the bar, or the halls of legislation. It may
not be her province to pour forth eloquence
in senates, or "wade through fields of
slaughter to a throne." We would not
havo her go where her modesty would be
outraged, or her feminine graces destroyed.
We would not have her be an Amazon,
boasting a masculine character, but we
would have her be a woman, possessing a
woman's soul, and clothed with womanly
virtues. In short, we would not denv her
I WOULD RATHER BE RIGHT
EBENSBURG, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1865.
a "right" the God of Nature intended she
should enjoy, and would have her "sphere"
extend everywhere she can "do good and
love mercy."
The womanly woman possesses a positive
character, vindicates the claims of her
sex, and has a consciousness of her moral
power. . The estimation in which woman
has been held by man has undergone
material changes in different periods of the
world's history. In the first ages of the
Boman Empire, her condition was little
better than a slave, whose very life was at
the mercy of her lord. Thus Bome, in all
her "wolf-nursed greatness," despised the
power of woman. In Greece, where the
beauties of her external form were arrest
ed in the marble by the artist's chisel, the
value of her noble nature was disregarded.
Their most accomplished historian said it
was sufficient for her "to sit at home and
spin wool;" and Thucydides, breathing
the spirit of the nation, declared, "The
best woman is she of whom the lea3t can
be said, either in the way of good or
harm," thus reducing her to a cipher.
Even in our day there are self-important
ninnies enough, who woald fain establish
their own superiority upon the assumption
of woman's superiority. "With lordlv
Idignity and pompous air, they strut the
world boasting of the greatness of the
"lords of creation," and with a significant
nod of the head they essay to bow the
"softer sex" into reverence for their cox
comb sufficiency ! They, have strangely
enough concluded that woman only "lives,
moves, and has her being" under the regis
of their presiding genius ; that she "sur
vives or perishes" through their smiles or
frowns ; that she has no protection outside
of the shadows of their umbrellas, and
that her only sure defence is a tight gripe
upon their arms akimbo ! But our pattern
ot a true woman, although the gratefully
acknowledges the protection afforded by
the guardian of her virtues, yet pcorns to
be accounted a "Flora MTlimsy," to flut
ter in the sunshine of such false gallantry
as this.
The Womanly Woman is not ashamed of
domestic employment. llome is the centre
of attraction, around which the tendrils of
her heart are closely entwined ; it is the
sanctum sanctorum where -her affections
are enshrined. A knowledge of domestic
duties is to her beyond all price, and no
one of good sense will think lightly of
them. It is a growing conviction of the
most cultivated miuds, male and female,
that the dignity of woman requires re
formation at precisely this point. In
many circles, it is thought not to bo gen
teel to come down from flights of fancy,
piccadilly work, and parlor philosophy, to
the common-place, carking, care-wearing
drudgery of the household I Too often
has the ban of disgrace been attached to
domestic labor, while this so called drudg
ery is committed to- servants alone, and
refined, self-styled ladies disdain to touch
such menial service with so much a3 one
of their lily fingers !
Health, if nothing more, demands ac
tive employment in life. If the position
assumed by Dr. Spurzheim be correct,
that "the physical education of woman is
of more importance to the welfare of the
world than man," then, certainly there is
a demand fcr a reform in the enervating
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refinement and affluence have pro
duced. The praver of the classic roet for
the ilmens sana in corpore sano," proves
that even Pagan wisdom knew a sound
mind could only dwell in a sound body.
Take that wasp-waisted, sofa-lounging,
novel-reading, good-for-nothing "belle,"
pampered by Bmiles and flattery, who
scarcely ever reposes herself in the re
freshing breeze or gushing sunlight, lest
her "radiant, exquisite, and unmatchable
beauty" might be spoiled who sit3 like
a white statue lest it might be thought
indelicate to move who thinks it vulgar
for a lady to walk, except upon Broadway
or some other fashionable promenade, and
who never touches domestic employment
no, not she! lest it
miht
soil her
delicate white hands. I ask you how long
it would take our race to die out represen
ted by such a toy as this ?
Let us turn from such a sickly picture
to one of different finish, and behold you
winsome damsel, so "buxom, blithe and
debonaire," whose" artless life and active
exercise "blush and beautify tho cheek "
while through her flowing ringlets play
tne aaiiymg wind, and along her veins
dances the joyous life-blood quickened by
honest industry. Her eyes sparkle; with
intelligence, and her hands are ever ready
to administer to the wants of the needy.
"She looks'as whole as some Berene
Creation, minted in the golden mood
Of sovereign artists ; not a thought, a touch
Butpureas linesof green that streak the white
Of the first snow-drop'3 inner leaves."
"Look first on this picture, and then on
that," and it will not take you long to de
termine which ia worthy of the title of the
Womanly Woman.
THAN PRESIDENT. Henbt Clay.
"There are in the United States thous
ands of young ladies," says the Western
Monthly Review, "as Sir Balph Aber
crombie said of those of Scotland, 'the
prettiest lassies in a' the world who nei
ther know how to 'toil or spin,' who are
jet clothed like the lilies of the valley."
Are we not degenerating as a nation in
this particular, and does not God by His
providence design to teach us a lesson of
simplicity and domesticity? In ancient
times, queens and princesses considered
the use of the distaff honorable ; now,
"none so poor as to do it reverence." The
great spinning-wheel has been quaintly
called "Ilygea's harp," and truly it dis
courses sweet music when played by nim
ble ficgers, and at the same time proves
itself the goddess of health. The opinion
is too prevalent that a lady may embroi
der, but not make a dress; she may man
ufacture flowers, but not darn stockings ;
she may make music, but not coffee I Oh,
dear me, no ! that must be all left to the
Bridgets and Ivatrinas imported from
Europe. In' the roll of those who were
not ashamed of domestic employment are
numbered some ot the most illustrious
women of the earth. Madame Roland
could prepare her husband's diuner with
her own hands in the daytime, and in the
evening attract the admiration of the
greatest minds of France. It was labor
ing with her
ner own hands -in the garden
other of Washington was found
that the m
by the youthful Marquis de Lafayette.
The immortal Milton was a great advo
cate that women should study "household
good." And Dr. Franklin, perhaps with
his eyes fixed on some archetype of the
olden time, said, "I would rather see a
spinning-wheel than a piano a shuttle
than a parasol a knitting-needle than a
visiting-card." Then, we would say, let,
"Domestic Economy" form a branch of
the "course of study" in the catalogue of
every institution of learning for young
ladies, and let the kitchen become as re-
Ispectable a3 the drawing-room.
Although we would, have our model
woman acquainted with household affairs,
yet think not we would have her reduced
to the condition of a slave. To shut her
up forever at home,-is barbarous.. There
are men enough who seem to think her
only office is to be their scullion, who have
no higher notion of woman's mission than
to scrub and scour, to wash and mend!
Thus, year after year, jaded, care-worn,
pale and broken-hearted, ehe draj
her
weary life along till death relieves her
from her burden. It is not in Turkey
alone women are prisoners, for what else
than abject slavery is it for that tyrant,
bearing the semblance of a man, to impose
such hard labor on his wife or daughter as
to allow them no time for recreation or
personal improvement? It is like the
incessant tread of the Chiuaman upon the
wheel, or the toil of the galley-slave at the
oar. Y ho would be content with a harp
with one chord, or a world with one
color? Who would consent to tho mono
tone of the glum bass with no soprano or
alto? Yet even this would be more tol
erable than the treadmill life some women
are compelled to endure, through the
niggardly spirit of their self-constituted
masters. Throw open their prison doors
and let them walk abroad upon this beau
tiful earth, to see its towering mountains,
and Eden vales, and give them liberty in
the vast neid ot thought.
Cultivation of the intellect enters largely
iiuu me tijwjttyt v iae qualities oj the
Womanly omin. We know full well
there are some would-be Solomons, who
set themselves up against experience, as
well as common sense, and declaim loudly
against female education. They seem to
think what they call "book larnin'" may
do for boys who intend to be ministers,
doctors, or lawyers, but for girls, never
aside from a mere smattering of education
to enable them to read so as not to spell
more than half the words, to write their
own name3, and cipher as far as division !
They have been so long impressed with
the inferiority of the sex, that tbey have
worked themselves into the belief there
has been an unequal distribution of
brains, and that their daughters, like
themselves, have inherited a very small
moiety ! Such, stolid reasoning might do
for the dark ages, but it won't do now. It
is too late in the day to deny woman has
a capacity for mental cultivation. Thou
sands of illustrious witnesses rise up as
bright lights in the literary world. I need
only point to the names of More, Barbauld;
Chapine, Aiken, Hamilton, Seward, De
Stael, Landon, Porter, Ilemans, Edge
worth, Martineau, Howitt, and Browning
in foreign countries, and Sigourney, Hale,
Leslie, Sedgwick, Stephens, Hentz, Gould,
Ellet, Scott, Wood, Edgertou, Stowe, and
Child in our own land, to bear testimony
to the capabilities ot the female mind.
It is not for us to decide the controvert
ed question, whether the faculties of the
minds of the sexes are equal or not. This
we know: when woman has had an oppor
tunity, she has fairly contested for the
prize in every department of learning.
There is no science but that she is capable
of .mastering. It matters not whether it
be biography, history, poetry, criticism,
philosophy, natural science, mathematics,
or the classics, she may acquire them all.
Still there are certain croakers to be found
who will persist that woman already
possesses the "gift of tongues" in such a
high degree that there is no need for her
to study the language? ! The most famous
bard of England allowed his prejudices to
overrule his judgment, and when twitted
on his neglect to teach his daughters the
lauguages, he facetiously answered, "One
tongue ia enough for a woman I" And
Lord Byron pro vok in gly said, "A Bible
and a cook-book is all a woman needs for
a library." The reason that, hitherto,
she may not have pursued the abstruse in
learning, is not becauso she is not able to
"drink deep of the Pierian spring," but
because her jealous rival has thrust her
away from the fountain, when she came to
slake her thirst. He has snatched from
her hand the pencil, the graver, and the
lyre, and banished her to the loom, the
nursery and the fireside. In fact th'ero
are men so puffed up with pedantry as to
try and make the world stare and applaud
at the expense r.f woman's ignorance, and
who would think themselves everlastingly
disgraced if they thought their wivesr
daughters knew as much as thev did!
It ia in the province of woman, marked
out by the Creator, to be the "help meet"
of man, and why not in intellectual pursuits
a3 well as elsewhere J .Congeniality here
will often have a tendency to sweeten the
cup ot life. It was the waut of kindred
ship of spirit that embittered the cpnnu-
Dial iiie or Milton, and drove the gifted
Addison from home to seek companionship
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aoroaa. xt is saia ttiat the wile ct Addi
sou was jealous of his excessive attach
ment to his books, and one day in a fit of
desperation, she wished herself a hoo?,
that she might be thought worthy of some
attention from her husband, lie consen
ted, perhaps the first time they ever agreed
in their lives, and flippantly replied :
. "Only be an almanac, my dear,
That I may change you once a year."
In order to the full development of all
the faculties of the mind of the model
woman, we would most earnestly advocate
her education in the same school with the
other sex. We know the over-sensitive
are fairly shocked at such a proposition.
and yet, under healthfulxliscipline, we be-
neve tnis is uie only true system of edu
cation. We frequently see parents send
ing their sous aud daughters to opposite
poiuts of the compass to different institu
tions of learning, just because they have
foolishly imbibed the notion they ought not
to bo educated together. As well might
it be said they shall eat at diffeient ta
bles, live in separate houses, or dwell on
distinct plauets ! They are reared in the
same families, admitted to the same
church, and are traveling to the same
eternal destiny, and why not educate
them in the same schools ?
It is a feature of Popery thus to coop
up the sexes in cloisters and convents, and
transform them into cowhd monks and
veiled nuns, with distorted views of each
other's character. Let them be admitted
to the same institutions: let them pursue
the same studies; let them recite in the
same recitation rooms, and let them com
pete for the same prize of excellence, and
our word for it, we will hear less about the
inequality of the minds of the sexes. It is
true, we are ready to admit, there is a
natural disposition in woman to cultivate
a taste for the beautiful and ornamental,
for the polite arts and literature, for paiu
ting, poetry, and music, and.we arc gbd
it is so. We would have her an adept in
all these accomplishments, in all that can
adorn and elevate, so that she may exert
a refining influence upon the, "sterner
sex," and round off the jagged corners of
their coarser nature.,
"Rough hew them as they will."
The Womanly Woman is different from
the Artificial Woman. Again, we say, we
are not opposed to the elegant and polite
in her attainments. On the contrary, we
would have her possess every embellish
ment of which her nature is susceptible,
and "parts that polish life." But, let her
not adopt the fatal, conclusion that the
superficial is what constitutes the woman,
and that beauty consists alone in outside
form and portrait. Fashion is a "fickle
dame, who chameleon-like chances her
colors every day in the year. And they
who lollow in her footsteps will soon find
themselves lost in bewilderment, in pur
suit of an ignis faluus, which vanishes in
thin air when just within their grasp.
To illustrate : A gentleman, who had
been requested to purchase a new bonnet
of "the very latest style," at a milliner's
shop, was hastening home with breathless
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speed, when he was invited by a friend to
make a call, but he replied "he had not
time, for he must hurry -alone, as he was
afraid the faslu'on might change before he
got heme!" .
Personal beauty may be an advantage
to its possessor, and yet beauty of face and
fornf alone is not to be compared ith a
cultivated mind. Nectar and ambrocia
vanish with the brief goddess-ship of
beauty, whose empire seldom lasts nioro
than ten or fifteen years, but knowledge,
virtue, and truth are immortal Alter
all we repeat it, there is nothing beauti
ful but mind, and if "it is the mind that
makes the man," it is the mind that makes
the woman, too !
How often is female education construed
to make us believe life was one great hol
iday,, to attract admiration, to allure, and
to shine a grand display of "graces and
furbelows, draperies and efieminacies'
loo often do the devotees at fashion's
shrine become so intoxicated in the giddy
round of pleasure as to forgst the design
of their ex)stence. yhen one of .theso
sonscless triflers was asked what was tho
object of her life, her reply was elegantly
lisped in the following shameful language,
Ji don't know only just to breathe !"
These are the painted butterflies fit only
for the may-day of prosperity : '-'
"Bred only and completed to' the' taste '
Of fretful appetance to singto dance " '
To dress to troll the tongue, and roll tha eye,
pt empty of ali good wherein consists -v
Oman's domestic honor and chief grace."
Sound education can nevcr.be made "a
primrose path of dalliance," and let no
true'woman feel she has only to seek
adornment, or to sip from the honoy-cupa
cf life. ' It i3 not merely a creature who
can paint and play and ging aud draw and
dance; who, like an actress, is in the
morning.ail rehearsal, and in the evening
all performance, who is thoroughly educ
ted. Of what advantage to a voung lady
will be the power to twang the" guitar, to
drum the piano, and glide gracefully thro'
the mazes of the waltz, if there be nothing
else to win our esteem ? She may be the
belie of the ball-rooml th fncrirat; ..p
.the soiree, the "admired of -all admirer.-'
at .Newport and baratoga, and yet be only
a fashionable plaything, if her mind be
not stored with useful
knowledge..
But the highest excellence of the wom
anly woman is allegiance to her God.
Piety, alone, can give true equilibrium of
character. You may discipline her ia
every other way possible, but she will
present an unbalanced mind unless ehe
possesses this crowning attribute of tho
Uuumn soul. "Acquaint now thyself with
God, and be at peace," was spoken by a
higher authority than man. To trust in
the world for the "highest good" is tc
pluck the fruit that grows on ''folly's tap
mot twig," which, like the apples .of the
Dead Sea, will turn to ashes on the lips;
In woman's heart has ever been found a
lodgment for the religion of theCruciGed.
Woman, "last at the 'cross and earliest at
the grave," has ahvavs tatpn tho rr,r..
delight in sitting with Mary of Bethany
at i tie iuuiier s ieet, punned by the
blood ot Cdvary, -and absorbed in tho
contemplation of the moral splendors ot
the God-head. In brief, the true woman
is a Christian," a consecrated, living, abi
ding Christian. Here, then, we have a
Woman, a woman among women, a voa-
mly woman, '-a little- lower than
the
angcis, and crowned with glory and hon
or." .
We Would not think nnr Mnfrvttnn Pnm.
plete without including in the necklace of
womanly virtues that of Patrintim o
golden clasp to link them all together. Iu
these "times that trv men's sn'U" mr
much depends on the influence of our byr.l
maids, heroic wive, and patriotic mothers
who,, in this IifL aud death grcpplc, taav
be, under God, worth moro thnn r.r;r,l
and navies. Heretofore, we Lave loved
our women for their leuuiv, gcntk-nes.s
and virtue, but now let tuem win a deeper
love by their undying devctiou to their
country. Let tht'ni iVc-'t fatAr.-
husbauds, brothers and sans to
altar,-and Lave thcru svrcar cter::?.! fcnl
to the uoci wno maue than and the?.g
that prelects them. Let ihebi Imitate tb"
self sacrificing spirit of tho h&roir.es of
other day?. 3I-r;', the mother, and 3Iar
tha, the wife of Whiorrtoo, both contrib
uted to achicra tho Revolution. Just
after Hulls defeat in IS12, whe75 ih0
mothers of the North-west were bewai'ir.o
their lost sons, and "would not be ccn
fortcd," there was one noble, patriotic
woman stood up in their midst, and ex
claimed, "Why are you hero weeping?-
Everything is at stake. Bring forth the
rest of your sons. If they fail, we will
fight ourselves. We must never give up
tho conflict' There spoke a true, heroio
woman. Where is the womanly wom-n
who is not williug to make the same sac
rifice for her country?
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