Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1881 — Praise of Women. [ARTICLE]

Praise of Women.

I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men ; that wherever found they are same civil, kind, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to be gay and cheerful, timorous and modest. They do not hesitate, like men, to perform a hospitable or generous action ; not. haughty, nor arrogant, nor supercilious, but full of courtesy and fond of society ; industrious, economical, ingenious, more liable, in general, to err than man, and performing more good actions than he. I never addressed myself in the language of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a. decent or friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the barren plains of inhospitable Denmark, through honest Sweden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipled Russia, and the wide-spread regions of the wandering Tartar, if hungry, drv. cold or sick, woman has evej* been friendly to me f

and uniformly So ; and; to add to this virtue, so worthy the appellation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that, if I was dry, I drank the sweet draught, and if hungry, ate the coarse morsel, with a double relish.— Jared Sparks.