had not to bestow. Oh! the misery, the utter, hopeless misery of
the drunkard's wife!

.... We account it no reason why we should desist, when
conscience, an awakened sense of duty, and aroused
heart-sympathies, would lead us to show ourselves something
different than an impersonation of the vague ideal which has been
named, Woman, and with which woman has long striven to identify
herself. A creature all softness and sensibility, who must
necessarily enjoy and suffer in the extreme, while sharing with
man the pleasures and the ills of life; bearing happiness meekly,
and sorrow with fortitude; gentle, mild, submissive, forbearing
under all circumstances; a softened reflex of the opinions and
ideas of the masculines who, by relationship, hold mastery over
her; without individualism, a mere adjunct of man, the chief
object of whose creation was to adorn and beautify his existence,
or to minister to some form of his selfishness. This is nearly
the masculine idea of womanhood, and poor womanhood strives to
personify it. But not all women.

This is an age of iconoclasms; and daring hands are raised to
sweep from its pedestal, and dash to fragments, this false image
of woman. We care not how soon, if the true woman but take its
place. This is also, and most emphatically, an age of progress.
One old idea, one mouldering form of prejudice after another, is
rapidly swept away. Thought, written and spoken, acts upon the
mass of mind in this day of railroads and telegraphs, with a
thousandfold more celerity than in the days of pillions and slow
coaches. Scarce have the lips that uttered great thoughts ceased
to move, or the pen which wrote them dropped from the weary hand,
ere they vibrate through the inmost recesses of a thousand
hearts, and awaken deep and true responses in a thousand living,
truthful souls. Thence they grow, expand, fructify, and the
result is Progress.

Mrs. Lydia F. Fowler then gave several very touching recitals of the
evils of intemperance in family circles within her own observation.
Her lectures on Hygiene and Physiology through the State, illustrating
as she did the effect of alcohol on the system, and pointing out to
mothers what they could do to promote the health of their children,
and thus ensure temperance and morality, were most effectiv