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THE HAPPY WOMAN."
Many sages have discussed whether hap piness be possible to man. It has been reserved for Dr. Josiah Oldñeld to investigate the powers of woman. "Can a Woman bel Happy was the question which he pro- pounded, appropriately enough, to the mem- bers of the Eclectic Club. His answer succinctly would seem to be
but improbable, "Man," said Byron, was and always will be a miserable and Dr. Uldheid is of much the same mind About woman. The best years of life
A 'womina's are, to his
his piercing eye, the worst. Under 15 and over 60 her happiest days arrive. In those quiescent, or at Icast Compara- tively tranquil seasons, she may be for Dr. Oldseld will not let himself be sanguine, more or les absorbed in the pursuit of worthy ¡drals. We would not deny it. But with the keenest appreciation of the charm of childhood it is difficult to believe that little girls are generally a quest for the ideal,
by of the math for the star, of the night for the norrow, the devotion to something afar from "the sphere of our sorrow." At the sal risk of seeing as pessimistic as De. Oldfell, we must needs remark, that it is not the ideal but the real which im
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mands the attention of children, who are GREAT CHOICE AND VARIETY. upt to pluck the flower of to-day suffer from absorption in the world of ruther than thought and spirit. We may also danht whether the years after 50, either in rien. or women are those mest favourable to the euls of the ideal. By most of us have given up seeing visions, and if we have mit set began to dream dreams we are likely to serx pesce and ensure it rather than ad- inasin of Lead Melbourne,
spiritual pilgrimage. The Why can't
vantare o
you let it alane is the cred of nui«le],
but it is fun 1 dostractive to calism This is not to deny that the later practical decades of life have their function in the world. We wonki not even approve the popular theory that youger people are better, age generous, kinder dan these who have past the rather vague term of middle age. It is surely written in the lessons of experience that no time of life is croller than youth, with its carelessness,
its
FORS and its will enthusiasts.
said Bacon, are best for nul it is this quality of judg. ment which rarely comes to maturity before middle age that often makes the later years of life bappier than youth.
Something of this is perhaps in De. Ohlfield's mind when he protests that Toy a won between 15 and 50 is dis contented and dangeroux
During that considerable un she is engaged upon what Dr. Oldfield, hitting both sexes with one tone, cruelly tails an imposable quest, the search for an ideal hushand."" Louk- ing at the long result of time, the doctor observer enturies strewn with broken hearts, wrecked Bees, and shattered fas the result of this irrational demand. Still nursing the unconquerable hope, wouen, he observes, persists in demanding an ideal to try. And perhaps it is all for the best Her ternati dissatisfaction with us is one of those forees, not ourselves ertainly, which make for righteousness. The terual
hope does, inder
indeed, lead us abit,ing to our doctor's
it is the
that makes men get on."
a
wrunch "It is not to the in
voien that we owe
spiration of the his
Petitioner.
"
Sperates, but t
of Xanthippo. This modern science finds a ** for thing. Whether the discovery of this every great truth will be a consolation to dis- contented wives on the Tupless hus Lands we cannot tell. To as it seems rather hard on the hustands that it should I publicly proclaimed. It is surely the sort of principle which should be confined to the decent obscurity of a learned Isok and only allowed to reach the general public through a qualified #
But Dr. Oldfield's
An goes deep. earlier sage
to humanity the principle that no man should be that happy till he is dead. Dr. Oldeki will have us call no woman happy till her hus
and in dead. The happiest women, to quote him
* precisely, are the widows of really men, not, as you might hastily suppose, apon the principle that the most exquisite pleasure is ressation of pain, but heuse these relicts of iniquity do not waste force in pursuit of a phantom." Surely this is error in observation. Widows, even the widows of bar men, are not found to exhibit a repugnance from marriage. Has no voie adjuring him to bes
beware a vidders ever reached Dr. Oldfield? Has he never heard of the triumph of hope over experience But we fear that he is a misogynist in grin. He finds in woncu an eagerness to command servants" (that must be a thwarted desire dominate & husland, and have men as sup- nown lays), "to pliants" but few of the sex have been described by Dr. Oldfield following the star which calls men through hardships and death to Empire-building. Let us confess that the female audier, sailor, or explorer is mare bird, but if the doctor incurs more than this it is hard to know what' he means. Happiness to him is the absorbs- ing pursuit of unileal such as power, knowledge, wealth, health, and beauty. It i with some surprise we learn that women. to not travel far
of
these
raads to happiness.
Hany
women, wo might have thought, and our doctor seemed to tell us were absorbed in the quest for power, some surely seek knowledge, and some wealth. To be absorbed in the pur suit of health seems the life of a valetu- dinarian. but those unhappy creatures are not all male. The ambition to be beautiful is not wholly to terk Oldfield, however, complains that their sinong women, Dr. search is not for a iness to intke all women beautiful-surely a desperate taik-but to make one woran especially attractive He seems to have forgotten the dressmakers. Their
of beauty is in the nature quest things altruistic. But we commend to him te tunsin of one of the Victorian
of
was Mrs. Poyser who, when troub.ed hy another of the attempts" to treat women and men na separate species, re. marked: "I don't deny that women are foolish. God Almighty made match the men."-Daily Telegraph
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