The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-20 00:00:00

THE SUPPRESSED SEX.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
Such is the title of an article in this month's
number of the Westminster Review, which pro-
pounds a theory regarding Women somewhat simi-
lar to that of IdErwanni DIXON regarding Manners.
Yet on examination, in points, they are almost
contradictory, though both have a strong colouring
of truth. The Reviewer traces the condition of
women from its lowest stage in the Asiatic cradle
of the race, rising with the march of emigration
westward till it reaches its highest elevation in
America. Mr. HEPWORTH DIXON in the same way
' traces gentle manners westward from the original
home of mankind, declining at every stage till the
contrast is reached between the soft, courteous,
polite Hindoo, and the roughness of Denver. Both
acknowledge the refining influence of woman. Yet
we have the sex in her lowest degradation
in the country of gentle manners, and the sex in
the highest estimation in sueh a State as Kansas.
There is something contradictory in this, although
susceptible of an easy explanation. The reviewer
regards war as the first cause of the degradation of
the sex, as men who made it almost their only busi-
ness learned to regard strength and animal courage
as the highest attributes. As in both, women were
deficient, they fell into contempt, which. the neces-
sities as well as the effects of war increased. The
necessities which compelled the males to be under
arms forced the females to be not only domestic, but
agricultural drudges, and the effects in destroying
men brought about a disproportion of the sexes, by
which many women fell to the lot of one master
or husband. It is an economic law that things
become cheap in proportion to their abundance, and
in a community where women were in excess they
ceased to have much value beyond their productive
power as slaves. The march of emigration west-
wards, changed the proportion of the sexes. The
emigrants mostly were males of the more enter-
prising portion of the community, and where the
women were few the economic law which told
against their sisters in the old c)untry, told in
their favour in the new, for when' three or four
men strove for the hand of one woman she
naturally rose in estimation, an I was able to
assert an individual opinion. With the steady west-
ward progress was the rise, until at a certain period
of European history it was in the power of the
female sex to achieve the position to which they
now hope to attain, but they then lost their oppor-
tunity by that bane of wom ►okind--vanity—and
the mere personal desire to shine in society. They
became the toys of Courts, where they might have
been the rulers and guides ; and it was not
till the still onward march westward brought
the race into America that the chance again offers
itself. The councils of the Puritan settlers of Mas-
sachusetts were deeply influenced by women, and
the records of the New England States show what
part the Goodys took in public affairs. Unfortu-
nately for them, and for the sex generally, St. PAUL
had written the 31th and 35th verses 14th chapter
Ist Corinthians, and this was a stu nbling-block
which no Puritan of that day could get over. The
earnest desire, however, that all should read the
Word of GOD led to the general education of the
people without regard to sex ; and where the girls
had an equal chance with the boys, they quickly
asserted their equality, aye, even their superiority,
in intellect. Men maintain their inferiority, and
appeal to the history of the world for its confirma-
tion. The reply is, that they are inferior in
physical strength, and that that inferiority degraded
them in the minds of our savage forefathers, a
remnant of barbarism which still exists, having pro-
duced a system of education and society, suppressive
of their intellectual equality. A nation whose corner-
stone is slavery quickly resolved itself into two
classes—the haughty aristocrat and the degraded
serf. The aristocrat points to the degradation he has
himself caused, as the reason for the position of the
slave. He makes the class by his tyranny and
selfishness manifestly his inferior, and then declares
that inferiority to be the work of the ALMIGHTY,
and a full excuse, for his using the creature whose
humanity almost he denies, as a beast of burden.
Though woman was created to be the helpmate of
man, and though so intimately associated with
him as the mother of his children, such is the
innate selfishness of the lords of creation that
wherever their intelligence rose but little above
a state of war, they degraded the sec mpanions into
a condition little superior to that of slaves. Of
course, this was accompanied with the declaration
that the animal was inferior, and therefore was in
her proper place. We go on accepting these tradi-
tionary statements as truths, without inquiry, and
it shocks all our notions of propriety when they are
called in question. So completely are we the crea-
tures of habit and of early training that women are
the first to oppose the new notions regarding them-
selves. They scouted the idea of employing a female
doctor, and the ladies who have risen superior to all
opposition in qualifying themselves for this profes-
sion have found no small portion of their trials to ma.-
nate from their own sex. The question which really
concerns mankind is, whether it would be beneficial
to the race that women should be granted terms of
full equality, which means, that the law recognizes
no difference, that education be alike, schools and
colleges being open, as well as the professions.
They would then take the place in the world, from
day labourers to seats in the Cabinet, to which
they could attain, and why should they not ? We
very well know that their place will be no higher
than that for which they are qualified, and if it be
lower, not only is an injustice done to them, but
also to the human race. It is manifestly so when
a lady who might aspire to eminence in a profes-
sion becomes " a girl of the period," and developes
to the " Fashionable woman." If these descrip-
tions approximate even distantly to the truth,
it is clear that our system has been a false
one which permits a fertility of intellect to
run into such a wild waste of weeds. We have
the fact demonstrated beyond contr tdiction, both
in England and America, that if there be any dif-
ference in the mental capacity of girls and boys, it
is in favour of the former, the test haying been tried
again and again in the schools and colleges of both
countries. But beyond this we have not advanced,
and the opponents of change are enabled to assert
that women are physically incapacitated fro:n pur-
suing the professions and handicraft labour of men
although as children their intellectual capacity may
be even superior to that of their brothers. Were it
not that this question had been tried, it, also, would
be denied. Would it not be better to test the after
result likewise, and see whether women could
develope useful faculties in medicine, in law, in
divinity, in journalism, as well as in the skilled
labour of the compositor, the watchmaker, and
the like ? If they could, and the worl I does not
utilize the power, so much the worse for the world.
A man having an orchard might with as much wis-
dom enforce the barrenness of half his trees to en-
hance the value of the fruit of the other half ; or,

to take steps, if he had a dairy, to keep most of his
cows dry, while they eat as much as those that gave
milk. The reviewer says :—" We believe that man
is only half living in so much of his world as
woman is excluded from; that he is only half
seeing truth, only half discovering the laws and the
beauty surrounding him, because one of his eyes
with a subtle light of its own is closed, in the
ignorance of woman." We go on from cen-
tury to century, blind to a fact which nature
has made as plain as sunlight, awl after adopt'
ing it marvel greatly at the dense stupidity of
generations. We then find that it was what nature
intended, and that we have been neutralizing her
benefits through a system as artificial as that which
pro laces the feet of the Chinese women. Tha:'
we be!told with pity, ityligna:loa, c:)ntem2t, yet,' it
prevails ampng a large portion of the human race'
Is it not possible that our own convention diti2s
have something of the mental narrowness
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we there see physically illnstra.tel? " Wornee's
home duties employ their time" is the ready reply triif
those who urge a broaler field for the sex, as
most of the ladies of the upper classes in England
had any home duties, or any object except the half
hopelessone of getting married. Many of them are far
superior in intellect to the brothers who are earniog
their livelihood in professions, an 1 why should net
the positions be changed, the mentally gifted sister
being in the profession, and the handsotue brother
looking out for a wife! Clearly this would be the
natural arrangement ; nor would the circumstances
be altered by marriage, when both the woman and
the man earned money by professions. Indeed the
security would then be nearly double, and the
means of living more ample, while we grant that a
family would lessen but not destroy the lady °
opportunity of earning money-. Doubtless, a
radical change would be effected in society, a°
women would lose much of that feeling of de,
pendence and with it a portion of the charm
it
conveys, but many false theories would be dis;
sipated, such for instance as the notion derived
from Eastern countries that the free intercourse of
the sexes, although bred and educated to that
treourse, would increase immorality. That ittnigil.t:
under present circumstances, we do not deny, but it
has been proved in America that it does not under the
altered conditions of the training, while it has also
been demonstrated that woman retains and exercise°
a beneficial, refining influence on men, in all the
seminaries into which she has yet been admitted.

Miss Burdett Coutts has kindly conseatel to
open on Saturday, the 24th instant, the new wings lateli,
added to the Commercial Travellers' Schools, building at
Pinner.

The council of the Manchester Chamber of Corr
merce resolved on Thursday to invite the Hon. Reverl
Johnson, the United States Minister, to a banquet NviDif
is to be given on the 27th instant to the Marquis
Salisbury.
'
We have an amusing instance of " What's in a name? t
Captain Parr, a delegate from Nausemond to the recen
Constitutional Convention in Virginia, was the inventor
of the now wall-known epithet, "Carpet-bagger." In eoll6e-
queues of this term, carpet-bags have fallen into sueb
reput3 that not one can be sold in the South; and those
have suffered who had a stock on hand of an article before
readily saleable. As usual men have run into the opP°;
site extreme, and althougli the habits of the carpet-bagger.
have changed as little as his wardrobe has increase'
yet nothing but trunks the size of a Newfoundland's kennel
will now suffice, and the railway officials aro disgusted at
the change. An expostulation lately elicited the follevi;
ing reply from a genuine specimen of the tribe : "9°6
suppose," said he " that the trunk, big as it is, contains
wardrobe ; there is in it a shirt front and a dozen PsPeor
collars." We may here mention that " scalawag,
is given by Bartlett, in his vocabulary b
of Ara°,rr e
=isms, as something especially vulgar, and in tt
illustrated edition of "Webster's Dictionary," 8art;...,16,
is quoted, and the word is defined as a miserable sea'''
ay
a scapegrace. Wade Hampton defined it to be the Ina-d,
the most degenerate, and ill-conditioned cattle of a l'ef
ilt;
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and it has long been known in the South as a term of
vilest reproach. Indeed, those to whom it was aPPI,
merited there the most opprobrious epithet in the I!
guage—a man of Southern birth, who has deserted „
side for a political reward.
The New York Times gives an interesting Lei
count of the settlement of the Dutch in the lin, sT,
States :—" T wenty-one years ago. in the winter of ao
33 Netherlands arrived in the United States and rota'
their way to a tract of land which they purchased in of
was then an unbroken wilderness, on the eastern shorever
Lake Michigan six miles from where the Black Dig
empties itself into the lake. Here they erected tWo
cabins, large enough to furnish all with temporary (1t1; ho
ters. Plain rugged men, they set to work to subdue-
stubborn ground and frowning forest and make con,."-sli
able homes for themselves cud their families. Fre •
arrivals from the fatlierlaud added to their nurnbe.ra,'
in due time log houses gave place to substantial JAI&
lags ; mills for sawing and grinding, furnaces for o';'l,/
ing farming implements, shops and stores gradtl3`l,
arose. At this day the city of Holland has a populatl°o,
of three thousand, with its mayor and commoa cc
tool
its three Dutch journals, four churches, union SG"„i,
with four hvudrod and fifty scholars, grammar soh' a
college, and theological seminary, the first profess Ica,
theology being installed last month. The entire tt,
land colony proper is 20 miles by 16 in extent, the P°2o-
lation some 15,000. Fine crops of grass and grail; „ea
ward their toil, the magnificent forests supply abtinaB- 0
of fuel and timber, fruit thrives admirably, and Chict.
and Milwaukee across the lake are markets for the suPAP
Four-fifths of the population are pure Hollanders, 10,,7, •0
three of the four churches the services are stilly whn"J„,lo
Dutch, the congregations singing every Sunday the Pod
psalms to the same tunes that in the 17th century elt?ebo
the souls of their persecuted forefathers. Hellman „s,
hitherto sent comparatively few emigrants to our shlrjr
the plenty and content of its population precluding v°,big
tary expatriation on any large scale ; the success of of
experiment may invite more ventures on the part an
these who desire a wider scope for their energies "
their circumscribed country affords. In whatever nbnera
bers they come, their character and habits will mak° their
an element of strength and prosperity to the land of tm
adoption.
The Worcester County, Massachusetts, F ree 111.0:
stitute of Industrial Science will be opened Novernber. si
examinations for admission being held the week preCi°3oot
tuition is free to residents of the county and s6°
others.
1400
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Maladies. —ln our variable climate bronchitis, coughs, colds, W 1 10
many other chest and throat complaints, mark with regrettli, At
regulari.y the change of seasons, and-we are all aware t": of
certain tames disease runs through the people like the pla0".0
old; under such critical circumstances we all should ii-WOl
know that Holloway's Pills can check 'and arrest these na'n'teo
ties. This purifying medicine expels from the blood and 6%0s
all obnoxious matters which breed both contagion and Welly(
maladies. It institutes a radically curative rather than 3, pv.ooo
tive treatment. Holloway's Pills should be taken witlt°lls.•
moment's delay when disordered stomach, headache, or re:it-'—
ness betokens derangement of the frame. , oeS.
LADVEHTISEHENT Consumption, and all nervous, biii
stumach,and liver complaints in every stage are only aggr3,°„sotli
and accelerated by drugs of every description, but Per,`-„0,1,
curable by Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta, Arabica I'
as proved by thousands of cases which had been consl"7,o
hopeless; such as indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, :sr
surnption, habitual constipation, diarrhcoa, all gastric dertAss,
ments, htemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervous'-it,
biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, u.
flueuza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout,
rities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability, sleepless"#,
acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dr°,l: At
cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness, even in pregnancy
sea, smking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness ,
of the c to
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pains at the pit of the stomach, and between the shoulders ,•0
We quote few.—The Pope's health restored by Du
Food. Care No 68,413.—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—The heal' 11
the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandonie;,l-9
other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Da betel
Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a Pleio,l
at every meal. It has pro-laced a surprisingly bens coi
effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise....ai,
excellent food too highly." From the "Gazette du
July 25. Cure No. 46,270. Mr. James Roberts, timber '-g9,
chant, of Friuiley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased 1a,110.,..
spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafto't of
Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord LieutellTJV
Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. „e 59,
years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervolls'ocl
asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness 5n9
vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Ba waze of the .'„out
unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, ifit„",l.
authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attace":is.l
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12 lbs , 22s ; 241bs ,40s —Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA At
CHOCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters; For 12 esPiap
25., for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 43 cups at 65., for 283 cups tt,, se!
for 576 cups at 555. Being about one penny per cup. T`''',,eir
and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England on Ls- ilt
of Post Office Order.—BARRY DU BARRY and CO., No.
Regent-street, London and all Grocers and Chemists.
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Births.
HUGHES—On the 15th inst., at. 70, South Audley-seott
Mrs. R. W. Hughes, of a son.
OMMANNEY —On the 16th inst. at
.0
at The Planes, East shpt-
the, wife of Montagu F. Onemanney,. Esq., Royal °
neers, of a son.
WAKE—On the 3d ult., at Simla, the wife of CaPa
Wake, 21st Hussars, of a daughter.
Marriages. 11
BODDA—Pi-NE—On the 12th inst, at Trinity ‘-`'`geo
Marylebone, Frank H. Bodda, of 2. Nottingham
York-gate, Regent's-park, to LouiSa, youngest chop 01-
of George Pyne, Esq., 28, Devonshire-street, Porta.'
place.
TuomsoN—HEIDEMAN —On the 19th inst., at Brib' "of
David Lionel, eldest son of David Thomson 1-I.,scli"ell'
Eastbourne-terrace, London. to Antonine, onlS'."ls'
ter of W. P. lleidman, Esq., 'of Holland-road, 130 -

Deaths.
ATTWOOD —On the 18th inst., at Hoxton-square,
11,,v. E. W. Attwood, 8.A.. Oxon, aged 54. noYf
FORD—On the 17th inst., at Stamboul House, AlleYll-1-
Norwood, Captain John Ford, 0.N., aged 63. vea"
GOWERS—On the 17th iust , Mr. Samuel Gowors, s°l
ford-gardens, Kensington.
NoYEs—On the 17th inst, at Chelsea, Charles
Nose'
Esq., late of the Board of Trade, aged 78.

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