Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Wayne County, Ind.) 1831-1837, 1833-11-02

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WOMAN ABROAD.
i y the pride Of America, and it
should be with every enlightened and
civilized people, that the sphere Of the
gentler sex, Is the IRE side, the dou,es-
TIC hearth, and the quset chamber, "a
Their than the out door and working
day world. It's fos man-if not the
nobler, ct least the harder being, TO
toll for daily susteoance, and eat bread
BY the sweet u his brow. Woman
should be consecsated to nobler pur-
poses, to 6Der employments, to house
hold duties. She Is 90 in this country
with few exceptions. Wives and
daughters, even in the middle walks Of
life, are held aloof from rough employ
ments, trades, and out door labor Of al
kinds-but not 90 10 many parts Of
Europe, Is viii be seen from the fol-
lowing passages from the recently
published work Of Mr.. Gushing, on
SPa,o:-Bickselrs Reporter.
~There is . feature Of national
manners in Europe, which seems more
singular to an American eye, than the
Promiscuous entry Of the female sex
into the indiscriminate laboss Of out
door life, especially on the continent
il is . familiar fact, which 10 conlinu-
ally presented to ~ in the books, that,
in the south Of Europe, the business Of
retail TRAFFIC in the shops, 10 exercised
by women much more. generally than
in America; bat what can be deesDed
Of a small open boat, scarcely larger
than common wherry, being used a.
the habitation Of a man and his wife,
it being their joint occupation to row
about the rivers, canals and creeks, to
work a. day laborers upon the farms
along the waters edgei This, also, l
have repeatedly observed on the river
Macs nor 10 it q rare fact, or consider
ed in Holland at all extraordinary.
. Near TO the Hague, the Political
capital Of Holland, and by far the most
refined in that country, is "a small fish
lDg towE called Schevcngen, which 10
alse much frcquented as q bathing
place and for its. fine sea views. A
beautiful avenue Of trees leads from
the Hague TO Schcvengen, and the
whole population Of the latter place,
are dedicated to the business Of catch
ing and selling fish for the market Of
tn" Hague, the selling being conduct
ed BY the women, exclusively, rs it is
elsewhere in the Netherlands. In the
morning the women convey their fish
to the market, partly in baskets, partly
in small wagons or carts drawn BY
large dogs. In the afte rnoon you will
meet with the same pr rsons returning
with their baskets ON their heads,
heasil, laden with vegetables and 9TH
er articles, while their husbands are
not rarely seen riding at ease in the lit
tie car.s-a spectacle which, although
so,i'e What local it is true. grows out Of
the general habits and feelings Of the
people, in regard to the labor which
may be exacted Of women.
Nor Is the state Of things materially
different in France. The universal
diffusion Of knowledge in this country,
By means Of popular publications a.
daPted to the wants Of every condition
Of society, has rendered all the world
familiar with the leading events Of
the Preach revolution. There 10 no
TACT in that dreaded tragedy, which I
have heard more frequently introduced
IN conversation rs a subject Of amaze
ment than the part acted BY the female
population Of that country, in the
worst horrors Of the revolutionary
madness. Nevertheless, it would strike
us with little surprise, il We were prac-
tically familiar with the aspect Of q
Persian mob. The fact Is, that on all
public occasions, females enter a
largely almost ~ males into the com
position Of the multitude which thronp
the streets; aud this arises naturally
from the Circumstance Of their being
90 continually abroad in the perform
aDce Of thousand and Of the common
acts Of industrious life, which, among
", We generally, Il not absolutely con-
t1ne to the male sex. They do not
possess that domesticity Of character
and cupation which belongs to US in
t'hss tcUntry, and constitutes her great
est"