Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-07-14

w oIpu my Idllc, DIS liG dIlCiG L S6Du 10 uOl
original.-.a Lady Subscriber.
"For one, | am heartily tired of Witnessing
the endeavors Of gentlemen (of course none
but gentlemen presume to dictate to ladies,)
to frighten or wheedle ladies into becoming
mere household drudges, by assuring them
that gentlemen would rather see them
at the wash tub, than weeping over the last
new novel; : rather know they could make
a pudding or darn a stocking, than dance the
Polka, or sing an air from an Italian opera;
or see them in neat calico gowns, than array
ed in costly silk &c. Following up these
attacks by an eulogy on woman's high men
tai and moral endowments, her unbounded
influence should not suffer herself to de-
generate into a mere play-thing,' and so on.
If the paper wasted in these vain attempts
I to Sgff-sOap the ladies into washer-women,
could be restored TO its pristine form, what
a fine washing Of clothes would be there, my
country-women! And the time spent in PEN
ming this unheeded advice, would it not more
than suffice you to put them outP For
surely if such arduous accomplishments must
necessarily be included in the education of
young ladies', the stronger sex in America,
at least, will never be so ungallant as to re-
fuse their assistance. What can be a more
beautiful illustration of womanly dependence
and manly courage, than a lady gracefully
cleansing handkerchiefs and laces, while her
loving lord boldly wrestles with the counter
panes and table cloths!
What an ungrateful animal is man! In ex-
actions how like a tyTant! In acquisitions
how inconsistent! With him we dance, for
him we sing; to be pleasing in his eyes we
walk in silk attire ) we endeavor to improve
our weak intellects that we may be worthy
his high consideration
And what is our recompense? He requires
Of us Herculean labors, unsuited to our
strength-services which would forever de-
face the beauty of the hand he so rapturously
! p~ralses-destroy the symmetry of our forms,
7 and turn our : marble brows' to granite!
. But unfortunately for the success of these
! Washing-tonians, young gentlemen do moi
I admire large, rough hands, with fingers more
rosy than Aurora's, or nut brown compilations,
u (the sure fruits of washing and cooking,) mol
: think beauty unadorned, adorned the most;
Il and a lady in tears, Of her eyes be moi red,
v is, to them, the most interesting object in ere
alton.
We will darn your stockings for you, gen.
tlemen-will hem your handkerchiefs-wil
make your buildings but while you continue
IL to prefer smoking cigars to smoking bacon
mauling each other in hard words in p%olitica
debates, 10 the equally g~entlemanly and NOR,
useful employment Of hauling rails-gra
ciously condoscend to pity our weakness
III let us dance a little, let us make a little mu
sic-and oh leave us time to read and dres
y a little. Have compassion, kind sirs turI
~ us not all into water nymphs, and Salaman
IL ders.'
y Much indebted to a Lady Subscriber fo
10 the foregoing note and extracts. Grace Greer
wood writes as swiftly as gracefully, and ther
is a hard hit, besides a tolerable quantity {
ID plain truth in her ILLUSTRATION of womanl
dependence and manly courage in the lad
III doing up the laces while her bigger ha
washed out the counterpanes and table-cloths
VI We have often thought of the present plan {
70 illustrating mans strength both of body an
mind, and woman's weakness, physical an
p mental. No drudgery is too heavy 10 be PEE
u formed by woman. She may wash, iroI
scrub, nurse, milk cows, hoe, rake, reap, ca
ry loads from market like pack horses, shov,
" in coal, if she will, and there is nothing u
ee womanly about it. She is the weaker We