Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1850-02-15

! cas-
now and then, but women don't know how It
take care of property, and it's best they shouldn'
! have it,
4 deny that They take better care of prom
| erty, than men. They do not expose it 10 s.
much hazards. They rarely leopard their chill
| dren's happiness by foolish second marriage
as men continually do. | have heard a man
older and wiser than either you or l. saw that he
has never known u woman left a widow. who. il
she bad but a root over her head. did not sup.
port her children. No. Warren, it does not be-
come Us to talk about women not being trusted
with properly because they don't know how tc
take care OF 1t. At any rate, it is rather an Irish
way OF teaching them. TO deprive them of it.
MY glrS are all boys, as they saw Warren
When they marry, if their wives have property.
II shall be secured to them; or I'll 70 longer own
them for oas of mine'
But, Hutcn would YOU have q division of in
'ress in family! You must, if you have a
division Of PROPERTY
4 know division so bad as that which cives all
the rights TO one side, and all the wrongs to the
other. This argument of yours, that women
are not qualified to take care of property, is a
very common and specious one. But cannot
women with large fortunes pay for wise coun-
sci and tai -hiul agency? 1t is that large class
OF poor women who work for small wages,
whose wants demand the rectitication of the
laws When they are permitted TO control their
earnings, their management is, for the most
part, discreet and efficient. If common Justice
should be done to women, and the laws be re-
pealed that annul their rights to their own prop
erty, it would soon become part of their edl-
cation to learn to take care of it. Why, in
France, where mlrried women possess and con-
troll their own property, they conduct a vast a.
mount OF mercantile business. They are prin-
clpaIs and book-keepers in large commercial es-
ta5,ishmeats In Germany a woman is regard
ed as an equal partner with her husband, it being
there admitted that she does half the business of
the partnership in performing those duties that
naturally fall TO her sex. She is the possessOr
CT half the property he acquires; that half he
cannot dispose of, nor can he apply il to the pay
ment OF his debts it is absolutely hers And
il Is acknowledged, that in no country are there
more domestic devoted, and carc-taking wives.
than in Germany
Fol de rol, Hutton don't talk 10 me of Ger
man wives and French women. | should like
to know where there are finer women, and bet
ter wives than here in our own Yankee-!and,
where, according TO your doctrine, they are so
oppressed, and deirauded-Mrs. Warren, for eX-
ample
And it is because we have such women as
Mrs. Warren, that | think it fitting we should
prove our appreciation of them bv restoring to
them their rights; making them as Independent
as we ourselves are.'
Not quite, Hutton, not quite; it does not do
to have two commanders to the ship
No, but have heard scamen say, that if the
mate is the better man, the command is very apt,
when storm rises, to fall into his hands and
# l.
they arc. When | see how strong they are in
their calmness and PATIENCE my blood boils that
they should be so shackled and made the VIC
tins OF the vices, the foIies, or the misfottunes
Of their husbands
Hutton paused. Warren was becoming So
bcred nnde- the influence of arguments that
came home to him, He made no reply, but
thummed vchcmenty with his fingers on the ia
bic. 4" Matters, hoWevcrW, resumed Hutton
" are rghting. Little Rhode Island was, ! be-
hevc. the first champion among the states against
this Goah of old abuses | read the debates
of their Legislature at the time they were full
of sense and wit, with some touches of the pa
thetc," he added, turning to Mrs. Warren :
who ever and anon, by smile or a nod. or
gentle = think You are right. Mr.. Hutton,
had manifested her attention TO the conversation
" remember, " continued Mr. Hutton, "a law
yer describing the ruthless seizure, for the hus-
bands debts, OF silver teaspoons cherished as a
wedding gift, and the gold beads transmitted
through long maternal line And there was a
funny story told of an Irish woman: to illustrate
a wlfe's voluntary devotion woman who
turned ont pig to save her husband from Jail,
saying, u poor husband is better than none :;
he's hand if no head; he can draw the water,
and lug thu wood!' Indeed, some Of us, War
ran only bn {
drawers of water to our good wives"
Speak for yourself Hutton, speak for your
self =
j have acted for myself, replied Hutton,
with perfect good temper Il secured before
my marriage, to my wlie's separate use, her own
property, and have since made over to her half
of what | have acquired. | do not say this
boastingly; the first act was simply honest and
il some grains of generosity entered into the
second. i; was out small testimony to the excel
lent woman who has made my home happy
wife and mother, Mrs Warren can mahe home
sort OF Paradis, reganad. ="
The sense Of what in spite Of his excellent
wife, he had made his home. stung Warren thro'
all the induraions of long years of wrong do
ing. lie arose, thrust back his chair, cIasped
his hands over his bald head and groaned aloud.
His conscience is awakened. " thought Hut
tom "now is the time; and rising he laid his
hand gently on Warrens shoulder.
Friend" he said, look at your wife
See how without intermission; she tolls for YOU
For years, Warren, she has earned the bread of
your family she educates your children. You
see what can be done even BY woman's unpro-
ductive labor Doyle told me yesterday, he owed
your wife more than so on account and all
for this stitching carly and late. Be man,
Warren, and put your shoulder TO the Wheel
Her strength is failing. Forswcar drinking
tke the pledge. In Gods mans, do anything
that will help you in the course of duty to your
family. Life is short, my friend, God help you
good night!
Warren felt humbed by his friends admoni-
ton. But il takes far more virtue than he pos
sessed to endure humiliation, and turn it to ac-
count; so instead of eherishing the holy monitor
that had entered his bosom, he rushed out of the
house. and did not return to it till he could scarce
ly find his way TO the bed he dishonored by his
brutal intoxcation.
During the rest of the week, he was more sur
~ and uncomfortable than usual. He two or
three times limited to his wife that ne was in need
of a small sum of money-forty or fifty dollars
would relieve him-that he could do nothing ill
he was reeved--that if he were and his mind,
at ease, he would turn over a new leaf. On
Friday morning he suddenly came into the house,
and said that he ha} an employment he liked Of