Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-06-14
To be continued
WOMAN.


The lecture last week before the Anti Slavery
Lyceum, was by Miss Lucy Stone, of Boston.
Her subject was, Woman, her social position
and right" which she discussed with consider
able ability and created not a little pleasantly by
her sarcastic filings at the lords of creation
She maintained that woman's sphere was just
what the customs of society where chance bad
put her, had made it. Her nature did not pre-
scribe for her the sphere which the customs of
New England Society had assigned to her. The
lecturer reviewed Woman's history, as showing
her history at different periods, and in different
counties.
In China, at the present time, woman is yoked
with the ass, and made to pillow. Yet this is
woman's sphere in China. Among the Ind.
ans Of the Rocky Mountains she is made a
beast of burthen. In India she is q slave. in
this country she is assigned another sphere, as
lie lecturer cOntended, not allowed proper free
dom and rights. Here her abilities are under
rated. The opportunities of acquiring the high
Ell elements of an education are denied her
there being no colleges, theological, law or me-
dcai schools open to her. The customs of So
cety made rules Of propriety which collllctel
with her health and comfort. Atabout the age
Of fourteen, she must primp up, walk an unnat-
uraI gait with her head fixed, aud cease TO swing
her hands.
When about seventeen she finishes her cdu-
cation, and--shOuld the lecturer say it--gats
ready to be courted. Her brother at this age
is Just entering coIege-iust beginning to cdu-
cate himself for the business Of life, while she
can 90 10 higher; and here the lecturer said,
what 10 doubt is too true, that women have no
object in life but TO get married
There are 10 pursuits open to them. In the
State they are nothing. The professions do not
invite them. For them to 90 into any kind Of
business which would promise them a fair re-
muneratOn wond be to 90 ont of their sphere
would be an improperly. For doing precisely
the same labor, they are paid but from one quar-
ter TO one half the same price that mon are.
| Finding that this is the case, sic seeks for a
maintenance by getting married.
This becomes with woman the great end and
aim of life, an her chief theme Of conversation.
This was the source of many evils. Let woman
have proper objects Of pursuit and the higher
branches Of education, and it would TO longer
exist.
The right Of maintenance was all the wife
could claim, on being married. The law sail
she and her husband were one and somebody
else said the husband was that onc-the wife
was nothing.
In the church. women were not looked upon
as equal to the male members. They must not
vote in some churches 1t was part Of the creed
of some, that woman's place was to keep silence,
Scripture would be quoted for this, and yet the
women would be sent TO the choir to sing.
The laws did not give her natural rights. 1t
allowed the husband the disposal OF her children.
/ The lecturer made divers other complaints
against the established order Of things, and prob
ably made the ladies' present think they were
/ greatly abused aud neglected in matters OF winch
/ they never thought before.
The lecture, taking it altogether was novel
one. and not without It's interests. 1t was de-
( Tverea in very agreeable tone and manner
evincing on the part of the speaker, an in'imaIe
ACQUAINTANCE with her subject, and slacert
wish to be instrumental of good to her SIX.