The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1850-06-05

10 that Roger Smith'sr-it you must haunt
grocery, 90 elsewhere, ,--he is a rascaI!"
"a rosSaI!-- find him very liberal leI-
Iow.'
sLberal! yes running up accounts with
I,he husband for the wife to pay. Did you
hear how he served poor Mrs. Farren the
best wife-ulways excepting yOurs--in Rox-
|buTyY"
"No:-you know | bate gossip"
well, this is too true and loo sad story
to be called gossip. That poor woman had
laid up a pretty little sum Of money. She
was obliged to hide il to keep il from her
good for, nothing husband. lie got wind OF
Ilt some way or other, and turned over her
trunks and drawers ill he foundit. He then
carried i, to Roger Smith and paid his drin-
king account with it, and then, boasting how
he got the money, began new score! Hear
me out. The next day poor Mrs. Faren
went penniess TO Smiths 10 buy loaf Of
bread for her chiIdren's breakfast. The
scoundre refused il!'''
8, THAT was rather tough, own--but then
what business had she to hide the money? ?
She knew it was his, not hers, by the law Of
the land"
"By tile law of the land it may be, but moi
! by the law Of God and there is neither
ruth, honor, nor manhood in husband who
will avail himself of such law, to take away
the righhul property Of his wife,"
"Tut.lut! what nonsense, YOU talk, Hutton
A married woman can't have any rigbtful
property. Her husband is bound 10 protect
and support her, and that is quite enough
for her,"
"And if he docs no,?"
"Why he is compelled to-lhe law com.
peIs him" At this moment the door of The
little bed. room to which George had gone
was set ajar.
"The laws abound in fctions," rejoined
i fulton. "Does the law compel hm?--Tou
and know some wives who have supported
their families including their lordly hus
Ibands-for years. Warren filled another
bumper of wine and drank it oG--'and ye
the money they earn is not their own, ant
is at all times subject to the husbands rapn
city. There is no end to the wrong done
by men who fancy that old and barbarous laws
give them rights IAtt no human authority
I eau give. knew q gentleman, so called
who married charming woman; she had Q
fortune of forty thousand dollars; he, not {
penny. He was rather good fellow, bu
idle. He lived on his wifo's fortune, neve
i, earned or acquired in any way shilling
when he died he bequeathed his wle's pro
perry to her while she remained unmarried
but he made some other disposition oft i
7 she marred again!" This was strictly legal
t Wauon-good old Norman law for il, IL
!, doubt; but call it as impudent piece {
projected robbery as ever was done on
highway"
/" "Noasense! when he married, the proper
", ift was personal and passed into his hand
: become his, of course. There may be
hard case now and then, but women don
know how TO take care of property, and it
bes. they shouldn't have it,"
ii deny that. They take better care
/; property than men. They do not expose
u to SO many hazards. They rarely jeopar
!, their chldren's happiness by foolish secon
: marriage rs men continually do. huv
heard man, older and wiser than either yo
h or |. say that he has never known woma
- left widow who, if she had but a roof owe
Il her hend did not suppor, her children. M
d Warren, il does not become US 10 talk Rbol
e women not being trusted with property be
g cause they don't know how to take care Of
e At any rate, it is rather an Irish way
1t teaching them, to deprive them of it, NJ
, girls are all boys as they say, Warren
g When they mlrry, if their wives have proI
eIerty, il shall be secured to them, or I'll r
o longer own them for sons of nina"
"Bur, Hutton, would you have diviSio
u of interests in famiIy9 You must, if 70
d have division Of property.
81 81 know no division so bad as that whiC
T'Igives all the rights to one side, and all Il
y wrOngsto the other This argument of your
: y that women are not qualified 10 take care
- propeny, is very common and specions on
rs But cannot women with large fortunes pay
s. wise counsel and faithful agencys It's th
J. large class Of poor women who work for smt
~ wages, whose wants demand the reStiicaliC
u Of the laws. When they ore permitted
" control their earnings, their management
is for the most part, discreet and efficient.
o. common Justice shoItd be dono 10 wome
p and the laws be repealed that annul the
u righl TO their own property, II would soon b
come paIl Of their education TO learn
G' take care Of it. Why, in France, where IN;
III ricd women possess aud control their Ov
on property. they conduct a vast mercantile b
10 sness. They are principals aud book>kce
ers in large commercial establishments.
'er Germany, a woman is regarded as an eqr
partner with her husband, il being there n
y mitted that she does half the business OF I
'h' partnership in performing those duties III
w. naturally lall to her sex She is the posS 3;
Of half the property he acquires; that half
~ cannot dispose OF, nor can he apply il to t
ler payments Of bis debts; it is absUutel, he
by And il is acknowIgod, tina, in 70 count
&c! are there more domestic, devoted, and car
'u' taking wives, than in Germany"
NC NC ''Fo! do rol, Hutton! don't talk to me
'"s German wives and French women. | shot
!, -" like 10 know where there nre finer wome
and better wives tIan here in our own Va
" kee land, where, according 10 your doctrit
they are so oppressed and defrauded l. M
-. Warren for example,"
A'' sand it is because we have such won
as Mrs Warren that think fitting we shor
nd prove our appreciation Of them by reston
no' them their rights making themselves
no independent ns we ourselves are"
Tor "Not quite, Hutton, not quite, it does |
do TO have Two commanders to the ship"
tic "No, but have heard The seameu say, thu
Mt" The mate is the better man the command
"n very apt, when a storm rises, To fall into
led bsnds aud in The storms of life women sh
ua, how capable they arc. When ! see h