New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-01-31


down ssmgwAsre lie didn want to 70. The dri.
yer (whum s-e ad1res ed as sarah encouraged
her, and, alt6 &c her, Thought had never cen
two such o3iols creatures, and Nas painfully
Convinced FRAT Eomenhad no piace before or be-
hind oanitu-es
We dine aJ yerrey s. and stayed until il was
dusk deciled e. walk home, notwithstanding
Elwaref remarks about he impropriety OF be
ing {" il the street Al that time of ght.
pointed out to him that he could alwsys depend
On the police hut-alasi had forgotten that
Mrs Commissioner Mayne was in power, instead
Of her husband. just we passed horrld
rin.shpp out poured rabble OF drunken people,
Eho insalted me iireadfally; and when called
thepo.te ec Of 1rSe le poor things we're dread
fgly alarmed u lehavior Of these drunken
wfaiel4es, on Z N actually put his arm
round the s. .a4 waist. II il hadn't been
for the oil ate w4tchmen at the banking
house close p e3ho frightened the drunken
| uen) tue &C ousequeAces nsg.i have been awful
perhaps th watenmen l. have been kissed
\ ill roun1i
4 Ilelt then that; after all, strees-keepine is
coarse and ba ttal employment,s fit only for the
other sex.
The next morning Emily Brown mot Julia,
who was Called to the bar last year) came in
| with her ctusfu 70 whom she told me she had
\ urOp0sed ynty the day before, while they were
I out fishing Emily had gone into the navy
! under Mrs. Admiral Napier, and seemed TO me
I TO have grown a sad, Wild sort Of girl. She
j used nautical phrases, q" shivere1 her umbers
lfrequeatlg; and deciared she wanted 10 splice
the raain-brace' which discovered was the
J sailor way Of asking for glass Of spirits Then
| she W4s full Of stories about life on board ship
what larks they used to nave IN the cockpit
how she 1l41 been sent to the masthead for be-
| ing saucy 70 the captainess, and how cold il
Tas-and what they used to suffer in rough
weather, and hos they had to live for months
together cn salt beef and biscuit; and alto
9cfher, fe-t that IT was abominable thing to
condemn POOR women 10 such hardships, which,
after all, men are better suited for.
After Emily and her COUSIN had left, Edward
Insisted IN my taking ann to near the band play
At st Jlmcsis. Really, I bad never Thought
. Edward 30 fri7olousi However, it was not
worth wluls 70 contradict him, 50 | took him,
; When we got u St. Jamess, | saw at once what
, II was that made him so anxious to hear the
baud Imagine my feelings when l found that
it was composed Of the incest young ladies, IN
such very becoming uniforms, with a stout old
drum -nia ioress. Instead Of ffes and drums, the
Instruments used were guitars and pianos, and
/ they III yed Julliens polkas, and marched away
20 tAe-ane Of sThe ziys loe're left behind us"
Altogether. it struck me being style Of inu-
I SIC better suited to dance to than % march to
e hattie upon ana l could not but adnhk to myself
that the Old ile and drum was more spirit Stir
! ring IF the two.
? fIvar,l wanted a new hat, so I went with
d lhiu TO buy one, but he was such time about
!. it, trying Oh. upwards Of a dozen hats, that !
+ rhoupht I never should have got him away. i
4 never imagined before that shopping could re
& such L nuisance, and then saw at once that II
" is msrciful arrangement which sends 70 US
J shop. and our hus bands TO wait for US
n ! left Edward at Gunter's and walked home
" When reached our own door, was stopped oy
q two oyer-fressed, tawdry, fat women, Of the
e. Jewish persuasion, who, tapping me on the
5s sroulder, pruluee piece Of paper. which they
/ called a writ and informed me that was theii
e. prisoner, IN Judgment for one Of Edward hof
in rid cigar bills pointed out 70 them that TN
es ;ebt was incurred by him. and begged them t
m take him: but they told me that the law nov
az made the wife answerable for the husbandi
ns dehts than witch nothing can be more unJust
ne felt at oaee that this was not q change ioS "
u better and that, after all, it was quite rign
he that if some body must pay or go TO prison.
IA should be ne husband and not the wife
ste I was 50 annoyed by this latter ciroumstAnc
~ that Invent to coll upon Mrs Boroushby, "a ~
Ind | Gently elected member Of ParlIament,I an ol
us sehocfellOw Of mauia's, who had always prove
nd my C nsJsnt fr eud. Such scene Of cohiusie
The as then Witnessed shall never forget! II
am stairs Nere Uttered all over with brocms 81
hen lust-pans and the drawing room, into which
ena had made my way as | could, was in as gre
de eonfus. on as q bro kers shop. On an elega
lrs, ottoman were dust-pan and bundle Of voc
uld the sofas were strewn with rlue books, pair
was sliIpers, an opera cloak. snd the housemaic
ute box OF black lead and brushes.
le Au OH gray parrot bad got out OF MS cas
} IN and aas bus i employed IN picking holes in
old l-re,utifu1 tafle cover, whilst Buttons" IN
llei page, was seated AZ the piano, endeavoring
10 pick out the If an Ethiopian melody cali'
tty Il believe Sich a Geitin up Stairs"
ur- when succeeded in making the young gel
tleman aware Of my presence, he coolly tod n a
at that s-us was luzy, and wouidn be dl
4 | turbee- by nctuly. and that Master had goI
sed cut in, huff COS ned been rowed for #antlr
to to go To the play, as Missus was getun up h'
es' parliamttl5 speech for that eyenin Y
TO This expla ned to me the state Of the " Hon
tic Departneut" and convinced me that the hou'
-od Ii ~ Oh woman should have 4 voice was not Il
I House Of Commons.
the -4p1 80 : dream went on Every where
aV- found that when women attempted men wor
ole they proved their own untltness Tor it-diseo
ne cred that our notions of the happiness, al
lek freedom and dignity Of the other sex arsfound
ute on mistake, ana that it only dependsron US
llef make them our slaves and adoTers. 1t Is tru
we arc not III The House Of Commons; but wins
ons after all is public opinion The opinion
We men we do Justice to ourselves, is the opinit
pie of meas wives. Is there any field for polite
cen mauguyre OF legislation ike Home what
ing a Chancellor of q . Exchequer to a wife VIII
and the fudaet 10 the weekly house bills !-wh
by the difficulty Of wringing the supplies OUT OF q
lau House OF Commons to thaeof extracting cheq
pen from IL hara-up hubby Depend upon II, the
ing management without putting ones head beyol
sion the street door And so was cured OF ny n
'us- ten of putting woman on an equality WIN ms
[ saw that the question between The sexes "
the not one of superiority or inferiority that Q
ity two spheres lay apart from each other, but "a
e If each exercised on the other most blessed Inn
ual- ence mans sphere, the world womans spne
leep the home; the former braeing the gentle
dds uences OF the latter by its Fough sharp less'
oct of effort, endurance, and antagonsm; the lat
med temperiug the hardening effects Of the former
ed its self.denial It's sympathes, and its afectio
And felt that if we are to compare these
spheres, the woman s-while the narrower
rs OF in maug respects the nobler OF the two' ana
wo- part in the battle of life not unfrequenuy
the more important and dangerous one
4 tire This was the lesson Of my dream aW'
1t inst rs Edward let himself in with his lal
room kew. and begged his pardon for my silly
Nh- wardness
one have never had another argument sin
9 al and don't believe have any . MISSION
little can take me away from my own hreslae'
tea, ~
J, all s.. ..s-,, no has attended both the