New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-01-31
From Psneh'. Alns1..o ~ 1853.
THE LADIES OF THE CREATION

fact cau still venture to give my real age TO {
the inauisitiye gentlemen who come round with /
the census papers, ,-and have not been driven to
seal no the fy-leaf Of the family Bible, which
records Amelia Jane, born LIST May, 1890"
Nv husband, as all my friends assure me- IS
all man ought to be. | think he might be
yeetEe less obstinate, and confess he has bad
habit Of bringing his ell bachelor friends home +
to dinner without warning When demonstrate,
he is very eloquent about the unmportance Of
what there may be for dinner, the chief thing
being a hearty welcome, etc, etc, though /
must say Eve never found him exactly inditfer-
ent to what is served up.
sin don't complain-quite the reverse I'm
very happy n0Ic--I say noJc, because was not
always 90 propose to disclose, for the benefit
of young women about to marry, the secret Of
our discomfort. and our present happiness. The
fact is, was brought up a strong minded wo-
man, | was educated on the Pestalozzian sys
tem--taught to ask questions about every thing |
and to insist upon answers After had pumped |
my governess dry in this ways nonplused papa
and grayeled every body in the house, no Won
der | was found d nuisance. Ihey-tr1ed TO hnI 1
food for my inquring disposition, BY employing |
my restless curiosity on all sotts oi courses, |
till my intellectual digestion became seriously
impaired Before eighteen had taken TO grern |
spectacles, and Professor Faraday's Fridayl
light lectures One thing, however, do owe To-
the royal institutions met my husband there.
TO him and his first ayowal took place after /
| had nearly blown him up by attempting 10 de-
compose oxygen, in which only succeeded ID
| discomI o,ing myself He attended three courses
| at the institution, and declared he had turn
| for science, which found out afterwards was
only a penchant for me. During three seasons
we sat on the same bench, inhaled the same
| gases started at the same explosions he put
\ great many Questions to the lecturer, and one
question 20 me. which ! answered in the nthrna-
tive After our marri g. l found that his taste
! for science declined rapidly He asked me ~
more questions about tie chemical ahnltes, and
I, seemed perfectly insensible TO the curious dis
i coveres daily taking place IN the entoz0Ic and
palaoatoiogicdt field OF investg iuon, 1he
ynly Questions he seemed inclined to entertain
o were questions Of house expenses; ami whet
. one Friday | proposed that We should attens
/. Professor Faraday's lecture en a candle, he de
a clared lie didn't care snuff about such things
and that he wished, as ! was married, woult
n not bother my head with such stuff! This wa
very painful 50 me and we had our first disput,
1 about this point. l quoted Mrs Somerville
!, | example to prove that woman may be deep u
d science, and make no worse wife Tor 1t told
him about the Russian prince with whom Euler
j. corresponded, and the professoress who used 10
lecture at dogma. though she was so pretty
she had to address her class from behind cur
tain.
Nothing would convince him He scofed at
.
carried the question still further, and enlarged
On the odi1us tyranny by which men strove to
cabin crib and confine our minds and bodies,
he flew into a passion and went straight off 10
his club where he dinet and came n very late
t smelling very strongly Of cigars cried g od
y deal that n ght, bur | am sorry TO say that /
y soon af er returned TO the subject. And the
: more su,e argument was to end IN his ieav-
= ing me quite in a passion for that abomina ble
harbor Of refuge, the club, the more sure, some
how or other, was the conversation TO come back
it 10 the same point In fact, | became quite
: wletched, and don't think he was bit happier
: han was
!. Had | not been luckily cured of my notions
z about the equality OF the sexes | am sure We
d should have separated "a miserable couple
And how do you think was cured had been
' reading the report of that remarkable meeting
le at Syraeuse, L. S., in which the rights and
n wrongs of women were so torclbly set forth by
!, lo Miss Lueretia Mott and her friends. had had
~ n perfectly awful argument with Edward upen
the report of the meeting in the Times, and h,
ir had gone to the club, usual, denounelns
ao strong minded women, with no obvious alluslol
in TO B,s and declaring that this continual discus
ir sion was enough to wear a mans life out.
a | retired to bed with Il deep sense of tn
at wrongs of our sex, and Of Edwards brutality
il and thinking what a world this would be
IS women had their proper place in ii on an equal
~ ~ ity with men, l tried to read myself TO slee
he with Tennyson's Princess. and thought fdd
-tg arguments much more conclusive than the poet
re conclusions At last fell asleep, and dreame
nd nd such dream, that it seemed as If | lived
rec whole life through it all
ro- And now for my dream.
nd was living in a world where the relations
ar. the sexes were turned topsy-turYy. The w
ws men iled the mems places, and the lords OF Il
rcd creation were its ladies'. How We reveled in Il
Of change at frst--particularly after dinner.
7ss was SO pleasant TO be left round the dining roo
III table, 10 mass the decanters and discuss the vii
45 tages and trfe with the dessert, while OF
Io, thought of the gentlemen yawning over the u
we buns and ANIMALS, and getting up dreary lit
bur bits Of fat scandal over curs Of lukewarm te
~ and boring each other, and beng bored, q
bts alone in the drawing room rather think =
df- talked good deal of nonsense about the win
re. ana Old Mrs Peabody Whose front had uua
ign countably disappeared, leaving venerable ba
,ar head with little fringe Of gray hair roul
ana about it. which somehow she didn care in d
Irr ast about seeng,1 entirely failed in her a
a temut to prevent US from nihbling at the mac
reons and bonbuns which she snid spo led o.
rear palates for the claret m AFRAID, too III
Vrr some Of US took more wine than we were us
''' to, and know saw great many more candl
res ilnn there were On the table, and Edward col
planned bitterly of the way | Chartered WI
"hz Young Surcngle, after We came up stairs IN
rf99 drawing. room which WAS not until we had be
ucb sent for three times But TO see now stuptu
tar rcn 10 ked ami how very glad tfey seen
o,ala when we came in, and how 1t afterwards
fl.k psared they had been comparing notes conce
'em at their wives and their hous keeping expen'
The uutl, they had all but quarreled. did not
y - at all well for the rest of the evening, and
lh, asleep ON "a sofa, till it was time TO take Edw
sued home.
d =, al Next day Ihad such headache Vowed
llien never pass the deoauters again as long
ths lived, but 90 up stairs with the gentlemen.
y Oh ward wanted very much to 60 out shopping,
90. ., | was much TOLL 10 escort him. So sent Ma
orlly our loot nalu 10 take care oi NM anu "
NOR, his friends who called Mary tells me t
~ith were good deal stared at in regent street
~ 'l that she thought her big stick and cooked
tniga. frightened them.
Izis ielt after this II was not safe for Edwar
'm it walk about without me, and, as ne wanted
10 ca into the city, 1 threw of my headache
,l.,e went with him; bat, feeling tired, we mool
~ cnrihuq Tbs gsd ~a1 smart girl h1.