Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-03-31

immense sensation They quilted Bath and
retired to her husbands family seat in Crn-
wall, where they continued chiefly to reside.
They had one son, an only child, who died when
he was about fifteen. 1t was an overwhelming
atf1lclion, and the une mortal shadow on their
happiness. They died within few weeks of
each other; their honors and estate passing to
a distant branch of the family.
The Literary World gives some extracts from
forhconlng work on this country. by Nj. and
Madame Pulski, We copy portion Of them,
which will he of special interest to our readers:
1T Is common boast with American gentle
men, that the ladies' rule, and aie more respected
than anywhere else in the world. heard this
cfien repeated in the snclety of New York, and
Inquired Of gentleman, who was repeating
this pet phrase, in what way they ruled? 'Why,
they have all they like, was the reply: they
dress and go shopping and have not to care for
anything we even live in hotels, to save them
the trouble of house-keeping.'
Il see.' observed |, 'yon are almost as courte.
ous as the Turk, who allow their wives every
anusemen, in their harens and about the shops,
while they attend to graver matters. The ele-
ganty eiIded and painted parlors of your hotels,
where the ladies meet to rock away time in the
easy rocking chalrs, are admirable harems; but
what has all this to do with the rule Of your la
dies Even granted that you accepted their
wishes al commands still you are no Pashas,
whose whns claim obedience from the coulmu-
nifty you, yourselves, rule only BY the active
part you tske IN public affairs, and do you mean
to say you copsult your ladies about these
mat,ers?'
well, not exactly answered the gentleman
but, (said hey a lady can travel alone all over
the States without danger of an insult, or unbe-
coming behavior; our daughters 60 often out,
and are in society without their mothers-every
man is their natural protectors
'Quite as in Turkey replied |; mo man, not
even the husband, would ever dare to follow his
yelled lady in the streets, and if he sees slip.
per before the door Of her room, the sign that
sumes to iutrude. And, as to the travels of the
unprotected ladies', they are perhaps less fire.
qnent in Europe than in America, but the man.
ners and customs Of our age protect them as
efficiently in the old as in the new world. All
the difference perhaps, is that the morality in the
United States is more sterling than in France
and lay, or IN the capitals Of Austria and Rus.
.ia. and therefore fiirtations with married lades
are unh card of
But in Europe he said, women even work
in the fields and they must assist the husbands
to earn subsistence for their families with us,
even in our factories, the girls work till they
marry; but once married. the maintenance Of
the family Is the care OF the husband, and an
American farmer would feel degraded if his
wife or daughter should hoe the corn or break
the flax
Of course, ! readily acknowledged that owing
to the greater facilities of earning livelihood,
the women Of the lower classes we're much bet
ter off than III Europe, but did not understand
in what way the respect for the fair sex s con-
nected with this fact. The gentlemen turned to
other topics; sought information on the other
side, and understood from some very intellectual
ladies' that their lords in general, little consult
the opinions of their female rulers, even as con-
Germs their own private affairs. learnt that it
occurred but too often that lady Who believes
herself to be in afH ent circumstances is sud
denly informed by her husband that they must
give up housekeeping, because they cannot afford
t. 1t appears as if the gentlemen would atone
for their aIl-absorbing passion for business by
the privilege they give to the ladies of idling
their time away And as business is passion
with the Americans--as business is with them
not the means, but the very lite Of existence
they are most anxious to keep this department
exclusively 10 themselves; and, well aware that
there is no more infalible way to secure nom
interference than by giving the general impress
sion that they never act for themselve the ladies
rule has become current phrase, but by no
means fact, in the United Statse.
England could pay her debt, of four billions
Of dollars in fourteen years, if she would take
the pledge. and devote all the money now spent
in intoxicating drinks to ito liquidation. What
fact And we have calculated nothing but
the mere money spent; not tho waste Of time
labor, strength health o1d luo