Windham County Democrat. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1836-1853, 1853-04-13
wINDMAM COUNTY DEMOCRAT.
Brat,Ieboro, VT, April 1s, 1853.
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EDITED by MRS C. /. II. NICHOLS.

We accept Mrs Nichols amendment of our paragraph
in relation Miss Stones dress if she has improved it
any but demur the charge of sneerng at the thick
boots We called them good and believe they were,
and liked them being the best part of the adys dress
If the ladies like the 'Boomer why let them wear it,
but we sincerely hope they will not all forsake their do
nestle duties and 20 round ectrng 'womans rights.
Doubtless there are women who
pabe of performing mans duties and there are weak
minded men who could equally well fill the stations thus
vacated We have objection to the change being made,
hut Heaven save from either! true woman shines
brightest in her sphere.-Lynn Bay State.
ave accept with pleasure the apparent candor and
courtesy of tbs above rejoinder of the Bay Sate-a
paper which has won respect by its general fair
ness and dignity towards its opponents, not less than
its talented conduct
1t is something, that men will let wear the
dress we like whether Bloomer otherwise. 1t is
a great deal where small favors are accustomed to
be received on conditionof courtesy, thank you,
sir-to be applauded for putting soes thick enough
to ward off disease and death. But it is the fault of
those SO applauded, like Oliver Twist, to ask for
more and how natural, when experiment has con-
victcd the novtiate in REFORM that more is needed,
and would be equally beneficial to health and comfort
Well, the Boomers, and many who desire the free
dom of public opinion, that they may be boomers,
will thank the Bay State editor for reluctant
withdrawal of his suit VS.. the costume.
But ne 'nOpeS tne lauleS VIII nol Ut lOISdhe ltlI
domestic dutes' &c. Now ,oe have so much conf
dence in our sex, that we have no fear of any true
woman forsaking home duties to lecture on any sub
iect Those who feel called to do the latter, the
very ones who truly estimate and provide for the
performance of the former. We would be very much
surprised if half many should forsake their
home duties to lecture on women's rights, as have
hitherto been encouraged tolerated by men, in for
saking them pursue pleasure, live at their ease, and
die and leave record, but that they went around
practising or endorsing wrongs upon their own sex,
and smiling upon the vicious of the other sex.
But the objection, based on forsaking domestic du-
ties does not certainly apply to Lucy Stone and 9TH
er single women, who have domestic duties
The ''man's duties" which the Bay State says
''strong-minded women are capable of performing, u
must of course be of an intellectual nature strength
of mind being the distinctive characteristic attributed
10 these capable women. 1t is also a logical concu-
sion that the 'weak-minded men who could equally
well fill the stations vacated by these women" had
better be so occupied, than that God should demand
of women the of any talent he has given them
and they have to say, the sphere station, to which
Mr. Bay State and those of his way Of thinking, linn
tied me, furnished no use for them, and | hid then
away in napkin to return them to the all-wise Oliver
when he should demand them