Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1853-05-27
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Strong Minded women.
Quite pretty quartet is now raging among the I
newspapers Of the Great Metropolis about strong
minded women Some women have felt strong
enough TO write and preach and lecture against In
Temperance. Those who live by it or rather live
by killing others with it, feel little alarmed for
their profits; as all who live by the wages of sin
always do when any body attempts to cheek its
progress This has brought the Press into the field
in mutual conflict; for the newspapers always take
sides in any battle between good and evil And
now the newspapers are in pitched battle, some
fighting for the women and against intemperance,
and others for ntemperance and against the women
Shall we take sides also! We confess to a little
leaning to both galantry and sobriety, and there
fore had rather lean upon strong minded and sober
women, than upon weak minded and drunken men
The first steadfast, while the second are liable to
be sara yed TO and fro
| The directors to the feminine preachers say that
their declaration before is inconsistent with the
delcocy of the sex, and that they would exhibit more
regard for propriety by keeping within their
sphere, which, being interpreted by the obJectors,
means staying at home TO wash the dishes, Z" tend
| the baby" and sow on the shirt buttons Inc re-
minnie preachers reply that men and women rush
in crowds to hear songstress or an actress or a
dan ress-no-dansoo7e-h it!-ddnseuse; and
they ask if such exhibitions consistent with the
delcacy of the sex, why is not preaching IN favor
of temperance and other virtues! The obJectors
dodge this; and we must confess that the strong
minded women have them there. We have nothing
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singers and women singers and opera singers espe-
c;alIy italian. And when the Albonis and Bosios
and TRUTHS and Stifanones and Squallinis and yell
lns and Utramefasollasinis come before the public
in concert or DRAMA we thank them tor two things
First for their exquisite music, and Secondly tor
the stimulation and encouragement which they give
to an art which is powerui in sofening, refining and
puri wing human character. Such exhibitions are
not only consistent with the delicacy of the sex IN
the performers, but tend to promote the delicacy OF
10Th kboE Rut Ia
Legitimate drama 2" If an actress comes before
the public as a shero in The Stranger, or Rule
Wife and Have Wife, do the public stay away be-
Cause of the del;cacy of her sex -! . no! lhou-
sands of and women who profess all the virtues,
and shocked at the mention of any OF the vices
will rush in crowds to hear and applaud her. And
what is the character which she represents. what
are the moral tendencies of the representation =
The least said the soonest mehded. And how IS IL
with the danscozi shall get that right
c -danscuses? There Fanny Elssler once! =
and such crowds! And such plaudits And such
ongkores! And such asses TO draw her carriage =
And such pufs and criticisms! Was the dellcdcy OF
the sex outraged in either kicker lockers? Per-
haps there was not much outrage in either. But the
= very kind of people, and in some cases the very
identical people then most prouse in pus most Gre
atve in criticism now blush deepest and howl loud
est at the outrage upon the decacy of the SEX when
e Mrs Boomer and the Rev. Miss Brown come be-
j. fore the public to preach in favor of temperance
and of the virtues which it promotes, and against
J. traffic which sacrifices to brutal indulgence the
). rights and happiness of wives and children.
And these defenders of the delicacy Of the bjec
II to the dress of Mrs Bloomer, well as the logic
j. of Miss Brown This dress is worn by millions and
millions of women who yield to none in modesty
4 for it is to Greeks and Turks and Arabs anc
IF Persians and Hndoos and Tartars, and all sorts
!, Asiatic Caucasians. And the Knckerbocker critics
ought to remember what they profess to forget tina
the feminine dress of the early Dutch settlers con
sisted of gerry short skirts and pantaoons or let
, ters Yet Mrs. Boomers dress, which rather suits
N our TASTE consists of full panalettes and skirts
d quite long enough to sweep dirty stees, such a
- they have all the time in New York. But the dres
ID is too conspicuous Umph! If Queen Victoria
ID should get up new bonnet which outraged all ar
eff tistc taste thing which English ladies often out
rage and Mrs Fiddlefaddle, the acknowledged heao
of fashion and ''good society," and g the aristoc
racy" which the snobbih portion of the press tall
so much about in New York, but which neve
cs heard of among its really we'll bred people, shou
&c be the first to walk through Broadway with thi
Ve newly imported bonnet, wouldn't she be conspicu
IN Gus! And wouldn't her scramble 10 catc
u the fashion! And would the outsider critics upo
d. fashion," " good society,"" and arisocracy,' Sc
re any indelicacy in this conspicuity? Ono! Mrs
'h Fddlefaddle does it in pursuit offemnne folly,
mt Mrs Bloomer in pursuit of feminine convenienc
On and comport ard that makes all the difference.
H. We Philadephians are used to strong minded wo
at home, and therefore are not afraid of Their
~ in New York. Anybody here may hear dozen
them on the nrst DAY OF every week, IN NJ uDeIry ST
d or Seventh street. or other streets. They preac
.e publicly, to large audiences of men and women an
at if everybody minded all they sad We believe tina
ne the world would be no worse. Nobody here eve
H. thought that in thus publicly preaching in favor
~ moral duties and ia peculiar costume too, they viz
NC lated any feminine delicacv And if any Gotham
~ tie critic should here 10 raise such objection
~ perhaps they would tell him, through some appr
' pirate quotation, that the fault in the finder,
- that it was " the carnal heart" that ''enmi
vi &c and that prH cOnnDunfcn tiOnS CORN
Or - ,,o. W,;ll ~ .,voo ob;,,, of .tro,~ r,na
he women save amy from its jaws? IT, Messrs. Raier
you answer both in the affirmative, then you pr
mote evil with your open eyes, by bowling again