Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-10-31
Pantalettes VS.. antaloons-F'urther
Fluttering Of the PetticoatS.

Pantalettes vs. Pantaloons-Further
Fluttering of the Petticoats.
Last Wednesday there was another grand
petticoat pow-wow, at Cincinnati. The es-
pousers and advocates of the Woman's Rights
Movement, held their sixth annual Conven
tion in that city.
The attendance was not large, but the as
sembly presented somewhat mike appear
ance. Many of the ladies wore boomers, and
the gentlemen shawls. On the platform were
Mrs. Hannah W. Tracy Cutler, Mrs. Martha
c. Wright, Mrs. Ernestine l.. Rose, Mrs. Ade-
line Swift, Mrs. Lucreta Mott, Mrs. Lucy
Stone Blackwell Mr.. Joseph Barker, and Hen
ry B. Blackwell.
After the election of officers the speeches
commenced. Lucy Stone Blackwell said
In education, in marriage, in religion--in
every thing disappointment the lot of wo-
man. 1t should be the business of her life to
deepen this disappointment in every woman's
heart, until she could bow down to it no lon
ger.
She could wish that her sex, instead of be-
ing walking show cases-instead of asking
from their fathers or brothers the last new gay
bonnet, would ask their rights. (Applause.)
Mr.. Wise, of North Carolina, read an adj
dress which was long and learned.
1t treated principally Of geology and women.
He seemed to claim for woman more even than
she does. He said sswomen are generally
ore competent to vote than their husbands
and sisters better fitted to Judge than their
brothers. the mother more
capable of exercising the elective franchise
judiciously than her BOBBY son."
Mr.. Denton became loftily magniloquent,
and seemed to rise with the occasion. He
had often heard his sister say, ssWould that 1
had been made a man,'' Whyg Because men
had prescribed their sphere to women. He
would not permit anything in Heaven above
or in the earth beneath, much less any man,
to prescribe his sphere to him. He concluded
with saying that the time had come for all men
and women s:to stand on the shin bones of
our own manhood and grow up to the infinite
Heaven
Mr.. Boyce, Hungarian Jew, took agri-
cultural view of the question.
He said it had been repeatedly urged that
woman's province to be mother. He
would cry shame on sGch statement, and he
hoped to rebuke it now into silence. WAS
woman nothing but rich soil on which to
raise crop!'
Mrs Ernestine L. Ross delivered her views
cn marriage, courtship, cradles, buttons and
stockings. She said Among the poorer
classes. the female was taught little house
Keeping and oh, how little to darn stock
ings sew on buttons, and, if necessity should
require to rock the cradle. Among the bet
ter classes, a little music, little dancing, a
little bad French, to paint little-just enough
to practice on her own face.
She would rot underrate housekeeping. 1t
would in time, no doubt, rank one of the
arts and sciences. 1t had been degraded be-
cause it had been left in the hands of woman.
She then discoursed on the happy period of
courtship. 1t was happy, because, during it,
man let himself down to the capacity of wo-
man; but disappointment followed, because he
supposed he was marrying woman, but dis
| covered she was only child, poor, weak,
| feeble being, with hands too small TO use a
| broom; and with false delicacy that caused
| her to faint away at the mention of leg OF a
table. Applause and shouting ALL the men
and women made ssremarks'' on the subject,
and, on the whole, had 'sgood time of it.