The Kanzas news., 1857-09-26
Woman as a Walker.

er adapted to the amount of his produce.
Woman as Walker.
We, who 60 by the name of men, young
and old, have a way of denominating our
opposities in gender the aceaker sex. Those
intensely acrid and unsentimental masculines
who regard woman simply as so many cum
bersome inconvenience, who can only hope
to pay their footing by close and incessantI
application to buttons, babies, and stewpans,
and by keeping out of the way, take keen
delight in cherishing the idea that they are
of endurance And we, who choose to re-
gard feminines otherwise. than with harsh
utilitarian spirit who feel their presence to
be comfort, their smile a great Joy, and
their tender sympathy a blessed influence,
without which we would grope cheerlessly
to the grave, find it difficult to acknowledge
their physical equality with ourselves We
can't help adnitting-the concession does
not gall our pride-that, intellectually, they
are quite our peers. But then, while we are
charmed by their beauty and enraptured by
their gracefulness, -magnetised by their
glances and covetous of their wealth of af
fection, we encourage ourselves in the faith
that we have a prepouderance of muscle and
stamina, and that we only are capable of
bearing, unbroken, the fatigues of every day
existence. This, in our opinion, Is a popu
lar delusion. As far as our observation and
experience 90, we think that men, with all
their robustness and solidity, are usually the
first to succumb to violent exercise of any
kind. We have seen airy creatures, as deli
cate, apparently, as the 6rst blossem-child of
the spring sunlight, toiling merrily up sim
gularly steep hills to get fine view, and
showing no signs of WEAKNESS, while their
cavaliers strove 70 be pleasant as they painted
and perspired and trembled in the limbs
Who hold out longest IN these picnics and
rambling excursions which our friends are
engaged in out of town? Once, when the
bricks had not claimed US as their prisoner,
we set out, on a sweet, musical, fragrant
summer morning, with merry girls in jaunty
little hats and refreshingly light dresses, and
advanced boys, sonorous and sunburnt, for
days ruralizing. Our start was very
elastic. We made incessant rattling observ
ations, of jocose kind, and acted in such
spry manner as emancipated urbans are
totally unable to avoid when they snuff the
country breeze fresh from the flowers, listen
to the matin warble of the uncaged birds,
and press the velvet verdure beneath them.
Well, we strolled across the meadow, and
had an incOnceiyably funny time teaching
the damsels to scale the fences we boated
on the big, still pond, and wrenched the soft
moss from the boulders: we tried to ''come
it, over the fish, with inconsiderable sue
cess All this before the sun had climbed
very high. We afterwards began to feel
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our spirits were efervescent and our CONVEX
sation brisk After the heat became un-
comfortable, and we observed some kline
with their tongues out, We broke for an UNI
brageous, refrigerating grove. At this
point we began to rather hope that some one
of the girls would propose halt; we ar
gued inwardly that we must have come a
good way we pointed out tufty space
which, it struck US, would afford capital
natural settee- We were discouraged when
the young women exclaimed, in one power
full conjoint breath, that they weren't bit
tired. Our effort to look benignant and ac-
quiesencent at the particular young woman
who asserted her ability to walk all day,
must have been frightful to behold. By this
| time, our legs I'VE blurt the word rashly J
gave token of gradual failing, and struck out
in very loose and unreliable manner. We
grew stupid, our sprightly chat declined into
mild monosyllablism, we felt convinced
/ that we would have to stop pretty soon. To
our horror we noted an absolute increase of
gayety on the part of our never dumb bellies;
they CALCULATED and SHE'D about as If they
were just fairly beginning to enjoy them
selves. By-and-by We emerged from the
grove and were confronted by hill. Our
spirits took dreadful fall. Could they
would they propose an ascension Yes
our interesting and indonitable companion
who could walk all day, saw some lovely lit
tile flowers up there. and her motion to go
up was carried with distressing unanimity.
Up we struggled. Sharp pains were shoot
ing up from our pedal extremities, and ra-
dating through our entire system. Our
remarks were curtailed, and our pleasantries
} wretched abortions. 1t was only owing to
a strict personal bringingup that we did not
reyolve violent language in our mind. The
Iclinging blooms having been plucked. at the
imminent peril of sudden precipitation
down bib, and tossed away in thirty seconds,
!. we descended.
Il With feet that we felt sure were turning
into exaggerated blisters. quivering legs,
land frame generally used up, we reached
our temporary abode, It took US two days
to recover, and for awhile horrible suspi-
Icion ove-csnne us that we should be halt for