Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1857-12-31
WOMAN'S RIGHTS.

WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
/ Much is said and written nowadays o1
weman's rights. What then are her rights
She has a right to good education. This
/ is not only just, but expedient to give her.
Man defrauds himself when he withholds it.
For is not woman to be his constant com
.lpanion? Would he choose that his COM
Ipanion should be destitute of ideas? Sure
/ ly not. The conversation Of an educated
woman is perpetual feast. If the first
4pieasure Of life is action, the second certain
+ ly is talk. And there is often almost as
much pleasure in talking about things as in
doing them. A man wants in wife not
only companion, but counsellor. No
one mind ever saw all sides of all subjects,
nor even all sides of one subject. And the
Wisest suggestions not unfrequently come
from the least informed. The Pythoness,
the Sybils of old, were women, because wo-
men were always supposed to enjoy near
er access to the fountain Of wisdom than
man.
Women have right to good husbands,
because most of them mean to do the thing
that is nearly right. When they marry
| they have right that their husbands shall
be men and not mere wrecks Of debauchery
and dissipation. Oh, it is one Of the cruel
est of wrongs, for pure and innocent girl
to throw herself away upon a broken down
victim of licentiousness, who is more fit for
! a hospital than to preside over family, the
candidate for premature decay and early
death. The mind and moral nature gener-.
lally in such cases, quite as much a wreck
| as the body. The freshness Of life is all
worn off, the gayety Of innocence is forever
gone. The life of such man is cold and
hard, destitute of sentimentand enthusiasm.
Woman is cruelty wronged when she has
accepted such a companion.
Woman has right to the society of her
husband Home should be his sanctuary,
and he ought to find his highest happiness
there. IF he does not there is something
wrong. He has promised to be the hus-
band that is the house-band- band
that keeps the household together. His
presence there Unnecessary to keep all right.
# he wanders away heedlessly something is
laptae SO Nrepg. His authority iszaften
wanted to maintain order, to arrange busi-
ness, to superintend labor. His absences
ought to be as few and infrequent as possi-.
BILE. Woman has a right to this, and her
rights are grossly violated when her hus-
band is often and unnecessarily away.
| Lastly, women have right to the earn
ings of their husbands for the support Of
their families. We never pass drinking
saloon, from the low GROCERY to the ponder
Gus hotel, without saying to ourselves, here,
after all, is the most outrageous violation
of woman's rights We sometimes get a
glimpse of the interior of these apartments,
and whom do we see there? Husbands and
fathers, who subsist upon their daily wages,
spending one half or perhaps all their earn.
| ings in liquid poison, to ruin their health. ;.
spoil their temper, corrupt their morals, and
make themselves odious and loathsome vaga-
bones, while their wives are at home earn
ing, by the slender gains of their needle,
the pittance which rescues their mutual off
spring from starvation. Oh this is too bad
Ito be seen and suffered in Christian coun-
TRY.
This outrage upon women's rights cries
loudest of all to Heaven, and if there were
a particle of true chivalry in these degene-
rate days, this is the first abuse in our So
cial economy which would be abated Tell
me not of the barbarism of the Malays or
the Feejee Islanders, who roast their enc
mics and pick their bones. Their enemies
expect it, and would do the like in return.
But here the black-hearted cruelty is inaict-
ed by a friend-the one who ought to be the
nearest and tenderest of all! Our boasted
civilization and Christianity of the nine
teenth century-what are they !-Baltinore
Sun.