Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1859-03-24
Our Social Circle.
do the Ladies Read the Papers"
LONE Hollow. March 4th. 1856!

LONE Hollow, March 4th, 1859.
Mr. EDITOR Tonight find myself in
the Green Mountain State for the first time,
and with such strange whiming and putting
in my ears, and such visions of snow-covered
hills and dark hollows fitting through memo
RVS sanctum, that scarce can I realize that l
am the same Lulie, who made such an awk.
wark appearance in trying to jump into the
cars, this morning. at the little depot of M.
Little wonder that 1 came so near being left,
while taking that last lingering look of my
old home, for this northern trip did seem 50
terrible, and I had such dread of your IA
nous mountains, half expecting to be buried
beneath some fierce avalanche but really I've
seen nothing so very frightful to-day. This
little parlor Of Cousin Jennys is just the
quietest, and this little rocking -chair just the
nicest, and then Jenny gave me the Free
man to read, while she went to put her little
brood in their cribs. The first column my
eye rested upon | found, DO the the ladies
read the papers?' Well suppose the ladies
should read with sufficient care to be able to
converse upon the peace with China, the mon
etary pressure, the Kansas imbroglio, where
would be the pleasure in all that to themselves,
or even to the lords Of creation?' Should
We American ladies be proud of our Mr..
Read, or the part he played in the great
treaty? Were we to read everything that
has been written of the Kansas troubles, what
should we learn, save to blush for our faith
ers, brothers and sons,-poor weak efeminate
men, boasting that their fathers fought for
liberty, and yet showing to every nation, far
and near, how little of liberty can Be found
in this Wanting republic. We should end
that minority rules, and Of course, our re-.
spect for the majority, must melt away like
the snow on your mountains in june. Read
you say, of the monetary pressure. Lei
us sum up what we should learn of that awful
panic--'extravagance, tariff foreign i'm.
ports Thousand dollar shawls, sextravagan,
ladies' speculation hard currency, corrupl
banking SYSTEM 'retrenchment, living tot
fast" &c., &C., through all tho long columns
Of each daily and weekly and but iittIs
wiser will any woman be after this ted1iiou,
perusal. Much better learn enough Of prac
teal arithmetic to keep the family accounts
aud enough Of her fathers or husbands affair
to know when she is expending more for dres
than her income will warrant.
As to those subjects of minor Importance
the news Of the day, fashion, gossip, scan
dali &c., / confess see no difference be
tween the cheap chit-chat each communit
affords, and the light gossip each paper Re
lates.
IT'S just as enrolling to my soul, and q
pands my intellectual capacities quite a
much to repeat scandal from the lips Of pre-
ty Mrs. Rose, whom I do know, as to repea
it from the pen Of Editors 50 and 10, whom
do not know.
1t is quite as edfying to me and my lad
friends, to make sneering remarks upon poo
Mrs. Martins dress, as to read those alread
made about that Editor over the way, or Il
Editor Of the Casket, or some Other gent
man Of the quill, and quite as instructive te
for ought | can see to the contrary. An
It's quite as laudable for me to class Mi
Laura among the strong minded as for e
( itors A. B. or @. to call an honorable, bu
perhaps, mistaken man, wicked names, b
cause he happens to belong to the other part