Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1859-12-06
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From the Ohio state Journal.
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BY LOIS.

"Well | declared! | don't see what th,
world is coming to. These Woman.
Rights people will destroy all The mod
rslv and refinement of the sex, ii they
keep on.
WAY, Martha, what new thing ha:
happened now?"
"Nothng only l saw Mrs. Styles
standing in market this morning. and
should think woman of her education
might find other employ ment; but | sup
pose she is only practlcirg what thesv
new ,etormers 'each.'
And pray, what harm is there in
standing in market. if she chuo+ea?"
None, that | know of. Ii she makes
herself coarse and unladylike. it is no af-
lair OF mine; but it she is neglected by
her former associates hope she will MOI
complain
And what has she done, that she
should BE- neglected."
"What has she doue! No lady would
stand there, by the hour, exposed to tie
contact of everything that passes: and ii
she voluntarily places herself beneath her
niends, she cannot expect them to stoop
to her."
"But | cannot see that she is placing
herself beneath them; she must support
her family in some way, and so long as
size does it without crime | do not see
whore the shame is. -
"Well, Adde, always knew that you
were very democratic in your notions; but
| did not suppose that you would carry
hem quite 50 lar. Why don't you make
associates Of your kitchen girl AMI wash
elwoman""
"It they had the necessary cultivation,
their empIoyment would not prevent me
Ilom dong So | assure YOU
but | hold that a woman of cultva-
lion has no need TO follow an occupation
that has q tendency 10 make her coarse
and vulgar"
"And hold that ones occupation, il
an honest one, does not degrade them in
TIE least. But even if il did, it is not al
ways possible Ior persons of intelligence
aud refinement TO avoid such occupation
Necessity is a stern master, and those
who are forced to obey his mandates.
against their natural inclinations, are more
" be pited than blamed"
perhaps they are, but tell me, if you
can, what there is to nece>sitae Mrs.
Styles to become marnet- woman; she
can teach, and that YOU we'll know, and
with success, too Z" ,. ..r-.
"Ycs, with success which left her so
broken in health that It took years for her
to recover, and her children had 70 depend
ON the care of strangers the while"
"Wel she CAN draw, paint, embroider,
and is expert with her needle in Amos:
any department, why does she not employ
he' sell in some one OF these ways?'
"They are all sedentary employments,
and how much soever she might wish to,
she could not. without the same disastrous
consequences as before, broken health"
"Why, then, does she not support her
self by her pen. she writes well; | should
think she might do it easily, and have
plenty Of time left for recreation and exer-
cise."
Perhaps you will not think it quite SO
easy, when tell you that for all that she
has written she has never received what
would be a fair compensation for one
months work, and while you are sitting
in your parlor being amused or instructed
by what she has penned, she is struggling
to obtain the means of support for those
who are dearer to her thar life"
why. then, does she write at all;
wosld not if they would not pay me?"
"Why does the mist rise, OF the dew
fall9 She writes because she must; it is
a necessity of her being, and as a compen.
sation she is treated with scorn, because
she has not the wealth to sit in idleness,
or the health to endure your genleel en-
ployments
Il must own that you have placed the
subject In an entirely new light, but is
there no danger Of woman's losing that
dellcacy which constitutes her peculiar
charm, by mingling so freely with the
common mass with which she must thus
inevitably come in conlact?"
"fhere is a false delicacy which would
be no loss, and the quicker that is swept
away. the better, but the true delicacy
which springs from purity Of heart, will
not snffer. How can there he more danger
in selling to, than buying Of vicious per-
son, and you would think me very foolish.
ii | insisted that lady should not go to
market to select What was needed for the
family, because some who sell there are
vulgar or vile. If woman must be kept
from coming in contact with vice or vul-
gariy, she had better shut herself up;
from the world at once; for If the fair lady
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