The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-04-21

is wild with Joy at the match. and because
she is to make one of the party on the bri-
dial Journey, more especially rs she pleases
herself with the idea of Smuggling an
unlimited amount of frippery over the
frontier.
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pF Married Women's Rights.
If the common assertions of the moral
lists and historians be true, that the civiliza-
ton of community may be measured by
the position and treatment which it accords
to women, the State, of New York. may be
congratulated on having just made q stepi
in advance. A Law. securing to married
women their right to their property and
earnings, is the evidence of their progress.
1t places the married woman as to her sole
and separate property, and as to her acqul-
sitions. either by bequest or her own labor,
.ana completely independent footing.g She
is no longer liable, in these respects, to the
abuses which drunken or brutal and reckless
husbands may inf1ict on her; the State has
thrownit protection around her; and hence
forth, If she has the ability or the skill to
procure subsistence or a future for herself,
it cannot be seized for the debts or squan-
dered on the prohigacies of another. This
we conceive to be noble and Just conces-
sion on the part of the law, and its practic-
al consequences cannot prove otherwise
than beneficial.
But the reform which our legislators
have iraugurated, society ought to carry
out and extend in other relations, and in
respect to other classes of women. The
theory Of our social life which so generally
obtains, that women as class ought to be
dependent on men, cannot, or at least is not,
unfortunately, reduced to practice. While
80 many of them are constantly thrown up
on the world to get their. daily bread that
theory will be unable to hold its own. Do
mestic duties are undoubtedly woman's
proper duties, and the family and the home
her legitimate and proper place but there
are too. many who have no real home, and
consequently no home duties.
2 They eannot all count uponlt the protection
of fathers, husbands and brothers, and such
as cannotimust seek iyings for themselves.
Destitute women crowd the scenes, not only
in our cities. but in nearly every village
and even rural locality. 1t is too late to in
quire whether women ought to takenpon
their own shoulders the duties of daily la
Dor. They are doing so already, under the
compulsion of necessity. in vast numbers,
and with most deplorable disadvantages =
When we discuss, therefore, the duties on
which they may be besEeemployed. we are
but dealing with facts as they stand. , No
body by this desires to invest woman with
sssnew rights" or to charge her with any
new mission She is bestplaced as mans
helpma:e. but that place, unhappily,y she
cannot ALWAYS find, and, as she cannot, it is
obviously the wisest course to make the
best Of the difficulty by substituting some
oil off r1caf.1InoSor In afba
words, new occupations are to be opened to
her. Women cannot all be sempstresses,
or teachers, or miiliners, or keep little shops
for selling tape andthread. sse .32a075
The attention of philantbropists has al
ready been turned to the subject, and nu-
merous reports and speeches show low
many departments of labor are really open
to female industry if the preiudices of So
ciety could be but once discarded. Model
ling. engraving, photographic drawing, fill
gree-wofk, and fifty other forms Of design
ing. would afford ample scope and excellent
remuneration for special capacities The
wits of Vanity Fair do not cease to poke
their frnnsat the counter-jumpers, as they.
call the young men who attend retail shops
to the exclusionqof women, so much better
fitted to the work. 1t is also argued that
there are many public ofices-p postal, re-
forn1atory, commercial and others--in which
they might easily find suitableand refnuner
alive employment.--zN. = EveRisag Post.
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INSANITY THE REsuLT OLA ,JoREzTher
is noY..in female lunatic asylum at Ham
mersmith. says the London Court CfrcnIor,
a lady of exquisite beauty, who was driven
mad by being suddenly startled by her maid
The lady 8. name is H., and she resided
with her husband Mr.. h, 3 wealthy
shareholder, at a splendid mansion in Cav
endish square One evening about six
weeks ago, she stFolled in the duck into her
husbands hbFarys to proeurea book, The
lady''s maid saw her enter the apartment,
and in mere frolic concealed herself bel
hind the curtains belonging to the window.
until her mistress had placed her hand upon
the swofksshe came in search of, when she
suddenly sprang upon her with loud shout
The lady was so astounded By the shock. that |
she was struck almost senseiess. DeiirIum
ensued confirmed madness followed. which
has ever since continued without abassment, |
to q degree dangerous to allsWho come near
her. Her proRensities are fierce and vicious:
she tries to bic ali who approach her, and
1t IS more than probable she will never REL
cover her reason So e. vassss
5 ass - $50
Children talk of uhat. they are doing Il
young people of what they viii do, and Old |
people OF shat they ahave done. The pres
snts the future the Pastss - - - ~