The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-09-04
WESTERN WOMEN.

WESTERN WOMEN.
anew York ladies are fearfully and wonderfully
made They have great many unaccoun'a ~
crotchets in their pretty little heads: LII the
height of the mode to carry tat, pumng rooui1 :
dog about in their arms or lead him oy gllueu
chain. But if lady carries her baby herself, she
loses caste Immediately
TIE above remarks made by Mrs George Wash,
ington Willis in Life Illustrated, woke up one OF
the strong minded and strong-armed women OF the
West-Mrs Francis ID. Gage-who writes to the
Life, sensibly and sarcastically as follows:
"Nursing poodle dogs forSooth There Is no
chance for dog-nursing out here, can tell you
Such things are not thought of; women OF the
West do their own-Tork, and hired servants are so
out of all repute, that can't get more than a
dollar week, though they ale scarce as hen
teeth The woman here that don't do her own
work sew and wash for six, take care OF TWO
babies-one two years ami the other three months
old isn't considered much Of woman, mo how.
Women work, women healthy, strong, long
lived; they don't love to be pale and headachy;
they have duties and cares eat pork and beans,
and can 90 to meeting without gloves take care OF
sick friends, and watch through long, weary
nights, by the pillow of poor meighbor
| have known them to turn out and sew Tor I'M
fortunate families, and get up sewing circles to
help the widow and fatheress. They 90 out to
take tea in good calico dresses, and it is not the
fashion to keep folks waiting three-quarters of an
hour before a servant girl appears to open
the door to say, mot at home"
Western women go shopping, but they take the
beets and turnips, chickens, cheese, black berries
and raspberries, and exchange them for blue
check and stogies, that their strong handed boys
may not fear the bite of 4 rattlc-snake or mad
dogs in August.
Trading done, they speed homeward and refresh
themselves by getting dinner, and eat dodgers
or ham and eggs, without a dream of indigestion.
Their children do not half die (guesS you wouldn't
think SO if you could look inside of the home at
bedtime,) and their husbands don't break up
unless they have invested the last drop with some
merchant who has been dabbling in stocks, to help
some New York lady's husband out OF fix
"New York ladies" and "Western women" are two
different species of the human race.
We could find you Western ladies that are not
the lineal defendants of farmers, and could claim
nativity in of the bTOwn-stone fronts and
their parentage from the snohocracy-there are
plenty in prairedom But we don't set any store
by en- and could spare New York or any other
city dreadful site" if they want 'em, it takes
monstrous little of the like to do out here, and
no mistake. But, dear life, we've not woman to
spare-nO, not one Each whoe-souled loving,
true woman-wife, mother or sister-is treasure
in the land.
The level prairies and beautiful, swelling hills
and valleys, with their luxuriant groves and lofty
forests have homes for them all. The stifed city
offers allurements. And if Mr. Tracy or any
other philauthropist, can gather up colony of
those "poodle-dog" nurses, or mOney-spending
"shspers," and send them out to Egypt to help us
to gather in the immense crop of backberries,
strawberries and raspberries that is just tempting
out into the fields and the woods, we will prom
Use to take the pale ou of their cheeks Cat least
half the twenty-four hours and give them
else without the aid Of gymnasiums. We can
promise, without any fear Of failure, to set every
nerve, and bone, and muscle in motion before Oc-
tober-if only with the shakes.
But bless us, what's the use of talking? New
York ladies are no more like Western women than
a music box is like sewing machine, or theatre
like railroad, or an opera like an agricultural
fair. Them's no account" said old Charlotte, as
half dozen Of the former faunted by-''thems
trash. Hang 'em with ribbons from the top of
their heads to the soles of their feet, and twont
help EN- The lady never works in; it always
works from the inside out.