The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-03-21

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zone mightinfer from your language
that you thought so"
"I don't see how the inference can
fairly be drawn"
"Ow circle for wives, you said just
now"
"Yos."
"What do you meau by it,
"A circle Of intelligence, refinement.
taste and cultivation" replied Alice.
"You don't say wealth"
mo My father, though living in
good style, is not rich ] have heard
him say; more than ence, that we we're
up to our income
"Then we have only our own sweet
selves with which to endow our hus.
bands No houses or lands; no stock
from which to draw our income; moth
ing substantial on which TO claim the
right Of being supported in costly idle
ness We must be rich indeed as to
personal attractions"
b. 1--WE are educated, accomplished, and
} and"
Alice was a little bewildcrcd in
d thought and did not finish the sen
b tence.
"Not better educated, or accomplish.
cd, as girls, than are most Of the young
b men who, as clerks, earn only from sew
, en- hundred to a thousand dollars a year
In this regard we are simply their
equals. But it strikes me that in an
d other view Of the case we cannot claim
C even an equality. They are our supe-
riors'
S mot by any means replied Alice.
h awe shall see. Here is Harry Pleas
r. ants, for instance What is his incomoi
t l think you mentioned the sum just
o now"
d Eight hundred dollars a year"
y "That is the interest on-how much
rs let me see--abOut twelve thousand dol
r lars.
+ GLOW you talk, Fanny"
d "TO the point, don't L? If we ar,
not superior to the young men who yisi
n US; superior simply in the virtue of on
1t sex; then our only claim to be hand
c somely supported in idle sef-indulgence
RS must lie in the fact that we endow ou
to husbands with sufficient worldly good
re to warrant the condition"
"You are ingenious"
;e "No, a matter of fact. What have 70,
er to say against my position, Alice?'-
e, Are we better than young men Of cqua
ID intelligence and education?'
mo, l cannot say that we are"
off we marry we must look anon,
those for husbands Rich men, as
nc general thing, select their wives frou
Gr rich mems daughters.
d. "Our chances in that direction ar
IN not very encouraging. Your father ha
'y no dowry for his child; nor has mine
Their families are large and expensive
and little or nothing Of the years in
IN come is left at the years close. Tn
as best they can do for us is to give u
to homes, and feel that it is not much t
our credit that we are content to lea
to on our fathers already STOPPING unde
the burden of years. care and toll, in
stead Of supporting ourselves Th
Dr, thought has troubled me Of late
by a sober hue came over the face Of Al
ice as she sat looking into the eyes o.
- her friend. She did not reply and Fan
= ny went on.
). "Thero is wrong in this. On who
ground Of reason are we to be exemT
, from the common lot Of useful work
u. We expect to become wives and motl
ers. Is this our preparation? Can yo
bake a loaf Of sweet light broad?"
nd ono"
,ir "Nor can I. Or roast a sirloiu?"
he ono"
"Or broil steak? Just think of i
ne Alice! We can manage a little useles
embroidery or fancy knitting; can sin
n. and play, dance and chatter-but as {
the real and sulstantial things of if
we are ignorant and helpless, An
with all this, forsooth, we cannot thin
of letting ourselves 90 down to the levt
and condition Of virtuOus, inteligen
young men, who, 10 daily, useful worl
/. are earning a fair independence! w
. are so superior that we must have hu,
or bands able to support us in luxuriou
m idleness or VIC will have nonc We az
h! willing to pass the man to whom Low
ry would unite us in the tenderest bond.
| because his income is small and MARI
ot. one for position-one from whom I'll
e- soul turns with instructive aversion
Can we wonder that so many are unhaI
in Py?1
ne But eight hundred dollars, Fam,
IS? How is it possible for married COZ
m pie to live i'm any decent style, in tn
city, on eight hundred dollars yearl
lg They may live ia very oomfortab
as style, if the wife is willing to porlor
he her part" ... ......... ....
gn "What do you mean by her part, Far
.g, ny?'
lot "We will take It for granted that st
a is no better than her husband. Tha
having brought him no fortune beyou
I'm her own dear self she cannot claim 81
perior privileges,
h "WelR'
ng aoHo has to work through all ii
p- day" .rrs....a ..
1T "WelR' ... ..... ...-..s-
by Under what equitable rule IS she e.
TO empt?"
in dNono. She must do her part, Z
a course, if there is anything to db viz
ell She must keep his house, If he can a
lc- ford one. But if be have only Gig
sh hundred dollars year Why, rel
no alone would consume half, or more thl
he half Of chat ThOre would be no hous