Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-10-17

favor In the Ngorid W.. a apo. = C-5i -
the heavy OH ROAD gate-Vvhich "a" mas lust
. unhircrd 10 mrnd-half Il dozen rods to lag u
across a mud puddle. that woman, 10 whom
he never SPOKE before and probably never VIII
again, may pass over dry-shod, IL is false 10
say that the age of chivalry is gone. Talk OF
Sir Walter Raleigh's gallantry. Say rather ms
/ shrewdncss. Surely his was the most econom-
ical use 20 which cloak was ever put. what
I wonderful pOlitpness was there III rlskinS =
few yards OF plush 10 win the smile OF a SoFer-
eign whose smiles We're 'msney ana lame ana
troops of friends
| IL am awarc that this universal politeness
! has passed under the han of certain OF my sex,
who are pleased to consider and dPsigilntH II RS
sdoll-treatment.' and resent II accordingly.
They ask no fayors, despisc condescensions,
and demand dues. Very well. They are doubt
less conscientious. II 1 thought as they do, L
should probably act as they do Only 1 do not.
Even if thi. courtesy were a kind of qmiS
pro qnO--a superiority given for an essential
taking away-a Roland of kindness thrust
upon us for an Oliver of right, fraudulrntly
kept hack-why. / am q Graid ] must make the
igTobir confess ion that i--belicve-I like the
Roland better than the Oliver-thlt is, if We
cannot have both-if rights preclude courtesy.
IL is plrasantrr. or, ;s Englishmcs woHld say,
.iolliCr, TO sit by the frsh-pots of Egpyt, than
30 starVP hcally in the promised land. w omen
would better improve the rights they have, n
little more, before going mad after others that
they know not of. II seems to me- that have
business enough on my hands now 10 occupy
three persons 1T least; and If men 1ciH he so
good TO do the lsw-ma king. and stock Job
bling, and bribing, and quarrelling,and stump
speaking, Will be greatly obliged 10 them.
II will give them empioyment and lake them
of our hands for good part of the day. which
is very convenient Az the biz man said. when
asked why he let his little wife beat him: at
amuses her and - don't hurt me-"
The authorcss having made these frank ad-i
missions, turns deity abOut and protests
against the patronZing air with which women
are direussed by the stronger sex: -.
Frem the confession of faith which have
made, it will readily be inferred that have no
petty spite to crafty, hut that speak more i'm
sorrow than i'll anger when say that men do
sometimes act like acknowledgements devoid
of sense, dictionary definition of a word
which refrain from using for courteous rea-
sons,) and it really is necessary to fall back on
undisputed proofs Of their common sense i'll
other matters, to convince ourselves that this
is only a nionoSfRtitSu. Tu : .- tT aE
81 do not blame men for not understanding
women. 1t is, perhaps, not in the nature of
things Two Organisms SO delicate, vet so dis
tinct-so often parallel, yet so entirely integral
can perhaps never be thoroughly under
stood effectively, But I do blame them for
obstinately persisting in the belief that they do
when they don't.
--z"Do Halter myself that what may say
will have the slightest tendency to modify the
views or the practice of any one OF my mas
culins readers. should be so fortunate as To
have any? Not in the least Though speak
with the tongues of men and of angels, yet of
six men who should do me the honor to read
me, half q dozen, invited to deliver an address
atthe anniversary OF female boarding-schooi,
would rise slowly in their places, smile down
a bland and benignant compliment on the
white robed beauty before them, and glide
gracefully into an oily euloGium upon wo-
mans influence, her humanizing and eleyat-
ing mission, prornulgating the novel and start
ling theory that her power is in her heart, not
in her arm that she Judges by intuition rather
than induction; that her sphere is not on the
rostrum, but by the Preside; that she is TO rule
by love, not by fear; interspersing some vene-
rable fling at woman rights conventions and
their strong minded leaders, quoting with I'M
utterable pathos,
/ called her angel, but he called her wife,
Query: What right has any man to be
calling another mans wife's angel7)-and
winding up gloriously in metaphoric con-
yulsion."
From this point the fair authoress proceeds
to discuss the health, education, literary aspi-
rations, etc., of women, vigorously and well.
We may return to this sprightly essay again.