Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1863-10-13
Mistress Minerva Morris.

To TIE GoLD HILL News Il am so
glad that you've brought here your civil
izcr--your printing press; and I hope
that you will not give all your space to
questionable stock reports and police
items. I said civilizer above; but l did
not mean to intimate that civilization
could not have got along without YOU,
though l must admit that however highly
civilized place may be, the addition Of
an enlighted public journal to its institu-
tions will serve as the best of all civil
ling processes in Use. have been re-
joicing at the thought of having village
paper, not because I am disposed to occu-
ply a newspaper with my notions of "men
and things Il mean men, women and
things-but because it will become a
medium through which the whole COM
munity may become extensively and
properly known. People elsewhere now
only know that this is some sort of place
more natural than artificial, more rough
than elegant, more rich. than refined.
They don't know that this is a town
nearly as large as the largest towns of
California, and that we abound in wives,
maidcns and children; they don't know
that husbands are about as good over here
as they are over there; that society and
fashion flourish in happiness and tinery !;
that the surrounding wastes do not intim-
idate family immigration and contcnted
rnE+lDp,ro+ o,,l fbnt fl,n g, rDr,l o,,l
the population increasing by means the
most natural and inevitable. The other
day 1 had the curiosity to ask an acquaint-
ance why there were more women in these
towns in proportion to the number of
men than there were in the California
places. 60" said he, "thc women will
go where the men are, and where there's
plenty of money therc'll be plenty of
women. Let the men go to perdition and
the women II chase after emf they've
got plenty of money to spend on the way"
This was a scandalous reply, but such is
characteristic of the men when they are
blessed by plenty of women" How
different they arc, though, when women
are few! Then they mourn; then they
cry for "dear COMPREHENSIVE" then say
they haven't any CANCELS" to save them
from perdition; then they admit that
women are the most necessary and indis-
pcnSablc ingredient in human society.
What's money without them: What's a
neighborhood without them: All, YES,
women's absence makes either babies or
devils of them! The advent Of any kind
of women among them is the advent of a
goddess-a Pi Ute female commands adj
miring eyes, and an unhooped emigrant
from the plains, though alkalicd and sun
burnt to the utmost, is ga good looking
piece" capable of animating a crowd of
men with imprcSsibly conflicting emotions!
would have YOU believe that believe
that the growing moral excellence of our
famous Territory is very fully due to fam
ily and female influence, an influence
which is increasing every day. 1 hope
that in she midst of all the rush and noise
and illusions of wealth, womanly inAu-
encc will, while it solaces the careworn,
still further ennoble itself by nourishing
the filp sentiments of nature, education
and refined intercourse. 1t is singular
ly remarkable fact, that the public journ-
ais of the Territory have had so little to
say of the rapid increase of women,
children and homes here, that beyond our
borders Washoe places arc not!conclusive-
ly known as possessing the advantages of
ladies society. Let this error be removed,
and for one am resolved to urge you to
transcend the usual gallantry of our news
papers which never alludc to the ladies
! except under the merely utilitarian cap
tons of marriages and births.
Mrs. MINERVA MORRIS.