Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-24

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The new book by "Gail Hamilton" pub
lished by Ticknor & Fields, is called "The
New Atmosphere" 1t is all about wo-
men, their shocking disregard of their
rights and privileges, and their horrible
treatment received at the hands of the
other sex. 1t is not a plea for "strOng-
mindedness," or for "emancipated wo-
mem" it is rather an argument in behalf OF
their natural rights, put in peril by the
unnatural wrongs of false education, mis-
placed activities, absurd conventionaIisms,
and mistaken idea of their special mis-
zion. "Gail Hamilton" wieIds pleasant
pen; she is popular writer but she often
dips her pen in gall, and points it with a
sting. Hence her discussions amuse the
reader here. and affront him there. She
labors, however, to redress wrongs and re-
move evils, and, like all reformers, cuts
deeply, regardless of the wounds she may
infict, and confident that the "wouuds of
q friend" are. blessed. Her quick blows
fall on all sides, and happy is coDserva-
tism if it escapes rough treatment. For
fossil ideas, and fossilized structures she
has no mercy. Her teachings do not tend
to the unsexing of women, but rather to d
development of Woman's nature in the di.
reotion of independence and freedom from
forms The essence OF purity and true
womanliness is as dear to her as to the
truest of her sex. few passages from
her last book will indicate its spirit. We
quote
Every woman is a wife in the grub /;
every man is a husband IN the chrysalis
atate. If young people enjoy each others
conversation and make opportunity to Sc
cure it, there are dozens of gossips, male
and female, who proceed to forecast a
match.
By as much as marriage is sacred, by SO
much is he q blasphemer who travesties it,
and he thrice and four times -plasphemous
who leads others to do so. If woman
wishes to do thing, she can do it, and
that is the end of it-there is little more to
be desired in that line.
1t costs woman just Rs much TO live as
1t does man. If men would be willing to
practice the small economies that women
practice they could live at no greater ex-
pence.
never saw or heard of son born Of
virtuous parents, and wisely trained in the
ways of virtue, who turned about aud
poisoned his parents after he had grown
| up. The eider-duck plucks the down from
her own breast to warm the nest for her
young, and do not suppose an uugrateful
or rebellious elder duckling was ever heard
of; but if the eider-duck plucks the down
from the breast of her young to line the
nest for herselt-whRt then7
Our great diffusion of knowledge has
not given US corresponding mastery. Our
knives are sharper, but we only white
We have the swift, clean stove oven
tor the cumbFous old bake kettle, but,
meanwhile, we have lost the fireside, and
have found no substitute, and mans life
lies not in ovens or bake kettles, but in
6resides
Adyspeptic man is the most subjective
person in the world. He thinks more
about himself in 3 week, than a well per.
son does in year.
There are many women who will thank
"Gsil Hamilton" for the advice she gives to
husbands who come home sour and dis.
contented, forgetful of the fact that the
wife has her multifarious home trials. and
that these press upon her every hour. For
men who think too little OF the grievous
ills that are never complained Of, and who
are too fond of playing the "Grand seig.
neur" in their households, abe metes out an
uusparing critcism, much of which is we'll
deserved. "Gail Hamilton" will make
friends by the "New Atmosphere" among
the women, and they will force the men to
recognition of the claims she so urgently