New-York daily tribune., 1865-11-08

for a million 0f rcauero. COOas ulV'o'' "
feeling. nerve and vein and sinew in sweet anu
useful harmony. what violated law oi nature
may make it burn and throb or become coio
and dead with paralysis And, II this SUI Ill"
most undesirable fate should beiall it, why not
tender gentle woman come to IT, ana
search out the cause Of the pain, and, Dy her
knowledge of the laws of science. bid the
fever to DO gone-and the veins beat once
more with Iifc and hope. Because Saw-bones
is a man, and carries a gold-headed cane ana
looks wise, an1 scrawls Latin hierosyphics on
small scraps Of paper, and Lectures dogmatic'
ally about the follies Of the "pathies" who are
not of his "pathy." must we say that all the
world is false and he alone true--that all men
and women are charlataus, and he alone the
true minister of health and scence' We can
understand perhaps, why an Allopathst may
sncer at the disciple OF Homeopathy; or why
the Electropatni,t may assure us that the n.y.
dropathist is a humbug Each Of these classes
has been taught in peculiar school, and the
mind trained in one way. But what "pathy
is il TINT prescribes that none but men
shall know its mysteries and expound them to
suffering world for so many dollaSs per hour
The "pathie8" have multiplied 80 woINsriully
in the la.t few years that VIC have q, many
"pathics' As "isms," and We may be killed or
cured in aS many ways as We may pu saved OF
damned Behold, new one comes from Lon
ldon-and henceforw ard there are 10 be Manpathy
and Womanpathy-the difference being simply
that the ManpstbistS wear broadcloth alter II
certain shape, while the Wcmahpaih.s's array
themselves in the latest colors from Paris'
The Manpathists have power. and they
use il in narrow vulgar, jealous way TO re-
press a small and struggling class.
| A. We showed recently in these columns, the
question of work for woman is problem that
becomes moro and more important, for The
tendency Of all Civilizations Of close settlements
aud oyercrowding population Is to make the
female sex largely in EXCESS of themale. 1t IS 80
in New England ana in the cities OF our Atlantic
civilization. Twenty years from now VIII
he 80 in many Of the Atlantic States. Accept
ing marriage as the duty Of oil men and women,
we lind that. aitor answering this duty, we have
a large female surplus, who must either sup
port themselves or be supported by Others Ia
the relation Of sister and daughter and mother,
many may find support without tho necessity
OF personal labor; and. whenever brother,
father o. son can give that support, the duty
| is theirs. But his does not meet the ease
Of the large class wLo have neither son,
brother or father 20 support them
Who n.u.t live II their lives are lives Of virtue,
lly labor We see them here ia New
! York-in New -England-in most Of the coun-
trie, Of Europe. There are fantastic theorists
who urge that polyginiy Is the true way TO u'e
up ihis surplus of women. Pious thinkers adj
yocat. the nona,tic Gystem, and think II would
be 10 the glory OF the Catholic Church and de-
yrlopmcnt of womauly virtues TO put the sur-
plus in cloi-ters. Our civilization. We blush Ia
sly Il, has thrown up 4 class more Infamous
Iey,n ilay the unnumbercd wives Of Turkish
Lords, and infinitely more prohlcss than the life
of the cioi',rr. j. there aoway OF deciding this
; problem Must wo go on from century 20 cen
tlgy-rovue richer, happier, wiser every day,
advancing morally, socially politically, improv-
ing the whole economy of life, and yet dragging
with n, a elias, whose daily life is iniamyl This
+ The ulcer that makes our purest civilization
offensive Shall We toy with it. and write
rhymes and wtticisms, and find pleasant phrases
to hide its shame, as they dom France or shall
we assume he functions Of the God of Ven
goance like England, and curse to irre,rieva.
. bic perdition all women who make merchnn-
disc out of their virtue The French plan
and the English plan alike have failed
c reason. Here is an accomplished woman
: who after years Of study and labor, is pro
! nounced competent to practice medicine. Sh,
= may be poor, with sick mother or {
+ bedridden father or with orphaned broth
S ers and sisters to educate and raise C
s respectability She proposes to do it by study
# ing and practicing medicine. The Manpathists
r object. There is no reason except the vugol
n prejudice that too often accompanies and de
: bases power. Practice medicine No, go e
r brothel, and tester in crime; or TO factory
and die from consumption; or work sixtecr
d weary hours a day, sewing shirts at ten cent
9 piece. You may have intellect scholarship
G Judgment; you know as much or more than We
i you can check fever, or stay consumption, o.
r control tho cholera, as eicctually as any Saw
/ bones in London-but it matters not. YoV
# are woman-So hence to brothcl, or
d factory, or garret
n We trust there is manly sentiment enough il