The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-09-29

(Concluded.)
The scroll of literary fame is bright
with the names of Sappho, Aspasia, and
others of ancient times. In later days
those of Burney, De Stacl, De Sevigne
More, Norton, Hemans, Landon, Mitfo'
Edgeworth, Browning, Sigourney, FL :,
Hewitt, Smith, Judson, Weiby, Mulooh,
Edwards, Evans, and numbers of others,
whose songs are heard in our home cir
Giles. and whose pleasant stories gladden.
our fre-side evenings.
With empire undisputed by male au-
thority, reign supreme the queens of song
-Malibran, Catalini, Jenny Lind, Son.
tag, Alboni, Grisi, Piccolomini, Bishop,
Bozio, Patti, and the less potent monarchs
who from time to time Gil that unsteady
seat, the throne of the public favor.
The bright stars of the drama-Mes-
danes Siddons, G. Kean, Rachel, Fisher,
Mowatt, Kemble, Dean, Cushman, Da-
venport, Ristori, Borcicault, and scores of
lesser lights, attest, at least, equality with
man 10 the representation of the sublime
creations of the genius of Shakespeare and
his compeers.
Wanted evidence of woman's capacity
to rule, and Dido, Semiramis, Zenobia,
Cleopatra. Elizabeth of England, Catha-
rine, Anne and Elizabeth of Russia, and
other realms rich and prosperous under
their dominion, one after another come
before US on history's page, their chroni-
Giles written in characters of gold; not I'M
furnished, however-what record is!
Who SO uncouynced as to need further
example, let him lock around him. How
many men do you know who are not ruled
by women in some way? Not often with
their own consent and knowledge, truly,
but none the less ruled on that account.
That is the beauty Of the feminine system,
rightly administering rule by seeming
to obey.
1t is a generally received opinion that
in every mans house there is skeleton
closet. Did it ever occur to you to think
that in nineteen out of twenty cases the
skeletons in said closets were female ones?
1t is SO? Politeuess forbids the insinua-
ton that any of you could be suspected of
having any such place about your domi-
Giles, or that, in common with some, you
could be so ungallant as to wish all the
closets to be peopled with skeletons not
the "new PATENT" but "bona fde" bouy,
grisly frameworks of defunct tantalizing
femininity Did you share in both the
. above presumed cases you would be no
: worse than some others of your sex. Did
you never hear man wish the world was
aoomanlessP If not, you have something
yet ito learn. May the perpetrator of that
wish enjoy buttonless linen, toelcss stock
ings, limp collars, cold tea, muddy coffee,
sour bread, dust and cobwebs, and red
refractory naoustache to the end of his
days, and may his dreams be haunted by
boy devils, with blue noses and red hair !!
Comfort yourselves, that if you have fin
ished the first chapter Of female influence,
and fancy yourselves enjoying perpetual
quittance therefrom, the day will soon
come, is even now approaching, when you
will begin the second chapter; when you,
too, will have skeletons in your houses !;
and it is kindness prompts the wish that
the dry bones may not rattle SO loudly as
to disturb you at unseemly hours.
Regard it as fixed fact, that the d.
plomatic clement is essentially feminine