The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-11-22
THE oPpnEssiIox or WOMEN WON
How they are EdueRtcal WrOng..-Mnr'
rIagc Had BuHinrsS.-M MCRn Behavior
OF Men-.-RaISS Social JudRineHtS--.A
Lecture by SIISs Annie f.. Dickinson,
Delivered In BOEtOu, NOT.II. 1893.


FIage had BuHinrsS.-aGCR can Behavior
OF Men--RaISS Social JudgIneuts--.A
Lecture by Miss Annie f.. Dickinson,
Delivered In BOEtOu. NOT.'Ii. 1888.
Fun the Boston Daily AdFcttIeT. 4
In the beginning of her lecture Miss
Dickinson spoke OF the present manner
of educating young girls for tho mar
riage state, and for the future. Sho
said that the great iden, the great aim
presented to them, was, that they must
make themselves able "to get u huS-
bRnd," In her own peculiar manner
the lecturer gave examples OF the pre-
wiling stvle of education, ;and desert
bed the manner in which young ladies
were taught to conduct themselves, md
with this compared the education given
TO boys and young men. Girls, she said,
should have IN equal chance. with
the boys. Let a girl have u chance 10
so educate, 80 train herself, Us TO be
able 10 stand side by side with her
chosen husband, and, II she bo not able
to spenk when he speaks, thnt she may
say Amen understandingly, TO what
be has TO inter. 49,
The education nj present given TO
Urls makes ninGty-nine out of hun
dred Of them deceitful. They doh't
care to act their own free, simple, nAtu-'
raj selves In the presence of an unnlar-
ried Inhu. II makes girls everywhere
believe that II Ia bctterto take anything
which is offered them Il II be respectable,
or rich, rlther than have the unwelcom
title Of "AIissr before thelr name on
their thirtieth birthday. II makes
.,,naV, and - thu
mnrringes they contract. Men and
fathers make their daughters feel that
they are burdens upon their purses;
ihnt they should hnve homes OF their
own; they should be settled IN life as
soon ns possible. The speaker declared
that tho fathers OF marriageable dRugh-
tors ought to let them know and feel
thut they hRve homes, permanent
homes, under their inthers roofs; that
the doors would swing slowly upon
their hinges which opened for them to
go out for tho last time. This talk
everywhere henrd, Of girls getting
married ns the great aim OF their life
should b. stopped.
In this connection Miss Dickinson
took occasion 10 dcnounce the proposal
TO transport n cargo Of Massachusetts
girls 10 the far West, for the purpose Of
marrying them OIL; 10 send them there
with plncurds hung around their nccks
prOClniming them IN The market. She
did not object TO sending these girls TO
the territories II they could, upon their
arrival, have work established for them
to do, and be placed upon the avenues
of labor, But shO Ind hOnrd from good
authority TINT there was nothing therefor
these girls 10 do but to got married, 10
do worse, or stHrvC. Tho committee
who hnd this matter in ChnrgC have
stated thRt there nrc there 1000 lonely
men, who have built for themselves
huts In which To live, and who arG tear
Ing, Tnnting, and thrRshing around the
country thUrenbOuts like wild bensts,
sOrcly In need of soothing spirllA. II iH
proposed that these soothing spirits he
sent them In tho slInpO Of ilVC hundred
young girls. our girls nr0 now trained
10 look forward 10 the establishment OF
homes, 10 the procuring OF persons 10
support them. They get married. Al
tho nltnr the young mnn sOlOmnly de-
clnrCs aloud, "Wilh all my worldly
goods | thee ondOw," and mentally
CJncnlntcs, "Whnts yours IL minO, and
what's mine Is my own" O.. ...|..a
Immediately inter the nHrrlage tho
husband proceeds deliberately TO re-
dnco this woman to II state OF lcEnllzod
pnnpcrlsm during the remainder OF hOr
life. Tho man opens his arms, opens
his heart, mud shuts close his purse M
! soon uS the woman comes To his house.
Tho speaker snId TINT II wnR tlmO the
| husband should understand th0t tho
| Wotunu In inlfpa M his tVIFn hhn na uDDU
n right 10 his money I'M he has, because
sho isns thoroughly II pnrt Of himself,
II the marriage rilos botruC, ny his own
hnnd or his own OyC. Men, however,
gather them In, put their money IN
their box, lock II up Tight and then
Hay IN the most bowltChlnR mnnnCri
"Dcg dOggic, beg" Tho speaker said
she knew InHny married womOn who