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

what Invaluable assistance you are bereft,
in the more delicate operations of the
craft, the "wire.pulling," ("log-rolling"
would be rather heavy work for ladies,
the quilting the "dear people," the 'pull-
ing wool' over the eyes Of sharp oppo-
nents, and the other thousand and one
little Get ceteras" attendant upon cleo
pioneering; and, after the success, the
nice man@uvering in the bestowal of places,
and so on, al infaituns. Repair by re-
form ; enlist in the ''corps diplomatlquc"
goodly number Of pretty girls, interest
ing widows aud talented married ladies',
and no further argument will be needed.
The result will carry with it conviction of
its utility. With certain limits, wom-
an is .eycn now the "power behind the
throne greater than tho throne itself"
Change the topic. Look along the IL
brary shelves, and records of adventurous
travel meet your eye, bearing the names of
Mary Montague, Hester Stanhope, Emme-
line Wortley, Harriet Martineau, Ida
Pfeffer, with others who by sea- and land
have added their testimony to woman's
equality with man. Bright on the leaf
of Glands Book Of Life" dedicated to
human charity and christian philanthropy,
are emblazoned in jewelled characters the
names of Elizabeth Fry and Florence
Nightingale, daughters of England our
own Anne Andrews and Dorothea Dix,
with others whose names, unnoticed by
the multitude, shall shine as brightly as
any when the fpal roll is called.
Equal with man in beauty of face aud
form, in genius, in strength of intellect,
in religious faith, in all that constitutes
the good of humanity, woman, when SO
minded, is not behind him in refinement
of cruelty and determined wickedness.--
History presents record of the BLACKLIST
deeds that ever stained humanity, as bav-
ing been perpetrated by women. In
crime, her instructive talent for caution
and diplomacy develops itself Woman's
hatred and revenge seek not the public
quarrel, the highway attack, or even the
stealthy blow by the hands of hireling
assassins. The poisoned bowl or bouquet,
the keen, quick, silent dagger, not too
heavy for her own fair hand-these are
her legitimate weapons. Cool, calm, cal.
culating, damning ISLANDERS, insinuations
rather than assertons-these the means,
triumph the result.
On the record of infamy are no blacker
letters than those which mark the names
of Elinor, wife of Henry H., Bloody Mary
of England, Agnes of Holland, Catharine
de Medici, Lucrezia Borgia, Lady How.
ard, the notorious Tofana, fla Voisin,"
Viscountess Rockford, and others, as the
auction catalogues say, too numerous to
mention. The sultan Of old times made
no bad guess when he asserted, that in
every crime, every murder, there was
woman at the bottom of it.
Woman's is the empire of the affections;
there she wishes to reign supreme, and in
the cultivation and encouragement of low
ing trustfulness in her, by your sex, is
the sure and sole way in which she can be
governed in any sphere. Let her become
what she can, and she will need no ruler.
De her common justice, and you will not
regret it, If she have taste for scienti-
fc pursuits, don't toss up your lordly noses
and sniff out "Strong-minded !" in that dis
agreeable tone so peculiarly masculine,
but leave her alone; in ninety-nine and
half out of hundred cases, scientific fe.
male will never bother you. Be she lite
rary, don't, for humanity sake, snarl
"blue stocking p A taste for literature
is not necessarily accompanied by pro-
portionate distaste for the "stocking bas-
kct,' nor by a liking for soiled collars,
rumpled hair, and slip-shod shoes-knowl-
edge and neatness are not inseparabe.
Complain Of brainless, good nothing
women, and comfort yourselves with the
fact hat you are making them just such.
Place the standard of female life higher,
aud women will live up to it. Continue
to pour into the ears of girls who should
be in short frocks and the school-room the
nonsense that too many of you do, and
you will have girls just what you complain
of them being. Tell them you like the
"delicate weakness SO inseparable from the
ldeah of twuly feminine nachaw-ah )"
that you do SO "admiah pwetty little white
hands.ah ! and that it is so essentially
vulgah for lady to wash dishes alb" &c,
&c. If you wish to try the result of such
system, marry one of the young ladies'.
Your beet-steak and buttons, your parlor
and pantaloons, your supper and stockings
will soon afford you abundant evidence of
its success. | am far from undertaking
accomplishments they are pretty, taste
full, agreeable, and many of them truly
useful but knowledge of "Casta Diva
alone won't improve the flavor of your
coffee, and "Ever of Thee though it
sounded like angels singing when the blue
eyed wsrbler of your counting days sang
it for you, you'll find isn't just "the
thiog,' when your toes are sticking out
of your stockings some cold winter morn
ing. 81 ,-......
Encourage woman; and since you know
so much better how everything should be
done, teach her how to live, physically,