The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1865-12-06

hrs. Svs ishelnA. .-~ r4s
"Sister Jane" a. this sx.edit-ess rad racy
writer was orcc called, 10 after somebody.
She addresses the Washington Chronicle in
language not to be misunderstood. She states
that she "led the woman's rights, agitation
years ago, and then she pitches in.' Does
sJane expect her sex to become mea7 This is
the mistake of reformcrs. La Fontaines fable
Of the cat is here applicable; by the prayer Of
the young man, Jupiter turned the cat into
beautiful, spry woman but on the wedding night
q scratch on the wainscot re formed the lady
into cat Cher natural state) and an end came
to the happiness of that family. Women will
be women and we thank God for it. Getting
out Of their places is all the complaint that
can be grounded against them. Here, Jane:
The employment Of women in the Govern.
ment Department is nm experiment 1t has
not, thus far, been so complete a success as its
friends could wish. and may possibly yet be
pronounced q failure. The fault is chiefly all
on our side of the house. Women pcrsevcre
in carrying the drawing room to the Office
ment must fail.
A fit rule Of good breeding excludes the shop
from the parlor A man who lugs his business
habitually into his social hours 10 always bore !;
and what should we think of one who went to
his counting room in the ball dress Of the pre-.
vious evening.
During business hours men require to be re-
leased from the restraints OF the drawing room
mot certainly from the rule Of good manners
or good morals, but from he etiquettes OF soci-
ETY.. In the social circle it is. all right; they
all Il. - A..
ural enemies" who continue to present them
with the old apple of disobedience, but to ask
them to keep up state of chronic admiration
for taper waists, glossy ringlets, bewitching
smiles, and all the etceteras, is q stra n upon
human endurance which must snap the cord
In business hours men must "mind
their own business" or the worlds work will
be left undone; and if the presence Of women
among them dstu,bs the even fow of thought
the women must ard should get out of the
way.
1t is painfully humliatins to any lover of
the race to see American women of education
holding important places in the Crandest Gov.
eminent the world ever saw, and initiating
the costume and manners of Partisan grisettes
Let any thinker watch the troops of women,
stump, stump, stump, s'umping, or rather
thump, thump, humping upand down the
long stone starways of our different depart.
ments, with their feet crushed into shoes 30
tight that all elasticity of step is gone, and the
foot comes down like an old fashioned sock.
leg, while the shoe, which if large enough,
would last east y six months, must burst in one,
let him or her look at the spreading hoop ard
fashily festooned and orimmented skirts which
invite attention to these poor, crushed and
crippled feet; let him or her, note the iaunty
hats and "cunning" feathers; the poor hair
stuffed with "rats' and "mice''and bundles of
buffalo hide; which make one sick with disgust,
and then bedizened with beds and spangles
enough to satisfy the vanity of brace Of Chip.
pewa squaws, and let him say what these wo
men are, externally, but bad limitations of the
genuine 1t would certainly be better for hu.
manly that all Of this class of Government
employees should starvc at home than they
should corrupt public morals, and we lower
the national standard OF womanly delicacy by
recognizing their righ, to fill the honorable pc.
sitlons many Of them occupy.
know that some, perhaps majority of
these, dress thus from MISUNDERSTANDING the
situation. They fail to see the distinction be.
tween business hours ard social life, and 60
drag the drawing room with them, with its CO.
quetries, into the Offices.