The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-06-13

of life know that without a certain amount OF
mental cultivation the occupations which l
have referred to cannot be carried on. 1t re
uuires brains to use practical experience, but
brains without practical experience would go
further than practical experience without
brains. Hear. 1t is thought that the special
occupations of women are more antagonistlc
than those of men to comprehension OF pub
lie affairs Perhaps it was thought that those
who had the chief chance of the moral bring
ing up of a futu generation could not have
had an opinion worth caring about, or as if
those whose duty it was in the household to
produce the greatest results with the smallest
means could not be compared with those hon
Orable gentleman opposite who manage to
produce such singulary small results with
such large means. / laugh
A SILENT DOMESTIC REVOLUTION.
I should not feel the confidence | do in this
subject if the great change | advocate was not
grounded on a previous social change The
idea of a hard line of separation between
mans province of thought and woman's be-
longs to a state of society that is receding fur
Their and further into the past. We talk of
the political revolutions of the world, but we
do not pay sufficient attention to the fact
that there has taken place among us a silent
domestic revolution. Hear, Women and
men for the first time in history are really
companions. Our traditions Of the proper re
iatiOns between them have descended from
time when their lives were apart, when they
were separate in their thoughts because they
We're separate both in their amusementS and
III their serious occupations. The man spent
his hours of leisure among men-all his friend
ships, all his ntimacieS were with men-With
man alone did he converse on any serious sub
ject; the wife was either playthng or an up
per servant.
All this among the educated classes is
changed. Men no longer give up their spare
time TO violent outdoor exercises and bolster
Gus cOnvivialties with male associates; the
home has acquired the ascendancy; the two
sexes really now pass their time together; the
women of the family are mans habitual sOci- |
ety-the wife is his chief associate, his most |
confidential friend, and often his most trusted
counsellor. Cheers. Now, does a man wish |
to have for his dearest mpanion-linked so
closely with himself, and whose wishes and
preferences have so strong claim upon him |
one whose thoughts are akin with those
which occupy his own mind one who can give
neither help, nor comfort, nor support, to his |
noblest feelings and purposes? Hear, hear
Is this close and almost exclusive compan-
lOnship compatible with women being warned .
off all large subjects Taught that they ought |
not o care about what is the mans duty to
care for, and that to take part in any serious
outside the household is stepping be-
You'd their province? Is it good for man to
pass his life in close communion of thoughts
and feelings with person studously kept in
terlor to himselt-whose earthly interests are
5Orcibly restrained within four walls-who is
taught to cultivate as q grace Of character ig-
lorance and indifference, about the most in
spring subjects, those among which his high
est duties are cast? Hear, hear Does any
one suppose that this can happen without T.
letriment to the mans own character.
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