Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-10-18

and thereby can't 'tremonstrate--~ith cigar
between your lips. What ind. unity is
furnished you by the free air and the dome
of heavens overhead Have you 'pecial'y
chartered the public promenade? Does
stale tobacco smoke smell any swee'er
when it creeps under n ady's veil or bon
net ribbons than when it insinuates itself
into the curtains and carpets of her bou-
doir?
What right have you to stand on hotel
steps and stare sweet innocent girls out OF
countenance
What right have you to 60 TO races,
base ball matches, conventions, and other
wild beast shows, spending the money and
time that belong to your family, and silenc-
ing your wife's timid question with /" It's
no place for woman?" Is ii a place for
a man? That's what we should like to
know.
What right have you to conceal your
business affairs from your wife, carefully
keeping her in the dark as TO the relative
proportion of outgo and income, and, final
ly, when failure and ruin come, to blame
her for no, being more economical? The
mariner never lived who could steer ship
at night with neither compass nor rudder.
Your wife is in no way responsible for
your commercial disasters.
What right have you. young man, 70
walk straight from gambling den and
drinking saloon into the parlors of pure
girls, and lily-souled women, and expect a
welcome there? Can you touch pitch and
no, be defiled? Have you no respect for
the atmosphere of their noble womanhood?
What right have you to squandrr your
money on Champagne breakfasts, fast
horses,y yatcb-racing, and billiards, and then
declare, incidentally, "you are sorry little
Mary interprets your attentions SO seri
ously--it costs SO much to live that you
really can't afford 10 marry?
What right have you to swear at The
!
/ creature, and then leave her alone and sol
itary through long days and longer even
ings, because +" it is so stupid to be tie'
down at home the whole time? 2"
What right have you to frown dow
every possible innovation and improve
ment that can in any way elevate or bet
ter the down-trodden race of your domes
: tic slave. woman.
r And what right have you TO say"
! poor shiftless creature, wi no enterprs
\ at all--nothing better ceud hive bee
r expected from her!" when another {
0 them, too weak and spiriless TO conten
, against the incoming tide of calamit,
4 folds her poor hands and succumbs resis
sistles-Iy TO her dooms
t Don't tell US that these are extren
a cases." They are not extreme case
: They are cases that lock you blankly
o the face morning, noon and night. whel
ever you open your eyes upon the worl
/. inss of the great outside world. A.
!, yourself honestly and conscientiously
e low many of these counts you can plea
: #" Not guilty." Ask yourself if there al
J. no improvements to be made--no wis,
a methods of solving the old tronbleson
j. riddles. You can be capable of great sa
s rifces, or history is at fyut, Why don
D. you make life beautiful with small sacI
n fees?
. Well, perhaps there is no use in was
n ing printers ink and paper. II the dali
n hourly contemplation of a woman's p
). tienee, and industry, and self-abnegati'
!, don't produce the wished for effect, not
i ing ever will and we suppose you. ea
and all of you, have some domestic appe
N dages or other, wife. sister, mother
O. daughter, who play the part of admiri
al Queen of Sheba 10 your sublime Solomo
if 1t is the old. old story, gotten up in mo
,e ern type and gilded bindings, only o
.lfI can't help. once in a century or SO, e
q. pressing ones plain, honest, and cand
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