The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-11-08
Miscellany.
The Woman Que..ion.y

have been sitting here enoying a quiet
laugh all by myself, over pile of newspapers
and magazines, in which the "Woman CUES
ton was aired according to the differing
views OF editors and writers. One gentleman
thinks, that the reason the men take nap on
the sofa evenings at home, or else leave lt 10
go to naughty places, is because there are no
Madame De Staels in our MIDST 10 make
home attractive He was, probably, bachet-
or, or he would understand that when man
who has been peIplexed and fietted all day,
finally reaches home, the last object he wishes
to encounter is a wide-awake woman of the
Madame De Stael pattern. pfopounding her
theories n politics, theology and literature
The yeriest idiot who should entertain him by
the hour with tragic accounts of broken tea
cups, and saucepans, would be a blessing com
pared to her not that he would like that Ell
Their; not that he would know himself exact
ly what he Mould like in such case. except
that 1t should be something Numerically OBJ
posite to that, which, years ago he got on his
knees to solicit. A1bb aeEx&E ~ I
Another writer asserts that women's brains
are too highly cultivated at the present day
and that they have ost their interest in the
increase Of the census and that their bus
bands, not Sharing their apathy, hence the
disastrous result / might suggest in answer
that this apathy may have its foundation in
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club-life, and that which answers to il in a
less fashionable stratum of society that il is an
inGignity to expect fathers OF families to be al
home, save occasionally to sleep, or eat or to
change their apparel; aud that, under such
circumstances, women naturally prefer to be
mother of tour children, or none, than to en-
gineer seventeen or twenty through the per
ills of childhood and youth without assistance,
cooperation, or sympathy. 1p Teitr
Annt Il
"smile' enough when their husbands come
into the house; and that many man misses
having his shirt, or drawers, taken from the
bureau and laid on chair all ready to Jump
into, at some particular day, or hour as he
was accustomed when he lived with some
pattern sister or immaculate aunt at home
This preys on his manly intellect and makes
life curse to him. str ai1ne 9ai % 4Hi3 =
Another asserts that many women have
some female friend who is very Objectionable
TO the husband, in eXertng a pugistIc effect
on her mind, and that he fees his house in
consequence of this unholy influence; NOT
that this very husband wouldn't bristles all
over at the idea of his wlies communicating
a bachelor, or benedict friend, for the same
reason but then il makes difference, you
know, man not being woman. ,e.B
Another writer asserts that nobody yet
knows what woman is capable of doing.
have only to reply that the same assertion
cannot be made with regard to men, as tic
jewellers in great cities, at least, know thai
the majority of them are capable of doing
anything, that the devil and opportunity IA
Vor,
1t has been practice for years to father
every stupid joke that travels the newspaper
round on ''Pdddy'--poor paddy" In the
same way it seems to me that tor every mar
ried man now, who proves untrue TO his bet
ter nature, his acJe is held responsible. II is
the old cowardly excuse that the first man
alive set going and which has been travelling
round this weary world ever since. THE
woman thou gavest to be with me"-she did
thus and SO; and therefore all the Adams
from that time down, have whimpered, torn
their hair, and rushed forth to the long-covet-
ed perdtion, over the bridge of this cowardly
excuse. FANNY FERN