The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-06-10
RATE OF sURsoRmT1oNs.
RATEs OF ApVERT1s1Na,
TIE RIGHTS AND WRONGS OF
WOMES, -.- ...
What American Women Do--.A PIel
..l for IuGtIae


What American Women Do--.A Plea
for Justice.
Mrs. Caroline n. Dali, of Boston, has
written, and Lee & Shepard publish, a
brilliant and eloquent book. with the
title: "The College, the Market and the
Court; or Woman,s Relation to Educa-
ton, Labor aud Law"
Mrs. Dali believes firmly that justice
has not been done to women, and she
pleads their cause with great energy
and also with great ability. How wo-
men are miseducated, how they are de-
priVed Of equal rights by the laws, how
they are wronged in the abor-mafket,
and what they have nevertheless ac-
compllshed-all this she tells in man
ner and with an abundance ofillustra-
tion which makes her;book as interest
ing as a novel and as effective as prize
essay.
WOMAN sUFFRAGE.-
That woman should vote, and that In
this way only, or chiefly and best, can
they right themselves and defend
themselves against the world, Mrs.
Dali maintains with all her might. She
says: - T-Ta.-aJ EIIr ~ -rT
!" A mans right to education-that is,
to the education or drawing-out of all.
the faculties God has given him-in-
wolves the right to choice OF vocation:
that Is, to a choice of the end to which
those faculties shall be trained. The
choice of vocation involves the right
and the duty of protecting that voca.
tion; that is, the right of deciding how
far 1t shall be taxed, in how many ways
legislative action shall be allowed to
oontrolit; in one word, the right to the
elective franchise" r--rr -
And here is story with which she
points her moral:
"a year ago, in one ofthe most beau.
tiful towns of this neighborhood, sepa-
rated by a grassy common, shaded with
dropping elms, rose two ample build
ings dedicated TO the same purpose.
They were the high schools for the two
sexes.
"They were taught by two persons
admirably fitted for their work. The
man, uncommonly happy in importing
instruction, was yet deficient In mathe.
maticsi and consi Tered by competent
judges inferior to the woman.
she was an orphan, with a young
sister dependent upon her for instruc-
ton and support. She had been grad
uated with the highest honors at one Of
the State normal schools. She was del
icate and beautiful; not in the least
'streng- minded Neither ispectacles
upon her noses nor wooden soies to her
boots appealed to the popular indigna-
ton. All who knew her loved her; and
the man whom we have named was not
ashamed to receive instruction from
her in geometry and algebra. The two
schools were equal in numbers. The
man was a bachelor, subject to no claim
beyond his own necessity.
What did common sense and right
reason demand, but that these two per
sons should be treated alike by society.
prudential committees, and SO on I
Yon shall hear what was the fact. The
man was engaged at a salary OF fifteen
hundred dollars. The wealthiest class
In the community entrusted Its sons to
his charge without question. Single,
he was made much of in society, invi-
ted to parties, and had his own cornSr
at many tea-table, which he bright
ened with his pleasant jokes. He soon
came to be a person in the towa; had
his vote: was valued accordingly; went
to church; was put upon committees-
had great deal to do with calling the
new minister; and so, cut of school,
had pleasant and varied occupation,
which saved his soul from racking to
death over the ruts of the Latin gram
mar. Would we have it otherwise?
Was 1t not all right2 Certainly it was,
and our friend deserved it; deserved,
too, that when the second year was half
over, and there were rumors that dis
tant city had secured his services, the
committee should raise his salary two
hundred and fifty dollars, and so keep
him for themselves.
But let us look at the reverse of the
picture. The woman, burdened with
the care of younger sister, greatly
this mans superior in mathematics,
and posst bly, in other things, was en-
gagged at six hundred dollars. 1t WAS
not customary for the wealthy families
in this neighborhood to trust their girls
to the tender mercies of a public school;
SO she had class of pupils less elegant
in manner, of more ordinary mental
training, and every way more difficult
to control. Still they were disciplined,
and learned to love their teacher. A
few of the parents called upon her and
she was occasionally invited to their
homes. But these homes were not con-
genial to her tastes or habits. There
was no Intellectual stimulauts derived
from them to brighten her life. They
offered neither pictures, statues, books,
nor the result Of travel to her delicate
and yearning appreciation. She talked,
for the most part, of her pupils and
their work. and the strain of her voca-
ton, always heavier on woman than on
man, wore more and more upon her
soul. Society, as such, offered her no
welcome.
"She was nothing 10 the town. She
hired her seat, and went to church. She
had no vo.e, was never on a parish
committee, had only one chance to
change her position. That was to re-
move to a more congenial neighbor-
hood at lower salary; but she thought
of her young sister, and refused. Ifthe
committee heard of it they did not offer
to increase her salary. They were men
incapable of appreciating her rare and
modest culture. There was tendency
to consumption in her frame. Had she
been happy, she might have resisted it
Tor years, perhaps forever; but with the
restless pining at herssheart, that men,.
tai and moral morasmus, the physical
dlsease soon showed itself. In the COM
mencement OF the third year of her
teaching, she began to- cough: and in
less than three months from the
day when she heard her last class, she
lay in an early but not unhonored
grave" 7r.-.
lll 90 - WOMEN UNDERPAID.j +. ii}E. e
"When the salaries of the st. Louis
teachers were raised in 1866, the prin-
cipal was obliged to express her Indig-
nation before her salary was raised to
its present sum of two thousand dol
lars. Had she been a man, she would
certainly have had as much as the prin-
cipal of the high school namely, TWEEN
7ty seven hundred and fifty. dollars. A
graduate Of Antioch College, assisting
in the high school at st. Louis, has
twelve hundred dollars, where a man
Miss Brackettis own assistants in the
normal school have eleven hundred
dollars"
Mrs. Dali speaks with pardonable
bitterness of the following absurd case:
LET me direct your attention to one
published in Boston by a leading house
last winter. and entitled Remarkable
Women Of Dlferent Ages and Nations.,