The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-02-26

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be forming a boat-club. a row is ex,
pected on the Thames shortly in conse
quenee.
Young ladies should set good ex.
amples, for the young men are alway:
following them.
-Superlatives are dangerous things
a man once wrote to his wife, "My
dearest Maria;" and by return post re,
ceived the cold reply, "Permit me tC
\ correct either your grammar or youl
morality. Pray, who are your other
Marias ?"
Before dove comes in at the door, ,
it would be better to peep through the
keyhole- He might see something tnai
world prevent him entering.
Give strict attention to your OWE
affairs, and consider your wife one o.
The reason why young ladies look
SO bold and fierce in these latter dayE
is that they tie their hair so tightly or
the back of their heads that they can,
not shut their eyes, tsome say theil
their fierce look; and then their tre-
mendous waterfalls so balance their
heads up, that they seem to cock their
chins" at everybody, hence their bold
defiant look. 1t is mere fashion-they
don't mean it.
Mrs Elizabeth Cady Stanton lectur-
ed in Brooklyn, n. ", the other even
ing, and in her remarks laid down her
platform for women, which is the ballot
or no taxes. All that she said was
rather interesting, and We are not sur
prised to read that even the men in her
audience applauded occasionally. We
quote from her address as follows:
"How humiliating for respectable,
law-abiding women, and black men
not worth $3.50, TO be thrown outside OF
political consideration, with traitors,
with those convicted of bribery, larceny
and Infamous crimes, and, worse than
all, with those who bet on elections,
daughter and applausel-for how lost
to all sense of honor must that white
male citizen be who publicly violates a
wise law to which he has himself given
an intelligent consent. Gentlemen, I
for one am ashamed of my company.
do not know how the rest of the wo-
men of the State feel, but am asham-
ed TO find myself in such a category as
this. lApplause.l The Mahommedan
forbids fool, a madman, or n woman
10 call the hours for prayer. If it We're
not for the invidiouS classification, we
might think it were tenderness rather
than contempt which moved the Ma
hommedan thus to excuse ours sex from
such hard duty; but for the ballot
which falls like flake of snow upon
the seed, there is no such excuse for
New York legislators.
Just imagine the motley crew from
the ten thousand dens of infamy and
vice in our cities, cringing, limping,
staggering up to the polls, while the
loyal mothers of million of soldiers
whose bones lie bleaching on eyery
southern plain. stand outside, sad and
silent witnesses of this wholesale dis
grace OF Republican institutions. Zap
plause.l
Shall Senators tell me in their places
that have no need of the ballot when
10000 women in the City of New York
alone are earning their daily bread at
starvation prices with their needle, and
below these, in the lower depths, are a
mighty multitude over whose follies
anu crimes society draws the vail of
forgetfulness, or before that inscruta-
bic problem stands hardened and ap-
paued. You are legislating on our
several evils. Give woman work, give
her wages, open to her your colleges
all the profitable and honorable posts
of lfe-and you will settle that prob
lem much sooner to the satisfaction
than you possibly can by your one
sided legislation. 1 tell you, my broth
ers, that 1t is too big a problem for YOU
to settle alone.
T "A writer in the Round Table says
The women of America are growing
more and more handsome every year,
for just this reason: They are growing
rounder of chest, fuller of limb, gain
ing substance and development in
every direction. Whatever may be
urged to the contrary, we believe this
10 be a demonstrated fact. We have
been accustomed to hear such dismal
means over dyspepsia and the heat of
stoves, bad food and bad habits of life,
that an impression of degeneracy finds
place in many minds, and the PROPOSE
ton, therefore, that American women
are visibly growing handsomer, may at
first provoke a good deal of dissent.
We believe, however, that reflection
and observation will indorse and sus-
tain it. The change may be less
marked among the poorer classes, and
may be more pronounced in the chief
centers of population and refinement;
but that it has taken place, is progress
ing, and probably destined favorably to
affect the community at large, we have
no doubt. When the rising generation
of American girls once begun TO wear
thick shoes, to take much exercise in
the open air, to skate, to play croquet,
and to affect the saddle, they not only
began to grow more wise, but more
healthful, aud-which must follow as
the night the day-more beautiful.