The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1868-03-06
THE JOURNAL
FREMONT, sANDUSKY CO., OHIO
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1868.
Definite, Very.


A eotemporary says-"Males and fe-
males are admitted to scholarships in
the Iowa Agricultural College" So
males and females are admitted to the
cages and dens of the Geological gar
dens-to the stalls of every stock-raiser,
and to the track of every race course in
the country.
What is the matter with Americans,
that they 80 carefully avoid the use of
those good, old fashioned words: man,
woman, wife. These names, so exclu-
sively human, have been crowded out
to make room for those belonging to
the mere animal. Judging from hotel
registers, newspapers, books, and public
speakers, there are very few wives or
women in the country. 1t is always
John Smith and lady; but who the lady
is, or what relation she sustains to John,
nobody can tell from the record she
may be Mrs. Smith, or some other Mrs.
or Miss. So, too, we have female Sem
inaries, female Colleges, female Asso-
Citations, female sufferings, z female
wrongs, and female suffrage. Every
woman, old or young, is either a lady
or female. There are no wives, no
mothers, no sisters no women. And
why? When John and Sarah are mar
ried, and start on their journey,-which
sounds best, and does most credit to
Sarah, to write John Smith and lady,
or John Smith and wife, And when
they wish to send their daughter to
school, which is the more honorable, to
say she has gone to female seminary,
or to a seminary for young women!
Now if we should venture to guess
the reason for this perverted use Of
terms, we should say it arises from the
very silly notion of too many
Americans respecting manual labor.
They look upon all kinds of household
work and other employments, peculiar
ly womanish, as inconsistent with true
womanly dignity. They imagine they
shall not be counted ladies if they en-
gage in any form of manual labor.
They will paint, draw, teach, embroid-
er, ETC., but they are not willing to cook
dinner, do up shirt, or make dress.
Should they do these things, they
would not be ladies' The consequence
of this notion, so dishonorable to every
true woman, and so disgraceful to the
Americans as a free and democratic
people, is, that when the operatives in
our factories or kitchens, or dress-mak-
ing establishments, are spoken of, they
are called young women, or sewing
women; but when the young females
of Fifth Avenue are spoken Of, who are
not one whit more intelligent, virtuous,
or amiable, than the Operatives in
many New England factory, they are
not called young women, but young
ladies. The wearer of thousand dol
lar dress is young lady, while the
owner of the busy brain and skillful
fingers which devised and made the
dress, is young woman. Again, the
occupant of a brown stone front and
mistress Of half dozen servants, whose
style of living exceeds her husbands in
come by five thousand year and
bankrupts him in five years from mar
risge, is always lady, and welcome to
the best (}3) society; while the yirtuous
and industrious young wife of the me-
chanic, who is her own cook, laundress
and dress-maker, and SO manages her
husbands limited income, that a few
dollars are saved every years the
young woman, and has no place in that
same best society. A further conse-
quence of all this is, that nearly every
young woman feels that she must flee
the kitchen, the factory, and all forms
of manual labor, if she is to be lady
and get into good socisey! Remedy
Give us more woman, and less lady.