, 1868-04-24
NUMBER 10.
What All. All the women.


Our neighbors over the water judging from al
article In one Of their leading papers, seem to be
greatly exercised at present on "The Woman
Question" The old model who sneszed exactly
at the same time her Grandmother did, and sat
down aud rose up, aud went out, Gnd came in
whenever her husband bade her-aDd made no
objectioAs, at the Same time, to any irregulArity
either In his hours or habits-it seems, has diI-
appeared. Instead, We have that horrOr--the
| English would-be female voter; In short, the
Eoglish female who asserts her right 10 individ>
uAlity, in action and opinion, equally with her
husband.
John Bull sets down hiS mug Of beer, and Sayi
that tue thing u monsuous. He says that be
no logger can lounge of BY bimSslf. as 10 baehS
elor days, although be is married-and, there
fore, a more eimportant-member Of society. He
says that be is not allowed, as formerly, 70 spend
every evening with his eronies-Tom, Dick and
Harry. He says that bis wife positively expeets
him TO act as if be were married. He says that
when be tells her decidedly that lie won do this,
that she pays no more attention to bis refusal
than II be hadn't made il but quietly returnt
to the same point OF disputation the next day,
aud every day, and every month, and all through
| the year, with feline pertiuacity. He says that
it is like the slow dropping Of water on some
sensitive part Of the frame be says he don't like
| it, and don't know what to do about it.
He says, besides that marriage is not at all IA
I
which is very obvious in bis own case, in the
remarks above quoted He says that all she
says snd does "has the stamp Of Liliput; !" aud
| that, should she have the right Of suffrage, she
| would barter away her vote for a new gown. He
| says justice is quality unknown to women,
/ which is very true, and thats what she is cons
| tending for. He says TO make q long matter
short, that when be married be expected to live
just exactly the same life that be did before, and
| that be finds be can't; and, moreover, he says;
with a sweeping wave Of his John Bull hand,
that no husband was ever made more large.heart-
ed or tolerant, or in any wsy benefited BY mars
riAge.
Now, if man will marry, with such absurd
ideas of what marriage ought to be, If he will
marry fool, | advise him not to go whining
round the world about it be deserves the cons
| sequences. Bullet him not insist that all women
are fools, because be got on bis knees 10 obtain
one. will always maintain that there are twen-
| ~ bad husbands to one bad wife and that one
would seldom continue bad il her husband we're
just and kind to her. As to marriage "narrowi
| ing mans mind, - that which never bad any
breadth cannot be narrowed. Aud history abun-
| dainty shows how wise in counsel, how judi
cious 10 influence, how helpful 10 sympathy and
&C. operation have been many such wives.
Now it is often said that wife to a literary
man is only hiudrauce. Provided she is not
fool, it would pay him, 10 my opinion, to give
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otherwise, to give him the feminine side Of every
great question of the day, as it comes up-which,
! by the way, she does ubcnnscionsly, and which
nas anything bat "nsrrowing" either on bis
mind Of bis writings, whether be acknowledge
| it or not.
| 1t is no small thing to be able to toss her
| book and say 81 want to know what is In that
| book, but havn't time to read it run il over,
will you and tell me what you think Of it"-or
to get from her the condensation of newspapers,
magazines and pamphlets, in the same way or
! translations or to have her assistance in ants
wering letters to ask where such and such
passage may be found in certain authors which
have escaped his memory. Is contact with such
a woman narrowing 2-and there are Thousands
of such.
1t is horrible for q man of sense to be yoked
to a fool, and vice versa. No one denies it. But
the whole kerue of the woman matter is just
this Men are no longer what they were. There
are no young men now. Before they have ceased
to be young men, the majority of them, by a toy
tai disregard of natures laws, have united
themselves for contact with aud compRuiopship
and appreciation Of pure, good women. 1t 10 as
a babe should be fed from birth with highly
spiced condiments; and then, at maturity, have
relish for pure wholesome food. The fault is
not in women but in the men who bring to the
healthful, simple, sweet pleasures of matrimouyi
diseased minds and dilapidated bodies.
FANNY FKRN,