North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-04-22

! On was ever truer giaunesS
| To trembling suppliant givsni
With thy smile to Danish sadness
Earthly life is too like Heavenl
A Female Den Quixots.
The following letter appears to have
been called forth by an article which ap-
pearel in this column of the Sunday
Times on the lst of March. The writer is
clever enough to shine little on her own
account, Instead Of being content to be the
glory OF some man; for she seems to
have quitc-l had almost said wlfully-
misunderstood the article to which she al
ludes; for she must know that there is an
immense difference between being indie
pende't Of marriage, (my POSITION and
independent an marriage, which is simply
Impossible. But here is her letter:
DEAR TIMEs:-l did truly mean never
to trouble you again. but am ten times
more disgusted with writing woman kind
/ now than when wrote you last; and
think | can safely count on one little
twinge, at least. OF Wheeling by the
time you have finished reading this. Re
ally, now, as Mr.. Peter Magnus' would
say, when woman, and married wo-
man, too, writes an article for publication
like that of Jennie Junes in the Sunday
Times of March lst, does it not convey a
suspicion that there is something rotten
| in the State of Denmark p | felt like a
"March hare when I read it. (See what
an i'll tempered, undisci plined being am .
and after all the adversely and disappont-
ments l have encountered in life, too y |
thought, "By the bones Of the Prophet I"
if were an unmarried man, such women
would necessarily make themselves abso-
lutely ''independent'' of me; and if were
IA man unfortunately yoked to one of them,
| would foster her ambition by having her
labelled with the not uncommon inscrip-
ton: This Institution is SelEsupperting.
After that cooled down Il little. | have
now decided that revolutions" or ''revo-
| lutiCnary articles" cannot spoil me.
'o!d-fogy" saint who said, II would have
woman also said that Evil communica-
know that John is sure. upright, and
true, shall believe that he is the ''image
and glory of God" and be quite content
to be his glory; or, as many beautiful
| ladies handsomely dressed would term it,
his "pauper,' servant" or changer on"
And erhaps they would deign to say
something more in that liue could they see
me, with red face and hands, preparing a
heal!htul and digcstihle dinner for them.
Possibly. l am no more obliged to do it for
him than they are for their lords; but |
ctH do it. lie is NINETY per cent bet
ter In health now than when | commenc,
ed it, year ago, and / don't intend to
abate it It'll | sec him at least two hun
dred above par
The first thing | ever was taught about
man was that he was reasonable ''ani-
mall and think if men are cross, crab
bed. and catankerous, it is not wholly
without reason. How many of them are
there who provide everything needful to
make their homes as luxurious, aye. hap
pier even than Paradise, yet never find
a home in anything hut the name? Is it
unreasonable, or unnatural they should
feel touch-woody? But are they so?
have never seen it at home or abroad; and
as ''sccing is believing" shall wait until
do sec it, before admit it, Why! Even
in that celebrated "Pork- packing estab-
lishment," the Third Avenue cars, | al
ways meet from one to three bfurcated
individuals ready to kindly offer me
seat, and which l Us often politely but
firmly decline to accept-lor, thank good
ness, am as well able to stand upon my
what-dy yes ,call-ems as anybody else. Is
that a reason for their politencss, do you
think?
But. dearest me Ito appropriate an in
terjection usual with the finest ladies,
what can do? am only one of the one
hundred thousand poor down-rodden
''creeturs' in this city, and the other nine
thousand nine hundred and ninety y-nine
do not know it ut all, probably. Heaven
help them am getting wroth again;
and were it not time to 60 about preparing
sour dinner" goodness only knows how
mu longer this inhiction might continue.
l think you will admit that "peeling pota-
toes" even, may keep us out of mischief
so wont "peel'' them this time, but will |
bake them splendidly.
Yours truly, E PLURrBUs UNUM.
1t is too bad that "E Pluribus Unum"
should have become so excited over mere
s.adow conjured up by her OVID quick and |
lively imagination. The time and energy |
wasted upon fighting such windmill
wonld have produced something wonder
full in the way of pies and puddings if on
ly they had been used in that direction.-l
am afraid ''our dinner" did suffer for
one day at least.
Seriously, in reading over my article of
March |, l find that ''E Pluribus Unum'
need not have misunderstood me unless
she wished to do so. distinctly urge the
advantage to accrue to women from inde-
pendencc Of marriage, but nowhere state,
as possible or desirable, that there should
be independence IN marriage.
No one, not even az Pluribus Unum,"
will deny that it is high time that our girls
were educated to something besides mar
riasc. Looking upon matrimony as the
cud and aim Of cxistencc-not because it
enables them to fulfil manifest destiny,
but rs a means Of shirking labor, and
shifting the burden of their support from
father to husband--our girls are made
mere bait to catch husbands. All their
better qualities are sacrificed in the attempt
10 shine and distance competition. 1t is
notorious that the matrimonial market is
over stocked; tina. American girls are for
sale, like the women in Turkish market
place, to the highest bidder; that they are
absolutely dependent on marriage for live
ihood; and that men, young or old with
put personal or mental qualities to recon-
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