Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-12-31

right 10 vote. In the city Of Worcester,
two women have been elected d'to places on
the school board, positions ofgreat rospon-
sibility in the Bay State. II women had
the control Of the schools in Vermont, |
opine that more of our children would be
taught for less money, Woman suffrage
we may as well accept as inevitable II is
not the panaoea for all the ills that op.
press the tender sex, such as the preva.
lence Of friyolity among the leisurc.fall
and soanty wages for the toiling, but new
ertheless, it will prepare the way ior tho
remedy Of these and many other evils
1t is said, by one of your papers, that the
mothers DO not want the ballot The moth
us- of ys...s.. know hut little Of the
miseries to which their sex is elsewhere
subjected in this country. Some of them
haze knit up machine-made stockings AT
twenty-five cents per dozen, but they do
not know what il is to live on such and
meaner wages, for they generally have
some other means of support. In consid-
Grafton Of the good tina, would accrue tn
their less fortunate sisters, ii almost be-
comes the duty of our mothers TO desire
the ballot, and, when it is granted them,
so TO use it as to engender confidence in
the sex elsewhere. But we are not SO
sure that the mothers do not want
il. Those who wish TO vote, form no in
significant minority, while those who
pride themselves on a supposed fastidious-
ness in regard to the matter, would be
just as free TO stay away from the polls as
they are now. This argument has AN
odor that reminds one Of the old pro,sa-
very idea, that the slaves did not want To-
be free.
Since read Whittier "Snow Bound,
no book of poems has given me greater
pleasure than the same authors Among
the Hills lately published by Fields,
Osgood X Co When the critics want to
say -otno,i.ins o-Pooiall, fine of "A book,
they tell you that mo gentlemans library
should be without il" But to this little
volume, shall award the still greater
praise that it is needed on every farmers
little book shelf; do not say on his par
lor table, because the books that occupy
that honored position are scarcely ever
read. No author touches the peoples
heart as Whittier does. In the principal
poem of this book are portrayed two clas-
ses Of farmers and their wives with such
fidelity to nature that every one can re-
oognize nA sliv ploeuaO oiei.et nmseit or
some of his neighbors.
In whichever class he finds himself, he
cannot but be elevated and made happier
by the simple song Of sugar camps, barn
swallows, fresh churned butter, apple
parings, "Home and home loves, and the
beatitudes of nature, free to ALL
A good story is told of bungling New
York critic, who prepared and published
in one of the papers in that city, very
elaborate condemnation of the word bOsaal
in this supposed passage of the poem
"swept the valleys clear before
The 5ospHi of the thunder
The astute critic read bosom for 5esoHi.
as the line really reads, thus laying him
self open to laugh all around. Com
mendation or condemnation from the crit
les would have little influence with the
common people in their estimation of
Whittier. His Maud Muller and Bar
bara Frietchie are household names BY
the way, in regard to the incident upon
which the latter poem is founded, some
doubts having been thrown upon its truth, /
it is confirmed from two sources, at least /
one of these is a Union soldier from /
town, who, in one Of his cam
paigns in Virginia, became acquainted
with the Frietchie family, and heard the
story before it was ever sung by poet
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