The Irish republic. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1867-18??, 1868-01-18


ladylike 1t marks off contracted sphere, outside of
which she dare not move, and calls it womans element
All of which is but certain civilized and advanced
species of slavery the relic of feuda times when woman
toy, to be used and thrown aside like chid's
DOLL
Now, America has outgrown all this The harness of
kings sat uneasy this continent, from the first and
when its people shook themselves free from the glitter
ing but oppressive trappngs, woman was as much the
gamer the over-worked millions who starved in the
empty stalled stables of the European monarchs Ever
since Columbia Strengthened herself up and tossed her
curs free from nets and chains has stood
erect in America than in Europe. The American wo-
man is not educated to bow and bend and slide through
life if she thanking humanity for allowing her
to exist at ALL She is taught to think and act from
the first. There is frmness in her finely cut mouth
that warns those that have been intoxicated with the
wealth of passion that burns in her brilliant eyes to
beware. This is no effemnate creature with whom
sport, but true whose love is glorious
and whose hate is terrible There is a boldness to
Europeans in her facial expression but it is only the
fixed purpose and the natural expression of freedom
While freedom faunts her banner above the Republic,
woman shall rise in the scale of beauty, until heaven
shall draw near to earth and become gods to be
worthy of her love- 1t is to the elevation of the
glory of the Republic be traced in the past and it
is the continued advancement of that will assure
its stability and greatness in the future The
of America have not sprung up in night. Their
European mothers driven from their native homes by
tyranny were all that could have been expected but
took generations born and nurtured three thousand
miles away from thrones and chains, and fed with the
free spirit of this boundess continent to produce the
"mothers of freemen" The slaves of kings cannot be-
come the mothers of Republics.
The American woman then, owing all her superiority
to freedom should understand that freedoms continued
existence depends the proper exercise of that super
iority.
The American woman, blessed as she is in being of
such land and born to freedom with all its blessings
of education and comfort should have soul above the
feather her bonnet. She should, above all things,
guard against copying the fashions of classdvided
Europe. By fashions, We do not mean the cut of the
jacket the sweep of the train, or the trimming
of the bonnet but the dangerous fashions of
class prejudice, aristocratc PRIDE and forgetfuness
that they sprung from the people, in the true spirit
of the word About the new fashions of dress we do
not much. That is matter of feminine taste,
and the healthy Of the women Of America should
be guarantee that they make fashions their slaves in
stead of becoming the slaves of fashions.
It makes us sick at heart to American fathers who
have grown rich by life of ceaseess labor take their
American daughters to the court of some petty king
and if her Republican beauty but captvate old
titled aoue and that his govt will allow him to kneel and
lay his heart" at her feet which has been laid at and
tramped beneath the feet of hundred couresans he
has reached the acme of his ambition. Grating his
blossom from the tree of liberty the frutless stem of
vice-enfeebled aristocracy This is some disease in
human nature that has descended from slave ancestors
and breaks out even in the fourth generation of free