Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-12-07
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"Wcman's Sphere. Again.

e; ,.,.;mept to either their business or their
u ,,or,lsp But suppose the right-or rath-
Mt the wrong--ot suffrage, were thrust
ne i,,oths unwilling hands of wives and moth
e y, Election day arrives and what is the
4 III. right of the mistress, is also that of
V n. bandmaiden. But by an unlucky COM
he ro,tion of circumstances, little Tommy
- s,s = cold, which lac gained when his
us uother was absent at the caucus, and
= must b. kept in the house to avoid Sc
- ,s. illness The baby cannot take care
N # herself, and she must have protection.
=, What is to be done? Three, FIVE, seven,
e >, nine miles to the POLLS only one team,
= md to add to the perplexities, lame
= horse. There must be two pilgrmages
q ,,srs and back, that each may cast vote.
y After arising at very early hour, work
mo hard through the morning, and to have
!" weighing upon her mind the thought,that
= no one can look out for the baby and
y Tommy, as Mother. What with the fur
q Their anxiety of weighing the questions of
X the day, so that she may be quite certain
q Of voting rightly, and being uncertain
i. ,bether after all she may not be taxed
"A with being unduly Influenced by Father"
j. by strOng-ninded females of the oppose
ton when the weary mother finally lays
6 her head upon her pillow, she will be apt
4 to be strongly convinced of the wrotg of
q woman suffrage. Not all Of the sweet and
/. vOmanly wives and mothers in the land
\ have servants to take care from their
j shoulders, nor would they be willing to
trust the physical, mentalor moral culture
!. Of their children, to rude and uncultivated
I. minds. One who is foremost in demand
!. ihl the ballot, one of the greatest friends
I. Of the cause-and one who has also made
q herself enc OF lts worst eneml Essays:
!. "If there is one occupation which is,
!, more than another, mere waste of time,
Y. think, it is for an active, abor-competent
Z woman to sit from morning till night with
/. limp backed baby on her knee, devoting
~ her whole energies unsuccessfully to the
4 business of putting it to sleep" A rev.
II crend gentleman comments upon this re-
4. mark: eff it would not be hard upon the
H. wolf, | should dare ask whether the author
IA Of such sentiment was nursed by one in
On her infancy" No We catinot occupy two
Il. places at the same time ard what mother
d does not find the six work-days "all too
IA snort for what she has to do?" If she enters
IA The political arena she must have ample
Ii tine to study upon every political ques-
IN ton, Nearly every woman can find time
ID 10 read upon general questions, but il she
n Is to discuss subjects Which many mon
II make it their only business to Study, she
f must be fully prepared to do so. Oh
p course she would be no better off than now
y if the point of controversy were yielded
2 TO her because she is--woman. Where
y will be the time, then, to visit the sick
Z 'othe the poor, feed the hungry and exer.
Z else all those womanly influences which
man cannot do if he wouid? IF God had
: ever intended the sphere Of man and wo.
s nan to be the same, lie would undoubted,
y y have formed both out of the dust Of the
2 earth and not have taken from man 0
y rib"
q Ii woman has not succeeded in quclIinl
i lntemperance at home, among husbands
Il ahers and brothers, how can she expect
4 10 do so at the polls? But as unpleasant
II as it would be to meet intoxicated men a
3 hepolls, tle worst of all to be dreaded
al would be the abandoned, the deprayed
70 the ignorant, rude. unwomanly woman.--
IS And Of course such must be met, fer sui
y lrage cannot be given only to the refined
rs the educated, nor even to the uueultureC
: good woman, any more than to man.
y we all know ALL purc-minded women
10 OF whom the world hs sneyer heard wher'
"eyes" are not "blinded" by fashions,
whom VIC would accept as guides as sool
I. as any "who know the luxury of indepcn
.. dent thought" and "whose souls see fur
10 Their than ours Women who are train
IS ing their sons and daughters to take nc
d bic places in the world, and who conside
IS The bestowal of the ballot upon woman a
5. The greatest misfortune which could occu
: her. God grant that ere that day shal
b conc, the daiscs shall cover the grave Q
D. John Anderson, my John--and mine. 4"
= Miss Katie: | have never looked upo
% your face, yet my heart goes forth to NEE
Q YOU feeling sure that yours is true VIC
|, manly spirit. And if your voice nevc
d reaches our ears as il echoes from th
pGoIic rostrum, We shall know that some
a SGere IN the world your sweet inhuenc
frightening aud bene6tting hearts an
homes. "ilere's health for you" HI
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