North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1869-04-28

A lady friend hands us. the following
"clip; for the readers of the TINES. W.
thank her.
Other "Girls OF the Period."
am inclined to believe that there are q
great many kinds of women, both in Eng
land and America. This idea seems to b,
lost sight of, by the writer's of both ma
tions, who have lately undertaken to de-
scribe the feminine elem .nt, under such
titles as "The Girl of the PERIOD" or 9Th.
Woman of the Time y presenting to on,
view monstrosities, which no doubt exist
but which are no more to be taken al
specimens of the whole, than is the
Bearded Woman, or the Mammoth Fat
Girl.
New York, for instance, is not wholly
given over to the feminine devil. Angels
walk our streets, discernable to eyes thai
,cish to see. Noble, thoughtful, earnest
women; sick Of shams and pretence
striving each, so far as in her lies, ia
abate both, and to diminish the amount oi
physical and moral suffering. Then,
never so into the country for few weeks
summer holiday, that do not find large
hearted, large Drained women, slowed
away among the green hills, in little cot
tages, which are glorifed inside and out
by their presence women who, amid the
press of house and garden work, find time
for mental culture; whose little book
shelves hold well-read copies of our best
authors. Women-sound physically, men,
tally, morally women, whom the Han Of
the Period, who most surely exists, has
never found. Now and then, some man,
fit to be her mate, in his rambles in the
sweet summer time, is struck as am by
these gems hidden amid the green hills,
and appropriates them for his own. But
for the most part the more sensible man
is, the bigger the fool he marries. This is
especially true Of biographers
What wrong, then, to the great army
of sensible, earnest women in either coun-
try to pick out a butterfly as the national
type. Because a few men in New York
and London and Paris wear corsets, and
dye their whiskers and hair, and pad out
their hollow cheeks and shrunken calves,
it does not follow that Victor Hugo, and
John Bright, and the great army of brave
men who won our late victory, are all
popinjays. For every female fool l will
find you male mate. So when the in
ventory of the former is taken, the roll-call
Of the latter might as well be voiced. Are
women SO "fond of gossip?" Pray, what
is the staple OF after dinner conversation
when the wine comes on and the women
go off? Do women 'lavish money on per-
sonal adornment ?' How many men are
there who would lie willing to tell on what,
ard on whom, their money was worse than
lavished? Do women ''leave their nursery
altogether to hirelings?' How many cor
responding men are there, whose own
children under their own roofs, are almost
entire strangers to their club,frequentins
fathers? And yet what good, noble men
are to be seen for the looking? Faithful
to their trusts, faithful to themselves, un-
moved by the waves of folly and sin that
dash around them, as is the rock of Gib>
raltar.
1 claim that justice be done by these
writer's on both sides of the water, to both
sexes. Fools, like the poor, We hall have
always with us; but, thank God, the
'.just'' man and the Just woman 'still
live, to redeem the race. Men worthy to
be fathers, and large>brained women, who
do not even in this degenerate day, disdain
to look we'll after their own households.
FANNY FERN.