Middletown transcript., 1869-09-18


going to leave her vocation, so lucrative
and for which she has mission, to attenc
to her own particular little pigmy? Ol
course not. Off with it to the chicken
coop. It's safe there, little darling. L
won't fall into hot water, and the nurse.
know just what to do for measles. As i
this was all the infant soul craved, yearn-
ing after human knowledge, looking for il
in mothers eye, and smile, and voice,
drinking in love with their very" Milk I?
No, l won't have drop of it. I detest
it, and all these forlorn little ones fore
doomed to be brought up on the bottle.
Women are rushing on their own de-
struction, nowadays, if they only knew it.
L can sec it as plainly as | do the nose on
your face, Oliver. could tell them what
they are about; 1 could give them timely
warning-but l won't. My day is almost
over, and if they want to make such reg
ular simpletons of themselves, let them
| don't wonder men accuse them of being
incapable of coming to Il logical conclu-
sion. Why, can write the whole ergo
of this independent movement which is
taking place among them. 1t is barbar-
ISM. DO you want me to work it out for
you? won't. Let 'em work it out by
hard experience; it's nothing to me.
How, Fred " For the benefit of my
granddaughtcrs that are to be- Well,
there is something in that, if Violetta will
only remember it and act on it; but she
will never remember anything except the
number Of her dresses and the way to do
her back hair
The way I argue it out is this; in the
savage state, women work to maintain
themselves and their noble lords; in the
purified, cultivated state upon which we
are coming, women will do the same, only
more of it and harder-eryo, high civili-
cation and baabarism are one and the
same.
God gave woman work to do-plenty of
it-all she could do WE'LL and more than
He gave man, for she has fewer periods of
rest. Man, with spark of his Creator in
him, as soon as he got beyond the savage,
saw that his duty was to do the rough out
door work for his wife, to protect her,
watch over. her, give her the same chance
for her nestlings that the bird gives his
mate when he brings food to her. Once,
if some poor shiftless fellow left his wife
to not only watch over her children, but
to provide meat and drink for them, the
world cried " For shame w very loudly at
him. In fact, very few men, except hab-
itual drunkards, could bear the loud con-
tempt of their peighbors consequent on
such q course.
Now what are tho poor fools of women
doing? Asking, beseeching, demanding
the privilege of making squaws of them
selves Nothing more nor less. l tell
you, Oliver, it is so. Don't 1 know hu-
man nature, especially man nature, through
and through. "Ought to, the many times
| have picked it to pieces" Then what
do see in this struggle of woman to get
herself into all the business which has
hitherto belonged to man? That she
has laudable desire, since she must work
anyway, to do something for which she
can be paid, and will be paid fairly" She
hasn't anything to do now, suppose.
" Oh, yes, she works only too hard but
it is not profitable kind of employment"
Exactly. So, while she takes the pro-
itable jobs off of your hands, nature,
suppose, is expected to perform miracle
begin creation over again, and set the
men to- Good gracious, wife, not
that we'd rather plough and dig" Oh,
then woman is to do it all. Woman is to
bring forth children, to rear them up, to
keep her own row, and to do two-thirds of
yours besides. Oh, yes! that will be
Paradisiacal state of society. No reason,
'hen, for lazy and self-indulgent young
men leading single lives. Oh, no, not a
'eason. They can marry with comfortable
lssqrance, that so long as their wives can
,ot only manage family, but retail store
II warehouse on the docks, beside, there
s no need of their over-cxerting them
selves. So long as their own little income
Ieeps them in cigars and paper collars,
enough let them bestride their velocipede,
md spend the afternoon airing themselves
md their graces in the park.
Hitherto it has been understood that
me of the highest incentives for man to
do and dare" was to be found in his
wife and children-to cherish the one and
'rovide suitable start in life for the lat
er. But this is all to go by the board
hen. like the noble Indian, can lay off and
moke. What's that? wish you'd
'een born hundred years to come p' No
oubt of it, There's many true word
poken in jest, Oliver Fogy, and you
poke one then. It's only another proof
f what l have been saying Oh, my
ex, my sex you don't know what a
Grape you are getting yourself into. Do,
%, you poor little multiple fool, you, as
ure man that you cannot only do all that
ou have hitherto done. but earn the liv-
ng besides. Throw away the one single
lessing which has made your otherwise
ard life endurable-the privilege of suf-
sring in the privacy of home. Well,
ow, I'll say it plump out, since there's
one here but us, and it stands to reason
nat it must be so-when women 90 into
ne trades and professions as freely as the
len, they must cease to attend to their