Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-03-31
A TRuE WOAIAN.

A few days since the New York
Koy1d INDUCED in some pleasant
pasquinade over the speeches deliv-
cred at festival of the "Sorosis"-
q species of feminine fOolery now
prevalent in New York city. A
lady reader, however, genuine
one, too, from the ring Of her SEN
tences,-tal1es it seriously, and
goes for the editor in gallant style.
One such as this Southern wo-
man." is worth q ten-acre field Of
Anna Dickinsons, Lucy Stones and
Susan Anthonys, and all the She
males who are shrieking for the
suffrage, and seeking to be "post-
mistresses." She miscoEceiTed the
object of the World'S article, but
has been delivered of a fine letter
UNGALLANT EDITOR OF THE WORLD.
Sir Hear me for my cause; come
to defend my sex, but not to praise them.
Because one high flown lady INDUCES in
Observation-Disclosures, why do you seize the
opportunity to denounce female humanity
as class of pretty little fidgets' and
"doddering, dismal little souls?' The
great mass of women, o Editor, are not
members Of Sorosis, nor admirers of Anna
Dickinson. They do not bewail their
wrongs, nor clamor for female suffrage );
nor yet are their brains located in their
chignons, or their souls devoted to dry
goods. They are the dutiful daughters,
flithful wives, and devoted mothers CT
the land. For every "idget whose hori-
ION IS bounded by the nursery or mil
liners shop" Twill find you male NOR
tai whose horizon is bounded by billiard
saloon and a spree, or who deVotes quite
as much anxious thought TO the cut Of
his coat, and the style of his unexpress-
Ibles, as the bell does to her train and pail
Ter. And for every man who clears eros s
! and a burden in the doddering dismal
little soul he has madly sworn to love
and CHERISH | will find true and de-
voted woman bound to brutal, or I'M
| faithful, or drunken husband; bearing
her burden patiently, though it drives
the light from her eyes, and hope from
her heart. hope you will not think me
vain if | cite myself as fair example of
the mass Of my sex. l claim to be SIM
ply an average American woman, neither
above nor, trust, below the great mas
| jority of women. Well, | am a wife,
and my husband, although possessing
intelligence and information infinitely
superior to mine, does not 60 to club
to escape my society, but spends his lei
sure hours at home. | am mother OF
three babies, and | take care of them.
l dress according to my means, and
sufficiently in the mode to avoid
eddity, but l don't care three Cons
federate cents what the style" is, or is
to be. Moreover, | am a constant reader
of the daily World, politics and all.
took the latter study in order to be able
to talk with my husband on subj ects that
interested him, but dare say am bet
ter posted on the state Of the country
than half the men who are playing bill
lizards or muddling themselves with fusel-
oil while am taking care of my babies
and making my husbands shirts. de,
clare am not "fdget,'' or "dodder-
ing, dismal soul" and / furthermore de-
clare that what am the great mass Of
my sex are, while many are greatly suN
perior. And l fling down the gauntlet to
any one who undertakes to prove the
contrary. Indignantly yours,
A SoTTHFPN WaN.N