Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-12-30
THE RUTLAND HERALD.
MONDAY, DECEMBER q, 1869.
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Girls always were q mystery to US, ant
we confess we never thoroughly under
stood their composition until we hear,
Olive Logan's discourse on the subjec
Saturday night before over one thousan.
people, the largest audience which eve
graced the Rutland Opera House, and i
Olive had been celebrating entirely OF
her pet subject of Woman Suffrage
which was introduced as component
part of about one-balf Of her lecture, We
do not think her sadience could have
been any better pleased, knowing as we
do that the people of Vermont are "edl-
Gated up to the pint" on this moral reform
Miss Logan, upon taking the stand,
said that her object in choosing subjects
for her lectures had been less in selecting
popular subject than in selecting one
which she thoroughly understood. This
was her third effort, and as Girls" were
her admiration, causes OF sorrow, delight
aud despair, and that she was once girl
herself, she thought she could under
-taudngly speak of them
The first thing, said she, that happens
to~a little girl, is that she Is baby the
same j. true of boy in the cradle there
hahir- but the moment they leave it
the girl begins to learn her peculiar sta
iion III life, for while boy tumble
oa the grass, climb fences, run after
chickens mud various other things with
appreciation, this III girl would lie "un-
womauly, or in other words she is told
that
Nhi1tii, q girls anl growing hen,
Ar. neither good for God or men"
Up to the point in life which girl and boy
babie4 diverge to their respective al
l1ted situat on- in life men and
women, he demonstrates that the girl is
naturally the quickest witted, the most
profound thinker, aud in fact the superior
being of the two. The by and the girl
sepIate, the great question Of sex is
br3u rht up. and the two are put under
separate Influences end receive different
training. What is manly for u boy to
do, is not womanly for "A girl. a girl
never expects to be- man before her
father. but boy is frequently told th,t il
he IL Sun at he will te man before his
mother
An ainnstng comment Try on little girls
forms the prelude to graphic sketches Of
the fashiou ible girl, the beautiful girl,
the womanly girl, the Yankee girl, the
Western girl, and the strong-minded girl
The fashionable girl who is devoted
solely to dress, puzzles and vexes Hiss
Logan beyond measure; but the fashion
able girl who has heart, aud mind, and
soul, and reaches out for something better I
than the follies and Quantities Of her daily /
life, Is the hope of woman's cause. The T
h.. ntIfui girl is one whom sensible men
liz, :, y as they like strawberries and +
d,intv dish can never compensate for the
lack OF the daily Nrsad of virtue, indus
try, intellig ence. and wisdom Inc wo-
manly girl, in Mis-. Loga. category, ls
the one pictured by discon-o ATE man as
the only hope of dark and gloo NY 1u-
ture, the one who shudders at the tho, gnu
or f'inale suffrage, and, by the simpl,
trick OF stunning publicity" makes
amends for unlimited ugliness and i'll
tcmr~r. The Yankee girl i- that
James Parton met in Washington street
" it'll the u"->p0''pd dress and roses on
in,r cheeks. huyl :, "a gazetteer of the
world and sic was who asked, after
glass of cider, Mrs. Skinfint,
how many barrels Of cider did Mr.. Skin
lint make Z" Seven barrels" Seven
Wen, it lie had had another apple he
might have made eight" The Western
xirl is nothing but the Yankee girl let
loose on the prairie, and Mis-. Logan ex-
ulted in both these glorious types Of
American girlhood but the strong
rninded girl was her especial favorite.
ge.t aud true in private life, che is firm
aud -elf-reiiant III public. and believes
that the hnllpt in womau's hand will act
risht many thirgs that are now wrong.
III 50 I,hnnn concluded with review of
her recent work upon theatres and their
and, With an exhortation to
girls to " champion the right and
still achieving, -'ill pursuing,
learn 10 labor ana 10 wait.
Her lecture WAS interpreted through
nat with AN amount of amusing anecdotes
which we never before thought it was
yoman- province to deal in, but which,
from the lips of Miss Logan, came with ,
good grace and were heartily applauded, !
Her arguments on woman suffrage were I
lrresistahle, in fact she appeared 10 carry
he house by storm. Her criticism of
'bioomrrs' and fashionably dressed wo-
herself mn especial friend of such champ ;
ions OF the woman's rights movement as .
Anna i. Dickinson and Susan B. {
Anthony, saying. in 1880, she expected to
vote for the former tor Member OF T
Congress-. while in the same year. =
-hs expected TO take the stump in .
airport at the latter for the Presidency,
n"ugh she had but vague idea Of what /.
king the stump was. Her lecture was
.hroughout u pleasing and interesting
.e. though it, in solid meat, could hardly h
- called what we expected from the dis =
,nyuisli.,I speaker and anthoress. Her II
rsumegts Tor woman suffrage, however, =
we're the strongest, though generally
,,ysn in jest, we ever heard advanced, |.
md all in all, we could but consider p
Girls" al rhe hands Of Olive Logan an 9
nj ting subject.
GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL, New YoKK I
City The Re .ord says: In our paper h
II Dec. 3. We gave brief description of =