The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-10-14
Female Inhuen..

a thOuSanQ ways VI auSolIiuS ITO Wv"
thoughts, supporting its ON principles,
disseminating it's own opin,ns pleading
for its own projects. The feminine half
of society has none. Gotlemen can
make public speeches, they can lecture,
they can talk in the clubs. Ladies can't
make public speeches.; if hey think OF
lecturing, they are taunted with imperti-
nent allusions to Mrs. Caule,p and no.
body says "Hear! hearp and they have
no clubs TO frequent More than all, men
have thousand brazen trunPcts with
which to shake the world, in The form of
the various journals. Women have but
one gentle voice amid the noises of the
press. 1t is right, and we'll, and itting
that men should take the brunt OF life's
hard labor. If there must be war, men
must fight; if the world needs foedsshey
must toll if. science be necessity, hey
must think. Let the lords of the creation
do all this. No woman of common sense
will dispute their right to take the bad
in the responsibilities of life. Let them
enjoy every means established usayes
afford to strengthen their prerogati'e
Let them have their public speaking, AID
their lecturing rostrums, and their talkln
the clubs. Let them have, what is hr
more, hearing in every land through the
voice of free press echoing to the ends
of the earth. The women OF America
are proud that their fathers, their bus
bands, their brothers, should De thus pow
erful. Only let it bo granted, at the
same time, that there may be subjects
which the intelligence of MIN may not
touch SO happily as the tact Of woman.
They have their own views on various
subjects, different, but still in harmony
with those of the powers that BEL They
yield, withuot the slightest hesitation, the
whole army of journals to thu use Of man,
contenting themselves with retaining on
ly the means of expressing an opinion,
which, they trust, may sometimes be USE
full to their own sex, in their own way.
The ladies have an argument in their ia
vor, which, they are quite sure, the gen.
tIemen will not dispute with them.
They can find fault with themselves.
There is no wound to our selflove when
we point out our own defects, for we
show our own strength when we detect
our weaknesses. And this brings US to
the responsibility of wonan-of woman
as wife. Many dishonest men pass
through life undetected, but they have
the sword of Damocles continually hang
ing by it's single hair over their heads:
Generally, they are kind, friendly, liberal
men. They are friendly, because they are
kind, and liberal because they are friend
". It is difficult for man of genial dis
position to live on small, underwriting
income. The world is 80 full OF pleasures,
and he mixes with so many men who
seem to treat money as drug. Large
sums pass through his hands and his own
modicum is so trifing. 1t is only by
practicing the most severe economy that
he can make ends meet; and he ought to
have more, because he himself manages
the concern which brings in all the mon
ey, and his principal is enjoying the
profits of his labor, only coming to the
counting-house for an hour or SO, and then
driving home In his carnage 10 tHaG sP10.''
did suburban villa, while he can hardly
afford the vulgar omnibus. And so the
clerk goes home. Home! lsit q place!of
safety or place Of temptation TO him !
He comes within the woman's province :
is il for good or for evil? We cast to the
winds every thought ofintentional wrong,
for we can hardly imagine an exception
in which the wife would knowingly be-
come the destroyer OF her own husband.
She has married young, and she knows
littl. or nothing of the value Of money.
She has taste, and she desires its indul-
gence. Her husband brings her home
such protty presents, and she is SO pleas
ed and all those nice things make the
house 60 cheerful; and that new piano
has such sweet tone; and those genuine
China jars are 80 much better than Italian
casts, or even her snowy Arcade vases.
And then her good man is 30 kind, only
he is little dull just now, harassed with
business she must make him 60 out with
her little more. @
Stop, wife! Wherever, whoever you
may be, pause. You are on the brink of
precipice. The safety of all You hold
dear hangs on your next step. Not only
the.interests of time, but tho interests Of
eternity, may be- entrusted to your keep
ing. Every wife knows her husbands in
come, or ought to know it. That knowl-
edge should be the guide of her conduct.
A clear understanding respecting domes-
tic expenses is necessary to the peace OF
every dwelling. If it be little, "Betteris is
dinner of herbs where love is than a
stalled OK and hatred Herewith" If it
be ample, let it be enjoyed with all thank
fulness. We believe that partners in pri
walton are more to each other than part
ners in wealth. Those who have suffered
together love more than those who have
reioiced together. Love is "the drop of
honey in the draught of gall" When the
wife, seeing her duty, has made up her
mind to this, she will brighten her little
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