Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-12-30
scolding Wives Again.

So Mr.. Tippy has seen fit to re
Iply to my late letter to you, ha
he? A pretty mess he has made
Of it, too! ! am perfectly ASHAMED
to see Socrates Tippy's name signeC
to any production so utterly point
less. In my next Caudle lecture
shall just tell him if he wW get into
the papers, l hope, for pity'5 5 sake
he will do it in such a way as shal
not disgrace his children.
! thought his talk sounded fool
ish enough when addressed to me,
but it looks ten fold worse in print
The idea that a man marries a wo-
man simply to get rid Of all do
nestle care! He ought to be whip
ped who says it. And to think Ar.
Tippy's mind "takes higher range
than mine! Am not as capable
Of reaching high planes Of thought
as he is, | should like to know?-
Wouldn't ] like to get above the
low, groyeling level of cooking,
washing, mending, mending, wash
ing, cooking, and rise to a lofty
philosophy? Wouldn't | revel in
that strange freedom from perpleXi-
ties growing out of the question
"What shall we eat and wherewith-
al shall we be clothed p
! say it's enough, Mr.. Editor,
that a woman must dishwash and
mend eternally, without her being
compelled to provide for the fami-
ly. Her part in domestic econo-
my lies within the house,-not
without it. The man should bring
in, and she should take care Of
The wife is more than the mans
companion, or the mother of his
children. She is the guardian Of
all which is brought into her home.
The husband is what, tell me ?
The houSebdnd,-that was the mean
ing of the word originally The.
k0asebdnd is to bind the house,
the family, together. | should like
to know how he could accomplish
this by idling about town coutinu-
ally, and taking no thought for the
welfare of his family? And l
should be glad to learn if studying
philosophy or literature will Of it
self bind any very close bands
around the house?
It's a perfect libel on the mean
ing of words to call Socrates of
old, or his namesake, Mr.. Tippy,
Il husband. / know the law says
Mr.. Tippy is my husband, Mr. Ed
itor; | m very painfully conscious
of that; but the law does pervert
the truth most wretchedly. some
times. The truth in the present
case is that I'm Mr.. Tippy's slaCe.
I'm the market woman, and the
cook, and the nurse, and the hired
girl. Hired, is IL? What does he
pay me, ! want to know? A new
dress once a year, may be, and
not another thing. When l ask
for something more, and begin to
tell why l think | ought to have
it, he invariably tries to silence me
by repeating, There, there Mrs.
Tippy, don't scold."
"Scold?" Who wouldn't seold?
only wonder that sometime
don't take the broomstick to him
literally. He deserves it, "Yours
is he? l should
think he was. He has been mine
- ple9maticalIy" these ten years,
md it's high time he we're reused
10 a different state, When | ask
him to send some coal home, he
'plegmatlcally don't 90 IL. II
remind him that -four is an essen
sial to bread, he "plegmatically'--|
it. If l suggest meekly |
hat | must have some money to
1uy the children clothes, he "pleg-
naticaIly"-fails to hear me. Does
my person chance to broach the
act that women is mans equal, he
'plegmatically"--don't believe it,
# / lived in Indiana l should earn
ystly pray to be delivered from the
nan who signed himself "yours
Yours spiritedly,
Y ANN TIppy