Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-09-16
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h. 1sgoees September 4, 1859. -l3IS
TO Tie Editor 0fMe Boslon .Jo,yHsll: NJ
Here We are within four days of oul
election, and nobody seems to know it
A biissful Ignorance, which contrasts f.
vorably with the noise and bribery ani
bitterness that enlivens the campaigns o.
State across the border. This Ii thu
advantage of citizenship in Stats 'whers
the political millennium has dawned
Elections como on insensibly, like the
change of seasons. 8uG rl}A
| Within q stones throw, working ou.
their highway tax, are dozen fellow cit.
izens, q majority of them Republicans,
with an honorable minority Of the obso.
lescent party, but 1 dare say they are
Neither thinking or talking politics
Their conversation turns upon similar in.
nocent and improving topics with which
their wives edited each other at the last
sewing circle. However, subtle in.
stinct will warn each one Of the dawn Of
election day, Tuesday, the 7th, when the
more thrifty will harness up and take I
grist to be ground while he exeroisss The
distinguished privilege of IN American
freeman. iAnothef will carry along biz
wife to pay . visit near tho town house,
unwittingly familiarzing her with the
road to that civic temple, into whose PEN
etralia she will shortly follow 10 cast her
own vote fostAe principles, ,ithe party or
the man of her choioe.
OF all tho popular subjects which agi-
tate the public mind, and form the sta.
pie of Conventions. strisef, unions, d.,
the woman question il tho one upon
which Vermonters have 6xsd their eyes
looking for dsliverance Of some kind, we
hardly know what The young men of
Vermont 90 West and only come homo
to boast of their prosperity aud prospects,
curse their fatherlsnd for stony, barren
Stats that they wouldn't sooept a a gift,
and advise all the single WOMEN to "come
ont West and get married. '- n
From another quar- ter We hear ,hun-
dred thousand surplus women" seriously
advised to earn their daily bread-and
butter it by keeping q Jersey COW apiece.
The easiest thing In the world for sur
plus woman to do if she happens 10 have
the money ON hand to buy the COW. and q
snug oow-stable and yard, pasture handy,
and incidentals. Lacking these necesss-
ries to the comfort and well-beinx of
horned cattle, the bucolic suggestion is il
lusory. =
All the best-iataasaoned advice only
nroves that man IN pnk understand fha
situation, and that women must And out
ways for themselves. This they are doing
and fitting into positions that their
from year to year as they understand the
demand for thoroughness. ni
The cry for ~help" comes from house.
keepers all over the land; but who is 70
blame that girls, who have taken but
bite from the tree Of knowledge, are "keep-
ing school, in preferece to being hired
girls st such sscrifioe of social position
and comfort 2 Three dollars per week
for six honrS labor, with lodgings in the
guest chamber, 10 better than tho same
money for twelve hours labor, the kitchen
chamber and mistress. -.
Possibly there are 'two sides" to the
servant-gal question in common with
others. Oeo..ia~.lly a~ Antaspsteiss. psr-
son gsts . k~ittine ses.ey and furnisheS
which makes Miss B. wonder why Mrs.
G. will take 30 much pains with them
mittens, when she knows abe isn't going
to get but dollar for Knitting q dozen
pair of 'em. But Mrs. @. answers that
she took them to knit OF that price and
doesn'. GEO why they shouldn't be we'll
done. Bless her honest speotacles!
Something to do" 10 tho thing needed
for females Of an agricultural State like
ours. Many farmers daughters are ready
to repine that they were not born to
perish in the sacred rivers, like the super
numery girl-babies in heather lands,
rather than grow to woman's estate and
find n work for head or hands. The
dream Of the Vermont gisl il ~ seek her
fortune iu Massachusetts,, where schools
handicrafts and various industrial pnr-
suits offer so many ways for earning ut
least whsrwithal to be clothed. Vermont
is already brought 30 near "the city" that
the natural simplicity Of her people is
corrupted and health impaired by habits
initiated from those who should be better
exeInplars Of manners and tho laws Of life
and health.
One of the MOST notable misfortunes of
a community Of women il, ''fhcy live for
the eyes Of each other laboripg TO dress
in finer fabrics, more elaborately made
than sef supporting women can afford To
do. Whereas, il they were more exposed
TO the observation of mon, they wonld in
sensibly study general effects, aud dress
better at less outlay Of time and ex-
pense.
The crops are trying 10 brave the dis
conraging influences of cold weather and
frosty mornings, which must chill their
circulating fluids if they are in sympathy
and near of kin to human "grass."
VERMONT,