The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1869-09-18


are likely to do very little good which tend
to make of women weak limitations of men.
Woman's Rights.
From an article on this subject by Horace
Greeley published in Hearth and Home, we
select the following:
For it were blindness not to see that the
essential character of the household must
be very different from what it ever has been
when Smith spends his evenings at the
Union League, and Mrs. Smith enjoys hers
at the Manhattan Club (or their respective
counterparts in any city or villiage:) he
doing his best to elect the Republican, she
rendering like hearty support to the Demo
cratic or whatever may be the rival ticket.
Their home-if the name be still retained
twill be another Yarrow" from that
which long ago won the beloved appella-
ton. Smith and Mrs. Smith will meet at
breakfast in no mood for reciprocal endear-
ments, and little fitted to show forth to
their children how ''birds in their little
nests agree;" they will be more inclined to
canvass with accerbity their rival platforms
and candidates; and if Smith shonld hap
pen to find in the morning paper some
cheering returns from Pennsylvania, Ohio,
or some other State previously regarded as
| doubtful, he will be apt to announce them
in such terms as to elicit a reminder that
he is a brute" while, if the news should
happen to favor Mrs. Suith's ticket, am
not at all sure that her use of it would not be
equally provoking and as sharply resented.
In short, | shall expect antagenism in poll
tics to be at least as fruitful source of sep
arations as incompatibility of temper now
is.
AS to Employment for woman, hold that
there is an immensely of work to be done
that specially pertains to the sphere of
woman, which goes undone or is done very
badly and extensively because most women
reject it. This country is in present, press
ing need Of one hundred thousand scien-
titic, skillful, thoroughly qualified cooks;
but very few American-born young women
are seeking to adapt themselves to this
urgent national need. We are poorly fed,
as people; our meats half cooked or burn
ed to crisp; our bread is often sour or
soggy, and quite generally tasteless, indi-
gestible, and innutritious, because its
makers are grossly ignorant and bent on
remaining so; the butter, on most of our
tables, is a poor sort of grease; and as to
soups, we do not know what they are, while
for those who know how to make them,
they are the cheapest, most palatable, most
nutritious form of mingled animal and veg
etable food. If the ''Grl of the PERIOD
could only be induced to leave the piano
unaffected, and devote the next year or two
mainly to Soyer and the kitchen-range, /
feel very sure that her happiness, as well
as that of mankind, would thereby be sig
nally promoted. l am confident that she
would thus secure good wages, proper
Independence Tor rather inter-dependence,
which is the nearest approach to the former
attainable in civilized society," general
respect and qualify herself to be "a help
meet " for the industrious, frugal, energetic
farmer or mechanic who, in due time, will
probably ask her to become his wife.
l hope few will regard me as lacking
sympathy with the many needy and i'll
placed or unplaced women of our day, who
are anxiously inquiring and looking for
something to do" 1t is because would
have this class smaller in the next than it is
in the present generation, that speak SO
plainly as do. We are fearfully missed
ncated people, and the case is worse with
our girls than with our boys. Within the
sphere of my observation, not one girl in
ten is really trained or training to earn her
own livelihood in any capacity: the greater
number seem vaguely to expect that they
will marry for a position and rear children
for an occupation. Hence, welcome the
agitation for Woman's Rights and Female
Suffrage, as disturbing a stagnation which
involved :" the pain without the peace of
death" The issue will not be such as the
agitators contemplate, for Nature is too
| strong for will even so stubborn as Anna
Dckinson,s, 4 persistency SO logged rs
Susan Anthony's, but the fountains of the
great deep will be profoundly stirred, and
the result cannot fail to be wholesome
Woman is insisting that her share of the
worlds work be allotted and secured to
her, and the demand, however unwisely
urged or mistakenly directed, is substan-
italy Just. What she, far more than man,
needs to realize, is, that no useful arork is
degrdding, though much may be rejected as
unsuited to her sex or her strength. There
is work enough that she may laudibly do
the need is that she be qualified for, and
rendered willing to undertake it. So long
as our more extensively educated girls
shall fancy teaching, the only established
pursuit that they can follow without dis
grace, many of them must live miserably,
| and be driven by want to shame; but let
them awake to realizing sense of the true
dignity of labor, the essential nobleness
whereby human life is made happier and
sweetcr and the world will welcome them
to a fair allotment of its service, with the
proper recompense thereof, and woman be
everywhere freshly hailed, and with added
reason as 1.-THE last best gift " of God to
| man.
Fire IuSurance.-A PROSPEROUS CON-
PANY.-ln looking over some policies is
sued by the Mutual Fire Insurance Compa-
ny of York, Pa, recently, we We're forcibly
| struck with the large number of Policies is