The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-02-18
A Woman Defending Her Sc.

Fanny Fern, one Of the most sen,
sible women aud trenohant writers
living, says:
l am inclined to believe that there
are q great many kinds Of women
both in England aud America, This
idea seems to bo lost sight Of, by the
writer's OF both nations, who have
lately undeetakon to describe the
feminine element, uudor such titlos
as "The Girl Of the Period" or "ThC
Woman o! the Timei' presenting to
our view monstrositics, which no
doubt exist, but which are no more
to be taken as specimens Of the
whole, than is the Bearded Woman,
or the Mammoth Fat Girl
New York, for instance, Is no,
wholly given over to the feminine
devil, Angels walk our streets, dis
ceruable to eyes that irish to see.--
Noble, thoughtful, earnest women;
sick Of shams aud pretoucei striving
each, so far as in her lies, to abate
both, aud to diminish the amount OF
physical and moral suffering. Then,
| never 20 Into tho county FOR a
few weeks summer holiday, that
do not aud large.hoartod, large.
Drained women, slowed away amoag
the green hills, in little cottages,
which are glorifod inside aud out by
their presence; women who, amid
the press of house and garden work,
6nd time for metal culture; whose
little bookshclves hold well>rcad cops
les Of our best authors. Women
sound physically, mentally, morally ;
women, whom tho XoR If the Period,
who most surely exists, has never
found. Now aud then, some man, iit
to be her mate, in his rambles in the
sweet summer time, is struck as l am
by these gems hidden amid the green
hills, and appropriates them for his
own. But for the most part, the
more sensible a man is, the bigger
the fool he mavries. This is espec-
tally true Of biographers
What a wrong, then, to the great
army Of sensible, earnest women In
either country to pick out butterfly
as the patioual typo. Because a few
men in New York and London aud
Paris wear corsets, and dye their
whiskers and hair, and pad out their
hollow cheeks and shrunkon calves
it does not follow tn atViotor Hugo
and John Bright, and ho great army
of brave men who won our late vic
tory, are all popipjays. For every
female fool l will fnd you a male
mate. SO when the inventory of the
former is taken, the roll-cal of the
latter might as we'll be voiced. Are
women so "fond of gossip2" Pray
what is the staple of aiter-dinneI
conversation when the wine come
on and the women go off2 Do won.
en- "lavish money on personal adord-
mentP How many men are there
~"1 mosld be willing to tell on what
and on whuu., .i.~i, ss~--y -.
than lavished2 Do women "leav,
their nursery altogether to hirelings2'
How many corresponding men are
there, whose own children under
their own roofs, are almost entire
strangers to their club-frequenting
fathers? And yet what good, noble
men are to be seen for the looking
Faithful to their trusts, faithful t
themselves, unmoved by the waves o
folly and sin that dash around them
as is tho rock of Gibraltar.
l claim that justice be done by
these writer's on both sides of the wa.
ter to both sexes. Fools, like thu
poor, we shall always have with us
but, thank God, the "just" man and
the Just wome n still live to redeem
the race. Men worthy to bo fathers
and large-braiued women, who do
not even 10 this degenerate day, dis
dain to look we'll after their owl
households.