The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-04-03
{. SATURDAY MORNING G, APRIL 8, 1869;

they become only meaningless ceremony
something that creatce feeling of disgust.
Tea being over, I, nothing needing Mrs.
Chubb's warning, essaycd few remarks,
which Mrs. Chubb merely replied to, and then
became dumb rs Memnon when the sun does
not shine on him.
Again ] spake. She put her finger to her
lips, but did not heed the mute sign-thc
signal of distress Charles" looked up at me
with an inpatient glance, which / pretended
not tc notice. l insisted on talking; why
should remain dumb because Mrs. Chubb's
lord and master wished to read. If he could
not rend where was talking, let him go to
his room; l had rights to be respected as well
as Mr.. Chubb; all the rights are not ON the
side Of the men, the women have some too,
aud tulking is certainly one of our rights.
This I argued to Mrs. Chubb after Mr.
Chubb had closed his book with surly look
and gone off to bed.
Poor, dear snul do pity you
"For what?" she asked with wonder
''Sucl nh awful husband !"
"Why, my dear she exclaimed will,
amazcmcnt, Charles is devoted to me-"
"Spare me such Devotion"
'Sl,e smiled a sort of woe -bcgonc smile that
spoke more Of endurance than gladncss
'Such tyrant; we must sit here in dead
silence aud look at him. because hc chooses us
to do So"
But: my dear, you know he must read
And must talk did not cvInc to see you
to sit mum all evening No member of a fam.
H.; has any right to come into the fami.
ly-circle of an evening aud say to the others
or you must aot talk, or you must no.
sing, because it does not suit my pleas
urc to hear you. want to read. so you
all must sit around silent as the wax figures in
Mrs. Tassauds show, and l..ok ct me; it will
be very entertaining and improving employ
ment for you; it will be particularly good for
the womsn, for it will learn them how to be
silent, something they have not yet learned
| say any member Of family that docs this
is u domestic tyrant-and your Charles
Comes nnl.r that head y
She replied, meekly, the head of a family
has right to do rs he pcascs.'
''Indecd::' aud SO Henry, the sth, had !,
right to decapitatc his wives; because lie was
the had Of the family, he thought that these
poor woman could get along very we'll without
Mcir heads. Let woman once say to a man
by words, looks, or acts, ''you arc the head of
the house, you have n right to du just as you
please" and who can tell where his tyranny
will cnl No, no; you must teach ''thc head
of the house that you have rights as we'll rs
he has; that you have your wishes and your
preferences too Say to him, in the words of
the old poet, say it in prose, if you please, II
was not taken out of your side, sir to be tram
pied upon; but | was taken out of your side
to be your equal"
"Bnt you know the master of the house.
interrupted her, sis not the master OF
every living soul in it,
But you know, my dear, the head of the
house,
"Pr"perly speaking is the woman"
That was not what was going to say"
'Of course not; nothing was farther from
your thoughts"
Il was going TO say ''tAc head nf the house
frequently likes silence of AN evening when he
is reading.
did you ever know woman the other
head Of the house, for house has two heads
know--so supremacy selfish, us to pick up
ok, and say, hush, all Of you! |, the