Litchfield enquirer., 1869-02-18
L1rcHF1ELD, Feb. 18th, 1869.

MR. EDITOR: 3a H 1sa 5et& - What in the world are we all coming to? Just to think of Miss Gertrude Gush. | of all girls in the world, out in Senti.
 mel of all papers in the world, for ,ooman's
 RIGHTS almost had a tetanic spasm
 when I read it. cant understand it, She
 isn't that sort of girl at all--she isn't old
 or smart, or religious. or anything queer I really have had a respect for that girl-in fact have been sweet on her for three or four years-and to think.-Why she dances [ the Irois Temps like perfect fairy, reg
 ular Oberon and Titania, aud all that, you
 know. You observe what she hints about
 kissing g-but it's unfair to aFiude to that, I never do-uniess sometimes when me and
 my friend of the Sentinel, and two or three of us fellows get talking the girls over, you
 know. ---- ..a @'. - ---' - | Gertrude Gush out for woman's rightsl who could have put such a notion into her
 little silly head? Speaking of that head, ]
 tell you when she puts it on fellows shoulder, he spins right around witho ui
 trying. Then. too, she never plays on the piano which is SO common; she don't think of singing, which consider downright
 vulgar; she hasn't read thing but novels
 since she was fifteen; and she is so very | free from bad habits and such good sort
 of girl, that really, if had $5, 900 a year,
 instead of $1, 500. I think I should be
 tempted to make her my left hand Kidd,
 at once, q always tell the ladies that an
 odd Kidd, without its mate, is just thrown
 away. The idea seems to please them).
 Now don't suppose, MT. Editor, that ]
 like being an old bachelor None of us do.
 The girls are really too hard on us about
 that. They actually think that we don't appreciate them and all their pretty ways. tell you we do. I don't believe there is a fellow in the world that would mt enjoy having Q little Ganymade, twas that
 her name ? like G. G., to light his
 segar, and bring his slippers, and
 go for the sugar and lemons land take sip
 of the punch after it is made), and praise a
 fellows prose. and cry over his poetry,
 and get up little innocent teas and dinners,
 and go to the hops with him, and walk
 through quadrille now and then q never
 like to see married women in the round
 dances). If 9 man can afford all this. heis a happy fellow; but what is he to do on
 only $1 ,500 year? He must have cigars and 8 little good whiskey, decent clothes and boots, and ties, and gloves; and occa.l sionaI billiards, and hops, and trips to New York, and tho rest of the necessaries of lifel If after that, he can afford wife, let him have one by all means; but precious few of us can do it. Maybe when G.. G. gets to be thirty she may marry some poor preacher, and live on poor salary. in as poor parsonage full of children, but she would'n mt stand that sort of thing from me.
 Now, MT. Editor, you must stop talking your Radical nonsense about women or 4 shau stop Me Enquirer It's bad enough Olive Logan and Wendell Phillips and Dr. Todd filling the papers with their cursed. trash, but a man won't stand it in his local paper can tell you. I may have to see Miss Gush parsons wife or permanently to the Sentinel office, but strong see what is the trouble with you, MT. Editor; you don't know any- ehing about women. You hav'nt studied the sex. have. know them better than they know themselves. They are the sweetest, most helpless, most .bewitching, most useless little things in the whole world; but they can't do anything. Think 1 of e, G. trying to learn Anatomy or Con- chology or anything of that As II said before. I hay'nt got that 5000 a year,
 70 I can't make her happy, and she may nay, l have to take up with one of those other 'eIlows yet, but I, can't bear to see her
 Ipoiled for all that I sO0at see her taken ,ut of her SPHERE ls4sA yfsa $ sts9aa ias l. ss Yours in all earnestness, -a3A ! .sa ~ s. LAvnDHR KDDs < s 5I--4 ,aa a63 fl .eir'Ene AsFocs 6t-tTs efs