The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-16

mans rival ana comoettot. (Applause.) Istnat
the admiration OF which seutImentality speaks |
Last night sat IN sireng.m!noed sontstuoe st in -
party (cheersl-au watched brilliant ana |
accom- plished man talking 10 very SHY glrl.
OLaug6ter.) How be bent over her! what sweet
things he said to berl whata long array oil sugar,
plums he gave her 10 eat, aud how she ate themi
{ reat auehter.) He bowed over her BACK ana
said, Your sweetness ls but TO please" That Is
what he said with his mouth, but his eyes spoke
IN quite another language. Ia the Language OF
one OF Thackeray's characters, they sad what
lovely eyes thou hast, hat fair neck, Wb8L
innocent arms, how Young, but ah my dear
what fool thou atll". (LaQghler.l sens.1le
woman would prefer qualrellng with mau who
Thus smoke, or live entirely alone, tnan burn
such incense at such shrine. You cannot una
in any class those beings in health, who con-
staptly consume and do not produce. A cele-
brated physiclan said not long ago that a man
cannot oe in perfIc ct health unless his body and
his brains are actively worked. SUBSTITUTE
inanimation for fatigue or bodily toll, and you
cannot have more than those whose food con
talus sugar pums ou the one side and medlClne
on the other. (Applause.) Take away your
work from those intelligent men who slJ lore
mentor l think you intelligent Or you would
not have come TO hear these Imperfect refnarks
take away, say, not only your WORK, out
food for thought, and the result would be that
you would soon fail heirs to multitude OF
diseases You and | have watched woman
whose whole duty seemed to be to please aud
be pL ased. You aud ! have seen her when
that pleasure was past, and You have then seen
her with no resources within and no excitement
without She Is in that condition described by
Joe when he was asked II his friend is dead.
"No,n says Joe, mot exactly dead" "Well,
your friend is not alive~ Yes" says Joe,
| That's it eXactly.n (Laughter) That is it;
| these woman are not alive though they are
| not dead. When at last death does come,
! the saying OF the celebrated French
| wit, who in his last hour threw his head back
! upon the pillow and said thel' farce is euded,
draw to the curtains" and breathed his last
| But this admoniton does not affect only this
| particular Glass; the effects OF their idleness
| spreads around them. There may be woman
! who having thousaLd dollars, undertakes TO
live upon it, and sill keep up her style; or hrr
husband has "a thousand dollars year. Yet
this woman would rather sit down and strive
| how in the world she can make II out TO live
upon that amount, and makes herself the sub
! iect Of much greater veXations and trials than
she would experience If she would 20 to work
! and add another Thousand to that amount by
| honorable toll and industry. Yet she goes into
the kitchen, quarrpls with the cook Qaughter)
| --hiPgles over d shilling with some poor con
sumItIve sewing girl, shuts her purse against
the call of charity, and grows pTematurely
Old with the serious and external vPx
atiuus to which she is thus daily sub
the society she coyets, she has the consolation
| 10 know that she lives near them aud smells
the outside odor of genLeel life, (Applause.) }
1t passes woman into the market 10 be bought
aud sold by the highest bidder. These women
marry Constan. ly, l Will not say all. God Ior-
bldl But many OF these women marry without
| giving their love, or without such Il sentiment
or teeIDg. They do not go to the altar because
their hearts force them 70. but because the eXI-
Geucies OF society aud their pocNets compel
them. When one thus happens to 90 OF the
people say, "She has made capital matCh.n
II does not mean that she loves and is loved IN
return; Oh no! All those old fashioned dreams
have gone out long ago; but she marres a
brute who has money. (Applause.) These girls
have lever been taught a trade; they have
never been taught any active profession, but
they only go into lie with the one idea of
Ytsrh tI,no n.attt -
band was an active profession. daughter J
The New York Times said she should not be
engaged on love, as she knew nothing about
it. One thing was certainly true, that
can scarcely love man who has a
very small soul, and plainly / would say that
| would not wed n man, even though he we're
the editor of the Times, If he did not show lie.
votion to woman rom his heart. What is the
record of the various courts in America The
record was growing aud magnifyipg, and il the
unpublished and unwritten histories of the
miserable loves OF men and women all
about us could but be revealed the
answer would be terrible and pintul It
sends out its results upon the streets. These
very friends OF her seeming protection were
her destroyers. young girl approaches TO
womanhood she wants Il husband; she waits
the husband doesn't come; the seducer does,
and the result is hat her soul becomes STEPPED
in the backness OF darkness that she may keep
her hands clean. According 10 certain rules OF
society, women were required to look upon
labor as a degradation and a disgrace, aud
disI es pect the remuneration they get from
useful loil. 1t Is different amongst the male
portion OF the community. The sChooboy is
trained TO be a workman, and if society shuts
her door Cn hlm, he has still mechanical skill
which brings plenty to rejoice him. The female
is not SO; She depends upon marriage. You
hear a woman say to one who asks her does her
daughter work:-"My daughter WORK! Never.
My daughter did not do single piece OF
work in all her life; she shall marry
some day.n When it is asked of the
painter will he bring his boy up to his own
trade-"Bring my boy up TO my own trade ~
eays the painter. Never! he shall be brough nj
up to enter the city; ne shall be gentleman -
as though u gentleman could mean any hug in
America but pure heart, clear mind, and an
untulied conscience and manly lite. CAD
plause.) LADIES' and gentlemen's false notions
in this respect flow from the same decided root.
The sword is tWO-edged; make labor no orable
and prOhta BILE for mao, and you wilt make II
honorable and profitable for woman. (Cheers.
L have been working thus far on the prem sc
that woman ia the world looks Tor q man
against whom she may lean as against pillar
Sometimes that mans support is fragile as
the stick he holds in his hand. In our midst
there are myriads OF women who have fathers
usbands, mothers, sisters TO support, and
give you my WoTd of honor some wives have
husbands TO support. Laughter) Abundance
of women had to support themst Ives by their
deeradatIcn. and thereby come to dishouored
graves. The love of independence is infinitely
better than a life OF dependence. Those who
are uDaccustomed to suffering and toll 20
into the world and are compelled to work
Why ale they not as able to do so as man? The
reason is that N an makes his own selection; ne
does the WORK he DESIRES or has been trained e.
do and is able do it. It's the reverse with the
female. She is merely brought up to look
upon work as dsreputaDle. Idleness is the
badge OF destruction. She is unable to do gork
and depends ioI existence Upon clean hands.
This girls sole profession is to get married, aud