The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-04-21
A True Woman.

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A fow days since the New York
World indufgcd in somo pleasant
pasquinade over tho speeches do.
livered at q festival Of tho $50
rosis"--a species Of feminine fool
cry now prevalent in New York
city. A lady reader, however--a
genuine one, two, from tho ring
other scntences-takos it seriously,
and goes for tho editor in gallant
style. One such as this "South-
ern woman" is worth a ten.acre
field of Anna DicI1insons, Lucy
Stoues and Susan Anthonys, and
all the shemalcs who are shreik-
ing for tho suffrage, and seeking
to be "post-mistresses." She mis-
conceived tho object of tho Worlds
article, but has been delivered of a
fine letter:
uNaALLANT EDITOR OF TUE WORLD.
Sir: Hear me for my cause l
como to defend my sox, but not to
praise them. Bocause ono high
flown lady iudulged in transcen-
dontalisms, why do you soizc tho
opportunity to denounce female
humanity as class Of "pretty
little tidgets," and "doddering,
dismal little souls ?" Tho great
mass Of women, OF Editor, aro not
members Of Sorosis, nor admirers
of Anna Dickinson. They do not
bowail their wrongs, nor clamor
for female suffrage; nor yet arc
their brains located in their
chignon, nor their souls .devot.
cd to dry-goods. They arc
tho dutiful daughters, faithful wives
and devoted mothors of tho land.
For every "fidgot whose horizon
is bounded by tho nursery or q
millinor's shop" I will find you a
malo mortal whose horizon is
bounded by u billiard saloon and q
spree, or who dcvotcs quito as
much anxious thought to the cut
of his coat, and the style Of his
unexprcssibles, as the bell does to
hor train and panier. And for
every man who "bears cross and
u burden in tho doddcring dismal
littlo soul ho has madiy sworn tc
love and cherish I will find q
truo and devoted woman bound to
a brutal, or unfaithful, or drunken
husband; bearing her burden pa
tiently, though it tlrivos tho light
from hor eyes, and hopo from her
heart. I hope you will not think
me vain if | cite myself rs a fair
example of tho mass of my sex
claim to be simply an average
American woman, neither above
nor, trust, below the great M
jority Of women. Well, l am q
wife, and my husband, although
possessing Intelligence and inf6r,
nation infinitely superior to mino
docs not 60 to club to escape
my society, but spends his leisure
hours at homo. l am mother OF
throo babies, and I take care OF
them. ! dress according to my
means, and sufficiently in tho
mode to avoid oddity, but I don't
care throo Confederate cents what
"tho stylo' Ia, or is to be. More
ovor, lam n consl ant render of tn G
daily World politics aud all.
took tho lattor study in ordor to
DO able to talk with my husband
on subjects that interested him,
but dare say 1 am better posted
on the state Of tho country than
half tho mon who arc playin Z
billiards Or muddling themselves
with fusel-oil while I am taking
care Of my babies md making my
husbands shirts. l doclaro I am
not q "fdgot," or "doddoring,
dismal SOUL" and l Furthermore
declare that what ] am tho great
mass Of my scx are, whilo many
aro greatly superior. And I fling
down tho gauntlet to any ono who
undertakes to prove the contrary.
Indignantly, yours,
a SOUTHERN WOMAN,