The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-01-13
HONE LETTER.
Printers MlstaGes-C0aSequent Pro.
Y0catIOnS-Mud, Wind, " omen, &c.
The Coming Girl.

WEDNESDAY MORNING, Jan. II.
Editors Journals:
La the early days of my scribbling
for the press, [ used to get nettled
because Of the ridiculous things types
would make me guilty Of saying. L
am brayely yer that now. But a
blunder in each of my last letters
from st. Louis makes what | did
write so utterly %unmeaning, that l was
only able to keep cool as l read them
last night, by saying to myself, We'll,
they were short of comlpositOrs, and so
had to let go an unskilled sub Pluto,
and it was he who played the
mischief"
La writing Of Cairo and its high
walks, [ told Of a mother whose child
made the grand and lofty tumble of
some sixteen feet, and the mothers
swooning and her boys where's my
new hat?" when he touched bottom,
being syachr0noas, which, every one
knows, means +" occurring at the same
moment" but your little Pluto made
me say Synonymous. Almost as good
and as bad as a late letter of mine
from indianapolis, where [ really
thought / was getting almost sublime
on a very l010 subject. | was bring
ing my piece" to its climax by ven
turing after the laureat, Yenuyson, in
his Charge of the Three Hundred"
only mine was into the mud and not
tsTuf0 ft,at fra. bo5551
Into the Jaws OF death,
Into the mouth of he'll"
went your humble correspondent f.:
and, to think. your ST 5altern Of Satan
made me say " aCiRd to the right of
US, wind to the left of us" &c, when
it should have been that other article
with which [ was dealing, and that,
just as clear as (the) mud " you deal
with in an article on it in this morn
ing's paper.
We'll, all this l had concluded TO
endure, but when [ read nay next
letter " IN print" it was then that the
eamel's back broke. [ then said 10
myself. the imp has this time gone
to, excess; [ will not bear it unless |
have to-" There In thab letter in your
Tuesday mornings Issue, and where |
get to that most delieat3 of all CUES
rions possible, and where every one
who has any sense, or any s%ensibility.
feels as If he must be dreadful care
full" your young fellow at the types
makes me say Speaking on the
=" Woman's Labor Meeting ia st.
L0uis), 4" In Gods name [ would say,
let every woman, as we'll as every
man, do anything she can In the way
of virtuous labor, SO that she may
have nc Object, al or Dependence :"
when | wrote. so that she may have
no AFFECT sense Of Dependence" mean
ing, let her be RonorabIy independ-
ent, and in such attempts to honor
able independence | would welcome
her.
And Eow, whilst | am on this topic.
let me say q word or two to keep off
assaults.
Every now and then I get the buffet
Of a soft hand, for the crime Of OBJ
strueting /" the march of feminine
progress as though had, through
a not short profession, all along tried
to keep women in the back ground
out of her sphere; especially as OPP
posed to her talking. praying, preach
ing, ct ala if she does not do it ex-
clusiVely among her own sex.
Now, I honestly protest against
lodgment in any such class. Words
are TOO feeble to measure my deep
sympathy for human want aud my
consequent desire for human upliit-
ing. / have ever held myself as In
tender sympathy with the poorer aud