The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-08-11
APiauant Response.

Coldwater, Michigan, witnessed {
quaint gathering on Independence
Day. The ladies Of that. borough as.
sembled in their majesty on the
Fourth of July, to commemorate the
birth Of this glorious nation, and the
masculine fraternity were debarred
the privilege of participating i'll the
festivities, but the occasion lost moth
ing from the absence of this element
Of society. As proof Of this assertion
we give the response To toast, read
by Miss Hattie Root, which, for wit,
grace and felicitous illusions, is UNI
surpassable:
"The Gentleman, the lights OF our homes
! the stsrs Of our existence; they double oui
joys and divide our sonOws."
at is not to be supposed thGt any
young lady has had sufficient exper-
fence TO reply to this, therefore ] call
upon one who can do ample Justice to
tile subject-Mrs. Powers"
Response by Mrs. Powers: "The
gentlemen, the lights of our homes. ?
Yes, but il is a light that is forever
out, especially at night, leaving wo-
men cropping in darkened homes,
had a great deal better be "hid undea
bushel," the scripture to the contra
~ nOtWithstGnding. The feeble light
there mentioned would be worth mOne
to family nOlO than that "Will-O-the
wisp" proposed by the young lady;
her experience is evidently limited 70
the illumination of a Sunday night,
fair, false, and fieeting.
''Phe stars of ON eXistance." Now
that the success of our existence hangs
upon a fi1mament of wandering
stars" that would distract q comet to
try to follow, is the most desperate
case of suppOsition on record, and yet
| il nus been a faith, and had its vOta-
Ties, but they've all died; some
"blessed their stars" and some didn't
We hear of ''the gentlemen" some
times, when as "mOrning stars they
''sing together" (fOr instance) Eve
won't go home till morning." We
know them at times as "fiXed stars, T"
sublime in their fixedness, when their
heads are set the wrong way. And
(let US do them justice) the world
knows them as shooting stars, y
when q rebel against that flag dares to
lift his hand, and we bless them for
it,; but a. the "stars of our existence"
they have set, and in a wOman's head,
or i'm her hands, now lies the star of
her destiny.
''rhey double our joys, and divide
our sOTOws." That sounds beautiful
Iy, but they do get so dreadfully mix
ed rs to where the doubling and di-
viding comes in; a slight confusion Of
ideas diUides the joys, and doubles
the scrrOWs, and so il comes that
when woman adds up the sum of
her life, the answer so many times
comes out all lOrOng; but the dishp-
pointed adder Of to-day smiles as She
looks at her or sided sum and says,
gMy daughters study higher nlathe-
nlatie = they win keep their own
accounts, and under the magic of
their figuring, this one little Indepen-
dence Day of ours will grow TO three
hundred audsixty-five Just such days
IN every year, ana these columns tgW
stand eUeR.
But then these are only the gentle
man we read of, you know, sucll as
Anna Dickinson lectures about, and
wicked Gail Hamilton writes about,
but as for oar gentleman, those we see,
and know, and have possession of,
may the Lord bless and prosper and
multiply them, until that lorn band
of two hundred thousand extra wo-
men of Massachusetts may see men
TO the right of them, men to the left
of them, men to the front of them,
and have their pick of the best Of
them until every mothers daughter
Of them has what every sensible wO-
man always has wanted, always does
want, and always sCU want world
without end-d-DlGR.