Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1870-04-15
An ARgravating sunday Article.

If our amiable contemporary, the Dubuque
Times, has airy special characteristic aside
from constitutional timidi.y in dealing
with topics which nearly or remotely are
likely TO affect the pockets Of its propre,ors,
that other characteristic is-we yawningly
rrieve to say 1.-THE soporifc character of
its "Sunday articles" The last Of these
drowsy ESSAYS, however, has modicum OF
snuff in il. lis SUI ject is the characters
tics and assumptions Of women. The "Ad-
miral," as the Herald persists in styling our
friend Of the 7imes-we adopt the title not
extensively, but as appropriate to the ale
CORY we wish to use-sails out from behind
the bazy headlands Of his somnolent imag-
ination and pours broadside unto The time
honored belief that women as compared
with men, are the more good and beautiful.
Just imagine the surprise and Indignation
which must have taken possession OF the
Dubuque belle, as last Sunday cuddling Oh
the sofa for an afternoon snooze with the
Times in hand as a soporifc, her eyes tell
upon the following paragraph. Can any
thing be more aggravatingly impudent than
the closing sentence, Occasionally they
sre very beautiful
"Women often claim for their sex what
does not belong to them. They clam to
have as much sense as men; but this IS not
true. They clsim to have as much integrl-
ty of character, but this is not so. Women
have fA. less principle than men. They
nre much less reliable. There moral ma
ture is less solid. It is indeed a very deli
cate organism; and will not bear rude
handling, So women claim to be more
beautiful than men; but we feel quite sure
that this is a mistake. and feel free 10 tell
them so. We will tell them moreover that
the male ofevery animali Is more beautiful
than the female the rooster is more beau
,iful than the hen; the cock pheasant IS
more beautiful than the female; the peacock
i more beau;fu! than the peahen; the stall
lion IS more beautiful than the mare the
lion is more beautiful than the lionesS; the
male red bird is more beautiful than the te-
male: the hart is more beautiful than the
hind the turkey gobbIer is more beautiful
than the turkey hen: in other words per
feclly formed IN IN is more beautiful than
per(et tly formed woman-or to state It dit
fcren,ly, the male form in the human spe-
cies is hands,mer than the female FORM
We by no means depreciate the beauty of
our fair fr ends; occasionally they are v,ry
beautiful
~ IL al IDctr
name of Hor. VIM. Lrrahee is being ban
died about like shuulecock, rs the pros
pectiye nominee tor the Allison succession.
Being 80 early in The field i, looks as though
the breath mi Oh, possibly be knocked out OF
him long before the convention meets
Davenport Gdzete.
Candidates in this district can bear any
inAiction but the advocacy of their claims
nv the Gazette 1t is not unlikely that sew.
er.l gentlemen of Dubuque may put il
their modest claims :or the 'Alison sue
cession," and it is barely possible that the
Gazctte's Senatorial protere, Mr.. Cooley
NAV be one of them. In view of the past
II the Gazette has any real friendship fol
that gentleman, it will see the necessity o
RETAINING from saying anything IN biz
favor.
Tur CHANGE IL COUNTY GOVERNMENT. =
The house on Friday passed the Senate bill
.o r.duee the number Of Supervisors Il
,hr.e with the amendment however, that by
vote of he people the number may be III
creased to five or seven. This is compro
m;se between the Commissioner and Ser