The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1870-04-07
PETTIc0AT PRIVILEGES.

/ It is evident not only from recent "crinoline'
manifestations in this city, but from similar in
dications in many other directions, that We arr
on the eve of an important contest, when ID il
to be decided who is to wear the breeches, Oh
rather which are trumps, petticoats or breech
esq Individually we don't care which wins
but. for the welfare of coming generations o.
our race, we want the breaches to still BE-
"boss" of the situation.
We, of the male persuasion, must not fancy
that we have got "a dead thing" We have O
hard fight before us. The she.males are pre-
pared to make "war to the knife, and the knife
to the hit." To show the desperate extremi.
ties to which they are ready to go, one Of their
organs says:
Refusal to prepare good dinner for the recalci.
trant husband or father or brother; persistent neg
lect of needed shirt-buttons, and thousand other
annoyances which the cunning OF an experienced
housewife can devise. win bring the monopolist OF
the ballot 10 TERMS and his consent to share
political equality with the presiding diSinites Of his
domestic sanctuary.
Now while we detest all attempts made by
woman to take part in political transactions,
or to appear. unsexed, in public arenas, we
are nevertheless in favor of woman. We in
woke her assistance. We solicit her by the en-
dearing relations which che sustains to man,
and by her own conceptions of earthly happi-
ness, with all her heart, and soul, and spirit 10
aid in every benevolent enterprise. But let
her operate in her proper sphere.
'Tis hers to form the plastic mind to stamp
the impress of her own spirit upon tho spirit
of her youthful charge. It's hers TO render
the homely hearth-stone an earthly paradise.
'ris hers 10 enanciate the laws of morality
throughout all the provinces OF her dominion.
IT'S hers 10 hang around the couch of sickness
aud by the soitness and tenderness of her min.
to rob disease of half its pain. 'ris
hers, as sister, daughter. wife and mother, 10
make the wilderness OF the world put forth
the blossoms OF peace, contentment and good
ness; 10 transform the arid desert into flow
cry and fruitful garden. Sharing with man
the glad sunshine OF prosperity, tempering It's
glare 10 mild aud healthful radiance like the
fragrant grass near the Gauges. when crushed
and trampled BY the heel OF adversely, yielding
the life-giving odors Of an untainted morality
she is indeed consolation and joy
MAN is the rugged iofsy pine.
That frUwns DER many . wayr-bcat shore,
Woman Is tho slender. graceful VIVA.
Whose curling ,endFils round IL twino.
And deck its rough bark swcesiy oor!"
Confined TO these high and holy caIliugs her
delicate instincts can have full play; why does
she desire political privilegesl
The recent instance in Wyoming Territory.
and the SIX male and six female Jurors confined
Tor four consecutive nights in = jury.room.
ought TO be a lesson. plain enough in It's sug.
,estlons Ia clos. down ON any further progress
u that direction. Had tho females all been
aaids. and the males all Bachelors and had |
Iuch association provoked matrimonial conncc.
lon. relatively, between them. It would have
good precedent for the peopling OF
lew Territories. But unfortunately for sach |
. theory fire of the ladies' in question were
adrried roHaen already; the status OF the
bucks" connubially. We don't know. Wo-
mems rights are all right carried 10 a proper
,xtent; but in the Wyoming case, We have
rave doubts as TO the proprcty of that Jury
T. Examiner.