New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-03-25

pcoclcs from myrtlcs, or logic from nightin-
GALES and for women to repne at the decree
that they shall be graceful rather than grandil-
ooucnt. lovely rather than logical, would be
nc futile rs for the myrtle to bewail its ster-
ility or the nightingale to deplore ITS inaoility
to sing in syllogsms Still, some OF them DO
rcpine. Their white hands spurn the dIstafi'
and seek to brandsh the spear.
II is weary work TO desire, not achieve; 10
hunger and not be fed-and when such ardent
aspirations exist there must be some hidden
power of realizing them. We have been puz-
zled TO see how women were gong prac'lcaHy
TO accomplish all their aims and plant them
selves in the high seats of the worlds business
push ont cifcte and obsolete Chlct-JuStlces,
and Bishops, and gray Senators, ana Scared
Field Marshals, and themselves assume the WOOL
sack, and the inter- anu the toga, ana the
trunchcon. But Mrs. Robert Dale owen III
recent address drops n hint which, ii wisely iol-
lowed NAV turn over to them the substance Oh
mower. even if they are magnanimous enough
IN leave its shadow with those whom they nave
subjugated. Her scheme is to conquer oy
cookery. As the old statuary mingled grief with
his bronze, she would mnglc gentle guile
with her jelles. soft seduction win her
swectmeats, and persuasion with her pies u
we are TO be subjugated and sit suplne ana
stricken mt feminine feet, rs Hercules SAT at lHe
feet of Omphale, we prefer beng cohquereu
in that WAY. Sweet are the allurements OF the
entrGc, potent the persuasions OF pottage' anu
there is more peril to mans authority Is the
cun which cheers but not incbriates than in the
sncecb which cheers not while it cxasperates.
Mrs. Ovens scheme is really full OIL WisuoIii'
II recognizes tho cardinal truth that men VINO
rule the world are themselves ruled through
tho Instruments of sustenance 1t Is not easy
to convince their heads, but it is possible to
soften their hearts and persuade their wills by
o;,,;ro tbem good dinners. 1t is MT every one
eyho can learn how to reason, but any one can
learn how to cook. There is, too, gentle
ness and benefcence in this mode oil conquest
beGtting the natural disposition OF woman in
such crusade she would conquer by gentle
sign. She would bless while she subJugated,
and the bound captive at her feet would hug
his letters until his gratitude and devotion got
a chance at his captor.
Even the race might be gradually ex-
allied by Tits culinary campaign. lne
sons of eupeptic papas a:e apt 10 Oo
more brave and their daughters more
virtuous than those who spring from badly
fed ancestry. The quality Of the dinner inilu-
ences not only present achievement but future
well and its consequences stir in the
pulses of posterity. The blgotry of the bigot,
the folly of the fool and the sin of the sinner
may result in some degree from paternal NAL
assimilation. When the millennium comes 1t
will be after such a dietetic prelude as that
which Mrs. Owen would inaugurate. II we
have spoken with levity Of any of the aspects
of this scheme it must not be thought that we
would discourage its fullest development and
application Even if it did not as Mrs. owen
hopes, very greatly increase the power OF Wo-
men over men, they would at least show it's
daily advantages, and there is no poultlcc SO
well calculated to reduce the irritation of fc-
verish and irrational ambition as that which,
in the shape of good dinner is daily applied
to the stomachs of the afflicted.