The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-25
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poor little Mr. Baps at DIR. Blimber's half
yearly reception, where the hour was half
past seven o'clock, and where the object was
quadrilles, and when Mr.. Baps, with look of
unfathomable profundity inquired of him,
''What are we TO do with our raw materials
when they come into port in return for our
drain of gold z" the great man explained his
theory with admirable succinctness. But
suppose" pursued Mr.. Baps, out of deeper
depth of financial intelligence, suppose
Russia steps in with the tallows?' Sir Bar
nett, not having contemplated the situation
in the light of Russias tallow, complacently
responded that then we must fall back upon
our agricultural resources, he supposed. But
hearing Mr.. Baps, Immediately after, asking
"What are we to do with our raw materials
when they come into port in return for our
drain Of gold?" of Mr.. Toots (who responded
"Cook EN-, the distinguished Parliamenta-
rian was moved to say to Dr. Blimber that
Mr.. Baps was plainly remarkable man,
man of science, a man of figures. Where
upon Dr. Blimber was driven deprecatingly
to admit that he was indeed q man of figures
Gin short, Sir Barnett, our professor of
dancingW Whereupon, again, Sir Barnett
glowered at the wretched conspirator for the
rest Of the evening as if he had been Guy
Fawkes himself ~
This apologize has frequently commended
itself TO US, but never so forcibly as when we
heard, some weeks ago, of the advent of two
young women in Wall street as stock opera
tors. Two professors of figures trying to find
out what we should do with our raw mate
rials, Toots' of imbecility at every corner
Skittles of society in every window, to re-
mind them of their dancing days, and sneer
down their aspirations After all, there was
nothing really to surprise one Boadicea in
ner chariot driving over the slain, Mrs. Wood
hull in her coupe following the rise or the
ruin of speculations-in both behold the
feminine thirst for power and glory at the
expense of somebody else! Not that we
object. But we are forever getting new light
on the actual woman, and finding out
how different she is from the ideal
woman in whom the world has believed,
as churchman in the Virgin, for unnum-
bered years. What gracious illusions we
lose by the illumination we will not here
pause to consider. We certainly make some
gains. 1t is proved that the actual woman,
for instance, has capacities for sound and
fury, unpleasant in themselves, but signify
ing superfuity of energy seeking some
sufficient use 1t is proved that she has great
ingenuity in transferring the pence of the
money-making sex to her own Golfers, as wit
ness the feminine-we had almost written
the diabolical-arts of the charity-fair and
charity-ball and charity business. 1t is
proved that she has genius for managing
men, as witness the daily history of every
household. Now all these unmistakable
talents being misapplied, great waste and dis
comfort ensue. We have conventions, ba-
Zaars for comatose churches, domestic differ
ences as a result. The matches are laid away
for safe keeping and hardness in the powder
keg. Every woman who finds an interesting,
secure, and honest vocation is enabled thus
to provide a safe for the matches and vault
for the powder-keg.
The enterprising firm of Woodruff Clafin
q Co. having, if we may say 50, skirnished
along the line for some months, proposes to
enter the numerous and preternaturally active
army of Wall street operators, with the cryof
"a fair fight and no quarter" The young
women who compose it, sharp, confident,
daring, cautious determined, instant in sea-
son and out of season, with the drg0t of ''the
street" familiar as their mother tongue, and
the portents of the financial sky clear as the
Great Dipper, certainly come full armed to the
encounter. The men who occupy the
field will probably give them civil well
come, and no help. In Wall street every
man is for himself and the devil for the hind
most. But these ladies do not intend to be
hindmost, and if they are, they confess by
their defeat that they have deserved the
penalty.
We are especially glad to notice this ven-
ture. We do not believe that the genius of
and Company are likely to have many COM
petitors among their own sex. But we are SO
deafened with demands for the unrestricted
activities of women, so pestered with claims
for the ballot and for Office that it is pleasant
to see woman do an unexpected and impor-
| tant thing without iteration and reiteration of
her right to do it, and of the injustice, the
| tyranny of society in Withholding her. II
Woodruff, Clafin & Co. eclipse the reputa-
tion of Jay Cooke q Co., or even if they
maintain a firm, reputable, and prosperous
| place among other business houses, they will
have done more to enforce respect for the
business capacity of women than all the
windy suspirations of forced breath that have
echoed in the walls of all the conventice'
where woman's wrongs have been rehearseC
and woman's rights demanded, the last twelve
month. If they do not! Admirable jo1r
nalists, doctors, poets, artists, musicians, lee
turers, astronomers, bookkeepers, director
of large establishments, have appeared anon.
women and made themselves worthy name
We have always welcomed them. Ability
determination, perseverance and courag
shall have honor of us always. 1t is only pro
fame and vain babblings from which we sto]
our ears.
when a boy has learned that bottine
means knowledge of plants, said the excel
lent Mr.. Squeers, 'he gees and knOaoS EN-.
We commend his philosophy to the attention
of the Womans Rights Association and tn
editors of the ReDOIution.
THE CONGRESSIONAL TREATMENT O.
VIRGINIA.
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