Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-08
ABOUT WOMEN.
The Wumas's Jury in Wyoming and is
Consequences.

Inc tOl0WlUE letter Il LOll q Wy
Oming correspondent Of the Dodge
county (VNil Citizen. 1t is, Of course,
perfectly Fenable, for the editor Of the
Citizen says so, and he ought to know:
DEAR MOTHER f: Of course you
have read in all the papers how that
Anty has been setting on the jury,
and how they convicted a man to
death. / know it was a great homer
for her. but / had an awful time Of il,
and was glad enough when they adj
jOurned. You e girls is scarce and
high out this way, and Uncle Jed
han't got his place paid for yet 30
Anty and me do NJ own work. The
day the Jury begun to set We got up
at 3 O'Clock and had the wash cut be
fore breakfast. Anty went away be
fore IO-then 1 had the work to finish
up, and dinner to get Before 1 got
half through, Ulysses Grant Fail
woke up and missed his mother, and
set up such a nOWling you'd have
thought there was a dozen Indians on
the war path. I tried my best to
keep him quiet-at last l began to
sing to him:
1Nice little baby, don't get in a fury,
N1AA.C IAauAAlAd , EtAAc TO ~ AA +AAE ~
Just as / got the words out Of my
mouth, Uncle Jed came in and says,
damn your jury" He was bling
mad, l tell you, for he cannot bear to
hear the baby cry. He told me to
take the baby straight to the court
house to his mother, and he would
eat his dinner in the pantry; and told
me to tell Aunty to get excused and
come home. But when 1 got there
the Chief Justice was preaching to
the wimmin beautifully, and told 'em
how that all the world was looking at
them! and that Wyoming had took
the first step to give wimmin their
tights, and lots more that / can't re-
member. Poor Ulysses spied his
mother and was getting uneasy, so
that l couldn't hear half Of it. After
she got through Anty gave the baby
his dinner, and he was happy as a
prince, looking at all the folks. She
said if she did not come home to sup
per / might bring the baby again
about dark. Well, L had to trOt that
baby three times a day back and
forth, all the time that Anty was
settin' on that jury, and do all the
work besides. All the Wimmin had
on new dresses except Anty. She
bought a beautiful blue maTinO, but
couldn't get it made up for love nor
mOney-sO she had to wear her black
alpaca. She was glad Of it a1terward
for q man sat next TO me and says to
another man that that woman in a
black dress is sensible, for wimmin'
settin' on a Jury in a murder trial
,r--kE - "a, wagrr-nTn@ ma ngaN
provoked nj day when L was takin'
the baby; he kept squailing al the
way, when who should L see coming
but Bill Smirker. l pulled my veil
over my face and pretended didn't
see him, but he sings out, "HailOOl
what's that? a young juryman?"
Bill has been home with me a couple
of times, but Pm afraid be won't
again, after that meeting. They
wouldn't let Anty come home during
the whole time. l couldn't get din
ner; so Uncle Jed used to get a lunch
at the saloon. fought not u say any
thing about it, but he stayed out three
nights till L. Where ne was l don't
know. 1 shall tell Anty, for she is all
tuckered out, and has &c lie down
every little while. Anty said to-day
that she was going TO turn over q new
leaf in the house. She would hire a
girl, cost what it might. She hadcOme
to her senses, and found out her
sphere, and as for wearing herself out
among pots and kettles, and being a
slave for Jed F1ail, if she knew her
self she shouldn't do it. Not much,
Mary Ann! She is going to read and
expand her mind, and some day viii
start on a leeturing cOur, and that
would be pretty soon, irtWant for the
baby. She said, {" there is one thing
certainI put my foot on that square
will no more Fails come into
this house. Ulysses is the oldest, and
will always be the youngest. When
I was settin' on that jury L was mOrti-
fed almost to death to think Of jed
Flail being so stupid as to send that
baby rightin court time. OF course be
had no feelings for me. 1 sometimes
thought / should faint away and drop
out of my seat, and this great Iummix
to drag out what little Life there was
in me. Other wimmin could have
their babies at recess, and their
fathers think just as much of them
Jed does of his baby. If 1 had
my life to start over again I'd
keep school till 1 was gray before I'd
marry a man that couldn't appreciate
talents" 1 said, "Anty, You was
beginning to get gray, weren't you,
when You were married9'' but she
didn't hear. Just then somebody
knocked, / opened the door, and
there stood Ruth ROddOck. She bad
been visiting here a spell. She says
to Anty, "GOOd morningM Mrs. Flail,
how do yOu find yourself ster setting
on the juryT7 SEE SAID She had just
come from Mrs. ScsiDWs. bat she
and the baby were both sick; thatshe
left a quilt half 0ErNhen She went to
serve her country BY setting On that
jury; and now ehas Providence had
seen fit to sfdicT them with sickness
she did not kIuow when it would
come Of Win nobody but a
tWelve-year-eA daughter to do
everything Then L called at
Mrs. knocR sabout's, and she has
the raeafu itix very bad. Her hus-
oand 1aa 1t the children of to school,
and the ~ eakfast dishes washed. He
sald ~ - willing to work MS hnger
e1 f0r he considered il a great
1elot - have a wife smart enough to
y 81 the first jury OF wimmin IN
s8erica. They would have agreed
sooper. if it hadn't been for that poo
rs 81 a man, for they did not ealeu-
.efe fom the first TO letthat murderer
90. and have folks say they were
ebjcken-hearted, and darsent convict
sim. Ruth told Anty that it would
Sc a good idea to stop some Of the
Mormon sisters on their way TO Utah
and impress them totheservice, and
so keep every husband supplied with
nurses-then they might serve their
country and still have things going on
smooth at home as a well creased en-
gine. Anty says L must &c to school,
and as / am pretty good 10 grammar
an speIlin, she wants me to study
latin. She says she has heard the doc
tors and lawyers are chuck full of latin
and she thinks they are, for she eOulC
not make out a good many OF tn
words. an knows they must a. beef
latin. She says most likely I'll hav'
to set on the jury some time, and sh'
don't want me to be SO ignorant q
she IS. You had better sell the GOV
! and let me have the money to go
school. Your a~fectiOnate daughter,
SAELIE SPROUl