Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-04-18
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RAISE SHEEp-~EAr MUTToN-Good NUT
ton, we'll tattcd, and neatly butchered, is the
most wholesome, nutritious and cheapest of
meats. it grows quickly, and cos:s little to
produce it. compared with beef or pork.
Every farmer should have few long g-wooled
Cosset sheep at least-CotsWold or Lelcesters
They arc little trouble. and will keep tat on the
orts If the CATTLE They usually beriDg two
lambs, which will sell to tho butchers for from
eight to ten dollars by the first OF July. Their
fleece averages from eight to fourteen pounds
with from sixteen to twenty-five per cent.
shrink only. Their wool is pow, and will be,
in the future, WORTH thirty per cent more than
mcrino, which shrinks torty-fve to sixty per
cent, according to the family and treatment OF
the flock. Long wool makes strong, excellent
and durable stocking yarn, though it is most.
" used to make the brilliaut light and lustrous
Orleans goods, for the apparel of our pretty
women. Two sucn sheep will yield as much
profit as common COW, and five of them can
be kept as ehsap as a COW IN milk. Their
laRbs and mutton could keep farmer sup
piled with the best of fresh nest of ono kind,
a. often as i. necessary, the year round, and
would make an agreeable episode TO the eternal
round Of salt junk and pork, and bs far moro
healthy than either. Those who cat principal
ly .ated meats show it in thsir onpleXions,
their skin being less fair a.d smooth. Pork,
at best, oaten constastly produces irritation and
eruption, of the skin.
Wo have now plenty of sheep in the coun
try-32, 900, 900 head (more than ever before,
according 10 the popuation.) Then let all
manufacturers, mechanics, and all men, who
are interested 70 have good meat and the board
of operatives cheap and wholesome SEQ 10 it
that mutton raising and wool growing are pro.
pery encouraged, as matter OF health and
economy. Meat is great Item IN the expense
of toard of operatives, etc. Ii we grow our own
wool we shall always have mutton plenty and
cheap This will affect materially the price OF
other meat.
AN APPEAL AGAINST LONG DRESSES. The
New York Post vf Thursday publishes the fol-
lowing communication from Arabela:
For some years VIC ladies' have enjoyed the
nriviege of walking the streets In short dresses
dresses so short, that is to say, that they no
loneer swept the pGvcmcntS as we walked.
Nobody but woman knows how great Is the
comfort OF this, or how abomnabc nuisance
long trailing street dress is.
The other day went out to look at the new
fashions; and, behold Iorg dresses are once
more coming in, as the phrase Is. pre-
test half dozen Of my friends protest with
me: but the dressmskcrs and the dress-venders
arc inexorablc 1t is rhe fashion; tits the latest
style; and it is OF no use to appeal, they say,
For my part do not mean to give IN TO the
filthy fashion without struggle. dare say
shall be beaten, and that month or two hence
Won will see me sweeping Broaway like the
rest of nv foolish sisters. But an deternin
ed to stand out for while at least. viii not
somebody join me?
What is the use OF the Sorosis Clubs, il they
cannot put down this monstrouS and hlthy
al,o,nination ?What is the use of the American
Female Suffrage Association if 1t cannot sue
cessfully oppose this last decree OF some French
woman with large feet?
viii you not kindly print this, my appeal
for leave to be clean; for liberty to be comfort
able; for license to walk freely without being
thought odd or fright p | confess DO
not like to look odd. Nor does my husband
like to see me dressed differently from other
women. He rails against the fashions; but ne
would be the first to complain IT MS vile were
to refuse to conform to the commands OF the
latest mode.
propose the formation of Short Walking
Dress Society.
Mrs, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, who is
lccturing on woman suffrage in the West, has
adopted a new way Of ascertainipg the feelings
Of her auditors on the subject so dear to her
heart. 1t recent letter from McGrcgor, Iowa,
she says:
have new way of putting the vote: List
all those who arc in favor keep their seats, aud
those opposed rise. =" In this way one gets the
most favorable response, because women, like
;n.nimate objects, generally need some exter-
nal force TO put them in motion, and the mass
- tbem would not rise up to save the nation.
,rh,,s Won preceive, the odium and fatigue OF
I;n;rr "a thrown Oh the enemy, and on ihe
.;nr;nle above stated, natural inertia, the
ppnnos;t;on is far less in any audience than one
mipht anticipate. Some carplng persons nave
cr;Iiczed this way of putting the vote, but
see no eason why We should vote Just as men
do, but every reason why we should 90 al
things quite differently. IT you call lor inc
ayes iew deek-voiccd men could drown ou'
hundreds of women. Seeing, then, that Wo
men will not raise their voices nor stand up' II
is fair and wise to take their approval OF every
thing by silence and the sitting posture:
Mrs. Stanton does her sex injustice, We
think. when she asserts that the mass OF then
would not ,ise up 10 save the na,lon.' Sh'
seoms 70 take the ground that ''si!encc give
consent" which is probably not strictly tue II
this cass. Her method o! putting the qules
ton Of woman suffrage to vote, however, Is