The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-11-03

anu arranging my apparel WIFI every re-
gard for beauty and neatness, fastened
upon the drapery which enveloped me
neat, pretty, tasteful bow of multi colo
rum and stood expectantly before a
male conniSse1T. "Go to your room and
take off that bow" he said contemptu-
ously. "Do you imagine Fair Ground
a fit and proper place to wear anything
nice? Who do you think can tell what col
,, or that ribbon is after you have worn it in
the dust and disorder of the Fair Ground
for two hours? You should wear at this
Fair the DIdiReSt clothing and some
thing that will wash"
Only the writer of "NOtes Taken at
the Fair" can imagine my feelings of
regret and sadness as took off my bow
and laid it mournfully away. Sympa-
thy is sweet, and it is a splendid thing
to meet kindred spirits, but 1 must con-
fess that l was surprised TO find in any
man living that distaste and horror of
wearing things unbecoming which L
had always been led to believe was felt
only by frivolous woman. would just
as soon have looked for Bengal tiger
to step from his native forest and lace
my boot string as to have expected man,
with his lofty scorn of trihes, to come
forth from his labyrinth of grand
thoughts and defend, or indirectly up
hold, woman in her petty vanity.
: But we properly appreciate all these
I Il
not, in the new regime, utterly neglect
: man. We must remember that he has
rights that must be respected. do not
like to see a man imposed upon by a
woman. 1t does not seem in the order
of things for the weaker TO Oppress the
stronger; and to see vine running over
an oak-nOw here ! am afraid my logic
is erratic, for vines do run over oaks in
the woods and in poetry. And right
: here, dpropOs, let me say that n little
scientific investigation in regard to these
"clinging vines' discovers the fact that
they must be allowed to twine in one
certain way, and that way they will in
dicate themselves. If you attempt to
train bean vine to the right or left II
forget which, you will ruin it, and rice
; rcrso of the hop vine. The poetic selling
ing vine" / take to be the ivy, but the
everyday domestic vine must be the
bean vine. The oaks of the world must
not interfere with the tendrils of the
ivy, and those men who are bent on
T making bean-pOles of themselves must
be sure they are bent the right way and
carry it out on scientific principles. If
their vines shall twine about, in per-
fectly natural way, i'm the direction of
| their pockets, absorbing the richness
therefrom, they must not oppose them
, lest thereby they injure their beauty and
utterly destroy them.
But, rs said before, do not like to
| see man oppressed by woman, and
wherever / know of a single case of this
, description | will not stand calmly by.
But with all my enthusiasm what can |
do?
: There are not finer poems in our lam
guage, more rich in fancy or wonderful
1 in construction than al am dying,
Egypt, dying" and w. a. Story's "CIe-
{ opatra." But who had been inspired by
1 the virtues of Octavia? Not even An
= tony. Maybe her children got up and
called her blessed, but the chances are
e that they did not. From this it will be
= seen that the sympathies of men of fine
I emotion have not been with the Octav-
= las. In the logical course of things our
: sympathies would not be with the mas
r culine Octavias.
But we do sympathize with all men
e whose wives and female guardians are
a Obstreperous and naughty and tyranni-
c cal; but, as / said before, what can we
o do? When a man has everything on
his side, law, custom, divine authority
n and physical strength, and then tamely
n submits to tyranny, it looks as though
V he rather enjoys it, and we feel as though
e tender of our sympathy would be al
/ most like interfering with family af-
II fairs. l should not like to be the one tc
v attempt to rouse him up to a sense of the
IA injustice done him any way.
Il To come back to the affair of wearing
10 badges at the Fair, since man admit.
4 that it is fair to wear them provided
p they are fair to look upon, although i
is concerns not the fair sex, it does cOncerI
ar the Fair people, and my sympathies ar
ts widely awakened. / feel that it is
lv question that should awaken the sympa
ra thies of my sex. Whether it would b
m right to throw my influence as a streal
70 of sunlight with the man who yearns t
m wear ''thing of beauty on his coat
,e and thus encourage spirit of vanity il
- the sex, or whether | should frown dow
:, all such demonstrations of what ma
h be only petty pride after all, is ques
- ton which am morally, mentally an
= physically unable to decide; ergo, be
IL understood that / venture no opinio
and say nothing at all about it.
is SALEM, Oct. p, 1871.
NO The following is the conclusion of a
epitaph on n tombstone: "She lived