The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1871-08-11


ouent wave. 'FThere haint a more
beautiful sight on earth than to see 2
human souls, out of pure love to each
other as if they must and at least all
their homes and thought and affections
running together so you can't separate
'em nohow, lest like , drops of rain wa
ter i'm morning glory blow; and to see
iem nestlin' there not caring Tor nobody
outside the blow, cOntented ana bound
up in each other, till the sun eVaparates
'en, as it were, and draws 'em up to-
gether into the heavens, Separatilf em
up there. Why that is sight that does
men and angels good to LOOK at. put
when a wemen sells herself, swaps her
purity and self respect, her truth and
/ her soul for barter of any kind, sueh as
being called married wemen, q mouse
and lot, a few thousand dollars, horse
and buggy, eertificit with man 5
name on il, and eteeetery, what II she
does have n minister for saleman, my
contempt for that female is unmitiga-
ble."
1--WE differ from each other in our
views, Josiah Aliens wife-you believe
wemen ought to have rights-I don't. L
believe wemenis spear
'Shet up about your spears, says 1,
getting wore out. 'If it is wemen's
spear to marry, the Lord will provide
her with a man-it stands to reason He
will" says |, with a cutting look onto
Betsey. 81 have seen wemen that was
willing to marry, but the man wasn,t [
| forthcoming. What are they to do ,"
says /, growing eloquent in my deep
principal. care men to be pursued like
stricken dears by mad mob of humble
wemen? Isl wemen going out into the
streets and collier a man and order him
to marry her? ?'
81 tell YOU" says Betsey, waving off
the subject, which was, for reasons
won't hint at, OdiOus to her, "wemen
hadn't ought to vote, for it would de-
YOUR too much of their precious time a
studyin' the laws of their country"
"PreciOus timen says /, in tone
of whitening scOrn; "wemen spend more
time a-frizzin their trent hair than it
would take to learn the whole statue
book by heart. And if they get n new
dress, they find plenty of time to cut it
all up into strips, jest to pucker it up
and set it on again; but when it comes
to job about as long rs putting letter
into the pOst-office, they are dreadful
short on il for time. Wemen find time
enough to read all the novels they can
get hold Of-why, let one of these very
wemen that think the HFesiGeups
bureau is chest 9i draws where he
keeps his fine shiTts. ard the tariff Is a
wild horse the Senators keep TO ride a2t
On-let one of these wemen get hold Of
one volume of a mo- i, what does she
care about time till She res ne other
I four2 and how she wi i4y awake nights
wOrryin' about the hero? Betsey Bob
bet" says /, in impressive tone, 'if
there had been a wemen hid on the
Island of Patmos, and Paurs letters to
the churches had been love letters to her,
Bibles wouldn't be so lonesome as they
are now. Wemen," / continued, "find
time enough for balls, and theatres, and
parties, and to cover their faces with
their fans, and giggle, and abuse the
neighbOring wemen. Why" says i,
growing eloquent again, "the very rea-
son that mems talk is nobler than wem-
ems is because their minds are filled
with bigger thoughts. Betsey BObbet,
when did you ever know passel of men
to set down and spend a whole evening
talking about each others vests, and
mistrustin' such feller painted? Fill
a wemen's mind with big thoughts, and
she won't talk such little back-biting
gossip as she does now"
"But the delieacy of voting" says Bet
sey; ''the shock to our wemenly mOdesty,
I Ol HOlllS dlnOllISl SlTallRt men 10 vote 70
at hainit no shock to wemenly mod
esty to dance all night with a dress on
indecently low in the neck, and a
strange mans arm around your waist, is
it? j am for wemen's rights, and say
it boldly; but thier hain't a minister, or
a presiding elder, or old deacon in the
Methodist church that could get me to
waltz with iem; but these wemen that
are too modest to vote, don't make
nothing of being jest introduced to a
man, who may be a retired pirate, and
let him walk up and hug them by the
hour to the music of fiddle and base
violin. | don't want to hear one more
werd about wemenlv modesty ~ and /
paused, red in the face with my scornful
and lofty emotions.
II think your views are urOniOus,n y
says Betsey; "there is Inherent differ
ence between the two sects, as | remarked
to the editor of the Ginllet last night, a.
coming out of meeting; the fringe of my
shawl ketched on to one the buttons of
his vest, and we was Obleeged to walk
close together clear through the meet
ing-house- l says to him, after | had
enquired all about his sweet mOtherless
twins, says /, you don't believe in
wemen's rights, do you? Don't you
believe it is wemen's nature naturally to
be elinging%
4 do says he; heaven knows / dor
and he was so earnest agreeing with me,
that he give real wrench at the button
that tore the fringe right out of my
shawl. That is the way men are more
proud and offish, as it were, and wemen
are elinging in their natures, like vine
to a stately tree"
~ never was much of Ginger N.Y.
self; still, if wemen want to cling, ]
hain't no objection TO it. But suppOsin'
a vine hain't no tree convenient to cling
to SuppOsin' the tree she happens to
cling to falls through Inherent rotten
ness at the core, thunder and lightning,
and etcetery-what is to become of the
creeper if il can't do nothin' but creep ?
As long as woman has a rich home
and loving friends, it hain't much mat
ter to her whether poor wemen get the
same pay for doing the same work that
men do or not, but let her lose her home
and friends, and it makes considerable
difference to her" Betsey quailed so
that [ continued in more soft and rea-
sOnable accents. "As you say, Betsey,
admit that wemen have "A natural
hankering after the good opinion of the
other sect; but they can do without that
admiration better than vittles. Give a
woman as many fields to work in as men
have, and as good wages, and that is
enough. It rifles me to hear folks talk
about wemen's wanting to wear the
breeches They don't want to; they
! like muslin and calico better than they
Z L IL. F.If oh fea.