Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-22
WOMEN
Sons Popular FalIaOIes Abou Them.

From the Home Journal
The cultivation Of respect and
courtesy toward our fair betrayers is
to be most highly commended and
enforced, but we claim in this article
to assault certain feeble prejudices in
favor of women which have their
foundation upon romantic rigmarOle.
THEIR SOLIDITY.-For instance,
where is there a greater fallacy than
in the belief that women weigh moth
ing? Yet in romance, even of this
modern day, we read constantly Of
heroes magnanimOusly rushing off
with fainting maidens from blazing
houses, or more f~elOniOusly "carting'j
them on their shoulders for purposes
of revengefuI abduction. Letany one
out of training, or under six feet of
hight and with prOpOrtiOnate
strength, attempt to run away with a
fairly WeIl-compOsed girl of eighteen
or tW enty, and give US his opinion of
the powers of these Wanted knights.
A woman weighing one hundred and
forty pounds and every ounce dead
weight, is not to be chucked over
ones arm and carried off in the smoke:
and a hundred and forty pounds
weight of kicking wOmanhOOd is not
to be carried off at all. Even a slight
girl will weigh a hundred pounds, and
Rudolph or HOratiO will stagger I'M
der her lovely but cumbersome figure
if he break out of a staccatO walk.
There are plenty OF buXOm girls who
weigh up to a hundred and seventy
pounds, and it is not given to every
man to hurry OFF, with such a bag
gage. When the viCtimiZed Squallina
faints on the stage, the robust bari
tone fakes care that the 'evanOUisse-
ment snail be accomplished as close to (
the wing as possible. He knows what
La Squaliina weighs by the sad eXpe-
Otsrehearsals. Let any of our
readers carry his sister (he will prob
ably prefer his cousin) up three flights
Of stairs without stopping, and for
ward to US his sentiments on the Oc-
casiOn. Women weigh a good many
pounds nova days, and their airinesS /
of fabrication is a fallacy.
THEIR APPETITEs.-AuOther pop
ular belief is that women eat nothing.
Ii is, of course, conceded that they
sustain life by the consumption of
some article Of uOurishment, but eat
in the wholesale acceptatiOn, is
supposed to be foreign to female ma
This faliacy is founded and sus-
tanned by women themselves, who,
the affected period of their
lives, cultivate small ~appetites as be-
CONNIE % JG1a and a sign of semi
angelic construction. When this per-
nonsense is cOnsCientiOusly
carried out, the results upon the
WOuld-be angels are squalOr, red
noses, certain loss of vigOr, general
impuess, and some other unpleasant
3Gquelae. But, as a rule, the smallest
ippetite5 at the fashionable tables are
by those shrewd girls whose
natural and healthy wants have been
thoroughly appeased by secret stuff.
ng. Need we refer cur readers to
he historical poem concerning NiO-
in the pantry, gnaWing of a
mutton bone. or remind them how
ihe guaWed it, how she claWed it,
when she found herself alone? All
his is direct deceit, however, prac-
iced upon uns0phisticated bachelors,
Who, when they have made the
creatures theirs, find out by
he butchers book and the ocular
proof what sturdy trencher-women
hey have married. Watch a healthy
yirl at supper during the intervals of
lancing; she consumes by install
nents TOUR times as much as her part
Ter, and seems, and is, none the
worse for it. Our experience tells US
hat women eat in proportion to their
weight, as much as men, and are no
more fairies in this respect than in
he matter of weight.
Other tall8cies regarding women
ire, that they must always have the
rOnt seat; that they may strike a
nan brutality without retaliation in
lind; that a man must ride outside
vehicle in q drenehing rain to sob
her, she being a robust, hardy
4brIc, and he, perhaps, a cOnsump-
i've, cOld-Catchiug subject; that she
nay cheat at cards and not be turned
.ut of a game; that she may lose her
,ets but never be expected to pay;
hat she may be maliciOusly rude to
he OppOsitesex without having her
ars sOUndly boxed for il; that she
lay put questions to them regarding
AAAO oPCJAhA AAALbC1o1 WAbLlDuL
eing considered impertinent; in
REF, that she may enjoy all the privi-
eyes IOf men without mourning the
ttendant responsibilities.
Men are goOd-humoredly contented
D endure gross injustice from women,
eCause they are aware that they have ]
rOUght the punishment upon them
by permitting a latitude to s
eebleness; weakness INDUCED becOms t
bully and a tyrant, and in the face 6
T this universally acknowledged fact, !
ONE of US are content to be Overrid-
en- by butterflies and crushed by pig Z
lies. 1t is pleasant enough to pet a :
retty woman, and to fetch and carry 3
n her within discreet bounds; but
lese should not expose manhood to =
ontempt. Systematically to upset ?
.ght, justice and kindliness, because +
woman is the asker, is altogether T
lonstrOus and uncomfortable. =