The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-05-04
THE ~lIISERIRs OF HOUSE,
CLEANING,
An Editor that Needs to be As
suaged.
From the washington (PA.) Reporter.
'tThe melancholy days are come,
The Baadeat Of the Year,

-r The Raadeat OF the year" jg-r..
The women are on the Fampage This
time, however, 1t Is not the right Of suf'
frage they are after, nor do we hear any
thing said about their Mission" for they
have found one, and TO the masculine per
suasion it is Of all torments the worst
Onse.cleanipg: The attack il a period,
ical one, coming onfgenerally about the
lattcrpart Of April, and although It is moi
OF long duration, it Is terrible while il
does lasta Consequently this Is q season
Of fen, triahnna anguish to every house
holder, andnhG Is full Of horror and de,
SPAR until the crisis is safely passed!
ThErd are, perhaps, few Gras ina mans
life that contain more Of compressed
misery than the half dozen days occupied
in!currying, and scThbbing down his TN.
happy tenement. That Is one period
when woman feel their superiority and
rejoice over 1t in the mostIintenSe degree.
They know their power and have no sort
of conscientious acruples about exercising
it.ildmtead Off attempting, as gentle
creatures like them should do, to .miti-
gate and soften tho calamity they
actually lay themselves out, 10 heighten
and intensity oil the discom(orts and for.
Inenis of this inhumantlOOd season. They
purposely tear and upset things through
out the honse so as TO make as much cnn-
fusion as possible, and are always, sure 70
pile every chair and sofa IN the hall just
before meal time. When they get every
window Inut, aud all the paper torn
off theWallS, ;par1Or, bedroom and kitchen
furniture appended in heaps, carpets
stocked in the back yard and the floor
covered o loot deepswith sudS, then they
are in the very intensity Of their enjoy
ment. The doctrine OF total depaytly
has been. the theme of many strong and
able argument, and, 30. far rs we know,
has never beenGettled! If, however, total
depravity means the feeling which
prompts people 10 take delightir the sui.
ferings Of their kind, . determination Of
the question Is comparatively easy. If
any man doubts 1t let him stay a good
deal about home during the deluge season.
II he don't become convinced that the
women folks" Joy and rejoice in his suf-
ferings, then bis heterodoxy would not be
shaken though one Of the dluvians rose
from the dead. II-. w ~,
There Is no question that CLEANLINESS Is
q great virtue, and we distinctly remem-
Der the fact that an inspired writer puts
1t close upon tho track Of gOlliness. All
this must be admitted, aud yet no neces.
sity discovered for human beings of the
male persuasion 10 be nauseated, crazed
and drowned on that account Is il not
possible-and We ask It moro In sorrow
than in anger-ior persons TO be cleanly
without enacting q volcanic erup,
ton within their honest! Must all
the internal arrangements of q household
DO turned into confusion and chaos,
everything upset, Torn 0sunder and scat
tered, and the fountains Of the great deep
literally broken up, in order 70 procure .
little pIlrgatlon9 These are serious ques-
tons, and ought 10 be sOlemnly consid-
cred, because II all this racket and DO.
dcvilment are essential to tho purity Of
humanity tho march Of civilization is not
going 10 proceed much further. If we
are TO be goaded To madness or death
simply that tho feminine rules of "de.
.cency" and "Iidiness" shall be observed,
or q mere, custom carried t,why then
we had much better mutiny and refuse
to 60 step farther. II would DO infin.
itely preferable to return TO first princi-
ples and bivOuac in the air Hike Arabs, or
live In bark huts as do the poor Indians
whose untutorel minds know absolutely
nothing of suds or whitewash, and whose
only use for a brush Is 70 dab on the war
paint when they go ITO dress the hair Of
their adyerSaTles! gu.rr u'r.. .0r
There Is only ono way we can think oil
to escape this annual agonyAouLside Of
throwing our civilization TO tho winds
and joining the YahOOs-and that Is 10
let up on the woman sufErage question.
Nothing short Of the pangs Of house clean.
ing could wiring, such an admission from
our lips, but when the rack Is applied the
braveSt spirit quails and shrieks. In this
and this alone, as civilized beings. can we
hope to find any refuge, As we have
said, or at least limited, before We believe
that the persistenCy OtwOmen In hanging
on 10 this annual aquatic performance Is
principally TO enjoy superiority aud power
above the male sex and to tyranize over
them for brief season. 1t Is their one
epoch Of revenge, and they look forward
with longing Tor is periodical return,
treasuring up In the meantime all their
wrongs, either real or fancled, nursing
their wrath to keep 1t warm" until the
opportunity arrives for them to let retri.
button ggsh out, upon devoted male
heads in the shape Of interminable
soap suds and detestable whitewash.
1t Is simply question Of vent for their
spleen, and the only way to escape
It Is by afEording them some, other med
ium not quite so Gxcruciatlng. Now II,
instead Of the yearly flow and ebb Of the
soapy sea, we could furnish another Gs-
cape valve for the pentup aecumulations
of feminine plQue and wrath, in that
event we should eflectuOlly dispose Of this
whole outrage upon our peace and quiet.
At no other season OF the year could we
be brought to yield a hairs breadth upon
the suffrage question, but the agony OF
domestic anarchy Is heavy upon US aud
human nature cannot Withstand it. We
insist, then, that the polls shall be free to
the sex; that primary elections shall
choose women as delegates; that political
conventions shall make them candidates;
that they shall make, speeches and ZEN
thuse" generally during campaigns and
that all possible encouragement be given
them to work of their womanly woes in
the very freest and easiest manner known
to this enlightened nation. So shall they
DO satisfied with their sphere" contented
with their EMISSION" al peace about their
Fright" and no longer need such weapons
as scrub brushes and wet cloths. "To
the Rescue" Anna Dickinson, we are
with you'll H. a
Adjournment Of Ohio Legislature.
From Gin. Gazette. ss0-T--si -.
The Ohio Legislature, after d session Of
121 days, adjourned, yesterday, without
1N1 Tkio hNfV VCHq nlarfnA In 1870