The Hickman courier., 1871-06-24
The True Rights of sYomap.
IFrom the Chiehsgo TimeF.l

Happening to talk about women aud
their arocations with an out -of-town gen.
tleman who WAS in the hardware business,
he gave me fresh sensation. Now you
know that provincial people know great
deal more about us than we know OF our
selves, and if we wish to hear very ex-
traordinsry story about city life they can
tell it to us.
The storyis true, as the relator took
me to see this wonder, which IS as fresh
10 me as if il had not been close 70 our
eyes for twenty years, and | Interviewed
a successful wholesale dealer IN saddleryS
and She is a Woman. M
Down in Chambers street, with from
tage of six windows, a magnificent area
of gildeG signs, on which was craven
( f Bartlett, harness and saddlery ware
/ found my sensation.
First, [ discovered that E. was D
hieroglyph for Emma, and then, that the
name belonged to one of the tiniest OF
women. with bright blue eyes, redlsii
brown hair, and sprightly manners. She
wore plain, brown stuff dress, with 4.
white collar and wristbands OF linen, and
a knot 81 ribbon--at her threat. Ia 4h:,
railing about her desk Is so AiRh. anu
she is SO email, that you gaze througir
the piles upon piles of blankets and car
riace wraps, aud ssddlery and whips,
and all sorts of kindred things, aud see
only busy men at their usual work, and
customers equally absorbed, a1d there 10
nothing visible which is unusual, except,
perhaps. quietness of manner and the lou
tones Of the statesmen.
| asked for the proprietor of the. house,
aud was shown into her private desk
room. Up rose the little creature as
oftiIy as she could, but it was not toa
great height, certainly not more than
four feet ten, but so all alive and active
was she, and her eyes danced so cheeri
y, and her little hands flew up in such
wonderment at the object of my visit,
that forgot to treat her as iuvolunta-
rily do little women.
Il wish to talk to you about your way
of life. its successes and it's vexations. L
beg you to tell me how you like it,"
My dear" she replied, as if were
the tiny one and she was the giantess,
NOBODY ever came to ask me any such
questions before, and if you will wai5
lust one half hour while look after the
shipping of an important bill OF goods
to New Orleans, I'll just tell you all you
want to know"
She hurried off, not with that hutter-
ing motion which, little women usually
have. but straight ahead to her business,
with the lingering amazement which my
question had reused expressed in her
upIifted hands.
dou't propose to relate our conversa-
lion in the modern interviewer's style OF
question and answer, but | will tell you
the substance Of what l learned. rs.
Circumstances made her acquainted
with buckles, and brides, and whips,
and spurs, and she began her bus
career by selling her goods per SAM u
She went from city to city, and from town
to town, aud men purchased goods of
her, 6rst because sue was woman en-
deayoring to earn a living, and because
she was such iittle Thing. Mhfu they
discovered that she was prompts fpIIing
their orders, and that her goods We of
the best quality, they patroniz-nh her
from self interest Then her trade sfew "
to be so extensive that she beg |IQ
manufacture and IMPORT for herss
from small beginning she befSs5 q
heavy dealer. and she now empiS y more
than a hundred women upon blankets,
nets, wraps. etc, and l don't know how
many men.
asked her why other women did not
succeed. "They could, if they would
be prompt, honest and trustworthy.
Women, as a class, have an abiding be-
lief that they were not made to come TO
time in their appointments, and If they
do not quite make good their contracts,
they fancy, because they are women, that
their failures must be excused. l. have
never made any demands for leniency
because of my sex. nor have | ever failed
in business engagement. L have asked
nothing of the public; have paid for
all my advantages, never over estimated
my wares, nor have permitted note TO
90 to protest If women wish to win
mans success, they must be as honorable
aud trustworthy as men, and they have
nothing to fear in any line of respectable
business l speak from 20 years ex-
perience." the little woman said, drawing
herself up to her very tallest, as IT she
feared that her size did not warrant her
assertion about her knowledge OF the
world.
l thought Of those women who believed,
or pretended to believe, that political
eauality with man was the one thing re-
ouired to push them on the road to for
tune, and / asked little Emma Bartlett
if being a woman aud having no vote
was an injury to her, and she first looked
a trife perplexed for minute IN her
bright blue eyes, then threw up her little
hands, aud laughed as if it we're fresh
Joke. while she declared that she bad
never thought Of it all. She said that
all gentlemen had been as courteous to
her as business Intercourse required, aud
she had desired no more.
She added. for little reflection that
perhaps hardware was not suggestive OF
coauetries, and that she owed somewhat
of her immunity from dissgreeable things
10 her peculiar occupation"
propose that women take TO the prac-
tical, and leave the speculative alone.
-lHaters.
Ono of the T,ondon macaziDes notes 40