Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-10

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pause here to say word about that mon
strous disgrace to the Intelligence of our
age, which makes 80 wide a difference in its
judgment between the sexes in, tbe matter
Of chastity.
Here the lecturer spoke sit some length
on the subJeet, condemning the unchari-
table disposition OF society in making the
woman who has fallen an outcast forever,
while the man who has caused her ruin is
treated with the utmost leniency.
She referred at some length 10 the
womauly girl, denying that the term
''womanly" was appropriately applied by
men. She commended that the same virtues
which are esteemed 'tmanly" in men, such
as honor, courage, truth and virtue, are
''womanly" traits in women.
There are three different types of the
American girl VINO are peculiarly interest
ing as representing the three different sec
tons of the country. These are the
Yankee girl, the Western girl, and the
Southern girl. My Yankee girl lives in New
England generally, and in Boston particu-
larry. Oaughter.) She can make a bed,
or demonstrate proposition in algebra
with equal facility. Her studies in mental
philosophy never interfere with the perfec-
ton of her toilet. She has q large house.
full of sisters. 1t is amazing how many sis
tiers girls do have. "a laugh.) She sees
that her chances of getting q husband to
support her are rather slim; so she has qui-
city laid her plans for the future in such a
way that if she is obliged to, she can
support herself. She is not exactly strong
minded girl, understand, but she leans
little that way, Well, that is good so far
as it goes, for 1t is step in the right direc-
ton; my creed being, and it
has always been, thu a eirI
should be educated just ss a bow is. to SUP
port herself. Then she can marry, if she
wishes to marry, the man she wants. with
out regarding the question of his pocket
book. She can be her husbands partner,
and support him If he falls i'll. Many a
woman has to support her husband when
he could work. lLaughter.1 My Yankee
girl has very decided opinions on all those
subjects. 0 yes, indeed! She is a girl
that has "views." She wears spectacles
and carries blue umbrella [laughter], and
she expresses her views, too, whenever she
can get anyone to listen. She also has her
sense of humor, but her jokes are always
marked by her shrewd Yankee character.
1t was Yankee girl who, tasting glass of
cider at neighbours house, asked, 'tMrs.
Skinfint, how many barrels of cider
did Mr., Skinfint make this year ?'' ''Seven
barrels" "SeveR barrels well, if he had
had another apple he might have made
another BARREL" [Roars oflaughter.]
The Western girl is nothing in the world
but a Yankee girl let loose. Some of those
Western girls are half Yankee. When they
are, they prove that the best thing is to get
out of New England and go west TO the
broad, free prairies.
The popular idea of the Southern girl
rates her as luxurious, enervated creature,
capable Of nothing but lolling over novels
in the sunshine, or the fatiguing exercise of
shopping. She is supposed to be en-
tirely lacking in sef-reliance and possess
ing neither the desire nor the ability
to think for herself, her only idea
of existence is inseparable from being
cared for by man, her only amAtion TO
make herself pleasing to his eye, her only
education those smattering Of French,
algebra, drawing and music which are
taught for so much per quarter at water
ing places. But those who hold this type to
be the true one are in error. My Southern
girl is in some degree an ideal girl, but she
is not a creation of her fancy for all that.
She is, in fact, made up of every good quail
ity in the Southern character, and when
you take the best qualities of the warm
impulsive heart, your own heart must be
made of ice or snow if you do not love and
admire them. There is that within her
breast which helps to keep woman pure
and true, which helps her to stand by her
own and suffer or die, if need be, in
defeneS of those she loves, and defiance of
those she hates, and she can hate, this girl,
as earnestly and as deathlessly as she can
love. Once let this girl array herselfon the
side of the good and true, and no one in the
world can find champion more Jealous.
The lecturer referred to the noble devo-
ton of the Southern women to the cause of
the Confederacy during the late war and
continued:
Those who had known only lives of ease
and Incidence became the angels of the
hospital, nursing the sick and wounded.
The fashionable bellies forgot their silks and
laces and clad themselves in course stuffs.
They said, this is my father, this is my
brother, this is my lover; where they suffer
there is my place. l declare as a woman
whs throughout that long and terrible
struggle sided heart and soul with the
Stars and Stripes, that she is no true wo-
man and he is no true man who cannot,
looking upon the past, rise superior to preju-
dice and passion and honor the brave,
earnest suffering of the Southern women
who cast in their lot with the South.
After pursuing this subject for some time
i'll the same strain, she spoke of the
strong-minded women, who, very
naturally received a most complimentary
notice. She defended their claims to a
wider sphere of usefulness, and concluded
by rendering some good, wholesome advice
to the ladies in the audience.
The lecture was one of the most success
full that has been delivered in Nash
vile for many a day. 1t abounds
with sparkling wit, caustic sarcasm, touch
ing pathOs, and saving common sense.
Many in the large audience which was
charmed with her eloquence last night, will
regret that she has decided not to deliver
her lecture on "Young Men," in Nashville.