The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-10-30
Miss Faithful on Woman's Rights
and Wrongs,

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and Wrongs.
(FrOm tho Philadelphia LedgCr.)
In tho Centennial Course, Miss Emily
Faithful lectured at tho Academy q
Music on Saturday afternoon, on "Moye
ments Relative to Women" The usual
fine musical concert by Hassler's orches,
tra preceded the lecture. Miss Faith full
said that Of all the battle.fle of con,
fused opinion, the one that should carry
of the palm was that which Is now vex.
Ing the world, the dispute as 10 the reIa.
tive powers OF men and women. The
lecturer said that the movements relative
10 women excited so much abuse In Eng.
land that many persons did not dare to
give the subject serious consideration, and
Others charged that those who interested
themselves In tho matter was setting
themselves against men. But the move.
ment arises not from any anLagonism 10
men, but from deep sympathy with all
their nOblest and best feelings and desires.
England was once described as ''the hell
of horses, the purgAtOry Of servants, and
the paradise Of women" because 1t
was spid that the horses and
servcnts were overworkCd, while
the women lived in indleuess.-
Accepting this Us true, though IN
reality tho women Of Olden times were
by no means idle, the women OF to day
have left the paradise 10 enter the busy
walks Of lie. The lecturer said that she
would start from themoderate standpoint
that women must live. "Yes," says an
opponent, "but quietly and in their own
sphere" But, said the lecturer, tho con.
ditionS Of existence have been altered
much within the past few years, and
many branches Of industry, by which
women did live in the olden time, are
now swept away by the inventions Of
men, and the great trouble OF the present
day is that many women are almost forced
into life Of idleness and irivolity, and
sometimes OF crime. Apicture oI the life
Of Il housewife Of few centuries ago was
presented, where the vile performed the
work now done by the great old women Of
Manchester and Leicester, and the lecturer
said that the class Ol unOccupied women in
England, already large, was constantly in
c!eNsing. And where women can get work
In large factories or mills 1t Is not their
own, 1t is not domestic work. Emigra.
tion besides, carries of more men than
women, and while it increases the rela.
tive number OF women left at home It dc.
creases the number Of households. Leg.
islation which forbids the employment Of
women in certain hard labor such as min.
ing, humane though it be, only increases
the class 0! unOcCupied women. Even
the higher classes do not escape, as the
enhanced competition In life and reckless
speculation Of the day bring many to
ruin who, in the slower days OF our an
CeItors, could have lived comfortably and
perhaps atlluently oil their days. Hence
the cry in England Is that work is wanted
for women and there Is no work to be
had.
The lecturer severely denounced the
false ideas Of ladyhood prevalent in some
Glasses Of English society, and said that
she doubted whether one-hall OF the hu-
man race could have fallen from its &C.
CustOmcd level without some active cause
for which the other half may have been
partially responsible. We have faulty
social system to deal with, and 1t will not
do to aim all our blows at one class or
sex and not at the other. II we do not
get wheat out Of our ground, VIC will as.
suredly get tares, and If a girl Is not
taught to interest herself in that which Is
good and wholesome, she will assuredly
turn to that which is bad. Sidney Smith
said that men had told women so often
that they were fools, that the women
seemed to have taken them al their word.
May not the men OF to-day have told
the women so often that they were
creatures Of instinct, not OF reason, but
intended only as ornaments, that the wo-
men have again taken them at their
word? But we are learning rapidly that
1t Is better to train women as Gods crea.
lures, and not as mems subordinates We
are learning that 1t is better for women
to graduate from school for science,
than from school for scandal We are
told that man has one more cell in his
brain than woman, and one fibre less in
his heart, that man is the noun substan.
tive, and woman the adjective to agree
with him; but these things are beside the
question. There can be no separation be-
tween the two. 1t would be as ridiculous
to say that man should live upon beef
and woman upon mutton, as to say that
both may not partake Of the same fruit Of
the tree Of knowledge.
The lecturer spoke Of the movement In
favor Of woman suffrage, headed 10 Eng.
land by Jacob Bright and Lydia Faw-
cCtt, and of certain disabilities under
which women suffer by existing laws.
She said that the solemn pledge Of the
marriage service, where the man says
"With all my worldly goods thee en-.
dow" became ridiculous when the man
knew perfectly well that according to a
law on the statute books he could
not only keep all that he had, but take
all Of his wite's property. Miss Faith.
full said that a woman would make
as good wileswith a knowledge of the
science OF arithmetic as without It, and
would not be untitled for the duties of a
mother If she knew something Of physiol.
ogy and the laws Of life. But, said the
lecturer, the vexed question Is not 80 much
what shall be done for wives and mothers
as for the single women obliged tolive by
some means, and deprived Of the domestic
work Of their grandmothers, and also that
there could bc no morereaso for training
a boy so that II necessity required 1t he
could earn his living than there was for a
similar education OF girls.
The lecture was iull Of pungent criti.
cisms upon prevailing opinions, and the
strong, clear language with which every
point was made, excited considerable ap.
plause.
ANOTHER REMEDY FOR THE EPIzooTIc
INFLuENzA.-An English gentleman Of
Al. Al.