The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-12-19

can dare after this TO attempt to use
her "nObler and brighter instincts" TO
"show society how it can be saved. -
This doubtful-gendered individual ire
spects them too highly as' (he thinks
"they ought to be-" to see them treated.
as he thinks they will be, if they see
their duty in any other direction than
the one he has planned for them.
But to prove the manner of man, OF
rather monstrosity, he is, hear him
further:
But II women expect that hostile feelings and
opinions will be tanned or altogether suppressed
in their honor, because they choose 10 thrust
themselves where they have no business, they
will ind out their mistake, perhaps when too
late. II they abandon their safe cover and
come out into the open, they must. lOok 10 be
hit like the rest. We cannot too often repeat
that IL they will mlngle in the specialties OF
mems lives, they must put up with mems
treatment. Perhaps Il is asking too much oi
women OF this land 10 suppose that they will
consider themselves Ia relation TO mems lik
ing.
A true gentleman-or man whose
gender is so well established that he has
no fear that womsnly competition will
overthrow it-has too much self-respect
to dictate TO men or women as to what
their "business" or duty shall be. But
these sexual mistakes among men, who
are forever taking it upon themselves to
decide the "sphere" of woman, though
noisy when there is no danger, are Sc
scarce and silent when the time comes
I to "hit' the women who dare to dO
their duty regardless of their brays, that
women will have no opportunity to find
out that they make mistakes through
their prowess in any other fight than
that waged with paperpelletsat at proper
distance. Perhaps it is asking too
much of men of this class to suppose
that they should, for once, consider
Themselves in relation TO ac0BieRs liking.
Yet if women must lay aside individu-
ality for mems sake, why may not men
be equally philanthropIc, and for like
reason?
To quote our author further:
Hard, unblushing, unl0vIng women, whose
Ideal OF happiness lies In swagger and notori.
sty. who hate home life and desplse home yir.
tues, who have no tender regard for men and
no instructive love for Children who desplse the
mOdsSty OF sex as Ihey deny lis natural fitness
these women have worse than no charm for
men, and "a their place in the human family
seems 10 us altogether 4 mistake
How these poor creatures are to be
pitied, TO be sure. Only think OF it I!
''They have worse than no charm for
men," and no wonaeri But the worst
Of it is, at least for our masculine writer
of the abnormal sex, there are no such
women, unless they are made so by the
superior rule of that trough, rude, mas
culine element, which has so long mis-
managed matters that the holier and
purer instincts of q once sweet and noble
womanhood have teen soured and de-
strOyed by the treatment they have re-
ceived at the hands Of such men rs he
who have no more self-respect than tc
declare that they will act the brute to.
wards all women who do not follow JUS
such line OF duty AS they shall appoint
for them.
The women who are engaged in the
Woman Movement are the very revers,
Of the hard, unlovable pen-picture this
writer has painted, yet they cannot
avoid q pitying smile at the egotisn
which virtually says that If womer
"have no charm for men their place il
the human family seems TO as altgetheI
a mistake"