The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1873-03-28
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From the Christian Union.
TIE COMING WOMAN.
A DIALOGUE FOR GIRLS.

a DIALOGUE FOR GIRLS.
FIRST
Nobody knows how want to grow,
How count the days as they come and 90.
Wishing and wishing that time had wings;
For I've made up my mind to do great things
When Pm womanl
won't be duh, and faded and gray,
And drudge in the household from day to day.
Like some of the women I know;
But mean to grow fresher every year,
And win be SO smart that the people
Shall ask how I manage so.
..ss SECOND.
When I'm woman mean to show
What wonderful things woman can know;
III know French and German to write and speak
And I'll read.all those funny old books in Greek,
Besides what there are in Latin.
III learn all about what they call ''liigh art;p
I'll have the philosophy quite by heart,
And trigonometry, too.
wont take minute to work or play,
But III study by night, and III study by day,
To show what a woman can dol
THIRD. .4
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To write not single stupid page;
But funny stories for girls and boys,
And songs to be sung with good deal of noise,
And marvellous fairy tales.
know all the children viii buy my books,
And III write some, too, for older folks,
For the newspapers first guess;
Letters, perhaps from over the sea,
To tell strange things that have happened to ME,
And how queer the people dress.
FOURTH.
Such famous housekeeper will be,
That all the ladies will call to see
How l ever make snch beautiful bread
For all my household shall bewell led
When I'm woman.
OIL the sweetest jellies and cream I'll make,
Of daintiest puddings, and pics, and cake,
I will always have great store.
My kitchen floor shall be snowy white,
And everything else shall be Just right
That you find inside my door.
FIFTH.
I'll be a lecturer travelling about,
When it isn't too stormy for men to get ont,
III show them their sphere and the women's, too,
And tell the young girls what they ought to do
When they are women.
I'll let the people see why the world goes wrong,
And make them all hope that it won't be long
Till women can have their way.
Freedom to lecture, to vote, to preach,
And to do everything now beyond our reach,
We surely will have some day!
SIXTH
Ill be a milliner, wrapped IN a cloud
OF laces and ribbons, and sought by a crowd
Of beautiful ladies in velvet and pearls,
Who want exquisite hats for their dear little girls,
In styles fresh from Parisl
Such ravishing bonnets III invent
Have never been seen on this continent!
And, for customers to prepare them,
I'll have dozens of girls sewing night and day,
3 For fear the new fashion viii grow passe
Before folks geta chance to wear them.
SEVENTH.
When I'm woman, a teacher I'll be,
But hope I shan't have much company;
OIL if the committee could only know
How glad we are when they rise to goi
When I'm woman
expect that teachers win have great pay,
And they wont work more than three hours day,
And vacations will be so Iongi
And I'll caution my scholars to take great care
To study no more than their health will bear,
For that would be very wrong.
ALL.
When we are women You then win see
The useful things that women can be;
And if each of us in her own way tries,
We can all be happy, and good, and wise,
When we are women.
Butperhaps it is true that time hath wings,
And, if we would do all these wonderful things,
We must loose not a single day.
If our plans should go wrong, wen have courage
still,
For we think that somehow, where we've a win
We shall always find awayi