The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-08-07
The LIE Nard Letters.

II has been remarked that Senator Sum
RS utterauces are pearls Of wisdom.
NV far be- il from me to deny the aptness
the remark but Thea one cannot always
mpel one $ vision TO see things just as
hers see them, and thus said pearls take
kinds Of queer shapes when viewed by
H,rent persons. For instance An IT
weren't member Of the Mast persuasion
uoted the above, illustrating it by putting
Ir 5 into highly rhetorical attitude
nd letting stream Of eloquence, in the
hapc of string Of little darkeys. fall
rom the inspired lips Thus his latest
pearW-a letter addressed to the colored |
people of this district, urging them to per /
,evere in battling for mixed schools-is
viewed with about as much reverence as
the clowns patches in second rate per
lormauee. People are getting tired OF his
confined posing and think that time will
solve the problem better than any system
of coercion. II only the great apostle
would set up an opposition trip to Europe
per balloon, what blessing it would be to
this afflicted corner Of Uncle sam farm .
Quite an excitement was created short
while ago in the Treasury Department by
the news that DR. Mary Walker had re
ceived her long sought appointment to the
Treasurer Bureau Gen. Spinner hun
self made the announcement 10 the cher Of
the division into which she was
to be- placed, remarkiug in his
thoughtful way that he hoped She
would be treated with respect. Such
d buzzing rs then arose Where will
she .it?' Oh dear Wen be stared to
death Its bad enough now but when
she here we II be looked at ike so many
wild animals in a great moral show.
Couldu't they pat her into a small room
where she wouldn't be noticed SD much
etc, etc Something Ike that arose from
al points of the compass in that division
with any amount Of Struggling Of shout.
der., tossing Of heads, and letting angry
passions rise generally in a quiet way
And all this not because the DR.. is a bad
woman, but because she will persist in
wearing a sort Of hybrid costume in which
trowsers Predominant
She insists that her style of dress is the
only one proper and suitable for women, on
hygienic principles, the powers that be
however, while acknowledging her fitness
tor aud valid claim to clerkship, deny her
right 10 the trowsers, aud have rebufeC
her time and again, Mr.. Richardson ther
assistant 10 Mr. Boutwell,, comforting hel
the while with the assurance that if b
were Secretary she should forthwith have
o place but under the circumstance etc.
etc
Well, il So happened that Mr. Richard
son became Secretary, and Dr. Mary re
collecting his nice speeches, thought To 10.
hi memory alittle she passed the require,
examination, aud then reminded my lor,
OF lis former assurances, which brOugh
that gentleman into something like a cor
ner, cut of which he saw no available Wa.
OF escape. It was then Gen spinner
God ble-. him expressed hi, willingness
10 give her a desk in hi, bureau and eyC
rything seemed favorable To the pluck
little doctor But alas after she ha
oven taken the prescribed oath, the con
bined virtue and delicacy of the depart
ment had another qualm, whie
killed the appointment and sent the DR.. o
crying, like auy other woman.
Now, either she deserves place und,
government or she does not; though VIII
she should prefer a eIork,hip TO regul,
practice, the iates only know one thin
+, certain, if otherwise she is fit for an
entitled to position. her trowscrs shou
certainly not prevent her getting it. +,
the rest, that tender delicacy is all shan
Male members of religious orders WEI
costumes great deal nearer women
dress than the Drs approaches that
men, yet they are not prescribed on IN
account; why then set up the cry again
her for what, TO her, seems eminently {
ting and serviceable2
The truth is happy Yankecdom hol
any amount of latent intolerance, viii
crops out upon the slightest provocati
and would fam make everybody dance
the tune Of it, own whistle Were the ]
wise in her day and generation and, thro
ing reform aud trowsers to the winds, CO
vert the hustle she creates into an eigI
een.inch draped one, throw up brca
works in proportion, build her hair int,
pyramid of approved dimensions, and tn
look "childlikc and bland into the eyes
our grave and reverend seigniors, a
Winnie Reame, she might be as worthless
stale berry, and yet have her bray,
and devotion to our soldiers extolled
the skies, while the thousands would NJ
willingly roll into her lap, and all depa
ments be open 20 her. Such is life 8
iinesse.
Whileourmoral atmosphere isin the hi
~ rarefed condition indicated by the abo
our physical one has had any number
publications by some Of the hardest tn
derstorms and heaviest showers c
known, and hardly day passes that
or more approaches to a food do not
undate our streets.
To-day the grand Shuetzen Fest be
here with all due show and ceremC
and everybody who wants fun or Il
goes TO the Park OF course it's only
common herd who are in the city n
uppertendone with allits gorgeousness
fed, leaving said lower herd disconsoI
Still they manage to exist and even q
some happiness which proves what
dened wretches they are. LIZ MAR
The Autobiography Party in Bureau Cor
PRINCETON, ILL.,, Aug. 4-The Blu
county Anti. Monopoly Convention me