The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1873-08-22

'sknow, you know" and the old Solo
mon who wrote the sermon from whicl
we quote must not provoke US, or W.
NAV be tempted to mention 4 few of thi
saving men of our acquaintance. Oh
yes. have the women save byall means
but don't mention it to the menl /
John James asks his wife, Susan, wher,
that ten dollar bill has gone he gave hel
last week, and she fails to mention tn,
twenty she knows he gave for turn
out to 90 out with some friends, she is /;
| good woman, q saving woman; she saves
her breath, and my opinion is, aftel
studying my sex from Maine to Califor
mia, the women have nothing else tC
save, for all their arts are exhausted.
You see, Mr.. Revere has an undoubteC
right to keep o fifteen hundred dollar
racer with a special groom at an enor
nous salary, a carriage and robes fOl
his particular use, and half dozen dogs
with meat bill for them per month
which exceeds the amount paid for hi:
| family; add Mr.. Revere has also a per-
feet right to give suppers at tirst-clasS
| hotels to as many hundreds as hG
chooses to invite, also to order from
abroad anything and everything his
fancy may suggest.
! But Mrs. Revere. Imagine that
woman issuing cards for party of two
or three hundred at the Clarendon OI
fremont Bless mel All the editorial
columns would be filled with it foI
months, and the sermons on extrava-
ganee would be multiplied, dd RaIGsedHl.
Mrs. Revere saves, and turns her car
pets once more, "FOr n man in public
life, you know, must attend TO such
things" But if man and wife are one,
how about the saving?
Now, my dear brethren and beloved
SolOmons, ponder these things, ere you
preach again. Where you find one sex
travagant woman, unconcerned rs tC
the expenditures Of her family" you
will find ten over-anxious, self-denying
Saving" women.
We have dined luXuriously on Fifth
Avenue, and wearily in a Sioux en-.
campment, and in both we found wom-
en- bearing burdens.
The saving qualities of my lonely
friends, being only the more civilized
submission of the squaw who take;
meekly the cast off blanket of her lord
Mr.. and Mrs. Shoddy, who go abroad
to display diamonds and vulgarity, may
take Will u lew SllOMNy GAlI1Nd
CANT women, but looking up and dOwI
the land, and looking into the many
homes We wOt of, where wealth or
fair fortune have made pleasant places
and looking again into the more modes
dwellings, we cannot find, with one o
two absurd exceptions, any woman, b
she wife or daughter, who has not a
ready learned her first lesson in sell
denial.
Men spend freely out of hand, wome
look forward intuitively to the reckon
, ing day. And when the reckoning da
. comes, and my AdOlphus finds himse
! cramped or veXed, why should he sho'
me the large bill for cigars which
| never smoked, or talk of paying til
: piper when l never danced? ? AdOlphU
: knows this, and yet he too will take u
r the old Adamitish song, and prate {
: wOman's extravaganza.
l dare say my theology is mixed, an
r my faith in foTefathers adulterated, bU
: never yet could understand how tn
"Weaker vessePi so Overcame th
stronger, nor how a "strong man" coul
submit to the influence of an "inferiOr
hope Eve was a saving wife; she is nc
mentioned as trying to justify hersel
With what divine contempt she mus
have looked upon her protector" abOU
that timeI Poor old Eve-some of YOU
children "know, you know" But kee
on, my good sisters, scrub floors, clea
, paint, rip up old dresses, make owe
! pants for the boys, lift all you can t
save hiring, and don't feel hurt if yO
! cannot find ten cents in your pocket {
; buy paper of tacks with. Put on you
wraps and go down to the Office, yo
J will find him there; he could not lii
; down the pictures, you know, for he wa
, "terribly busy just nOw," so run in an
, ask, like the poor little pauper you are
: for ten cents. The office may be full c
men, but never mind; playing cards
: Oh, yes, well no matter. Smoking
3 costly cigar? Well, well, he said "te7
ribly busy" that's it, you know; an
} now 90 out again with a smile on you
, face, and after you buy the tacks, trudg
: home with them, and put down the caI
| pet yourself, for n man costs three dol
: lars per day, and what will he do for
, cigar, and masonic fees, and o. o. /
e entertainments, and a thousand othe
1 things, if you are eXtravagant? Now
think Of il, can't you cut up two G
three Of those lovely fine night robes {
( yours for baby dresses? "YOur mothG
/ brought them from Paris ?n Well, SUI
: pose she did, you silly child? How ca
t John have q new dressing gown, if yo
Z don't do something, and what are won
r en- good for, but to make baby clOthe
e and ''save for the men ?''-SdleBl Ol
SerUer.