Litchfield enquirer., 1873-09-11

work more hours daily than the men, The
 class of female trifers-f few even in cities
 in proportion to the hard-working moth
 CTS of families-is fewer still in the coun-
 try. The farmers wife who works from
 six in the morning till eight in the even
 ing, and never agitates even for Twelve
 Hour statute, deserves an equal share in
 the joint savings of the pair. The me-
 chanie's wife who labors more than his ten hours, daily. deserves an equal Eaiee in.
 the management of their family. The
 census of 1870 indicates that less than one
 family in teniin Connecticut has any do-.
 mestic servant; consequently, that nine
 Connecticut wives in ten labor as hard as.
 or.indeed harder than, their husbands.
 From the tenth who have servants should
 be deducted the farmers' wives who labor
 with their tthelp," and those industrious
 creatures who ''do their own sewing" or
 otherwise labor continuously for their hus-
 bands and families. Because, then, one
 one wife in an hundred is frivolous, use less. and dependent, are the other ninety nine to be kept in subjection 1? And if single women are charged with being more frivolous. useless, and dependent than wives, is not the reason obvious ]? Are they not refused employment suited. to their condition in life; are. not sisters denied admittance to the lucrative ayoca- tions open to their brothers? In coun-. tries where the stupper' few control eve rything law, custom, society-it may seem right that the slower' many should be disregarded. But can republic, founded on the principle of universal suf- frage, where the great majority of mar ried women prove their right to independ- ence by unremitting daily toll, consistent ly refuse to acknowledge that right? ie-t,
 The French monarchists seem determ- ined on an attempt this month for; the restoration of the Bourbons. The Ma tional Assembly is to be called together again, and a majority obtained. if possi- ble. for voting Henri V. upon the throne of hls ancestors-sthe succession going to the Orleans branch at his death. Per.i haps the farce ofa ple6sscite might fol low; though, as the Count de Chambord considers his divine right his s'best holt. :" that would scarcely be necessary. It seems hardly possible that majority of the Assembly can be brought to counte- nance such fraud, or tLat high spirit ed people will submit to it for day-but. the ways of the French are past finding out.5ea5t hLaaa GEg1 ,gsai aat : 5Go9' When the saintly Isabella left Spain she took everything she could carry along with her-to such an amount that the sue ceeding government tried to reclaim some of it. She had an income of $200, ,0O0 a year which ought to have supported an but did not, and now half her principal is gone. To make matters still more disagreeable her husband has sued her for an annuity she owes him, and for about $44,0 900 for her children-a very generous act, indeed, when we consider that they are probably not related to him. The ex-imperial family of France is also in trouble, for the wicked Duke of Bruns- wick instead of leaving his hoards to the Prince Imperial as he promised, followed the example of the rest of Paris and cut the Napoleons, leaving his property to Ge- neva Verify the ways of fallen majesty are hard! -t5f s51A ai.-H