Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-01-01

inclined to think she may Idle in good
health" These women take care of them
selves.
Mrs. Livermore said that living near
Boston, and starting in the morning for
that city, she is brought daily by the pub
lie school of her place of residence. Near
ing the grounds she can hear from afar off
the shouts of the boys. When summoned to
the house they tumble along over each other
like school of porpoises, and are so full
of life and health, that in the school-room
they are in continual incipient rebellion.
Meantime the girls walk up and down in
slow innocence, arm in arm, and do not
even play the mildest of outdoor games.
At home it is my dear, don't go out in
the sum-" and don't do this" and g don't
do that" The things whereby the boys
attain strength and health are forbidden
to their sisters lest they should be styled
romps by Mrs. or Mr.. Grundy.
The boys hair is cut short; the girls is
left long and crimped and curled, and her
head tortured during the night so that she
comes to the breakfast table with no appe-
tite, while her brothers are ready to eat the
family out of house and home.
Again, the clothes of boy are loose and
comfortable. If his mother gets his waist
band too tight, he don't button his clothes
as they We're made to button, but is de-
lighted to have a chance to put some of the
inevitable string with which his pockets
abound, to a useful purpose. His clothes
hang from the shoulder, and he wears
warm underclothing. The girl when en-
tering upon womanhood comes from the
milliner's, and suggests corsets, having
been told that they are necessary for a
good figure" We treat the boys as
| though God knew how to make them, but
the girls as though He We're bungler.
Right here the speaker thought original
ed an endless train of evils. The vital or
CANS are forced by the pinching process
which inevitably follows the adoption OF
the corset to work in too narrow space.
The growing won 81 becoming dependent
on these artificial supports, is thereafter a
slave to them and will say on leaving them
off why, feel all gone" No wonder,
for they prevent the use of the muscles OF
the body for their natural purposes and
| leave them weak and fiabbv. The inn
mense weight of dress too is made by the
| fashions to bear upon the'waist. and Mrs.
Livermore recommended the adoption OF
an arrangement whereby this weight
should be transferred to the shoulders
Warm Undertaking and thick shoes are
needed.
| Our girls from the age of fourteen tc
eighteen are in the public schools certainly
the equals in scholarship and generally
the superiors, of boys of the same age. Blu
the boy learns a trade or moves into higher
studies. The girl goes home, dusts in the
parlor. does something in the way of taking
care of the spare chamber and in case o
great exigency helps the good mother viii
a help that in many cases is to be dreaded
There also appears. after her fitful invasion
of the kitchen, cake of indubitable richnes
and when eaten of nightmare producing
powers. \ boy if he spent his time il
helping when he had a mind to. and ha,
no regular business would be called al
ider, good for nothing and one bound f
90 to the bad. But the poor girl is no
wholly to blame. She is expected to wal
on the shores of time till the man shal
come along and invite her into his boat /
accompany him down the stream.
The union is right but it would be bette
if the girl would set out and paddle he
own canoe: then with her strength an
, skill she would be truly a help-mee
Sometimes the man be he ever 50 willing
is stricken down and the woman must ro'
for him and their children. and then wi
she thank God for the power to do it. III
lecturer related with the truest eloquenC
the story of friend of hers whose husban
failed and whom the noble wife preserve
from suicide, taking upon herself the MAJ
agement of affairs and becoming n boar,
ing house keeper, by which course 81
honOrcd herself and saved her famil,
ment by the power to get money II
speaker said she would illustrate by Il
story of the raw recruits who at Pittsbure
Landing, without arms and without disc
pline, were overwhelmed by the foe. 4,
versitv may come and woman as we'll
man should be armed for it and there
certainly a fuller growth of womanhoc
where one is engaged in some honest pu
suit than where ones time is spent in ma
ing calls where she is thankful at findin
the "callec out and grieved at findir
her at home.
Mrs. Livermore then discussed the ma
+ ter Of the supposed respective spheres
mans work and woman's work, and show,
: that in the walks, by the thoughtless deem,
o especially those occupied by women alon
=, men We're admitted without question
y They made good cooks if YOU did not loo
= too closely into the kitchen; the only lie
q turer on cooking that the speaker ev
-, heard was a man, Professor Blot, who h;
a woman to help him and she peeled pot
toes under his august direction and did
i all things as by him commanded, receivir
a dollar a day for her work while the m;
~ had hundreds for his. Nearly all the coo
# ing in hotels is done by men. So wi
re washing in the cities, it is done in laundri
=, and men run the lauEdries \ man ru
laundry well and easily. In fact if "
ID have any work to do turn it over to
~ Yankee and leave him alone; the wo
IN will be done but he will not have great
81 overtasked himself He will sit down al
If think out a way to do it. Would I'll
uonen could do the Same But rnncb