, 1874-08-23

u HM1AN7S Ely ming ClpIlCi4y.ss
'"oman's fighting capacity !"--oh rny! I
olat isn't bringing tie sublime and the ridicu0u
together with vengeance, don't know how i
could we'll be done. Fighting capacity! ba1et
my arm, md tried to tind out about how muci
MUSCLE had, but found only network of blut
veina~ dolefully concluded, as slipped dowt
ny sleeve, that, it hnd to fight my vay to thu
polls, st,ould never get there; and know
shant anyway,-its no use talking, Caudlt
lectures are about the only sort of warfare il
which women will be yictors aud
HER TONGUE
sharper than twc-edged sword-the only in.
sstulnent she will ever use to advantage.
ASK 31r. Brown, when he comes in from lit.
tie Eociablo With q few friends. i'll the "wee sma
hours" with but just wit enough to know wba.
awaits him, which Le Lad rather meet: tl,e
policeman OF Mrs. Brown? Iknow; and don't
blame rim. S1o les told him hundred tunes
alrcadr that she ,couM not stand it; hundred
times he has promised her "sho never need
again,--ho would be the most domestic and ire
proachable of Deucdicts forever after that ill.,
starred hour, and ho thought he eos OF
cheap1y, and was glad to buy peace with soft
,worda. No.o he has learned, after countless
breaches Of promise, tha. He'll hath no fury
like = woman ecorned." Uc can tell you that their
lighting capacity can't oe beat. Of If it eau, it is
ouly because the "desh is weak the spirit
certainly is wiling. like Barlis, only waiting to
be invited to manifest it.
/ writer in last SUNDAYS TR1nuxE cites an in
stance ~ which O woman proved that she could
DO soldiers duty. end thinks tue proof il all in
that nutshell. I don't I Luya sccu q
woman split kildlins- wood but
IT IS 40 PROOF
she could mako living at splitting rulls or he
ar
dication that WOMEN arc especially ada ptcd to
that work.
AZ tho wife OF an army-surgeon quite familiar,
during our late War, with 1ied and hospital Lie,
l met number Of women who succeeded in
evadinG inspection aud entering the ranks
III common RoldierH; and. though mauy
preserved the secret Of their Sex and gave en-
tire satisfaction. 1never met or heard Of SOL
i:ary instance where one enlisted from a desire
to servo her country, from q love OF glory, from
martial ambition, Or from patriotism nor do
believe there is au instance on record where one
has deserved aild earned military fame.
The fact that love was tho moving power
love so unse1fsh that she could forget, bravo,
or defy danger, exposure. fatigue, and death. to
battlefield; that sho could forsako home,
friends, ease, and tile refinements with
which sho vas wont to be surrounded, fur
the rude tent or the ruder barrack, subjecting
herself TO that which must shock her woman's
inure herself to hardship and toll scorning the
self-sacritice and deprivation wl:ich mAde Life 30
hard:-:s proof OF her extreme womauliness, and
Of those qualities which
UNFIT RATHER THAN FIT
her for such scenes.
Isolated cases may bo the test OF noaaihi1ifirs
but they are no r1le by which to Judge the
rdasses. History records but one Joau of Arc
perhaps france had never need for another:
certainly America has never produced woman
who would 1--we soldiers life aud die q martyr's
death for love Of the Stripes aud Stars.
Keformers enough We have: but. forsonth.
they are SUCH us trail their alken robes daintily
over Brussels and Wilton in aristocrat;c drawing
rooms; WHO preach what none but tho lissoute.
reckless or insane would practice; who build
tires that 1Ieetllesslv torture living hearts: wlo
food the world with impractical nonsense aud
theories that weak brains cannot
digest. Like miuce-ple ani cheese for midnight
lunch they are lteasanr to the taste, but awiuIIy
un wholesome. wish in mercy to the world, !
that suffrage depended upon Meir ehoulder,nr
arms. l wish they llad to DO something to prove
that they were o1 any easthly use or ever after
lold their peace" and what blessed silence
would full over the earth!
With them, equality doesn't mean equality ut
all,-it only mcaus that they want 10
CHANGE P14AcEs WITH MEN:
they want to reverse the natural order Of thincs.
hey want to play at Omphat and Hercules:
Lo! Hercules is seen
spinning, spinning hike maid
N!lile ABIDE Lfs club is laid
And the hero Loasts no moro
Al his doughty deeds Of yore,
bnt, with sad, submissive miet
Spinning, spinrin8 still is SEEN
Well will it te for both ii there il still encnrh
ateut human nature in her heart to make Ltr
AIRY out tho Ene. and il 1t may be said of her.
"hen she las subjected Inn, % Is 1ay of "tLe |
anughty Lydiai, Queen"
Dond-eIave NO more:
" Lore has 1oetetl uIon1 fpTonnv
Basely bound befo1e. |
Manly Strength is Beauty. ...,s, :
lind beauiy yie4s to lo.x-
Some restrictions, |
IT 1s FoRTuxA1ELT TRUE |
re placed mon woman from vhsot yr.a ~ t. k.A.