Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1874-04-23
Two Women.

lHc Stiilc lot lcllaie suffrage having
for time given place to the practical
demonstration of the power of the
sex in regulating affairs outside of
politics, peculiar interest attaches to
the advice Of such women as Madame
Loyson and Mrs. Swisshelm on sub
jects Of immediate import. The wife
of Father Hyacinthe, amid her home
duties at Geneva, has yet time to give
thought to the new movement of the
women of America against intemper-
ance and it is not alone her position,
but the novelty and pertinence of her
suggestions as well, that entitle her to
be heard among her country women.
Madame Loyson has kind and enthu
siastic words OF encouragement for
the temperance crusaders; but her
philosophy leads her to seek out the
Fundamental causes OF the evil to
which che urges that measures of cor
rection be applied. reform your ia
bles,' she tells the women Of Ameri-
ca, iii you would reform your drunk
ards and save your sons" The great
American malady, according to Mad,
anne Loyson, is that Of the stomach,
making conscientious people dyspep-
tics and others drunkards. To remove
the cause OF dyspepsia would, in her
opinion, at once correct the appetite
for alcoholic drink. But it is doubtful
whether such q sacrifice will be made
by even the heroic women crusaders.
"Coiiec, tea, pepper, pickles, mustard,
spices, too much salt, hot bread and
pastry, raw meats and grease must all
be given up, and in their place the re-
formed table must bear milk, soup
and salade prepared with good OIL
Many a housekeeper would prefer to
pray all day on the sanjed floor Of a
saloon, rather than undertake such a
revolution in the American diet, even
if she thus delivered her sons from
alcohol only to condemn them to'dys-
pepsia.
Mrs. Jane Grey Swisshelm has Il
reputation Of such character AS fully
entities to her 80 undertake the con
sideration OF a matter more deeply
philosophical than even that Of stump.
tuary reform; and in treating of the
subject of currency initiation she Ger,
tainly shows IN originality equal To
that of Madame Lpysou. For Mrs.
Swisshelm, i'll fixing the responsibility
Of the existing condition of financial
affairs, passes by spectators and capt.
talists and Legislators, and denounces
chat class of voters who monopolize
the name of workingmen" as the pri-
mary cause of ''this new disaster"
Her argument is that, as the value of
the currency deprecated and the
number of paper dollars earned by a
days labor increased, the workmen fell
in love with the representative of mon
ey instead of the representative Of
value; and now that they "cannot get
over the idea that they are Weather
and Of more importance in the world
with five dollars i'll their pockets than
with one, even though the one might
procure them twice as much luxury or
comfort rs the five Thus, when the
panic came and there was q contrac
ton of values on all sides, the work
ingmen protested by strokes and by
forced idleness against any acceptance
OF the situation that involved The
payment Of a less number of paper
dollars in wages, Hence, says Mrs.
Swisshelm, Congress inclines to give
the workiugmen the depracticated and
therefore plentiful currency which
they demand, with the full kuowl-
edge that it will injure them. 1t
may be pertinently urged that the
workingmen are not che most proml
nent representatives, Of this financial
insanity; but, as in the case OF Mad
anne Loyson's Remuneration Of the
American breakfast table as the cause
Of drunkenness, single and impor.
tant feature OF very complex subject
is presented with no little force and
vivacity. --E1change.
"A party Of thirty. including sever
al Americans, were presented to the