The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1874-03-26
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A WOMAN's ASPIEATTONS.
GIRLS Advised 10 Play a Lone
aRand'-The Lot OF the Sex from
rae Time of Aha Suerus' Spree
Rats, Nsice, and EAair.PIns

Girls Advised 10 Play a Lon,
aRand'-The Lot OF the Sex from
rae Time of hnSuerus' Spree
RATS, Nsice, and EAaIr.PIns
The alumne of Rutgers, College, Fiftl
avenue and Forty street, intro
duced Miss CouzinS as the orator last eve
ning In the series Of lectures and concerts
hey are trying, by this means and sub
scrptIon, TO raise $40, 600 10 relieve al
ma mater from liabilities incurred year:
ago. The tickets OF admission being
one dollar, very select audience assem-.
bled in the little half of the COLLEGE.
Members of the school were the ushers.
Phepe Couzins, "A bachelor ct laws.
appeared In black, to lecture on the
I higher education OF women.
Gentlemen and ladies, said she, lis il
/ best for the race that uncultur. d and igno-
rant women should be its mothers? Wo.
man can no longer retain the lilys pas
I sive position in the worlds great field
/ OF action One hundred and fiftv wears
/ ago Massachusetts school-master was
publicly reprimanded and dismissed for
| teaching women arithmetic; and to-day.
when she knocks at the doors of Column
bia and Harvard, the answer comes back
In vlrlie baritone, no. liz is but a little
while since the prevailing idea of liter
airy woman was that she wore blue stock
ings with shoes down at the heels. her
husbands shirt buttonless and her neg
lected household running wild. Yet the
literary woman kept unswervinglv ON
ward, and is beginning to occupy her
share OF the seats in the intellectual king
dom. These same colleges receive all
male candidates, be they bright or bare
ly able to wedge in; SO
THEIR SEX
Is right, the door to learning stands open.
1t really Is not strange that women do
not rise faster, when we consider what
disadvantages they have to struggle
against in dress, which entangles their
feet, and burdens their brains with rats.
mice and hair pns The state of New
York has spent sixteen millions of dol
lars for the education of men and not one
for that of women. As in New York
state, so in All the states and in all the
world. \ girl steps forth from a board
ing school to wait for a husband, like an
oyster waiting for the tide, but not like
an oyster, sure OF what she waits for
JUST WHAT ALLIED DIoGENEs.
An old gentleman met Miss Couzins
on railroad near St. Louis and said:
Il wish you would give up this foolish
notion drumming about 10 lecture, and
settle down, have husband, and be a
good housekeeper." Miss Couzins re-
piled, "Barkis is willing; but where's
your MANI Woman must marry. Her
sphere is the kitchen and cradle. the cook
book and Bakers Saints Rest. That
is the traditional and still accepted no.
ton of woman, duty and woman's place.
Miss Couzns louged for the divine word
to be spoken that shall reach this dead
and buried woman and bring her out
1t is not all ofllfe to get married, nor all
of death to remain single. The lives
Of most are like subterranean rivers
chatting their channels of stone with un-
heard murmers.
The lecturer cIlled upon the theolo-
gians among her hearers to deny that it
had been woman's duty to obey their hus-
bands ever since the pluclly and perverse
wife, the womanly and noble Nashti re-
fused to appear before King Ahasuerus
and his court after they had been on
drunken spree for seven days. The first
cause Of woman's subjugation was her
weakness. The persons that
could fight the longest and fercest were
the nations rulers. The theory that in /.
womans ignorance was the badge ofvirtue /.
wrought the downfall Of Greece, and will /.
that Of America, unless woman i. placed /.
side by side in intellectual culture with +
man. Women have TO struggle their way
INTO every department ~ intellectual and .
and artistic work. Man ha, had all the .
advantages to hinder her. Miss Couzus
advised heryoung hearers Of the Rutgers
college if the right man came to accept
his hand with dignity, but if not to man /.
the bark of life with courage, and sail /
with God the seas.-New York Sun.