, 1874-07-26
Power and Suffrage Government Depend
eut Upon the Goodwill and
Grace Of Tho Fighting
uan."
A Law Of Nature, that "The Stronger
Power Holds the Weaker One
in Dependence"
Miss ,Jcx-Blal1o and Mr.. Huxley
---P olly's Mother---Dress-
Reform.
Important Invention by Woman
''She Who Books the Cradle
RuIes the World

~ Specific observation-disclosures Els E
SolGscr-IscsuIss of Educztion.
~ t.t Et:.tor Of Tbs Cftea7o tribune.
SlB: With your generous permission, Toule
1iar ro say few words further On the woma1
question, more particularly to
REPLY TO ME-. JoHS pEcKEn's ATTACKS
t1ooa t4StuE and Scnsenso." I cannot quite
make up my mind to be considered beaten BY tht
gentleman in wordy warfare, albeit he is se
certain that wona1Eind must succu1nb In the
old-fasnioned methods It soens very like tht
uaseoerous solaie.y he dep1ecatcs to dy at ar
euemy which he assumes is completely routed
and demoralizcd. 1t seems indeed quite trivia
for him to notice at all such weak sample Of
feminine augmentation" ! shall hsve to ask
him to eat his own Words " It is well known to
every soldier that the greatest co1ards are the
most unrolenting and ferocious enemies when.
eve. they happen to achieye . victory. A brave
man does not ferocously strike his defeated
adversary" He takes it for granted, ap-
pa1en,ly. that he IL demolished my "sarnple" ar-
gument.
will begin at the beginning Of the "attack, :"
if you please, and bo generous enough On my
own part to the male sex il general, and Mr.
Becker in particular, to s.y that it is really
gracious of them to allow that male and femnle
are % compliments OF and dependent upon g ach
other" But we hear enough concerning
*'spEcH1o FUNCTIONS"
1t sayo1s so much Of tho old style Of talk about
"spheres." An admirable old-school gentleman
of my acquaintance departs from the idaas of
conservatism 30 far as to say that "The sphere
OF an individual, man or woman, is that condi-
ton wherein he OF she Can use his or her highest
powers to the most ennobling purposes" HRS.
SomerTille. Harriet Hoamcr, and various othc1
notable instances, take the nonsense out OF tho
humdrum talk Of wonsn's sphere and "speciiic
functions-" These phrases, Fitted down, mean,
in most minds. maternity. But maternity is no
alwayB possible for woman. What then2 Must
she hang to the skirts Of the sisterhood. aud
dwarf her every aspiration, leet she should shock
sociai proFrie:J 5y stepping out of her sphere
very motherly woman, with her heart and
hands at present fall Of the results Of her "su-
perior specific functions, writes to me in t5;a
aise: II tell yo1 my dear, reform has got to -
very deep. The z1htcrnity business is an aTfully
bne-s;ded affair. Either women should giya to
it their undivided attention (as I haye), and le
subjected to no other distractions, or men
should, By some means, be induced to
BEAR HALF g1E CHILDREN.
The idea that
Zone heart must ever watch and Eeep
And one must soar and sing
is one that needn't necessarily be set down by.
Both hearts should soar and sing and, It there's
any weeping to be done, let them both weep, By
George! End then soar again. This Woman-salk
is becoming monotonous, nausealng- had al
most rather be shck-a real stick-or stone,
than woman with tEphors' md special
functions. >" say, Amen
Mr. Becker quotes me thus: "May suddenly
be shocked ont Of bis scnse of p1opEctJ BY some
subtle method OF warfare which may be as
et1ectuh knock-down argument as fstlcuns ~
and then proceeds to knock me down With u
rough expression common among the Becky
Mountains. That the gentleman 1nny see that
my I" mountaineering VAS not simply another
"sample specimen Of feminine augmentation"
will give other authority for the suggestion Of
the coming woman-soidie!, " with her ''subtle
in delivering the opinion Of the
Court of Claims upon the application Of Mrs
Lockwood to be admitted to practice III an attor-
ney, threw cut this hint: Il have been" be
says, at the bar and in the military service and
my experience leads me to the conclusion that
women are Is we'll fitted for one as tho other.
Another person having had eimifar experiences
may reach an opposite result. 1t is said that
modern idcas have brought down many occupa-
tons within the reach OF women which were
supposed to belong exclusively to men; but in
nothing have modern ideas done SO much Of this
leSeing
As N TIE AIT OF WAR
In the haud-to-hand contiicts Of nuti1uity
women was ranifcstly unable to cope witt, tic
physical natures Of meu, AID. from necessity,
we're exempt. But hand-to-hand conflicts are ns
obsolete IS the wager Of ba:tle. The light
hreech-loadingczrbine demands activity rnther
than strength. Woman soldier would have
little to do besides marching, and shooting, aud
being shot"
hr. Becker claiu,s," lie rayH, that tho .supe-
monty OF nEhting power is the Characteristic Of
manluess." Will the gentleman leave us to
conclude that in the adjustment Of difficulty
with his nelghbor, he would resort to the ancient
hand-to-hand settlement, and deal in bloody
blows i'll place Of some ''subtlee" method? He
acknowledges the superiority Of necdle-guns and
cannoa-balls over the sbiows"; taci:iy acknowl-
edges that the old ''wagers of battle and hand
to-hand conflict are obsolete; and vet will not
for q moment admit that woman, By the
use Of some cunning electrical arrangement,
mag shoot with something beside her month
and bio" whole regiment OF bules and brae-
gadoc1os out OF existence Ill less than no time
EyoLv1SG FRoaI AS1o1lIsu.
am quite ready to confess to tile gentleman
thai have no oeslre to defeat the euds OF nv
existence by any departure from the proper cxcr
else Of all the animal functions. was, perhaps.
unfortunate i'll using general term for one
evolve e' from savage and crude performance OF
belief thas
Perfection waits the race Of mnn;
and from that standpoint I always sneak. and
a;,;ch .onE slce ceased to sharpen weapons with
ADMITS civilized modlticatjons ri va-Ta,a
~. 's ~ aot also admit that fighting rropen,i
md thst TN. that arbitration is Increasing:
1e:ort todax in 10 H. ehs lass, and not the Erst
are not pence-principes incnicn,od W dtluculoes
u!s:n ~ " peace Increasing tins, ha ~ ~
sr reesr sg t sha Se sna aI o@
-Ek.'g-Look =; and it will te 1on1 o1o sae prun-
fsopnecy' at which the gentleman sae uelere my |
~ oe inaAeo. Ihe tendency, most emnSe; shall