Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-01-03
TIE BLIND WHO HAVE EYES.


"N ,s4r.'' m mickcd Mrs. Emery sapcily
90 a. rfs -efOrmcTs we're small people till they
brf T.. and she signed ami sealed the last OF
the lrv;at!OBs to the Womans DeibeTatlye
a. Tu.erv smiled, kissed bis wife, and went
out " ~ ssyOu'H see" expression in his very
shoulders Mrs. Emery sat looking after him.
dubious. puzzled, her white torch cad in a
thought III sCowI. suddenly, =. don't believe
l. :" she cried, sharply and came ny on hSr feet
Now. Il YOU are to believe Mrs. Grunav, Mrs.
Emery i peculiar. II you press to know on
shat points, you will b. 10 Il crotclets. Every
one has croteheis, but here lies Mrs. Emsry's
IecuIaiity- She Is not c0ntented with every-
day cT,tchets like other people. Her - gold
~ con and turtle soup" as Mrs. Grundy will
TIL you. lrIitably, IL telegraph station.
"A telegraph station" My dear madam,
pray, now An actual station, with batteries,
coils, and endless clicking, Is not iute nded, OF
conrse, but the moral telegraph line, over which
tbTOb, minute by minute, the worlds pulses.
You, 1, Mrs. Emery, are all stationed on 1t. Its
millions CT wires center in your hand aud mine
only IN the majority OF cases the apparatus Is
rusty for want of use, the blinds are down, the
operator Ia away, because he has married a
wife and cannot come, OF has a yoke OF oxen In
hand, or some such matter, while Mrs. Emery,
with all the usual excuses husband who wor-
shipped her, the rosiest baby. the daintiest
nome, ahd beauty enough TO have kept her
mirror and a dre-rmakeT IN constant demand
sun held herself IH active communication with
sids world.
see. IL made a moral IN -Tmait OF her-gra-
ciOus, Charming, II Il had not been Tor that
dreadful Phiianthrcpic tail. You went 10 see
her innOcently sitting on rock, sieeking her
long hair-OT. il you prefer the actual fact,
cooling 70 Ler baby and gCefully doing the usual
cllt-C.hat-anj, just how yOI hardly know, you
we're in beT den. her chamber OF philanthTOptc
iSrTOrE. obi gei 10 hear all about IT, sign your
self a member, u scribe. do something deS-
PeT@te, 10 buy an esctP Mr. Emery oSned
the largest mills near PentuPvIne, ami Mrs
Emery was before NJ tTriage Etth Dempsey.
Those names carried value to the PcntuPyile
mind. and ladies enrolled themselves without
hs STATION in the WOman's DeliDeratye Com
mittee, but they took II out behind their fans
and over their STABLES, and stgmatized Mrs.
Emery not only as peculiar. but as "groSing
more ocular every day.
And 80 she was, Heaven bless her, and help
Us. when such women are peculiar!
The Woman's Deliberauve Committee met
that ttTuOOn at three O'Clock In Mrs Emery's
house ara with some curiosity expressed In the
tsces OF is members. Mrs Emery's note stated
5Sst M, meeting was called to consider ''possi-
hilitie. in a new field" Besides Mrs Emery
showed seine agitation as she rose, whereas she
mas usually seli-sustained and Indifferent.
Ladies" she commenced, and there was
positively a tremble in her voice, bel Bree
preached a little preach, and said a little say
1 wish, with your PERMISSION, 10 DO the same,
INST giving YOU nv text in the following extract
clipped the ether day from magazine Mrs.
Emery here unfOlded scrap OF newspaper, ana
each me mber of the committee seemed tnen anu
flsre to concentrate herself on 10 With double
larrelrd, foIty-woman- power of curiosity
The fall ng of IN marriages Is, " read Mrs
Tmery found IN the CenteTs OF population,
v here the needs of life press hard. The old
fashioned GIsIn'erestedness has OF late years
Teen losing ground IN these places Ihlfty OF
forty wears ago it was plain sailing; a giboous
hat and the Italian opera were unknown, all
worked for living, and none were rich, a com-
pared with those OF to-day IL mas become evI-
dent that in cites Hymen is losing his power,
Vet the goddess no came cut OF the sea-fOaln
continues to exercise her wOnted charm over
men, though they refuse to follow hymen.
l. nJ
man to avoid supporting the woman, which
would he 20 the last degree ungeuer0us II 1t
were rot in some measure compulsory. Fathers
endeayOE TO dispose OF daughters 70 those WHO
stand upon conditions, and each tries 70 shirk
tie expense OF keeping them. Thus re-
garded, the woman becomes a possible III
Cumbrauce to a marrying man, ana always
parasite in her own family. y great mum
her OF those who live in the metropolis make
I'm END. meet with dlfliculty. Tue head Vt the
family i stretched on financial wheel, which
never ceases to turn every daY IN tue year. Tie
i. essed for what he considers the DecessaCles
OF lie, and spends S2o,eoO year Ihe capita
OF this man who spends 50 OeO year at gal
interest would not perhaps yield INN a thiffOt
what he eNpends. lie - not IN position 10
help any one but himself, however willing he
II av be 10 10 -. The young man making ais
way through an ocean OF dtficuities, aud car
rylng heavy bal asst IN III shape of club and so
cal dissipation. NAV like the dAug hter OF the
ICor--.ch father, Dul he has not the aud ac!ty
even il she were willing to make the sacrifice, To
take her out OF her handsome nest into An ia
Terror one. In resisting the Ipatrimonial temp
tafiOn he has something to say for himself. HI
knowledge OF life tells him that there are
scarcely any hours of happiness which are CON-
yt nsatiou for the raspiug, wearing, daily wan
D means TO provide for every day nete stiles and
comforts and that il Is not long before dOmes-
tlr peace gives way to this terrible pres sure.'
Mrs Emery Stopped, and looked about her
The ladies looked at each other, and then, by
one consent, at Miss DinsmOre. Miss Dinsmore
was forty, and was understood TO indulge in
WcmansTights proehvities.
sTsit possible" remarked Miss Dnsmore
aa.Naw aEflU IN fri a n
wonGeT? Mis-. Emery, 1CiH you have the kind
ness TO let me look at that paper? Parasite,
indeed! In the old times they tried at leasi e
angels but Low they have thrown the last shred
Of decency aide, and call US to our very faces
sparasIteS,'' This last with a still shiIdder.
IS Just as / tell them," cut in Mrs. Honey
AZ xious 10 show the appreciating the que,
ton. Women are not too angelic, l tell Mr.
II, TO help make monev, bat ii would let then
down 10 help ~ end or invest it."
IL think we do help in the spending of it
Mrs. Honey Mrs. Tillinghsst, anti-prOgres
sive, ard with a stiffness equal to Miss Dins
more's best state manners).
s4Ltdi6s,"-there was a decided ring of annoy
ance in Mrs. Emery's voice-.this is all from
the point. Besides, unhattering as are the in
feTences in tbs article, they are true at least il
my belief and il We live our half OF life We
are doing now men are justified, or, rather, ii /,
only natural that they should lead their half a:
II is set down there
'sYou think sop ''wel, never" al wonder
how you make that good And high above the
ii tile patteTing storm OF explanations Mis-:
DinsmOre's voice: IL should not have expected
10 ind you, Mrs Emery. in the ranks OF the
enemy, arr yed against your own sex,H
SIS II your enemy, Miss Dinsmore, who tell
YOU that there is a hole in your stocking Oh
powder on your nose, or that your bonnet is no
stTai ght > Or Is IL a friend who assures you thai
you are charming, and sends you with tn,
assurance to meet the criticism and ridIcuie Of
The street? large number of US are non pro
cucers OF anything. The highest ambition OF
many among Us Is TO be nOn-prOducer. Tt
have cooking, stitching, domestic work, child.
tending, walking, thinking, and amusement
all evolved by the united labor of other women
trutes, and men. graduated to her scale of life
In the most splencid-that IL, the most expen-
eiye-manner, and presented her to absorb. III
the head Of the family is stretched on a financial
wheel, the woman has had her share in starting
il, and helps now to keep him bound there. We
are partially responsible for the gibbous.hat
Italian-cpera' condition OF affairs, in which mer
turn their backs on Hymen to follow Venus
AphrOdte, and for earthquake waves of panic
sweeping over a world OF men in mad haste e
he rich. We have let the sacred fire gwen int
Cur hands die out, ard despised our trus
because II vas homsiy and lay in humble AID
Suet pL Asses OF lite"