Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1875-09-17

opened, and they should be as Gods" being
ambitions for herself and husband, and
~when she knew that the tree was good for
food economy, aud tree to be desired to
make one wise, she partook Of the fruit and
did eat, and gave also 10 her husband, and
he did eat. Who was weak
We have never learned that he exercised |
lordly superiority, or superior strength, in
resisting temptation, but he did exercise the
contemplate spirit Of charging his sin to his
"help-mate,' and ever since that, when man
has sinned, his cry has been, "the woman
thou gavest me-" Aud now woman, aspiring
10 take upon herself the right Of men, allows
her first maiden speech to be repetition Of
Che oft-repeated condemnation OF woman.
Aud whyf Probably TO oonciliate man, and
thus secure him as an aid to promote her
own selfish wishes. But l will exculpate
man from that principle in my own mind,
for think, even II he does Ike 10 End fault
himself with the ftail ones, he loves the dear
creatures better in the character Of tempter
than as the delamer of her own sex
We cOntinualy hear. from womans pen
such sentences as these ,-"Why gentlemen
Of culture and refinement do not marry"
ruined by the extravagance Of his wife,"
and the long list Of complaints concerning
l the frivolous character aud meroenary propen-
sites Of the modern woman ! her forbelOws,
her hounces. her corsets, her lack Of any
noble leading trait Of character or object 10
life, apart from dressing, flirting and marry
ing, as also her meroenary motives in mar
riage; to secure husband, position, and
then clamor for the right to hold the purse
strings. That there are such women l regret
to be obliged by candor to acknowledge but
there are any amount of women whose lives,
characters and teachings, selEsacrifces, etc,
are noble refutation of the charges against
women as class They say to securea reform
we must purify society. Perhaps so but
do they understand the fundamental pTinc-
piles Of reform, or the causes of this great
weakness in a certain class of. women, even
while they plead the Infringement Of Csc
rights Of women 10 general I Atkiuk nosl
The subject is not looked upon in all its
bearings as it should be before the great
anticipated strike movement. They say that
we are to reform society by leaving off ex.
travagance, and everything which may
brighten men from matrimouy. And here
let me suggest as man is so much above the
impntation Of folly, vanity, love of dress
etc, and as he is so much stronger-minded
and lie made to be wall of defense about
the weaker vessels, etc, why can he not save
the great self-abnegatiou necessary in the
giving up of said 6nery by his weaker sis
tiers, by marrying the plainly dressed, sensi
BILE looking, prudent, loving. noble minded
women which abound in our land, and Sc,
how soon the fashion would change Gf womer
make matrimouy an object or speciality il
life as it is so often Eaid)?
These reform leaders seem to entirely
ignore the fact that man is responsible
being, vested with mind enough to resis
the tempter's power, or to choose from among
the women who comprise the society wherein
he moves one possessing the suitable quail
iications for his companioprin life. ~
| do not consider man the great martyr o
the present age, aud that it is our duty t
get up crusade and 60 forth to purify tn,
!, gold from the dross, and steady the ark 0
society in general, while man, poor. blin'
dupe to the votaries of fashion, shall choos
help-mate for life aud quietly settle dow
10 life Of conjugal happiness. l would no
thank the woman who intimated to me tina
because Of fashion must necessarily be
dupe were q man. The man who has no
the moral common sense in choosing o wifi
to select one whom he thinks possesses th
domestic virtues, deserves his fate, an
surely would not have the discrimination /
& appreciate the noble traits Of a purc-souleC
high.minded Christian wife, did he by an
chance secure one.
1t is great and lamentable fact tina
there are women who might be bright an
shining lights in the world, exercising
powerful influence for good in their spher
welding sceptre more potent than he VIII
sits upon throne; who bow blindly to Il
god of fashion, and seek ouly for conquest
and at last, perhaps, good match" as the
term it, meaning man who has "mint
money" and not brains enough to prevel
his blindly wOrshipping at the same heathC
4 shrine, fashion.
i. But in order to understand the remed
N we should first acquaint ourselves with Il
at nature and cause Of the malady. Who, the
ut brought about this moral deformity in SOC
|? ety. l contend that il is man, firstly ar
I'd lastly, and therefore woman is the victir
ne and not man. Yet eyer since, the first "pi
or grab" when man partook THE fruit at Il
n. mere suggestion Of woman, he must nee
ar say, and women follow in spreading
words, that at was the woman.p The I
in form movement should proceed first; the
ell from man as cooperative agent with W
of mans efforts, and not, think, by the !
a. called female suffrage movement, let it be
n. mutual and individual reform, and all the
Ie. who feel to speak, let him also act.
lie Look at our homes, which should be t
a foundation of society! See here, W
ur teaches poor woman to 60 forth "husba
es hunting" with no definite realization
in what misery her footsteps are tending
ii. Here, if there be both boys and girls in
be family, we hear the father, without a blu
all at his infdel principles and bare. faced mi
IN. tice, make it an understood fact that he
us accommodating property, aboring, aohievl
success in business (often at the expense
its health and principies), in order that he m
Wn leave to his progeny (masculine) a conn
er, tence, while he teaches that it is the daul
ow ter's duty to minister dutifully in all
the little duties, civilities, self.sacrifces, {
be which he or his sons may SEQ fit to requ
nd. at her hands, whether appreciated or I
laIl And if he be poor, or as he pleases to tie
we himself, too poor to provide his daugh
with suitable clothing, or assist her 10 sec
the ing the education she requires to be s.
we sustaining, she may, if she can, after ?
FIRE forming all the duties and self.sacri6ces
ing home economy, in order that her broth
hus may secure the education their positi
no wealth or business interests may demand,
adj forth to 6t herself by her own unaided
-ro- forts for the future, by the exercise of "
nen talent, ingenuity, native ability or tact
ght may possess, to be an equal with the 40
the of creation" (if so much can be attained
CRY beside the necessary looking out for