The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-12-07


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CAIRO, Ill, Dec. 6, 1875.
Bin. EDITOR Mrs. 5. j. S., in her
last letter to the CARTE. does that which
= woman Of her ability should know bet
ter than to do "bits her nose off to spite
her face" She trlumphantly asserts that
"women generally (as | understand herr,
do not earn cent that deny IL as they
may, their money all comes out OF their
husbands pockets" How can she, in
the face Of such state OF affairs, demand
equal rights for women? If they are idle,
useless, emp,y.hsnded consumers and
no workers, what right have they to q
voice in the affairs Of the nation2 Would
it not be n perllous thing to place any
power In such helpless. incompetent
handsy It seems TO me, that sure way
TO secure success for any cause, IL to get
Mrs.. s. j. 5. to oppose II. SO wierd Is the
effect Of her arguments. that she invaria-
bly, proves the very thing right, which
she Is cndesvorlns 10 prove wrong. |
think We centennial workers owe her .
debt Of gratitude for the good she has al
ready dove to our cause.
She says: "Tea parties. ETC.. are all
we'll enough in their places, bat why not
take the cost OF the tea, cream, sugar
aud cake, and contribute that, and do
away with the useless fuss and worry p
Now, If Mrs.. 5, J. S. were.a praticsl wo-
man, she would know that We expect to
make the cost Of these articles repay Us
thresfold-but Mrs. S. j. S. doesn't know
this. She is probably occupied in &C.
qniring the mastery over some science,
BY which she will eventually not only
earn her own nickles but startle the
world with her brllisncy.
She. and.a great many other women
like her, who never assist in anything
outside oftheir own families, who talk so
much of home duties. home pleasures
and s.lt-culture, should certainly develop
into mortals Of womanly sweetness and
cultivstion-nortals for the rest Of us to
pattern after. To the eye of the casual OBJ
server, however, such a result is net al
ways attained by that class Of women.
wonder how Mrs. 5. }. 5. always finds
time from her many home duties to write
such quantities Of letters for publication!
Perhaps that is one way she has Of cult
waiting herself, at the expense Of a suffer-
inY public. I'm afraid she wastes
almost IS many precious hours
in talking and writing about
the Centennial Association a. the ladies
who are engaged in that work. She re-
minds ne Of other ladies know, who
are always wondering how certain other
ladies find time TO do so much work for
societies, etc, without neglecting their
families, while those very fsult-fnding
people are gslloping over the streets half
their time, shopping, or spending half,
and even whole days, with their acquain-
tances, gossiping; and if you have any
desire TO hear tho latest and worst piece
Of scandal, you have only to so to one of
these "cultured home women,' to get it.
What do their families do while the
mothers are away cleaning and ventila-
ting the news, and otherwise elevatins
themselves, Il wonder, Perhaps their
babies never cry are blessed with chronic
cleanliness are educated from the first, in
fact, to be independent and take
care Of themselves. A noble spirit to i'm
bue them with truly; but my children are
of the old fashioned kind, who need at
tention and get il, even though their
mother does perhaps devote AN hour two
a week to Centennial work. The loss of
that hour: prevents me from having time
to gossip perpetually about the failures
and shortcomings Of others, while at the
same time, the nlingling with energetic.
intelligent women IN such a manner pre.
pares me in measure for the time which
/, coming, when, through the efforts OF
just such wide-awake material ~ COM
poses the Centennial Association, women
will be allowed to vote, ia spite all of
Mrs, s. J. SIS assurances that they do not
save nicke. CENTENNIAL.
A. DuJOP's,