Smyrna times., 1875-07-28
Josiah Aliens Wife on the .Prodigal
Son."

1t is enough to make anybody's blood |
bile in their veins to think how different |
sin is looked upon in man and woman.
| say sin is sin, and yon can't make good |
ness out of it by parsin' it in the maskalne
gender no morc'n you can by parsin' it in
the feminine or neutral. And wimmin are
most to blame in this respect about holdin'
up male sinners and stampin' down female
ones. Wimmin are meaner than pusley
about some things, and this is one of them.
| They will go and kill the fatted calf with
their own hands to feed the male prodigal
that has been livin' on huslIs. But let the
woman that has been boarding on the same
| bundles of husks ask for little mite of
this veal critter, and will she get it? No,
she WON'T get so much as one of the hutfs.
She will be told to keep on eatin' herhusks,
and after she has gone through with them
to die, for after a woman has once eat husks
she can't never eat no more vittals. And
if she asks meekly why her stomach is so
: different from the male husk-eater, who
went right off foom husks to fattened
|
a woman hain't a sin in a man." Men are
sich noble crecturs that they will be little
| wild-it is expected of 'em but after they
have sowed their wild oats they most always
settle down and make the best of men.
t " Can't settle down too ?" cries the poor
woman; " am sick of husks | want to
e live a good life in the sight of God and
, man-can't settle down too?"
o Yes you can settle down in the grave =
y they say to her. "When a woman has
e sinned that is all the place there is for hel
Il "a woman cannot be forgiven. There's
:, an old saying," Goand sin nomore' Bu
that is eighteen hundred years old-awfu
|, old fashioned"
d And then, after they have feasted tn,
e. male husk-eater on this gospel veal, ano
d have fell on his neck and embraced him
Of few times, they will take him into thei
k houses and marry him to their purest an,
prcttiest daughter, while at the same tim
IL they won't have the female husker in thei
in kitchen to wash their own dirty linen.
as say it is a shame and disgrace for the W.
Mt men to bear all the burden of suiferin an
k all the burden of shame too; it is meal
'n cowardly piece of business, and | shoul
in think the very stones would go yellin'
each other to sec such injustice. But j
ne siah Aliens children haint bin brought L
in no such kind of way. They have bi
ld brought up to think that sin of any kind
Jest as bad in man as it is in q woma
* and any place of amusement that is bad for
nd woman to 60 to is bad for a man.
'et Now, when our Thomas Jefferson was
en- little feller he was bewitched to go to G
cuses, and Josiah said, Better let him 6
ad Samantha it hain't no place for wimm,
vas or girls, but it won't hurt boy.
nd Says |, "Josiah Allen, the Lord MAJ
as Thomas jefferson with jest as pure hea
as Tirzah Ann, and no bigger eyes and eal
ow and if Thomas Jefferson goes to the circt
Tirzah Ann goes too"
That stopped that. And then he
the bewitched 10 get with other boys tn
,es, smoked and chewed tobacco, and Josi
alf has jest that oasy turn that he would
him go. But says ], Josiah Allen
toll Thomas Jefferson goes with them boys a