The Red Cloud chief., 1876-01-20

a.tired, and wishe: sou 70 gire five dol
lars towards a wedding present fo1 Miss
/ Smith, lore Of the Sabbath School
taachc-s) K is Il much more difficuit
t!.;nE 20 do, aua r,dliies a degree OF he
rai>rn ii which tie average w0maD is
not capable. While your visitor expa-
,ia,,s on the rIopriery of the gift being
something expensive end elegant, laying
much stress OF the fact that il will look
80 mean TO give anything cheap or com
monplace, you sit silent, trying 70 nus
ter up courage 20 decline giving, know
ing we'll the impoverished state Of your
pocketbook, anu how much you need
The money for your own family. Yet,
| bv the time she has finished her TRADE,
your little stock of cJuIage has all ocZcd
away, and you open your purse, and
with a forced cordislity hand her, tie
money you can so lilly s%paIe-too COW
ardlytO be honest, too cowardly 10 con-
fess that you cannot afford it-and you
bow vour fashionable friend out with a
smile, inwardly despising yourself for
your oNn weakness. Truly we exclaim
! with the poet, and Il slight variation of
J the text-"How DOH pride make cow
ards of lis all
"Yes,n said Ichajoi. III women
could but look at it in the light in which
men regard it they might he shorn of
their folly"
MEM. l an wered lmpaiientiy; 'men
arc the very ones who encourage and
foster the growth OF thi. absurd pride in
women. They consider il a rerroach to
to themselves If it Is known their wives
help to cam the living. They are afraid
the world will thi TX they are poor man
ayers they are ashamed TO have other
men know that their wives work for
strangers, and they oppose ali ttf,rts
made in this direction. What wonder,
then, that it is regarded as q fall in the
social scale whea women work and re-
ceive pay for it.
"Y,u remember cousin Mary. She
married a man who was so unfortunate
as to lose their all in an unlucky specu-
lstion, and she proposed that she should
help him to regain a footing 10y getting
a position in a printing office in the
village in which they lived, and by fold
ing and addressing papers and acting as
q composition, add a little to his earnings
and make the the task lighter for him.
Her father had been an editor and pub
Usher, and. being in his office, she had
acquired a knowledge of the trade, un.
til at last made herself almost indispen
sible to him 10Th as compOsitor and
Scissors so of course she felt TO fear
on the score of incompetency."
"Did her husband accede to her wish
esq" asked Ichabod.
"Not he; people wOnld talk he said,
anu thinn IL StidiSc that SuC SlNtuiu
work and earn money; she must dismiss
the subject from her mind-Ec would
try and provide for her. So, because he
was too proud 10 let the world know that
his wife was working for money, she was
force: to 10 without many comforts that
she could have possessed had she not
been denied the privilege of earning
them. We, as Americans, boast of be
ing the most Independent of people and
talk loudly of Our plain republicanism.
Yet, the truth is, We are servile creatures
Of a false social System which must be
RACED to its foundations and rebuilt
upon 4 basis which recognizes the re-
spectability of paid female labor before
We can Justly claim TO pc free in any but
q political sense"