The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1877-08-09
WARLIKE N4TIONS OPPRESS THEIR
KOMEN.


Comparisons between the chief civil
lied nations as now existing yield veri-
fcations. Note, first, the fact, siSnifi-
can't of the relation between political
5espotism and domestic despotism, that,
according to Legouve, Napoleon L. said
TO the Council of State, GA husband
should have absolute control over the ac
tions of his wife," and that sundry provis-
ions of the Code, as interpreted by
Pothier. carry out this dictum. Further,
note that, according to De Segur, the
position of women in France declined
under the Empire; and that "it was not
only in the higher ranks that this nullity
of women existed. i The habit
of fighting filed men with kind of con-
tempt and asperity which made them Of
ten forget even the regard which they
owed to Weakness Passing over less
essential contrasts now presented by the
leading European peoples, and consider
ing chiefly the status as displayed in the
daily lives of the poorer rather than the
richer, it is manifest that the mass of
women have harder lots where militant
organization and activity predominant
than they have where there is a predoni
nance of industrial organization and ac
tivity. The sequence observed by trav-
elers in Africa, that in proportion as the
men are occupied in war more labor falls
on the women, is q sequence which both
France and Germany show us. Social
sustentation has to be carried on; and
necessarily the more males are drafted
off for military service, the more females
must be called on to fill their places as
workers. Hence the extent to which in
Germany women are occupied in rough,
out of-door tasks - digging, wheeling,
carrying burdens; hence the extent to
which in France heavy field operations
are shared in by women. That the
English housewife is less drudge than
her German sister that among shop
keepers in England she is not required
| to take so large share in the business
as she is among shopkeepers In Franco,
and that in England the out-ofdoor work
done by the women is both smaller In
quantity and lighter in kind, is clear;
as it is clear that this difference is asso-
ciated with a Iessened demand on the
male population for purposes of otfense
and defense. And then there may be
added the fact of kindred meaning, that
in the United States, where till the late
war the degree of militancy had been so
small, and the industrial type of social
structure and action so predominant,
women have reached higher status than
anywhere else.-Her6ert Spencer, IN
Popular Science Monthly for august
SELECT ExTR4CTs.
TIE anne of love often plays on the
surface OF tears as that of naphtha does
on water.
Man is like fiowers-The heavier the
thunder is to be, the sweeter the odors
they breathe before it.
There is no engine by which we might
do SO much good, nor any by which we do
so little, as by conversation.
: There is not much enjoyment in con-
versation without an equality OF under
standing.
Cupid is knavish God he can pierce
the hearts of others and hold a shield be-
fore his own.
It is always in our power to make q
friend by smiles what folly, then, to
make an enemy by frowns.
No marvel women should love flowers,
they bear so much of fanciful simihtude
to her own history.
Sincerity is the soul of virtue. When
she flies away the whole body decays.
The next best thing TO a really gooo
woman is a good-natured one.
THE keeper of a candy and ice-crean
store in San Francisco discharged {
waiter for fondliDg the keepers cat il
business hours, and paid him at the ratt
of $50 month, instead of $40, as pre-
viously agreed The waiter carried hi
case into Justices court, pleading tina
he was not particularly fond of cats, bu
that he consoled the one In question be
cause the employer had just chopped of
the heads of two of her progeny. III
recovered his rightful wages, but th'
Justice decided that he was lawfully dis
charged.