The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-04-19
The Blessed women.

| Ane bieaseo women
The Gretns Green of California is
marine league OUTSIDE the Golden Gate.
At q late runaway wedding, a youth of
nineteen and girl of fourteen char
tered steam scow, took on board the
necessary clergyman, steamed away
outside the jurisdiction of the State on
10 the open sea, and there, amid the
ioamtng breakers of the bar and the
moving nor'wester which prevailed at
tue time, the marriage ceremony was
performed.
Mrs. Hayes appears as much At home
in her difficult station as The Prss;Sant
does in his. She has received every
afternoon lhus lar, and scarcely an
evening passes without score or two
of calls. Everybody praises her, unless
1t be the very fashionable ladies, who
think she ought not to dress SO plainly.
The truth is. they feel little ashamed
of their gorgeous attire when they see
the " first lady of the land " receiving
them in an expensive black silk, with.
out any jewelTy and with her HAIR In
nocent of puffs, bangs or frizzes. II
Mrs. Hayes will only succeed in getting
the women of the country to stop their
extravsgant over dressing, she will &C
complish as much good as will her hus-
band with his civil service reform pro-
ject.
Princess Tizlanof and other Russian
ladies of good family are Jealous pro-
motors of socialism. These fair con-
spirators disguise themselves in the
garb OF the peasantry, and enter man
ufactories as simple workgirls, and that
not for the mere within of few DAYS.
They pass whole months in this rude
labor, walking with bare feet, filling
the commonest offices of servants, and
using every effort to conceal their orr
| gin. No sacrifice appears to them too
great for the end which they have in
view; they give their fortunes, and, if
they have stake in the parental hertz
age which is detained by their parents,
they do not hesitate to resort to tic-
ticlous marriage in order TO obtain 1t,
so that 1t may be handed over to the
community.
The romantic story of pretty Jennie
Burdick, of San Francisco, and gallant
Lieutenant George de Kalands, of the
Russian navy, shas already been re-
counted-how they loved, how they
planned an elopement, how her father
with shotgun scared off the sailor.
how the maiden ran away and hired a
boatman and went to boarding house,
where she was captured by the detec-
tive the next morning and taken home.
But she had set her heart ON marrying
her lover and married him she
has. A second elopement was
planned for Sunday, March s.
She paid a visit to young lady
whose father was a boatman. Soon
after midnight the boatman took his
daughter and her friend in boat across
the river to yacht, and then they all
set sail for Vallejo. The wind died
away, and off Angel Island they aban-
doned the yacht for a small boat. Ow-
ing to dense fog, they lost their way,
and it was not until o'clock in the
afternoon that they arrived at Vallejo.
Jenny went at once to her friends house
and sIgnaled to the Russian corvette
| Vsadnick. A moment after the lieu
tenant had crossed the waters and was
holding her in his arms. They obtained
license and were married by a justice
of the peace. Mrs. de Kalands imme-
diately telegraphed to her father, stat
ing that she was married and happy.
1t is evident that Writ Skies don't
give Olive Logan fair chance, and so
| Olive finds this to say about it in the
San Francisco sCaU:: "And here let
me record my opinion, that more I'M
tenable and ignoble piece of injustice
does not SURVIVE from the blackness of
earliest barbarism than that which
sanctions the custom of turning the
woman in the slightest measure INTO q
beast of burden for man. In spirit,
the lazy and obstinate gentleman who
| filings himself into an easy chair and
bids his wife get up out of hers and
bring him his boots is the same mar
row-minded, ungenerous tyrant the
Digger Indian is when he packs the
load on his squaw and tramps himself
untrammeled by Eer side. When u
man who works at a fatiguing trade
standing on his feet from morning till
night at the printers case, or bending
over patients In the dental chair, or
turning the wheel of some hand-run
machine, or hammering at the anvil
with lusty blows-then l can under
stand, when he comes home at night,
dead beat, too tired even to eat, that
| his wife should 'coddle' him by run
ming for his slippers, filling his pipe or
brushing his hair. But under no cir
cumstances do the laws of analogy,
anatomy, physiology or phlebotomy,
prove that a physically inferior wife
should take twenty steps to save
strong husband one"