The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1877-02-23

idea. Pity he had not foreseen the fact
that higher power than mans makes
and rules woman. I see through it all
perfectly. Sues vivacity, which came
from the depths of an innocent and ex-
uberant heart, he looked upon as repre-
hensible. Then he grew jealous, and
she became indignant because of his
unjust suspicious and unjustifiable fault
findings. The tempter came. Good
women are as scarce in one part of lhe
mines as in another, and this villain,
whom it would be base flattery to call
devil, poisoned her husbands mind
against her and caused him to take ad
vantage of cruel laws and rob her of her
earnings and her child"
"But, Edna, you excuse her too much
by far. Remember that, no matter
what happens, no woman is ever excus-
able for deviating from the paths of rec
titude."
81 grant it, auntie, and do not excuse
her. But 1 do say that it is awful for
woman to bear all the consequences of
evil deeds, or even evil surmises, while
her companion in crime may go scot
free. Or, what is worse, if she be innO-
cent, her husband, through unjust sus-
picions, may rob her of home, shelter,
food, children, and the fruits of all her
toll"
John Smith aroused himself from his
! 4 Sofo ar
gin an argument.
"If there's any one thing more to be
despised in a woman than anything else
that a man can think Of" said he, rub
bing his eyes and speaking in an angry
tone, ''it's this Internal fuss about rights.
I thought I'd hear no more about it if
I'd come to a new country; but you two
women don't talk or think about any
thing else. A man'll hardly dare to say
his souls his own in little while at
this rate"
"Woman hasn't dared to say as much
for her soul since the world began" said
Edna.
"And she has no right to say 1t,
eitheru retorted John. eff woman
will mind her own business and take
care of her house and young ones prop
erly, she'll have enough to do"
"But hOw'sshe going to have house
and the wherewithal to make her
young ones' comfortable, if she has a
husband who not only neglects to pro-
vide for her, but drinks and CANDLES
away her earnings ?"
"That's always the way! can never
have any peace of mind in my own
house! Where's the half dollar you got
for that old straggler's lunch? I'm 60
ing to raise on the price of these
lunches. Might just as well have dol
lar"
"And aOe'U not dLLooO an advance on
lunches ~ said Aunt Judy, "and there's
an end of that"
"We'll see !" said John. "Give me a
half dollar, Edna"
al haven't a penny" was the quiet
reply.
"The dickens you haven't! Now see
here, Edna! want you to understand,
once for all, that am to be the head of
my own family! I've stood the inter-
ference of your Internal old aunt just as
long as L propose to bear it. It's she
that puts this mischief in your head.
Old woman, you've got to get out o.
this r
"And what's to become of Edna if ]
do ?" asked the old lady, with scorn-
full sneer that was wholly unlike her.
''Thats my business" was the self.
important answer. "PIl brook no more
of your meddling in my family affairs
Edna would be easy enough to manage
if it wasn't for youn'
The reader, who knows that but fol
s good Aunt Judy's kindly care, Johr
! Smith would not have had home o.
: shelter but few weeks after his mar
e riage, and who has followed her through
: all her seasons of forbearauce while b,
i was wasting the substance that hat
y been entrusted to her keeping, leaving
e her destitute, and but for Edna and tn
t helpless little ones, totally among
= strangers, Johns conduct will appea
e dreadfully reprehensible. Yet, when b
L considers that in all he did the HUSBAND
It of Edna Rutherford kept himself rigor
e ously within the pale of the law from
which there was no court of appeals 70
woman; that Edna, being his wife
= could not be robbed by him in such
d manner as to make the Offense criminal
r, and that Aunt Judy, having cast her 10
e with Edna, necessarily shared her fat
|. and fortunes, he will, if a just reader
d have less cause, after all, to blame tn
D poor weak-minded, tyrannical, besotte
husband, who, in spite of his weakness,
there was no law to restrain, than b
m will have reason to find fault with til
l. institutions of so-called "free country
re which, in direct violation of its Consti
lg tuition, robs wifehood OF its inalienabl
10 Inheritance of equality before the Law
in and thereby excites domestic insured
re tIon in ten thousand homes that migt
Ia otherwise be both prosperous and ell
g. durable.
N "rll give him half dollar and /,