The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-04-25
THE JUST DEMANDS OF WOMAN.

restrictions and the dissipation of the nre-
juices that debar them from fair partici.
patton In such remunerativo employmcnts
us tney can engage in without any real in.
aelicacy' without overstepping the proner
limit OF their sex, and without q violation
OF the conditions that environ the fan,o,o
nature aud, secondly, that woman have
provided for them as good education,, ad
wautages as men for preparing tbems.,uo.
aet woman York in the higher and more
4emunesrative departments Of human indus.
try.
:. We are no advocates of woman's rights
In the usual sense of the term. We depre.
cate, as much as anybody, the folly that
would turn women into men, and that ig.
nores the fact that woman's sphere is not
mans sphere; but we say that, under n
.specious pretence Of throwing safeguards
around the chastity, gentleness and delicacv
'ofwomen. selfish men have for centuries mon.
opolized the remunerative work of the world
to an extent that has been Injurious to 80.
ciety and cruelty unjust to women. A wo-
man who has to support herself can, with
out reproach, teach, sew or keep millinery
store, and perhaps boarding house, and
that is about oil. The contracted field
largely occupied by male rivals, is of course
'ovcrrun with laborers, and the wages in
consequent fall naturally to q point inst
sufficient to keep off starvation. Suc6 is
the situation. The unhappy results arc
that the work of the world suffers from the
absence of mans natural colaborer-suffers
ior the want OF woman's genius for details,
her patience, her delicate touch, her finer
perceptions and her exquisite taste that in
complex society marriages become infre
quent owing to the increasing difficulty of
one supporting two and the children besides,
and tho very foundation Of society becomes
rotten and that millions Of good women
are driven to shameful life or rendered
morbid and unhappy, dwarfcd in their
natures and forced to cat the bitter bread
OF poverty or dependence by the cruel lack
of congenial employment
We grow sick at heart when we think of
the many true women of our acquaint ance
whose line talents are wasted, whose use.
fulness Is curtailed, and whose hearts are
made sore, by the prejudices that pre-
vent chem from doing the work that thoir
hands find to do, and which God and nature
intended them to do In the learned pro.
fessions, in mercantile pursuits, in manufac
lures, In the fine arts, in agriculture-in
short in each and every of the departments
OF human industry, there is high priced
work which women could do with all due
regard had to the proprieties of their nature,
and do far better than men. Woman was
made TO be not the toy, tho playfellow or
the slave Of man, but to be tho helpnate of
man-his helpmate not alone in multiplying
the race, but his helpmate in all the work
OF the world, and each work is best done
when woman's hands unite with a mans
hands in its perfection We say then throw
open employments to women. Let them
help their husbands and brothers and faith.
ers 10 the work of the world, and give them
the education to be true helpmates in the
highest as we'll as the lowest grades of EN-.
ployment. In France, beyond every other
country OF the world, women are permitted
to share with men in every kind of work,
and no country is as thrifty. After our
civil war France was desolated by destruc.
tive war. In few years she was as pros.
porous as ever, while ths South is still pros
trate. The moral is apparent -Darl,mgton
Ncps.
JOSH BILLINGS ON HAsH.-Ifash hax
been abuzed more than emmy ov the legiti.
mate nourishmcnts, and guess it iz az able
to stand it az we'll az emmy ov the rest oy
them. The Duke ov Wellington used to
call hash, "What's left over from the fite
yesterday" The Baron Rothschid sed ov
hash, "Hash haz no pedigree" Tully, the
Roman orator, in one ov hiz polished ora
shuns, speaks thus butifully, and compre-
hensively, clash haz dun more to advance
the human raco than emmy kind ov mkt
phood." Sokrates, the divine philosopher,
told ov hash, "That it waz an end without
q means" Mark Twain, the inimitable,
calls it "Mistery," apd Nasby, the konfedc-
rate autokrat ov the crossroads, informs
us that hash "Iz like faith, the substance
'ov things hoped for, and the evidence ov
things unseen" Thomas Mast, the ire.
prossible man Of hidden meanings, in q
drawing prepared for the late Vienna ex-
pose, represented hash az hydraheaded
monster, in which pork, rooster, striped bas
she.p, rosie beef picked CLANS, celery,
kold psrtatoze, broken napkin rings, and
/, orange peel, and bent hairpsius aud menny
other kontribushens, s;uk ont in battle or.
ray. Thomas Benton, 40 years ago, in
great political speech made in Louisville,
Kentucky, deklaired that hash "Waz the
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