The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1879-03-25
why are Women Fools.

Thus inquiries q male correspond
ent Of Annie Mcdowell in the Phila-
dclphia Republic, utterlyfOrgetiul OF
a satisfactory answer to that question
given by a far more clever writer
than ourself, "God made them to sui
the , men," The correspondents
question, however, is suggested by
the fact thathe has living with him,in
the capacity ofa servant, q toothless
and otherwise dilapidated specimen
OF feminine humanity of fifty-fivc or
fifty-six years, who is being swim
died out of the proceeds Of years of
honest toll by worthless young
scamp of twenty five or ihereabouls,
who processes to be in love with her,
and to whom she is an abject slave.
The correspondent says:"She washes
and irons as well as mends for this
scoundreL and when myself or wife
attempt to put a,stop to this outrage,
by ordering the rascal off the prenis-
cs, the Infatuated woman rebels and
threatens to leave US ifhe is not per-
mitted to come in and out as it suits
him. She is an nrinvaluable servant.
We could not keep house without
her, my wife being very delicate in
health, and so we are obliged to put
up with this enormity, although the
poor creature; even this lcoldweatlier,
has denied herself comfortable cloth.
ing in order to supply, this wretch
with money, and has even been una
BILE to get her q set Of false teeth, or
dered by her and partly paid for, be-
cause he takes from her every CEN.
she earns. No man could ever be
sucha fool as this" .,..t
Z That Is a matter of opinion. oThis
woman is an imbeciie of The first
class apparently but we think We
have heard of men who might rank
with her in absurdity. We have
heard Of plenty Of men in our time,
old, to6thless and ugly, who have not
only taken their earning to bestow
upon young girls who flattered them
BY a seeming preference, but who
hav stolen from their wives and fam
lilies or their employers to make pres
ents 10 their charmers. After all men
and women are very much alike in
their weakness and follies. The hu-
man heart iis,very much the same IN
both sexes, in its desire for affection
andits capacity for absurdity.
To us there is after Rli, something
absolutely pathetic in the picture
presented To- us by the correspondent
of this antiquated female, and hel
4 willing sacrifice of comfortable cloth
ing, ,her lifelong savings, and ever
lher false teeth, In order, as she ex
pressed it, that her young man ma,
look like gentleman and have o lit
tie spending money in his pocket.
A woman who has spent the mos
Of her days in the service of o,he
people, who has all her youth know
1 only the hard realities of n life o
! toll, is surely to be more pitied thai
ridiculed If she crayes little OF tn
romance and brightness of affection
In her declining years. OF course
woman so situated never gets tn
love she yearns for; but for our lit
VIC cannot suppress tho glow ofikind
illness and sympathy which we fee
at the thought Of the tender woma
heart now beating under bald hea
and dilapidated calico gown, ths
must ere long awaken to experienc
the keenest pahgs of disappointment
self contempt and rage, at hayin
wasted its best affections on % worth
e less object. Old fools are said to
the worst Of fools; perhaps they Or
but at all events, they need muc
! more consideration and sympatl
than they ever get, because an aw,
, kening from their folly means doat
to them. We do not despise an ol
tree because it puts forth in th
spring green and tender brancht
. such as its youth knew Why; thel
should we despise. the evidences W
sometimes find in the mature or aget
that the vital principal oflove is III
strongest Of our nature, and by ~
constant self assertion and self abn
,, CATION, under The most promisin
proves Its relation to the Eternal oil
, Divine. l 3A ,sNuQ9l AuIIq s9sN