The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-04-25
THE JUST DEMANDS OF WOMAN
What women Justly demand in ,h;s

restrictions and the dissipation of the nro.
Judices that debar them from a fair nort;ci-
patton in such remunerativo empIoymcnts
as they can engage in without any real in.
deiicacy, without ovcrsteppins the proper
limit OF their sex, and without a violation
OF the conditions that environ the female
nature; aud, secondly, that woman hay,
provided for them as good educational ad,
wautaSes as men for preparing themselves
dor woman %ork in the higher and more
IemunScrative 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 delicacy
ofwomen. selfish men have for centuries mon
opolized the remunerative work ofthe world
to an extent that has been injurious to So
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 all. The contracted field,
largely occupied by male rivals, is of course
ovcrrun with laborers, and the wages in
consequent fall naturally to a point lust
sufficient to keep off starvation Such is
the situation. The unhappy results are
that the work of the world suffers from the
absence OF mans natural colaborer-suffers
Tor 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 infrc
qucnt owing to the increasing difficulty of
one supporting two and the children besides,
and the 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 acquaintan
whose fine talents are wasted, whose use
tulncss is curtailed, and whose hearts are
made sore, by the prejudices that pre-
vent them from doing the work that their
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 proprictics of their nature,
and do far better than men. Woman was
made to be not the toy, the playfc]low or
the slave of man, but to be the helpnate of
ms hall ot. oln Ia, l,,:x
the race, but his helpmatc 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 in the work of the world, and give them
the education to be true helpmates in the
highest as well as the lowest grades of en-
ployment. In France, beyond every other
country Of tho 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 dcsoated by destruc-
tive war In few years she was as pros
porous as ever, while the South is still pros
tratc. The moral is apparcnt.-Darlington
NcecS.
JOSH BILLINGS ON HAsu.-IIash haz
been abuzcd more than emmy ov the lcgit-
mate nourlshmcnts, and guess it IL 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 Rothschild scd ov
hash, CLASH haz no pedigree" Tully, the
Roman orator, in one ov hiz polished ora
shuns, speaks thus butifully, and compre-
hcnsively, "IIash haz dun more to advance
the human race than emmy kind ov MKT
phood." Sokratcs, the divine philosopher,
told ov hash, "That it waz an end without
means" Mark Twain, the inimitablc,
calls it "Mistery," apd Nasby, the koufedc-
rate autokrat ov the cross roads, informs
us that nash 'Iz like faith, the substance
ov things hoped for and the evidence ov
things unseen" Thomas Mast, the ire.
prcssible man Of hidden meanings, in
drawing prepared for the late Vienna ex-
pose, represented hash az hydraheaded
monster, in which pork, rooster, striped bas,
sheep, rosie beef, picked clans, celery,
4old partatozc, broken napkin rings, and
orange peel, and bent hairpaiDs aud menny
other kontribushens, siuk out in battle ar
ray. Thomas Benton, 40 years ago, in a
great political speech made in Louisville,
Kentucky, dcklaircd that hash "Waz the
true circulating medium" Gen jackson,
the author ov "By the Eternal" pronounced
hash to be "The right bower ov ekonemy."
George Washington. the father ov us ALL
and the guardian oy the little ay in ono nv