The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-14
WOMAN's RIGHTS.

Now we think OF 1t, there was Wo-
mans Rights Convention met in this
city the other day, we have forgotten
just what for, but no matter, women are
all right, and we intend they shall enjoy
their rights, convention or no conven-
ton. But when they undertake to en-
croach upon the divine prerogatives of
the lords of creation the thing becomes
horse of another color, and we have got
to protest in the interest of advanced
civilization and the fundamental princi-
Piles of preordained inequality of the
sexes. Now woman in some few minor
things is equal to and even superior to a
man-she can put on FELLOWSHIP in a
way to make her lord and master die with
fenvy. She can get into her shoes and
stockings while sitting fiat on the floor,
which we defy any man to do. She will
smirk and entertain monkey-faced
milksop of fellow from o'clock until
half-past 10 p. m. that any man with
eight grains of common sense would kick
through every room in the house into the
back alley before he would listen to him
fifteen minutes. She will sail through a
drawing-room with twenty-seven yards of
rufled founcing on her petticoat and a
yard and a half Of train without
stepping on it and tell you to a
dot how much of Mrs. Gunnybag's 3
lace is genuine and how much bogus
without coming within a rod of her.
She can tell you who is courting every
marriageable woman in the place, and
the year, if not the day and minute, they
were born in. Some of the peculiarly
gifted can even smoke cigarette, but no
woman, not even Susan B. Anthony, was
ever entirely great, say like Alexander,
or Cesar, or John G. Heenan. Who
ever heard, for instance, of woman
winning in a prize-fght by MASKING a
fellows nose fiat to his face, closing up
both peppers and biting off quarter-sec-
ton of the ragamuffin's left ear9 Nobody
Where is the woman who can stand on
the Post-office corner, with cigar in her
mouth, and stare twenty-three young
men out of countenance as they pass,
or where one even who can swear loud
enough and long enough to become
eligible for the situation of mate on d
Mississippi steamboat Where is the
woman who ever had the nobility Of
soul and continuity of purpose to
become a grandfather, while hun
dreds and even thousands of men
not greatly distinguished over Their
fellow-men, have become great-grard
fathers, in all ages of the world? We
might as well say, once for all, to these
reformers, that men will concede cheer.
fully to lovely woman any right or priv.
ilege she is capable of properly enjoying
and has always done SO. For instance,
where woman has demonstrated that
she can start the kitchen fires and get
the breakfast going in the morning bet
ter than her husband, the latter, unless
he is a brute, will gracefully and in.
stantly permit her to do SO. But all
women are not thus gifted, and it is only
proper and natural that where they are
not that Man, who was created in the
image of his Maker, should arrogate to
himself the prerogative of splitting the
kindling-wood and doing the loating at
the corner grocery himself, while woman,
the weaker vessel, tends the baby in the
chimney corner at home.