The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1879-01-15
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GREss AND OF THE woMANs' RIGHTS
CoNvENTIoN.-THE SOLE EVENT SINCE
I THE ADJoURNlEENT. -sNEw YEARS KE-
1 >oRPrIoNs .--THE woNDHRFULf ENDG- /
RANCE OF AMERICAN WOMAN, ETC,
ETC.
To the Editor Of The 1Eorristown Gazetts:
What are we doing in Washington du-
ring this coolest weather in the memory
Of Mrs Myra Clark Gaines or ex-senator
Simon Camerone Simply trying to
keep warm and waiting for the return
of Congress. Dearest Congress thou
hast left us, and art perhaps blockaded
in snow drifts, and may be unable to get
back to the capitol at the appointed
time, to-day at 10 O'Clock, in sufficient
numbers TO make quorum 8ls s1sl
The freezing holidays have been very.
trying to the large loafng population of
Washington who have net been able to
find their accustomed warm snoozing
place in the galleries Of the House and
Senate But now the capitol wilT be
heated from dungeon to dome, and, like
a Inotherly hen, will gather tramps,
chiefly colored, under her capaeiOus
warm wings The weather has been in
tensely cold for ten days; the ground is
frozen to depth of thirty inches, and
this being the average depth of water
mains, many of them are frozen, caus-
ing great Inconvenience, and making
the calamity of fire doubly dangerous.
In many houses the bursting of water
pipes makes it Unnecessary for families 10
go two or three. squares for water This
scarcity issfelt chiefly in elevated local.
ties, especially on Capitol Hill, and the
question as to what Congress will do
without its habitual beverage is becom-
ing very serious. ,-rl ~
This week the woman's rights conven-
ton will assemble at Washington, and
Lincoln Hall will resound with a reiter-
stiOn of the same old familiar speeches
Cruel, despotic, tyrannical, domineerihg
man will be shown up in his true and
Infamous light Congress will be wait
ed upon, petitioned, rnemoriahzed and
then the convention will vamose the
tread mill fer another year. It may be
all very well to ALLOW women to vote,
but the ballet would be accorded them
much sooner if these self-elected champ
ions of woman suffrage would only
cease for century or two, making the
absurd and silly speeches that convict
them of utter unfitness for public life,
There is, 1 think, wide and spreading
opinion among thinking classes that
there is already too much voting, and
that political purity and national safety
lies in the direction of restricting gov
ernment to those who are better quail
fed for it's precious trusts if it wer,
only. possible to draw, the line. But, a
present, the brute has the bit between
his teeth and must run till he hurls tht
, car against a lamp-post Then there
will be repairs, amendments, recOnstruc
ton, and, perhaps, an abandonment o
emotional rabble ideas in government
and return to the phalanx of princi
plies. This is not quite the style for
, Washington letter which should be con
ventional, combining itself to men, mea
sures, women and events. But some
times the stock Is short. The only even
; since the. adjournment of Congress ha
been the 1st of January, 1879. 1t wa
marked "by the usual receptions off
cial, diplomatic, and military. Ever.
man arrayed himself in his best clothe
. and called on the ladies wherever the.
, were prepared to receive. The ladie
were all dressed most exquisitely, ant
many of them stood under gas lightet
chandeliers, with the blinds of their PAL
! lors closed. Instantaneous photograph
of the tableaux of presentation on tina
. day. would be interesting to those VIII
!, delight to study modern manners, an,
who discern in bows, and smiles, an,
dress, and attitude, the material that
the basis of so much psychological re
Fiction in the modern novel. In tn
evening, at many houses, reception
were concluded with dance, and tn
delicate American woman who, physiOl
ogists tell us, is degenerating physical
! ly, whose waist, they say, is so slende
that she has not sufficient room 70
lungs, liver, heart, and other conven
lent viscera, after standing on her fee
for six hours bowling, smiling, and pratt
tling-continued for six hours lOnge
to skip through the mazes of the Ian
GERS, or to whirl in the more violen
waltz. Talk of the feats of Bertha Val
Hillern and Madam Anderson l. 'Phys
ical culture" Bahl If it is desired t.
see prodigies of female endurance, gaz
upon the course at ball room. One o
our fair country wSmen was shocked
last summer when she saw woman il
Holland, built like tub, drawing
canal boat, loaded with two tons Of hay
her husband and family. And YET this
American lady had known women il
her own country, who were not bull
like tubs, slender, frail looking speci
mems, do the cooking, washing and sew
ing for large family, half the time bal
ancing big baby on her hip. To sucl
woman 1 think it would be rest anC
recreation to tug a canal boat. Not t.
create wrong impression, I do no
think it is habitual for the male navi
gators of the Dutch canals to ride wlIil,
their wives walk the tow path. She wal
simply taking her turn at their common
labor. '79.