Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-07-22

A recent number of Fraser's Magazine
contains the following from the pen o.
Mrs. Oliphant: do not pretend to under.
sCand either Man or Woman, in capitals
| only know individuals, of no two oi
whom could | say that think they are en-.
tirely equal. But there are two, visibly
standing before the world (which is made
Of them, to be Judged according to their
works, and upon these works | wish to ask
the reader his or her opinion.
This is mine to start with-that when
God put two creatures into the world Il
hope that persons of advanced intelligence
will forgive the old.fashoned phraseology,
which perhaps is behind the age) it was
not that one should be the servant of the
other, but because there was for each a
certain evident and sufficient work to do.
1t is needless to inquire which work was
the highest. Judgment has been univer-
sally given in favor of the mans work,
which iSthat of the protector and food.
producer-though even here one cannot
but feel that there is something to be SAID
on the weaker side, and that it is possible
that the rearing Of children might seem in
the eyes Of the Maker, who Is supposed to
feel a special interest in the human race,
as noble an occupation, in its way, as the
other. To keep the world rolling on, as it
has been doing for all these centuries,
there have been ncedful two creatures,
two types Of creatures, the one an impossl-
bility without the other. And it is a curious
thought, when we come to consider it,
that the man, who is such a fine fellow
and thinks so much of himself, would,
after al, be complete nonentity without
the woman whom he has hustled about
and driven into n corner ever since she be-
gan to be. Now it seems to me that the
first and largest and most fundamental of
all the grievances of women is this: that
they never have, since the world began,
got the credit Of that share of the work Of
the world which has fallen naturally to
them, and which they have, on the whole,
performed through all vicissi.
.udGs.
1,o,roo,,, ror,or,lo, ,,,,, mutton ,,bo L,s
''T''' "'' 'Y ''''
ever Neh'ureu 10 say lnaV the mall oI inc
work OF the world is actuaIlyaccomplshed
Dy women; and very few husbands who
would hn otherwise than proatlv stortlod
wv oI',, ,oJ ''>I ;,,,,t -. - ~ 51
"a" "','"%'u' II i'' nun NAM, II Hov "ei'
'ive, at the suggestion OF such an idea as
that the work cf their wives was equal to
heir own. And vet, for nv part, ! think
a !, 60 "a, os 7 90, 500 ibo uorl,;nc.
IL ''' w '"' to ! t"' ~. ''tY "o'"'D
man wlIe' VINO haS 10 COOK ana clean ana
%ash ana mend, ana 10 al, the prim'
ave services OF iile LOT her lnhily'
gas hardPr ana more constant WORK
man her husOanI mas ana rising
Upward III the ranks OF lie ! thlnk the
anne balance goes on at least until that
tvel, OF wealth, ana fortune Is reached
It which the iavoriteS, OF fortune IKE
ne lllleS' toll not, neither 40 they SPIN
put am not concerned wlththose heights
W hat dukes and dnchCsses do, and which |
d them work the hardest, VIII scarcely
ell upon the argument; nor am deeply
'ersei IN the natural history OF million,
lltcs. But so lar as l am acquainted
WIN ihe lacts OF existence, me woman
lands are everywhere as iull oil natural
DCGnrluoh rs are thosc ol man
The mans work lasts certain number
u hour'' after whlch lie mas MS wen earn
II leisure ms evenings TO hlmseII' ms
IoHrs ol recreation or Iounlglng; Dut DIS
vile mas no auca privileged amount oil eX-
mpt0n from toll. her work - never
lone: she has the evening meal, what
yer u may, be, 10 prepare and clear away,
nd the children TO f't TO bed ana lhe
rnung 10 10 Ia 'ue n2H.s WIEN iIr ne !. ~,
oEG'nV' 't.e, '"u 1Jt'tuIis f.9 WIN
uoliIC " NV q .iEit' @ W n.' nj uoln. III
c'y lcT T"'ea nGc' ~ GVout " pno Tou."n
u Rhl,5 RiulnIie l., az @ 'n,s' VI ~ "Iiuei wy nei
" Iny4'o Ie hIiuci ''t%,l H. nis. II 10 ii'
iraii II Is LeL st,"Iy: i!c, ne wno!c coiilPGcO
| tuylt niurIIc4 ne l Is oIseu upoh tnI',
!"V sue SIiot'lG uT iiei wolA % witiie i'o uoes
lS' |1o i'tL is Vliu Sl'AIe 'haU Is IvytI
enc. 20 u1U say Woiu agalhsI this
wv ol haturei uut onlect wIlIe IulS Is
Nv S9se, wy poor "oill"n who wTihs sgIi
arg Is conSiof'eu L as PHsslye oIJccIr vi
cl u nusoahu US, pogn.y, lhueots9 10 A.m 5 iu5
er living, anu WIN no stanulng gloghu
I PoSnltioh Oh hsI own one Is so cohSlGGr'
u IN tle eye oI tnc NV anu 'Iousn tle
'oIiSi'neS' Oh we sentiment Is 700 mani
'"t IN her lnulViuuaI c'Se 10 oe lnslste" I
pom YET She ls lhlpile9 III the general,
assertion Whlch incluaes az mar
eu women. Men niusC wVrk anu won,
: must weep, says tne oallau' WOnlu
Ike so know what the isherwomen OF our
ea coasts say 10 TINS lugnOrlous sentiment
now much time they hnd to indulge IN
nat KIND OF luxury |,
Which of the two does the reader sup
ose has the most to do; the merchants
Jerk, for instance. who earns his salary by
* or eight hours work in his office, or
is wife, who has to pinch and scrape, and
lape and sew, and sit late at nights and
se early in the morning in order to keep
neat and cheerful house, and turn out
he children in such guise as they do no
iscredit to their fathers black coatH III
had to choose between the two, | should
aoose the husbands share and not the
,ife's. The man is more exposed to out.
de risks and discOmfOrts; but the mo-
lent he enters his home he is privileged