The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1880-10-23
WOMAN AND HER RIGHTS.


Good woman, we know you have your
wrongs, and We know you need your
rights, and we intend that you shall have
them-your rights that is, you shall
have your rights il We have to give them
to you ourself. Not only your rights,
but your lefts. Take the whole pair;
there is nothing mean about us.
Seriously, we believe in your enamel
patton.
We know you do more work for less
money than your brother can be hired
to do. We know that you are under
paid, as rule, for most that you do.
We know how that you have been ell
bowed and crowded out Of the profess
sional world so long Is men cuuld keep
you out. We know that your rights
have been disregarded alike by the hos.
tility of your friends. We know how
your courage, fidelity and ability have
been moderated. And il we could We
would overturn all this in a minute.
Personally, we would like to put the
ballot in your hands this fall, knowing
rs we do that your hands want il, and
we would like to see you cast your first
vote for local option. But, with all this,
we fear man is not your worst enemy.
Your most impcrious and pi,iless
tyrant is woman. Now, don't fare up
and interrupt before we are through.
Nobody, We repeat, is SO hard on you
rs women. No man with whom yoa
deal is so pitiless as women. Yourworst
tyrantS are those of your own sex.
Only few days ago Mrs. Livermarc
lcctured on ''Superiluous Women" She
told all about the beautiful things she
saw at the Centennial, all made by
women. Her lecture was enjoyed, APP
plaudcd and Endorsed but sad when
she told about the beautiful things she
saw at the Centennial that women made.
To our way Of thinking it is the most
imperfect phase of woman's education.
We know what she can't make: She
can't make her own clothes.
Now, how can women expect to go
out into the great world and compete
with her brother until she can make her
own clothes rs well as her brother makes
his? Don't tell US you can, because We
know better. You can't.
See here. Three years ago-it may
have been four, but it was certainly
three-we went into merchant tailor
ing establishment to order 4 suit of
clothes. We selected the cloth, the cut
ter measured us, the proprietor said,
''We will send the suit to the house
when it is finished" That was all.
We never bothered about it, didn't go
to see how the suit was coming along, il
came home, was put on, il fit rs mat
ter of course, just rs we expected il
would, and there was nothing lacking
about it. Since that time wehave never
troubled the cutter for 4 new measure.
He does not want it. When we wanta
new sui; We merely select the cloth and
in due time the suit follows us home.
Ii We are thousand miles from home
We have jus, to write and the suit is
made, sent by express and fits as well rs
though We had run in to fuss over il six
times minute.
Now. on the other hand, our wife
wants dress. After two or three or
half 4 dozen stores have been ransackcd
for the goods. the dress maker is sought
ont. The matter of measure is tedious,
and then the matter Of fitting is one Of
numerous and repeated trials. Finally
the dress is finished and sen; home.
Then il is sent back to be taken in here
and let out there, and 1t last, after the
customer has been fitted more times
for that one dress than her husband has
been measured in three or four years,
the dress comes home for the last time,
and is pronounced by the wearer, her
friends and the dressmaker as beautiful
and perfect fit, and it is finished.
Beautiful it certainly is, far more
beautiful than anything her husband
ever wears. Colors and material. style,
blending shades and contrasting bits of
color, are all in the perfection of good
tastes. No man can improve upon that.
But it isn't finished. When il is COM
ple,ed rs the skill of the dressmaker can
finish it, and il is to be put on, il haste
be pinned somewhere sometimes in two
or three. often in half dozen places.
II always requires i pin. Leave out the
pin and the dress is all away somewhere.
On all this broad American continent
there is not one woman who can dress
50 as to make any kind OF an appearance
in good society without pins.
Now suppose our tailor should send
our suit home, and when We had put on
the coat, We had to pin il At the neck ?
Or, suppose there was no suspender but
tons aft, and We had to use pins therel
Suppose he made our shirts so that we
would have to pin on the collar, how
long would such shirt or suit ofclothes
stay in the house. Who would be re-
sponsible for the language used by the
man who had to pin on his coat. No
tailor would dare to so tempt the wrath
of independent man. Bnt woman
alas, she patiently pins on the dress that
she paid some one $50 or $40 TO make;
and doesn't think anything about il.
We will not pursue this painful subject.
let the women Of America take it up,
and think about il, and in the noble in
dependence Of womanhood, TO make
their clothes before they put them on.
n0-Young ladies who wish to have
small mouths are advised to repeat this
at frequent intervals during the day.
Fanny Finch fried FIVE foundering
frogs for Francis Fowlcr's father"
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