Osage Valley banner. (Tuscumbia, Miller County, Mo.) 1879-1881, 1880-08-26

out We know that your rights have
been disregaried alike by the hostility
0fyour enemies and the careless thourht-
lessness Of your friends. We know how
your courage, fidelity and ability have
/ been underrated. And il we could
we would oyerturn all this in a min
ute. Personally, we would like 10
I put the ballot in your hands this fall.
I knowing as we do that your hands
/ would honor It. But, with all this. we
fear that man is not your worst enemy.
Your most imperious and pitiless tyrant
I Is woman. Now, don't tiare up and in-
! terrupt before we are through. Nobody,
we repeat, is so hard on you rs women.
NO man with Whom you deal is so piti-
less as women. Your worst tyrsnts
are those Of your own sex.
Only few days ago we heard Mrs
Livermore lecture on Superlluous
| Women" She told us all about the
! beautiful things she saw at the Centen.
NAL, all made by women. We enioved
her lecture, applauded and indorsed it,
but we felt sad when she told about the
beautiful things she saw at the Centen-
NAL that women made. Here, To our
I way of thinking is the most imperfect
/ know what she can make, but we do
know what she cant 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 as well as her brother
makes his? Don't tell us you can, be-
cause we know better. You can't
See here. Three years ago lit may
have been four, but it was certainly
three-we went into merchant. tailor
ing establishment in Burlington to order
a suit of clothes. We selected the cloth,
the cutter measured us, the proprietor
said, ave will send the suit to the
house when it is finished.n That was
all. We never bothered about it, didn't
go TO see how the snit was coming
along, it came home. was put on, il fit,
as matter of course, Just as we ex-
pected it would, and there was nothing
lacking about it. Since that time we
have never troubled the cutter for
new measure. He does not want it.
When we want new suit we merely
select the cloth and 90 out, and in due
time the suit follows us home. If we
are thousand miles from home we
have just 10 write aud the s,yit is made,
sent by express and fits just as we'll as
though we run in to fuss over il six
times a minute.
Now, on the other hand, our wife
wants dress. After two or three or
half dozen stores have been ransacked
for the goods, the dressmaker is sought
out. The matter of measurement is
tedious, and then the matter of fitting
is one of numerous and repeated trials.
Finally the dress is finished and sent
home. Then it is sent back TO be taken
in here and let out there, and at last,
after the customer has been fitted more
times for that one dress than her hus-
band has been measured in three or
four years, the dress comes home for
the last time, and is pronounced bv the
wearcr, her friends and the dress
maker as beautiful and a perfect fit, and
IL is finished.
Beautiful it certainly is, far more
beautiful than anything her husband
ever wears. Colors and material, style,
blending shades and contrasting hits of
color, are all in the perfection of good
taste. No man can improve upon that.
But II isn't finished. When it is COM
pleted as far as the skill of the dress
maker can finish it, and it is to be put
on, 1t has TO be pinned somewhere;
sometimes in two or three, often in half
a dozen places, 1t always requires
pin. Leave out the pin and the dress
is all awry somewhere. On all this
broad American continent there is not
one woman who can dress so 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 it at the neckp
Or suppose there were no suspender
buttons aft, and we had to use pins
therep Suppose he made our shirts so
that we would have to pin on the collar
how long would such shirt or suit of
clothes stay in the house? Who would
be responsible for the language used by
the man who had to pin on his coat?
No tailor would dare to tempt the
wrath of independent man. But wom-
an--alasl she patiently pins on the
dress that she paid some one thirty or
forty dollars TO make, and doesn't
think anything about it, We viii not
pursue this painful subject. Let the
women of America take il up aud think
about it, and learn, in the noble mde-
pendence of womanhood, TO make their
clothes before they put them on. Bob
Burdette, IN Burlington Has0keye.
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ed as il for whitewash. The eggs are
packed in barrels OF brick watts, and
kept covered with the lime. Or they
may be preserved equally wen for do