The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1880-03-11
THE BOLIVAR BULLETIN.
rER,Is on AnvFRrIsING,
The Weaker Sex-Is'n't it Man Instead
of a WOman2

''If you expect me to bundle up my
/ throat because it is a little sore, or to
/ put on wOolen stockings to help you cure
J this cough, you are greatly mistaken!"
Thus said a Detroit lady to her family
/ doctor, the other day, when he had been
/ called TO prescribe for her, and she felt
| quite indignant at the idea Her throat
was protected by wisp of lace weigh
/ ing the sixth of an ounce, while her
4 husband wore a chest-prOtectOr, two
/ shirts, an overcOat, a scarf, and then
/ pulled his cap down over his ears. She
| has been out nearly every day this win
| ter thus protected" and made no
complaints, while he, man in the prime
of life had often complained of the cold.
1 He had cOrk-SOles, long-legged boots
and thick socks, and had felt the cold.
! She had kid shoes and cotton hose, and
had been warm enough. He had cloth
/ gloves, and she kids. He had a seal,
skin cap, and she fashionable hat. She
was out more hours per day, on an
average, than he was, and yet she suf
fered less. He had been ailing twice as
/ often, though twice as careful.
Get into a street-car and you viii see
men shiver and shake in their overcoats,
cOmfOrters, and mittens. In the midst
of them is a fashionably clad woman
the hearth Half the men sit with their
overcoats on in church or theater, while
nine-tenths of the women remove all
| outside wraps. Men are hungry three
times a day and must eat. Half the
women who 90 out 60 without reference
to meals, and lose dinner and get home
late to supper.
No one ever hears female pa senger
on the street cars say that she IS tired
A man who has walked a mile will fall
back into a seat with a great sigh of re-
lief. A woman who has walked three
will sit down as if to accommodate some
one. Business men 60 home tired and
hungry. Their wives come down town,
tramp around for hours, and then 60
home ready for trip to the opera or
an all-night hop at some neighbOrs.
While men believe they need coffee,
meat, potatoes and other hearty. things
to make blood and flesh, women will
mince and pick and sip and wish they
could feel hungry. .H
Send bill collector out to call on fif-
teen different men on GriswOld Street
and he will return with both legs aching.
Give a woman any sort OF walking and
she will make fifteen calls over widely
scattered territory and declare that she
had a splendid time. Stand a man at q
dry-goOds counter and after ten minutes
he begins to shift his weight and look
for a seat. Put down enough goods, and
the average woman viii stand there two
hours, though a stool is close beside her.
Let three inches of snow fall and men
viii wait for car, fearing to get their
feet damp. Six inches of snow would
be nothing to a woman in kid shoes and
cotton hose if she wanted TO go any
where. During rainy day the number
of women on the street is rs great as the
number of men, and storms which will
stop street-cars viii not stop women
from coming and going.
At some time in the dim past some
one called women the weaker sex. Was
it in sarcasm? If not, then there has
been a great change. A woman may
not lift, pull, push or carry as much
weight as n man, but they stand cold
better, complain less of heat, walk more,
sleep lees, eat less, rest less and endure
pain with silent contempt where man
would upset every body around him. a
headache which would send man To
bed will not keep woman indoors A
toothache which would make man half
crazy would not prevent a woman go
ing down town. A buniOn which would
make a man limp would be danced on
all night bY a woman. Married men
know that these statements are true,
and doctors prove them so every day.
This being so, let US place our sympa-
thy and gallantry where it belongs
with our fellow-men; women can more
than take care of themselves.-Det
Free Press.