The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1881-05-18

stores and Omces, u Lecture room,
horticulture, bird rsisin- the care Of char
liable institutions, the guardianship of
orphans, including the management Of their
estates. Nor are they less needed in our
Male Colleges. where the poor boys clothes
are buttonless, their stomachs sinned against,
their beds unaired, and baths neglected.
Here, they should also have charge of the
Libraries
We can scarcely pass by this question of
Work for Women, without some notice of
the extent TO which stage playing prevails
as a profession for both sexes, society
having placed premium upon it, in its
absence Of condemnation, ard Its lucrative
pay. The cry of unfeminine which ssails
one of our sex who goes into Post Office
or Medical College, TO earn brad for her
children, reaches not the beautiful actress
above the foot-lights, held in the embrace OF
quasi lover, who will half hour after be
reeling along the streets drunk. Not that
we whould discourage dramatic art, in the
hands of true genius capable of making it
moral and intellectual force second to
none, although regarding is as highly de-
moralizing to the average man and woman.
Occasionally the social embargo upon wo-
men, presents itself in aludicrous aspect. Not
a ",
said to me, 81 don't know what l shall do
with two of my girls they can never teach
or sew" / was tempted to reply, "Make a
grave for them at once, madaml Don't bur-
den the world with any more useless women,
they will be far less trouble to you under
the ground than on top of it, and society
always approves funeral The next speci-
men wa srsther more pathetic one. a weak,
Io1 10 lxr
of six, mother and daughters, and reminding
one of q lean little horse drawing a wagon
load of people, who looked as if they ought
to have gotten out and carried him. One,
perhaps two, Of these women, might have
been considered as earning their living, by
attention to domestic affairs; the Others had
nothing in all the world to do, not even to
walk out and catch beau, that redoubtable
individual being engaged within his own
doors supporting his six INDECENT females.
Thus the toil-wOrn father struggled on until
the last particle of SAVIOR dropped out of life;
it never entering into his head that he pos
sessed the means of comfort and opulence in
the representatives of half dozen differ
ent professions. But had he one
son he would have it a solemn duty to give
him business education, and require him
to portray the infinite good to both sexes of
working alike and together in the same
field of action When | remember the boy
friends Of my childhood, the manlier ones
of later days, the frankness, intelligence,
and straightforwardness of the good faith
existing between us, grieve to see so little
friendship between men and women.
John Burroughs, tells US in his delightful
NJ
Country, woman is more of sister than
here. He found 10 place set apart for either
sex, where one went the other went. The
Hotels had no Ladies Entrance" All
passed in and out at the same door, and met
and mingled in the same room. At the
Hotel in London three comedy daughters of
the landlord did the business of the Office
One sitting there with her needle-work, re-
ceiving visitors, ringing for chamber-maid
to take their luggage and see them to their
rooms. And you might leave hat or UNI
brella on the rack certain of finding them a
week hence. A sweet domestic atmosphere
pervaded everything owing to this influence
of woman.
But it is time we proceed to examine the
most current objections to Acknowledgement
of women. First, and fimsiest of all. "The
polls is not fit place for ladies to go to-
there is too much tobacco chewing, smok-
ing and drinking there" We grant that
some of our poor women have enough of
these at home. But why not establish q
separate ballot or allow them to send their
votes? Grave dishonour to our men that
they have any places their women can not
go to. Let Us see, what are the others?
The gambling-house, the drinking saloon,
the livery stable, and one other. And the
polls.
The nerve of Liberty. the crown of the
Nationl
Well 1 did not know the Goddess of
Liberty had so many kinsfolk. 1 thought
she stood alone upon the heights of Time,
wrapt in the mantle of her purity. 1 am
quite sure that our feminine voters would do
their best to disinherit three sisters of the
Nation. Though 1 think they would leave
the stables They do so love TO ridel The
dear creaturesl But even here doubt not
they would throw in good bit of moral
suasion, in the shape Of tracts, so service
able to the boys for cigarettes.
Our next objection is that woman would
become politician, desire office, and even
aspire to the Presidency. Differing from
father, brother, son and husband in politi-
cal faith, thereby engendering family strife
and discord. Hol genuine thorn of Old
Adaml Drop thou into the bottomless pit
at once, or consign myself to the ninth ar
ticle of Litany, "Fron plague, pestilence,
and famine, Good Lord delive usl" Now,
for the woman who would be President
Like the fsherman's wife who would be
Pope, would she not always find some wise
founder ready to drop her back into the
little hut beside the sea2 But why should
not America have its President and Presi-
dentess, as well as England her King and
Queen? Is good Mrs. Hayes who went into
the camps and worked for the soldiers, and
into the high places of the Nation and set
an,example of Christian worth for all wo-
manhood, a whit less deserving the highest
honors the nation can bestow, than the Off
GERS who faced the bullets7
But we have still untouched one objection,
namely: The ballot if given the white
thereby throwing upon the hands Of
Government mass of uneducated material.
This reminds me of little dog have, who
refuses to eat his dinner for fear the cat
will get crumb. That half the virtues and
intelligence of country should remain in a
state resembling that of cripple, for fear
ignorance and degradation should attempt
to complete with it, and make itself a chance
to rise. Its intellectual blindness so great,
humanity so narrow, that we scarce know
where to meet it2
We leave this valuable subject realizing
how poor and unworthy our best efforts.