Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-20
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN
Ghasily Jokes ON Human Nature and
Lovely Comments on the Mar
riage Vow.

To the Editors OF the Appeal:
In your paper you frequently have a
column about women. Out of the many let
tiers l receive l could send you some unique
specimens for your column For and About
Women" not amusing always, not even en-
pertaining, but are CHASTITY joke on human
nature and lovely comment on with this
ring / thee wed, and with my worldly goods
thee endow."
In recent letter from Texas woman
she says: 81 look to you to devise some
means Of helping Southern women" / have
only recently had letter from a woman In
Atlanta, Ga, who was once very wealthy.
She says ''she has tried for months to get
employment in that city, but tried in vain,
condition" She is penniless and out of en-
ployment. To such / would say try silk
culture. 1t is easy, practical, and requires
very little capital to start it, and promises 10
become feature of the South. / think the
women would do we'll to take hold of it and
secure the profits for themselves before
stock company of men is formed ard they
left out, as usual, in the cold.
quote from another letter. This time it
is man, and his letter explains itself l
only add that he had been pleased with two
as good wives as Gcd ever let fall to the
share of a fiend. He killed them both and as
he is a millionaire some other stands hopefully
waiting to become No. 8. Here it is: 6"
write you to-day, to see il you can get me a
good housekeeper. l have had four, and all
neaner than the devil, each meaner than the
last; and of course | got rid of them By
steam. / want you to get me 'Yank OF the
following kind, viz: One that's honest, pure
and truthful; faithful, sensible and kind;
economically natured, not good looking or
young enough to think, Well, there's no
knowing what may happen l don't want
to marry under hundred years at least,
and if do, should not want my cook, nurse
or housekeeper. l want sort of 'groney
glum, without intrigue; one that can make
good meal out OF nothing, and have plenty
left for servants and chickens; one that has
not drop Of selfish blood in her veins. This
is the most despicable thing in woman /
want all selhshn;sJ for myself. j am
selfish by nature, and was spoiled by my
wife. / expect to have 130 housekeepers
and as many, nurses before | get suited. You
know my wife saw to everything, and looked
after chickens, cows, milk, butter-fee ding
some-smokehouse, house, kitchen, dining
room, ETC." This is a Uerbdtim copy of part
OF letter 10 me, and as i look On the lovely
face that was once his wif-'s, as it smiles in
tender sadness from its pictured grace, l am
glad she is deal, with an inezpressibtc glad
ness. And l recall the Englishman who
complained that his wife went deranged.
lie L CdA SSS uts was d
good woman; her was always at home; her
always had the clothes washed, ironed and
mended; her secured the floors; her never
gadded; her never talked to the women; her
didn't even go to church; her was a good
woman; her always did tpork"
That is fair sample of how good women
ara sometimes dealt with by good men; not
always, but it is human nature to grind the
willing slave, in the requirements of house
keeper, and it was this he required in his
wife. 1t was this he got, only she was lovely
as the day, and at first loved him. My fair,
tender darling, that crept into my own heart
and was dear as a daughter to me, saw him,
day by day, killing her slowly, surely as you
might kill a humming- bird by gradually
closing your hand about it.
Sorting out and destroying letters and
papers to-day, 1 found the following
anecdotes concerning the readiness of
"Woman's Wit" that l prepared for a
paper sometime since and neglected TO use
it. 1t is good enough TO send yet. Mrs.
Foliz, the well-known lawyer OF California,
was employed in bank case against a noted
barrister of irascible temper. Trigg, 1
think, was his name. In process of trial he
became personal, and said: "a woman's
proper sphere is at home, rearing her chill |
dren; it ID the only business she is fit for"
: 1t strikes me that any business would be |
better to be engaged in than bearing and |
rearing such men as you" was the ready |
reply. This recalls a scene | witnessed |
myself. In the Greenback convention in |
Chicago, in 1880, Denis Kearney was ch mir /
man OF the California delegation. Sara !
Andrews Spencer was speaking before that |
body, on the adoption OF a clause favoring !
woman suffrage. Denis, who opposed the |
movement with the coarseness all low /
natured show, sprang 10 his feet in his chair, /
hatlsss and coatless, and shouted: "All |
women don't want TO vote. My wife told me /
when left, look here Denis, don't you vote
for them women, for if you do I'll meet you
with fat-iron instead Of kiss.'n
Mrr. Spencer had stopped, and like a
canary with its head twisted one side, she
stood listening while he spoke. Thank you,
Mr.. Ksarney; thank you for informing me
who the head of the Denis kearuey family
Is; am happy to learn it from spoh good
authority"
Kearney subsidized, and the invinclble
Sara ratified on as soon as silence could be