Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-07-23
MOMEN,S WRONGS.
A Nov Departure Tor Nebraska.

At | sOelable Tn Nebraska the Othel evening young lady in q green alpaca . dress read an essdy in which the follow
 ing occurs:
 } During the session of the woman D suffrage convention held in Hastings
 wOman's wrongs were denounced and her rights advocated with great yigOI snd acumen. But withal l vas greatly disappointed. The greatest wrong the women have suffered, and has
 made me most indignant, a wrong iR
 comparison with which their nOt hay
 ing the ballet Is as nothing, was not
 mentioned at ali. l refer to the great
 wrong of not allowing women to pro-
 pose marriage.
 Women have more heart and love
 more strongly than men; no one will
 venture to deny this. and yet if 2
 young lady meets a gentleman in whom
 she discovers Ter affinity, she must re-
 main silent.
 
 Ladies need this right; they will
 never study, as they should, the great question of marriage, unless they do
 so under the spur and stimulus" of
 knowing that they must have equal
 responsibility with man ID those vital
 matters 1 insist that the oriental
 notions of dead centuries concerning
 women be lald aside. Let this greatest ! Of all wrongs to women be promptly and thoroughly remedied, and to atone
 for the past, let the women have, for
 while, tue exclusive right to make love,
 that men may, by experience, be led tO
 better sympathize with 'women's
 wrongs, and more carefully guard her | rre.hfa anI fn FusFra frff1 ! for the past, I would even favor taking
 from men the right to refuse, SO that | every marriageable man would be com | pe.led to accept whatever marriageable woman offered herself. Let this ar- ! rangement hold for limited time, say ' five or ten years, and after that let both ! sexes be on an equality in this respect, | so that society shall no longer be
 mairImOnially one sided. In no other way c;su we have justice, universally re- cognIzed and lmpartially administered" iAgnes has pat lt rather strong m the above liues, and we naturally arrive at the conclusion that she Is n hankering SO much for impartial justice" as she is Tor the love of an able-bOdied grasshop- per sufferer. She would Cease to write essays on the political situation If a reg ular bone scruncher hung his overalls
 across the foot of her bed every even
 ing. while she threw the cat out and
 wound the clock. Matrimony and cold, bard facts very soon root out the star spaugled banner style Of essay.
 h relation to the proposition which Agnes sets forth m her giltedge dlsserta- tor, We have only word to offer. It does not concern us much, in fact. We have got beyond that point.
 The divine right for woman to propose would no doubt be a GOdsend to a wo- man with mouth like a bear trap aud hand like Goliath's, because she could 1 fng1ten small man into a union which l would make perdition seem like a con- seryatory. But the dOve-eyed girl who l minds her own business and lets the l national fabric rip if it wants to, just | sails nght along into the open sea of l matumOny whether she wants 1t or not. l Man hates to be coerced. He can be l hornswoggled into matrimOny when he | hasn't got cent. He can be rOped into | marrying girl who Is despised by his | entire family. He can be successfully | attached to young lady, and not be | able to give any reason for IL; but he | hates to be led into a cold room and proposed to by a woman without any collar on and whose false teeth havt nearly all fallen out. It knocks the manhood out of him to be shared by a woman with a physique like a carpet stretcher and laugh like q croup, iackass.
 No, Agnes, you are too far in advance of the slow, plodding era ID which you live. We stIll cling to the customs O our old fOgy fathers and mothers. It. | a pretty big job for man sometimes {, face the smiling conquerOr who carrIes his scalp at her belt. It is not pleasant at first to lead her up to the place wher, you are going to win orgo under, bui afterward you wouldn't have it an, other way, Agnes, for the world.
 How would you look, Agnes leading your trembling victim out into the pie plant bed, and when the conversation lulled little, saying: "Ai-- O'Israry you nnst have noticed for some time past l that 1 have been fatally mashed on you 1 No one of your keen perception coulC l Tor an instant ignore the fact that I'm s {oner. l now ask you in all earnestness -o be my husband. Even though you may not love me now, you may learn {, owe ne, and m the rose-tinted future iOu can at least respect me and do the 'horeS around the house. Do not be ash, beseech you, but try to learn to owe me, even though you do SO only ractionally." |
 What do you think he would do: W ny, II he didn't happen to be a wood l | 'n-legEed man, whose wooden leg vOU l , lad already unscrewed and thrown over ! nto the cucumber patch, he would light l fl ut like fireman rushing tO the rescue 1, q brewery or a female boarding l s chool. n No, Agnes, you are either prematur, L thls matter or else you are a middle i ged hyena with face like a chimpaD. 1 ee and cackle like gentleman Gui- ca hen. Good tempered girls with 1 rams don't have to go over the couutr, | n nth double barrel shotgun in order to | ound up partner. It is the girl wh, lII ever combs her hair and who has a u smper like tarantula, who has to scare ~ man to death with carving knife or s 'i mt Of certIOrari, before she can vii v in to her heart You should learn ,.Ii om this, Agnes, to look mp and press VI Inward. Do right, be virtuous ana N ake up your bed every autumn. and ~ aa nst your room every centennial. and O' 'me day Providence will throw m youI ay man who has incurred the divine spleasure m some way, and that man III, m an unguarded nome {. ask won oI marry him, Agnes, and you will ac- ,l' 'pt him. 70 The Eureka Sentinel of day before m' 'sterda? says: H. Laughlin. one of the ,Ol lrty of smelters who recently left hare s Arizona, returned on Tuesday even Uni z. He reports that they made great 'st ccess with the Pinal Consolidated 'te letter, Jlton furnace, and turned out l ,Ol large amount of bullion, but th, -ht arcoal gave out and operations had to vi
 susDended- It was clearly demon lis 'ated that the ore was not refractory So' le charcoal was not as good as that ern Jo )yed here, being made of cottonwood. he t 1t would answer if none other comb Id procured. W. J. Stevens will not re- Ia' m to Eureka. He has been placed in ny arge of the mine and furnace during he absence of Superintendent Donnelly the . IauShln speaks very highly of the irl nal Consolidated, and believes that ii l 2 big mine, with lots of ore. which .0g J m time yield good returns to the '' ckhOlders. DOT
 - ters (n the 17th instant, near Chevelon's pap of the Little Colorado river, the assi nmands of Colonel Evans and Major just alice overlook the hostile Apaches. ,en o took position in very rocky can l lpp and fought the soldiers like tigers one g light resulted Tn a solid victory for my brave troops. The only sad thlng nee, .9nEe'ilon with 1t is that the gallant Fho M