The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1883-04-25
gs" and the Woman Question.

hgs" and the Woman Question.
Irons CLARION: In looking over
issue of your paper, my attention
ttracted bya communication headed
b." ] don't know why ! should
4 this article any more than / have
Iers of Others Of the same. or like
|rters ] have read. But it does
b hard to always find something
to destroy the pleasure
Iding it. | think | can safely say,
b twentieth of the newspapers |
fead, have been free from "slurs"
be kind on women. There are men
Jay, that have never forgiven Eve
siding her apple with Adam. Al
b, if Adam was any thing like his
the nineteenth century, he must
aten the apple of his own free
pr his wife certainly couldn't have
Red him. "Men are womens play
and women are the devils, is an
iOn credited to Victor Hugo.
is great thing, that all Mr.. Hugo
well as a heap of other peoples
are not made truths. For
Re plenty of women in this world,
il has no claim on, and / guess
he lots of men that thank their
hey don't belong to any of the
| admit this is one mans opin-
pressed in severe terms, but weare
1t in our every day life in mil
ns, but always cutting to a scnsi-
nan. / know the women of to-
not what they ought to be, but
Il, frivolous, butterfly existence
sirls of this generation are no
TO me. The only wonder is that
doing as well as they are. The
hers whose hearts were broken
from Southern battle-felds, are
ping away, and the young girls
ld on the Threshold of woman
SO and welcomed with loyal
8heir soldier lovers home, and
fith them in their efforts to build
Is in the shattered and ruined
ave not forgotten the trials and
Is they have had to go through
be last eighteen years. II don't
ange that they should try to
cir daughters from the fate that
theirs. In our parents efforts
heir children in some degree of
pility, our mothers have had to
light and day, and at last, with
pirits and ruined health, they
ambition not half realized.
extra "casA" above the neces-
life was expended for a
course or two for the sons,
tuition at the State University
and the board reasonable
But the idea of sending the
Oft to school was not to be
pt, for it would take more money
session at these high priced
Jan they had seen at one time
prs. SO our girls with the mere
Of an education are launched
world, to take the cares Of
od on them, to raise sons from
lators and Presidents must be
Men on whose shoulder the
this vast Republic must de-
pt nothing great need be ex-
Or there will be no Martha
ons nor Mrs. Adams to mould
cters of these sons.
cen an erroneous idea that our
not compete with their broth
cation. But it has never been
e Of a Mississippi girl to prove
h gould do. Our State with all
y plent projects, and strides to-
re Improvements has neverhad
or the money to waste on the
Of the land. True, by efforts
y Pre- the last Legislature the
6 emitted to go to Oxford. A
bravest and those that could
Y ordeal, have gone, but it will
u success. 1t is not what was
nor what was expected. But
arances now it is all they will
|, 30 what our girls are to-day
n ey are likely to remain. for by
N system of education they are
devotees Of fashion frivolities,
hair, pickering up dresses,
Y Is hind part" before, and if
and brothers don't make an
NJ ange the line of our lives that
where they have, what will
" But it is SO hardl None
\ an knows how hard it is, to
ucule and taunts of our more
pfothers-those to whom we
from our very cradles to
an respect. The hardest part is
" elled to give what is not due.
y, "EYDER."
w nv, Miss.
\ 4 L IL