The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1883-06-27
Girls Trials.
ny MISS GRACE nEHAN.


Read at the close of Prof. Ken.
ny's Select School, last Friday.
A girls life is one Of trial from
beginning until she has been al-
lowed the privilege, honor and dig
nifty Of placing Mrs. before tho
name Of one Of the noble Lords Of
Creation and has become tho hum.
bic slave of Jonathan smilhkins,
Esq, or some other lordly man.
Now, that she has passed through
this last trial Of her gi.lhood, that
Of standing up at the altar and sol.
EMMY promising to obey a man;
she is supposed by every one to
have reached the summit of earth
ly happiness and is no longer any.
body. What man doesn't think he
has bestowed the highest possible
honor upon the woman he weds?
but he never thinks of the honor
she has paid him by rejecting that
dozen Of other good looking fellows
for his sake.
Yes, the girls trials aro all over
now unless "poor down trodden"
woman, should happen some day to
get the right to vote-and why
shouldn't she? I'm sure she'd vote
the right way-and even if che
would be expected to work as a
man does, she would he paid for her
work, and a lady, for instance, who
teaches school will get as much wa,
ges for doing twice as much work
as a man does now.
Some one said to me once, (and
Of course it was q man, wouldn't
the ladies look well working the
roads, as every voter has to do?-
Why, though, I don't want to vote,
I'm sure We could enjoy ourselves
just as much as the gentlemen do,
We'd say girls let's sit down and
have a talk. Lot that old scraper
go, it doesn't pay to work the roads
anyhow, and after we had eaten
our lunch and talked about our
neighbors until we were tired, (Sou
see we leave out the oaths and the
beor) we'd take q pcn.knife and cut
down some paw.paw brushes and
throw them in u mud hole, just to
fool the next tcamster who came
along; then We would rake the dirt
out into the middle Of the road, get
into the wagon and go home, leav.
ing tho roads just q little worse
than they were; whereas, had the
men been there, they would have
been great deal worse.
What | started out to say, is, that
l expect if that girl didn't vote as
her husband did, (and l hope she
wouldn'L) it's very likely they'd
need new set of tca.cups every
election day. 1bolieve I'm digress,
ing, however. l only want you to
to know that girls trials may end
somewhere, lest as they are so nu.
merOus you might think them inf.
mite.
In the FIRST place, everybody
would have liked her better if she
had been n boy, and even while u
little girl, ifSho runs of to go fish.
ing, or whistles and plays marbles
she is scoldcd and called a "Tom.
boy" Then, as she grows older,
there is always a big brother or two
to "bOss her around" and teaze the
the life out Of her, as boys always
do, and if there is no big brother,
there is sure to DO q big sister,
which is nearly as bad. She never
gets to go anywhere alone, and un.
less some ono elses' brother is kind
enough to take her she must stay
at home, for her brother takes the
other fellows sister.
Next thing she is told that girls
arc "such an expense" it takes so
much to buy their clothes, while
nothing is said Of the money broth.
or Tom spends at billiards, or about
how nicely that old dress was made
over so it did all winter, and Tom
got a new suit, for, who ever heard
Of a boys suit being made over. A
"fcllah can't look shabby, you
know"
The dishes never have to be
washed by anybody but the girls,