The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-23
For the f. & NJ. Houst hold.
a Women, Amen f!
OLD MAID.
NEWRERN. \. C.. May Is

NEwBERN. \. C.. May l6.
Many Trunks to those members of
the Household who 50 kindly cali on
me to speak to them, let me assure
them al, even ''IIieroglyphic, whom
| at once decyIhered this time. that |
woul most gladly contribute regularly
to ths department of the +. Il Nj. il |
ONLY had the time to do so. TO you my
friends writing for the printer is an
anu emeIt; to me ITS mean business.
Dr. Morgan Dix whose Lenteu Lec.Ur
on women have created such a Str III
New York, thinks it very shocking that
womca nowadays have Their names III
the newspapers Just like men, bat as
he dwrlls on the fact that it is their
full names,' perhaps the dear old
Mrs. Partington. as Mrs. Bla e in her
book 'Woman's Place To-Day, calls
him viii condone our sins, seeing we
hide behind nome de plumes, initials.
and Hiercglyphics and talk generally
about potato punes. pickles. preserves,
and otler pious Ps. DR.. Dix TO the
contrary notwitl.s tandmg. | think the
K. x NJ. Household a very good idea.
| tried 10 iuau@urate something OF the
same kind a tew Years ago. but failed
Siyaaily. perhaps because | put my
name in iull in the papers and called it
a Woman Exchange" instead OF a
Household. Mrs Blake probably
took warming from me, and followed
Mr.. Shotwell's lead, for she does not
say women should be mem bers OF Con-
-rcss, Senators, Governors, Presidents
OF Railroads. or OF Banks On, no, she
t.,,t l.,.sr "
family. and the national housekeeping
is all out OF order for want OF that vir-
tue. love OF order. and above all cou-
Scientiousness which woman especially
represents she advocates Il grand
national house clean NJ ana thinns that
lust what takes place hO.le during
the absence uf the mother Is taking
place to-day Ill tie nation Tor want of
womau's influence. The national house
keepu. i all III disorder for need OF
woman labOrs IN her rlShtiul province
as organizer and care tahe-ta6er.'
After the house cleaning which She
fears we will never have till women can
vote She gives IL list OF many depart
mcuts IN which wcman's ; love ot order
and neatness are particularly desirable :;
among them is one | fully endorse, but
she Speahs 81 much better than | can
that i Will quote what she says ol our
public schools, winch must interest
every reader of the Hon ehoid' Tor the
public graded schools. whether tor good
or evil, are 20 crowdiug out our private
schools that mothers ought to have
something to say II The enlargement. at
I east, of their daughters IN e:hoO. hours
/ Ii the co-e lucation of the Sex : Is 20
1 be forced on u>, "a II i, b., the IeStruc-
ton of our private schools b. the graded
school monopoly. women >nou.d ctIta.aiy
open their mouths aud SPEAK ,her sea
tIments. or, say what you will, politics
now control the public schools, and the
consequence Is, As Ms. Blake says, that
1 the administration Of our schools to day
! masculine IN every respect. Rigid
order is enforced BY rule Of narshuess !;
little creatures are ovcg-c-owdld In close
~0o~s and are cTammed with study,
more lessons are demauie in e1cb
week than there are hours t. give then.
and the GIRL teacher. uSer-wolkcI and
nuderpaid, dares not demonstrate lest
she lose her pace, to have II quick y
He'd from the herd of her sex, forced
by denial oi employment In other oil
rections to scramble for vacancy IN the
sch0ol-teachers ranks. 1t this Is so In
+ New Yolk, 1t becomes us to see it shall
aever be the case in North Carolina Ii
is as much in behalf of the over worSed
teacher as the scholar that omen shoald
speak. Our graded schools open gene
| rally at half past eight and close at two.