Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1884-04-12
TIE LIME-KILN CLUB.
WOnAN,S INFLUENCE AND CONNEC
TON WITH LIBERTY AND PULITICs.
The Members Of tho Club Express their
Opinion in q Bold and Open Way.
From the Detroit Pre- Prem.1

L uO10 LEGAL q ASSpOA O0AA eAC L ACo
dent as the meeting opened, ''axin' dis
club to report its o~bservashuns on de in
hooence OF de female sex on liberty,
pollyticks, art, progress and bizness.
Brother Bebee, what do you know Of the
infooence of females on de matter Of lib
erty?"
Brother Bebee replied that he had Of
late years observed a disposition on the
part of the female sex to do as they
pleased, go where they pleased and carry
a bundle Of liberty under each arm day
and night. One hundred years ago lib
erty was a persimmon on the highest
limb Of a tall tree. To-day it wa a
pumpkin which anybody could roll along
the ground. Everybody breathed it, ate
it and walked arm-in-arm with it, and
the masses could no more be deprived
of liberty than bobtailed cows could
take the first premium at the State
Fair.
"Brudder Pickles Smith, what do you
know of the infooence of de female sex
on pollyticks? ?" asked the President.
Brother Smith replied that he knew
of several wives in his neighborhood
who bossed their husbands votes. BE
could also recall three or four cases
wherein women had exercised a power
full influence after their husbands got
home from q convention.
"Brudder Penstock, has you noticed
any pertickler inhooence of de female
sex on de matter of art % asked the
President.
Brother Penstock had. Such a thing
as making an old, yellow, f%our-gallon jug
a thing OF beauty and a parlor ornament
would I've have been thought of but
for the gentler SEX. A man would pass
an old tomato can in the back yard a
hundred times a day without a second
look. A woman would seize upon it at
the first opportunity and transform it
into a Grecian vase of exquisite beauty.
Twenty years ago an omnibus with a
landscape on the side would be followed
around the street by a crowd. To-day
a six-gallon crock, to be used as an
umbrella-holder, with a view of the
Yosemite painted all around it in nine
different colors, could be drawn all over
the city on a handsled without exciting
remark. Art had become part of our
every day lives. A stout woman
couldn't even fall down on an icy corner
without displaying more or less genuine
talent for the artistic.
"Brudder Pullback, has you noticed
any partickler~ infooence of women on
de matter of progress ?" inquired
Brother Gardner.
Pullback thought he had. Women
had discovered most of the comets, pro.
jected the grandest bridges, engineered
the greatest tunnels and wrested the
most secrets from science. If it hadn'
been for the progressive ideas of women,
stage coaches would yet be running be.
tween New York and Chicago.
Judge Cadavef was asked what in.
fuence women had on business, and he
drew a long breath and replied that i
it wasn't for the female sex the business
of the world would drop one-half; on.
dry goods store in a city could supply al
the men, but the women supported two
or three hundred of them. Women no
only maintained business, but estab
lished new manufactures. For instance
the decoration of female hosiery CAV
employment to 5000 persons the yea
round. It was all out of sight and utterl,
useless, but it circulated millions of dol
lars. Pads, bustles, paints, cosmeti
and false hair were of no real service
convenience or ornament, and ye
$50, OOO, 600 and the labor Of 200, 900 pee
pie were the annual results. Woma
was straight business. When a wifi
whose husband earns only 500 per wee
can keep a carriage, wear $500 bracelet
and put on a $3.50 sealskin sacque, the ma
who contended that the female sex ha
90 financial abilities had better hang III
!, On A I TRACK in the city of Roch.
ter, on a bitter cold night recently. a r
porter for the Democrat and Chronic
found q carful of immigrants. The a
, was heavy with tobacco smoke and
, score of children scampered down tt
aisle and under the seats. A poor woma
lay on a blanket on the floor with a bal
, not many weeks old She had no foe
: and the railroad men said that the Cast
!. Garden officials had sent her out OF Ne
. York without food. The train men hs
just made up a purse and sent for bres
, and milk, and while she Was eating ths
told the reporter that scores of INN
grants go through from New York
their destination In the West witho,
. eating, and that many Of them have ,
!. friends at the end OF the journey. and
; not know whittier they are going. TIL.
!. brave the horrors Of the middle passa.
ID crossing the ocean,, and when III,