The Brookhaven leader., 1884-02-28
The Influence Of Woman.


az hold heah letter." said the Presi-
dent of the Lime Kiln Club, as the meet
ing opened, "axin' dis club TO report its
observation on de inflooence of de fe-
male sex on liberty, polyticks, art,
progress and bizness. Brother Bebee,
what do you know of the inhooence of
females on de matter of liberty?"
Brother Bebee replied that he had OF
late years observed 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 liberty was a persimmon on
the highest limb of tall tree. To-day
it was pumpkin which anybody could
roll along the ground. Everybody
breathed il, ate it and walked arm-in-
arm with It, and the masses could no
more be deprived OF liberty than bob
tailedcows could take the first premium
at the State Fair.
"Brudder Pickles Smith, what do
you know of de infiooence of the fe-
male sex on pollyticks?" asked the
President.
Brother Smith replied that he knew
of several wives in his neighborhood
who bossed their husband s votes. He
could also recall three or four cases
wherein women had exercised power
full influence after their husbands got
home from convention.
''Brudder Penstock, has you noticed
any pertickler inflooence of de female
sex on de matter of art?" asked the
President
Brother Penstock had. Such n thing
as making an old, yellow, four-ga Ion
jug thing of beauty and parlor or
nament would never have been thought
of but for the gentler sex. A man would
pass an old tomato can in the back yard
n hundred times a day without second
look. A woman would seize upon it at
the first opportunity and transform it
into Grecian vase of exquisite beauty.
Twenty years ago an omnibus with a
Landscape on the side would be followed
around the streets by crowd. To-day
six gallon crock, to be used as an UNI
brella-holder, with view of the lo-
semitic painted all around it in nine diff
ferent colors, could be drawn all over
the city on hand-sled without exciting
remark. Art had become part of our
everyday lives. A stout woman couldn't
even fall down an an icy corner with
out displaying more or less genuine tai
ent for the artistic.
"Brudder Pullback, has you noticed
any partickler inflooence of women or
de matter of progress?" inquired Broth
er Gardner.
Pullback thought he had. WOmer
had discovered most of the comets pro
jected the grandest bridges, engineered
the greatest tunnels and wrested thu
most secrets from science. If it hadn
been for the progressive ideas ofwomen
stage coaches would yet be running be
tween New York and Chicago.
Judge Cadaver was asked what influ
ence women had on business, and he
drew long breath and re lied that i
it wasn't for the female sex the bushes.
of the world would drop onc-half;- on
dry-goods store in city could supply
all the men, but the women supported
two or three hundred of them. Womer
not only maintained business, but es
tablished new manufactures. For in
stance the decoration of female hosiery
gave employment to 5000 persons the
wear round. 1t was all out of sight ant
utterly useless, but it circulated millions
of dollars. Pads, bustles, paints, cos
metcs and false hair were of no rea
service, convenience or ornament, anC
vet $50, 100000 and the labor of 10000
people were the annual results. WO
man was straight business When {
wife whose husband earns only S25 pei
week can keep carriage, wear $10(
bracelets and put on $3.50 sealskr
sacque, the man who contended tha
the female sex had no financial abilities
had better hang up.-DctroU Free Press