The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1885-10-15

DEAR SISTERS Of this corner Of the
JoURNAL:-I often wish I had more
time 10 come among you. I see much
la your corner that I would like a
word ion. There are so many short
sighted people in this world was
thinking OF that poor "Wife" who
does not see where woman has un-
equal rights with these Lords Of
Creation I was Just wondering II
that Wife" ever stopped II think if
it might ever be necessary for one of
her daughters 10 Ice placed, as many
women Of the present day are placed
at the head Of family with little
children Ia support tu be- SO situated
that she must earn a living for her
sell; would That Wife thea argue
with me that % would be more we
anly for her daughter 90 mike her
living, buiir;ing bread and battling
dust at two dollars "a week In some
bOdy's hot kitchen. while your son.
10y different course of education.
which the girl was rs capable Of TAX
ing, a. earning a living in broad
cloth aud a carriage. ~ a LAWYER or A |
doctor 10 Is just as necessary for a I
girl TO work ~ a boy and let me tell /
you, mothers. 81 you will give your /
girls the same business education YOU 1
give your boys. thus enabling them To /
earn theft own living. instead OF 4
making companions Of these woman /
Is things, the dust brush and cook-
ing stove. while waiting for that mus
pective man, YOU will see fewer un-
happy marriages, fewer pale-faced
"l-iun 't-sart-if-I-live at-allH wives
The idea D. certainly very erroneous
that Il l. womhniy" for poof vo-
man, let with a family OF little child
ren 10 SUPPORT, 90 do so at the wash
tub or clnking stove, at fify cents or
one dollar n day, while her brother
Rs lawyer, Doctor, book keei,er. or
az any employment OF which "A man
and woman are alike capable, Is earn
ing from ifty % two hundred ,loIInrs
. month. Now will these uuthink-
ing wives tell uip? Has the woman
her rights who has to wash Ia SIM.
port and rlOthe herself aud childr,n
while the husband drinks un and
spends az the gambling table. tbe
house or farm that she has lrbored
with him for years % earns Rnt
that house has a had md that llro-
feoty l. all his. All his wif,-is labor
for ears Is his, and he mas ,.,lr h
down in whisky. and what t,nwer
has the wife a. save a cent? J KNOW ,
\ wOnisu who live,i and wurkef with
her husband for fifteen YEAR. they
had bui little 20 isiart with The
utie's money from her father Amer {
. good farm was cleared of debt. the
husband said. Eve will not ,rurk 80
hard any longer, VIII ~ The farm
and 90 into business in town. The
iarm was sold, aud the husband pul
eight thousand dollars in his t,ckei
anu said Vow you nisv rnl /
never cared f'r y0u. boz 7 needed
some one 10 help me eaFu munev.n
Anu that was just the share that NO.
ihah got tor All those years &c lallnr. I
ana sue y to-day earning living
with the dust brush and cooking {
stove al Two dollars aud iing cents "a
week. Now iias that woman ber
rights show me. n you can an,
law by which she ruuid nbisin tha,,,
In the good did bible DAYS VII m man
provided against change snd -i,,rfu =,
lur his wife and family, ID might 40 :
Tor a wife Ca keep silence IA tie I
church and learn ~ her husband - I
But thnse nid lessons and mFxirrfs IF :
ages pEst viii 40 more nt the present ! =
lime thrn would the old pstrianslial
rubes the husbands 81 q dav. One a
hing TINT surely puzzles nty brain. n
she wife has the washing. taking B
lou sewing very elevutimg and pleas-
INT duties e. irhnlV OCCUPY a wniran's
mind. and lunkiuu after tl,e title
'ues, blesse'i sunshine ih il's drtary
'ound. bat she must not nrsltrt these %
iCiies 90 81 90 tie polk. The mus i
and must pillow snd saw feed cattle
nd sWine-how Is Il he can 20 and J.
,oie without negiecting a duty +? i
low can he 20 % town day after day n
nd talk politicsR You see he keens a d
Tired man? Well. wife, keep hired
sri. You should have as much in !"
eresi IN the men who are elected 10 g
1ake laws tn spread opeu The Il
aloons, or shut the temptation away 8