The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1886-08-20
What Florence Says.

FAseSS - AOAChSO
New Orleans States.
Florence Marryatt; tue novelist,
says a woman should never miss an
opportunity "to sit on IL man." We
can inform Florence confidentially
that there are thousands of married
men who are willing to testify to
the fact that the gentler sex know
how aud manage TO run things to
suit themselves and there is no good
reason why she should chip in aud
endeav0r to cause more tr0noIe.
Such advice as she is now attempt
ing to give is dangerous. 1t is
going to result in men, who have
been sat upon by their wives SO
often that they are hollow-eyed and
hump-backed, banding themselves
together for mutual protection, aud
adopting the Oriental plan to make
home happy. The Oriental plan is
is good one, and by the light of
Moses IT the women cOntinUe to
lift their hands to oppress mankind
and make him feel that he would
rather be goat and eat brown
paper and exist under the CALLING
yoke, it will be adopted aud en-.
forced. What IS the right of free
born American to vote and hurrah
at primary elections worth when
he is compelled to be guilty OF the
contemplate act every time he
stays out later than ten o'clock, of
telling his wife he was at the bed
side of a dying friend, to prevent
her remaining awake the remainder
of the night aud telling him that
he is the meanest and most WORTH
less white man that has been in the
country since the time of Columbus.
What sense is there in being a lord
OF creation when man has to in
jure his digestive organs aud spoil
his appetite for dinner by eating
cloves and lemon peeIs and parched
coffee just to keep his vile off the
temperance platform and himself
out of trouble.
In Persia, "a man is man in the
full sense of the word. He is no
slave, no lean and weary minion
who prowls home at eventide with
IL bag of bananas in one hand and
il scared look iu his nervous eyes.
Not much. He is master-a reg.
ular Jim-dandy, whose hand it is an
honor to grasp, and whose wife is a
comfort and joy. She sits at the
feet of her husband and never
chips, noble creature, but silently
darns his socks, and Yields the rents
in his pants caused by his coming
home loaded and falling through
the bottom of them in a wild ef-
tort to get upstairs. When she has
performed her work he shows his
gratitude by allowing her the priv.
ilege OF kissing the thumb of his
right hand, and then locking her
up in a hole iu the house reserved
especially for her comfort, puts the
key in his pocket and goes out to
see the boys. This is the way
man and wife got along together in
Persia, and there is no clashing, no
lClH lHpCSluOuo luJctNicNo anu idliluS
crOckery heard in the household.
1t is truly a home, sweet home in
which the wife enjoys the society
of her husband when she sees him.
If she does not, she stays in the
hole and trouble is happily avoided
aud matters run smooth.
The Persian style of making
luxury is likely to be-
come popular in this aud and other
countries unless such mischievOus
and garrulous old girls as Florence
Marryatt are severely muzzled.
however, need have any
fear of being placed in a hole. Her
angular aud bony form precludes
,he possibility of her being granted
he privilege of kissing her mascu-
ine thumb, aud il she ever coaxes
! man near enough to her to sit OH
lim, it will be one that is stuffed
With straw.