Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-06

LIE GAZETTE: FURI MURIH,
supreme loneliness of his other femsle
/ characters.
On, women of America rise 10 your
I opportunity. Be no Save 10 pride, or
worldiiness, or Ain. Why ever crawl in
the dust when you can mount 6 throne !?
Be queens unto God forever. Hail
| Vashul
Again: want you to consider Ysshti
the vel ed. Had she appeared before
AnasueruS and his court on thGt day
with her face uncovered she would have
shocked all the del!cacies of Oriental
society, and the very men who In their
intoXlCation demanded that she come,
| in their sober moments would have
despised her. AS some flowers seem to
thrive best in the dark lane and in the
shadow, and where tne sun does not
seem to reach them, so God appoints TO
most womanly natures retiring and ua-
| obtrusIve spirit. God once in while
I does cali an Isabella TO 8 throne, or q
Miriam to strike the timbrel st the front
/ OF 6 host, or Marie AntoiDette to q1ell
q French mob, or a Deborah TO stand at
the front of sn armed battalion, crying
out: "Up! Up! This is the day in which
the Lord will deliver Sisers into thy
J hands" And when women are called to
suc1 outdoor work, Snd to such heroic
! positions, God prepares them for it; and
they have iron in their soul, and light
nings in their eye, and whirlWinds in
their breath, and the borrowed strength
Of the Lord Omnipotent in their right arm.
They walk Though furnsces as though
they were hedges CT wild flowers, and
cross seas IS though they were simmer
ing sapphire, and al the harpies of hell
sink down to their dungeon st the stamp
of their Womsnly indignation. But these
are exceptions. Generally, D0Tcas would
rather make
GARMENT FOR THE POOR
/ boy; Rebeccs would rather fill the trough
for the camels; Hannah would "a her make
coat for Samuel; the Hebrew maid
would rather give q prescription for
Mammals leprosy; the woman of Sarepta
would rather gather few STICKS to cook
meal for fsmished Elijah; Phebe would
rather carry letter for the inspired
| Apostle; Mother Lois would rather edu-
este Timothy in the Scriptures. When
see woman going about her daily duty
with cheerful dignity presiding al the
table; with kind and gentle, but firm dis
cipline presiding in the nursery, going
out into the world without any blast of
trumpets, following in the footsteps Of
Him who went about doing good say {:
"rhis is Vsshti with 8 veil on" But
when l see woman Of unblushing bold
ness, loud-voiced with a tongue Of in
| fl lite clitter-c after, with arrogant look,
passing through the streets with u mas
culine swing, gayly arrayed in q very
hurricane OF millinery, cry out: "Vsshli
| has lost her.yeil When l see woman
struggling for political prefeTment, and
rejecting the duties of home as insignia
cant, and thinking the offices Of wife,
mother and daughter OF no imp 0rtance and
| trying TO force her way on up into con-
! splculty, say: "Ah, what pity; Wash
Il has lost her veil" When see q wo-
man of c0mely features, and Of Gdroitness
of intellect, and endowed with all that
t schools can DC for one, and of high
soclSl position, vet moving in society
with supercilioUsness and hsuteur, as
| though she would have people know their
place, and an undecided combination Of
giggle, and strut, and rodomootade, en-
dowed with allopathic quantities OF talk
but only homeopathic 1nfnitesimsls OF
sense, the terror Of dry goods clerks and
railroad conductors, discoVerers OK sig
nificsnt mesninga IN pain conversation,
prodigies of badness and innuendo-I
say: "Vashti has lost her veil"
But do not misinterpret what say into
: depreciation OF the work Of those gIor-
lous and divinely called women who will
not be understood till after they are dead,
women like Susan B. Anthony, who are
giving their life for the betterment of the
condition of their sex. Those of you who
think that women have under the laws of
this country an equal chance with men
are ignorant of the laws. A gentleman
writes me from Maryland saying: "Take
the laws of this state. A man and wife
start out in life full of hope in every re-
spect; by their pint efforts, and as is fire.
quently the case, through the economic
ideas of the wife succeed in accum ulating
5 fortune, but they have no children;
they
REACH OLD ACE
together and then the husband dies
What does the law of this state do then?
II says to the widow, hands off your late
husbands property; do no. touch it; he
state will find others to whom IL will give
tu1t uub gOuS VIC nIuOnf ulu5b uOb lOGCu
It, only SO much as will keep life within
your aged body, that you may live to see
those others enjoy what rightfully should
be your own" And the state seeks the
relatives of the deceased husband,
whether they be near or far, whether they
were ever heard OF before or not, and
transfers to them, singly or collectively,
the estate OF the deceased husband and
living widow.
Now, that is specimen of unjust laws
in all the states concerning womeuhood.
Instead of flying of to the discussion as
to whether or not the giving Of the right
of voting to woman will correct these
laws, let me say to men, be gallant
enough, and fair enough, and honest
enough, and righteous enough, and God
loving enough to correct these wrongs
against women by your own masculine
vote. Do not wait for woman suffrage
TO come, if it ever does come, but SO far
as you can touch bsllot-ooxes, and Legis-
latures, and Congresses begin the refor-
nation. But until justice is done to your
sex by the laws Of all the states, and Wo.
men of America take the platform and