Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-01-19
NELLE-BUR.
ATrue Story

vine theory is all very well for those who like it,
but it is poor rule that won't work both ways,
and good story comes to us that fully illustrates
that point. With the poet we feel like saying
"NIan wants to be the sturdy oak and also do the
cnging," An intellectual young women of unu-
sual ability and determination married young
man in the same village some five years ago Her
people were well-to-do farmers, and she was
teacher. The young couple went to housekeeping
for time, but finally he became dissatisfied and
determined to study law Her parents were ouly
too glad to have her home once more so they made
no objections to the husbands plans.
She commenced teaching school and after buy
ing her horse and carriage with her earnings, so
she could drive back and forth to her school, some
miles distant, she paid her husbands board in a
neighboring city so he could study law. She is
also studying Blackstone by herself, and unless the
young man looks well to his laurels she will be the
better lawyer of the two.
She is an enthusiastic worker in the temperance
cause and equal suffrage work, and thinks for her.
self, but her husband does not believe it is wom-
ans sphere to enter the political world OF course
1t would degrade woman to enter the filthy pool
of politics, but to teach school and help her hus-
band thereby so he can study law, is perfectly
proper and in her sphere
Consistency, where art thou? Thy name is
Man, in this case surely.
This same young man was heard to remark quite
recently abouut spirited girl of his acquaintance:
elf Nell D. don't stoo preaching woman suffrage
and prohibition pretty soon, she will have to be an
old maid all the days of her life. No fellow will
have her.
What pity it is there isn't some dear cnging
vine like him for her to cling to-
CARRIE M. ASHTON.
ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.
The foowing is an extract from Mrs. Stantons
speech delivered before the Woman's Suffrage
Convention recently held in Omaha, Neb.:
"Thus far we have had dstinctively masculine
civilization based on the idea that society is con-
structed for the best interests of man alone. As
he has been the dominant power thus far during
the reign of physical force he has naturally in all his
arrangements consulted his own tastes and incli-
nations, Our best legal authorities from Black
stone down to Kent and Story, all take the ground
that man and woman are not to be Judged by the
same moral CODE This idea runs through all our
laws and judicial decisions in all cases in which
man and woman as plaintiff and defendant appear
IN our courts, and the popular sentiment in society
life reflect those decisions.
"Many jurists says Kent, VOL 2, page 88, are
of opinion that infdelity of the husband ought
not to be noticed or made the subject to the same
animadyersions as that of the wife, because it is
not evidence of such entire depravity, nor equally
injurious in its effect upon the morals, good order
and happiness of domestic life. Montesqueu,
Pother and DR.. Taylor, all insist that the cases of
husband and wife ought to be distinguished, and
that the violation Of the marriage law on the part
of the wife, is the most mischievous and the pros
ecuton ought to be confined to the offense on her
part elements of Civil Laws, page 254.) Lecky,
in his History of European Morals, says, Vol. 2,
page 283; There has risen in society figure which
is certainly the most mournful, and in some re-
spects the most awful upon which the eye of the
moralst can dwell. That unhappy being who is
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