Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-07-19


Mothers stood on the sidewalk with little babies
in their arms and waved handkerchiefs as they
marched out of the mission, and as the long line
disappeared around the corner they turned away
to their wretched homes, thinking doubtless that
there would be homecoming again from the
brightness and sunshine to which their little faces
were turned HARYoT Holt
Warming-Pans and MoIasses-Dippers.
From the Boston Herald
Grant Aliens opinion about women, and their
intended use and place in the world, reminds us of
the old story of the man more versed in copper
ware than in physical geography, who was advised
by waggish friend to send shipload of warming
pans to Cuba, and who, much to the amusement
of wag and kindred friends, accepted the advice
and shipped the pans When the long-handled
vessels arrived in Cuba, the natives, never having
seen or heard of warming-pan, and not once
dreaming that these copper affairs so conveniently
made were not gotten up expressly to meet
''long felt' Cuban want, hailed them with delight
as perfect moasses-dippers.
Now supposing some Grant Allen had appeared
on Cuban soil, and insisted that those vessels
should not be used for molasses dppers, because,
forsooth, they had been made and 'told off, for
warming-pans; would not these Cubans, if they
are at all philosophical sensible have said it was
well enough 10 use the vessels for warming-pans
where warmlng-pans were needed, and where they
could be used for nothing else, but in Cuba, where
nothing warming was needed, and molasses clippers
were, it was good thing to use them for the latter
purpose? And is it not very possible that when the
manufacturer found out that his stock could be
used for either warmingpans or molasses-d clippers,
he found no fault with its being made useful and
meeting its highest purpose as either OF these
things? Is it not equally possible that some one,
who thought he knew all about the matter, should
90 on insisting that those long-handled vessels
were 'out of their sphere" as molasses-dippers,
having been chosen from the beginning to warm
beds? Suppose again that, for some reason, some
thing in their general makeup, some of these YES
sells would make poor and Indifferent warming
pans, but, exactly on account OF their peculiar
make, would be all the better molasses-d clippers,
would the opinion of any Grant Allen that the
whole class of these vessels were originally intended
for warming-pans make it sensible to force them
into that use, thus spelling both pan and dlpper!
Mr.. Allen declares that women are "told OF"
for the reproduction of the race; but there are
many women who, however grand thing they
NAV consider wifehood and motherhood, cannot be
wives or mothers and do right Some are pre-
vented by hereditary diseases which they know
Turk in their systems, and which they cannot ri ht-
ly transmit Others are kept till youth, perhaps
health Also is gone, beside their parents, or an in
valid brother, sister, or friend, and then find
themselves unable TO marry. What shall these do
Are they wrong or unwise in being molasses-dp-
pers, since the state of warming-pan was denied
them?
Again, there are women who do not care for
marriage. They are in the minority, and perhaps