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added that be is always satisfied with the 'hnt."
just let woman show disposition to get be-
You'd the hint in daring, and the man at once i'm
AGNES his kingdom invaded, talks loudly of the
sacredness of personal liberty" discourses
auently upon "spheres," which he declares are
"God appointed" but proceeds himself to survey
and stake off their boundaries then when some
poor woman endowed with little more than the
hint of daring gets beyond his stakes, he shouts
"Shoo! shoe! get back over, quick you are out
of your sphere. You will be unsexed" She
poor creature, frightened at the big noise, IN NOR
tai terror of some dreaded fracture or amputation
cackles and hops back in, while he mounts the
nearest stake of his own planting and Crows Let
him crow, it sounds well and expands his lungs;
but the women in this age are learning to survey
and drives stakes too, and ere long they will claim
the privilege of fixing the boundary lines of their
own field Of action in world which the Divine
Creator evidently intended alike for all bis people
KATE FIELDS Washington comes to us bringing
municaton from E. NJ. NJ, on "The Cease
less Struggle of Sex" In speaking of the great
gulf separating men and women he says:
"What is the chasm separating labor and capital
in comparison? l can say, with clear conscience,
that no two men of different race, position and
education are as far apart as the average men and
women, even though they be the children of the
same parents. The fairly intelligent workngman
finds that his doctor, his lawyer, his clergyman,
his employer, have much in common with him.
Their interests may conflict; but each has, at all
events some dim understanding of the others
position. In fact, they speak the same language.
Not so men and women. Barriers intangible, but
rigid, rise between them and the shield which is
as gold to the one, shines but silver for the other
If by chance they are agreed on any given sub
iect you will generally find that they view it from
entirely different standpoints This is especially
true as regards legislation The husband advo-
Gates the closing of stores and offices on Sunday
because he thinks that the public health demands
the one day OF rest after six of toll; the wife be-
cause she is of the opinion that law enforced
amongst the Jews four thousand years ago should
QOlQ gOOu lOT all onu VnO DiplO says oo'
The husband favors suffrage because justice de-
mands that, as an intelligent human being,
woman should have voice in the government I'M
der which she and her children live; whereas the
wife, with small sense of the eternal vertes prays
for the vote, having in view only the triumph of
the Woman's Christian Temperance Union"
There is much truth in this, but no doubt we
would differ largely in discussing the cause From
the general tone of the article, it is evident that
E. M. M. would contend that the cause is owing
to constitutional characteristic of the SEX while
we contend that it is educational and the effect Of
thousands of years of suppression. Man reasons
from his standpoint, because he has voice (even
in the nations where he has no vote), and has been
called upon to reason and discuss remedies, while
women have ever been obliged to suffer the effects