The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-24

tractlve IN general appearance, amiable, and
unaffected. She must be willing to share,
without complaining, the husbands Bohe-
mian existence, which his occupation re-
quires, and able to sew, cook, wash, and
iron, so as to be capable of taking the cook IS
place in camp when in some far-off uninhabit-
able mountainous country he unexpectedly and
threateningly says he swill not cook another
victual unless this here surveying party pays
more money! or something to that effect
She must know how to make up cots and
clean tents. and must not fool with the barom-
eters or the other instruments in camp, not
be too inquisitive in regard to their use,
must be willing to board in log hut, probably
mile or SO from her husband, and not COM
plain if she only has corn bread and bacon to
eat, and also willing to ride on moving day
twenty or thirty miles in blackboard and
carry barometer; must be perfectly fearless of
snakes and other disagreeable varmints, and
never offer suggestions as to a better way of
running camp nor give the cook recipes of
her mothers for new dishes. She must be
able to harness horse and to saddle and un-
saddle an animal when desirous of using one
OF the Government nags She must have no
musical inclinations and be free from gossip
ing. so am afraid one will think the United
States Geological Survey man seeks, as did
the primeval lords of CREATION for the
unobtainable, the ideal woman"
MONEY AND SUBMISSION FOR THE LEGAL BEAU.
An inspiring lawyer writes:
ut would be suicidal for young man nowa-
days to marry unless he had the income of an
Astor. The gilded age in which we live,
the demands for social supremacy among the
women,is so great that man is forced to seek
his club and live in apartment-houses, which
are dotted all over the city, for single gentle
men. Women in the olden time used to love-
honor, and obey their husbands, notwithstand-
ing the peculiar law that the wife's personal
property became her husbands absolutely in
stantly on marriage, and her checks, bonds
and rents were his also, when he realized upon
them. Should she complain or become un-
ruly, she would be brought into submission
with a stick no bigger than his thumb. Then,
again, man had the right to forbid a con-
templated visit from his mother-in-law. One
old writer explained this by saying, 'She (the
wife) may be very amiable, but her connec-
tions may not be so.' With the changes OF
the laWmaking, woman Is freer In thought
In action. She lost all that strong, deep af-
fection for her lord and master, man. The
nineteenth-century idea OF submission is char
acterizec in a paragraph recently published In
weekly journal. The wife, after Irritation
with a former lover, was questioned by her
husband as to her forgetting her marriage
vows she gave at the altar. She replied On
that occasion she was so nervous she did not
know what she was saying.
"Man, in his generosity TO make woman
more OF helpmate and companion, over
stepped his mark, and now the laws are very
strong on the woman's side. She now keeps
her property, and the husband, on marriage,
takes all the debts. Yet man viii marry in
spite OF all, and, for lawyer, he wishes a
woman who cannot argue, whose opinion is
not as strong as 'the twelfth obstinate juror
and one who does not want the last word,
who is skilled in stenography and typewriting,
and who thinks twice before she speaks, for