The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1892-01-19
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A WRONG TO WOMANHOOD.

A WRONG 10 WOMANHOOD.
A singular instance Of wOmanly de-
votion to a brutal husband has come
to light in New York.
A man named Qusckenbush, wcoed
won and married good little woman,
who bore him four children.
The man belonged to fine family,
was we'll. educated, but possessed a
disposition which at times was 6end-
like. He was in the habit Of beating
his wife for the most trivial causes aud
constantly threatened her life. Now
and then by way of pastime he would
open q closet door, wherein her ward
robe hung, and.with arevolver would
shoot through. her bonnet or jackets
with playful wishes that bis wife were
inside of them. He at one time
broke large mirror over
her head and for a
pleasant break in the monotony would
maize her get down on her knees and
repeat set of rules which he h ID out
lined for her conduct.
He had plenty of money. but his
wife aud children we're kept n pow
erty.
It was all very funny ,until-welI,
one day, he tired of the routine and
shot bis wife and the poor woman
now lies at a hospital with a bullet
embedded in her head and her four
helpless little children are being look
ed after by strangers.
OF this latt incident In the career
Of the Quackenbushes, there is one
ray of sunshine, however, the brutal
husband, after shooting his wife, shot
himself and thus rid the world of a
monster as vel as saved the electro
cutionist an engagement.
The question in connection with the
above is, by what law of heaven and
earth is a woman obliged to endure
such treatment as that accorded by
Quackenbush to his wife !?
The divorce question is one which
has been discussed pro and con and
certainly there is not much to be said
in its favor when it is the foundation
upon which the marriage of conve-
nience, or gain. or mere passion is
based and which takes no heed of
"until death do Us plrl' other than
as a pretty sentiment which is better
carried out BY the breach than the
observance.
But with the above illustration of
woman's forbearauce is there not q
weakness which q woman should get
rid of. No woman is enough under
Obligations to a mau 10 bear brutal
treatment at bis hands. She has the
right of any individual 10 project her.
self. When he promises at Gods
holy altar to care for her under all
conditions, morally, she is rele, !
from her obligations when the mans
promise is not fulfilled. Not,
in the sense that she is to be untrue
to her marriage vows, not that che is
to neglect her obligations as a home
keeper, or the teacher Of her children,
but she should rise superior to bru-
tality and, if too we,k in her own per-
son to protect herself, shonld appeal
to The law.
There is something Of the dog ma
ture in a woman, when she heals the
wounds of the lash with tears and
takes up her burden again without
protest, and it belongs to the day
when to be q woman, meant to be q
slave. There is nothing admirable in
such slavery and there is
wrong against justice, against the
higher instincts Of womanhood,
against wifehood and against God
Himself, who created woman from
the heart of Adam. not from beneath
his feet.