Blue-grass blade., 1892-02-06

you occupy with regard to matrl-1
mony, 1 assume to address you as
Madam, not merely because, un-]
der the circumstances, the code
requires it, but because the tone
of your letter shows you TO possess
those traits that are absolutely
irresistible to the masculine heart
| With your permission will dit
rect part of my reply to you and
then dropping the second persos i
l will assume the third, and crav35
your indulgence while 1 use your
particular case as the basis of some
incongruvial remarks that shall
direct to the world in general, and
which you may fatter yoursel
will be read, with more or less irI
terest from the frosts Of Michigff[
ard Massachusetts, to the f,wefI
Of Florida and California.
I do not know exactly wha(
constitutes "sacrilege," but you]
language indicates that you regard
it as something wicked.
| am sorry that my paper had
been the occasion of your doinl
violence to your conscience in th
| first place, and more sorry t5
you have persisted inr it fiof eq1lIf {
weeks subsequent. l hope you;i
will not continue to do 30. |,
Please allow me to su ggest to I
you that you have inadvertently
confounded the prerogatives OF
Mayor and those of a policeman,
Ahram S Hewitt as Mayor ot
New York aud my distinguished
kinsman. Carter Harrison. as
Mayor of Chicago, have not felt
themselves specially called upon tb
be leading around drunken men,
In the smaller towns, of Ken
lucky for instance, in such places
as Lexington, Paris, Somerset and
Frankfort, we have reports Of
May ors being found in such con-
dition as that they themselves had
to be led to "places of security
but l have never known one of
them to attempt so hazardous a
feat as to try to lead anybody
else that was drunk.
Your favOrite mode of ratioci-
nation seems to be the ''argunaen-
tum ad hominem. like it. There
is a directness about it that econ
omises printers ink.
The Mayor of Somerset, is a
man opposed to Woman Suffrage.
The Mayor of Kiowa, Iowa, is a
woman and in favor of Woman
Suffrage. The Mayor of Kiowa
has lately distinguished herself by
having all the liquor in all the ga
looms in her town poured into the
streets, and having the saloon
doors nailed up. The Mayor ofI
Somerset is now in Jail for having
attempted nameless outrage upon
an insane lady put into his official
care.
l hope it will be no Offense to
suggest to you that you would try to
overcome your aversion to women 4
mayors, if you had to be put
either in the official care
of the Mayor of Kiowa
or in that of the one of Somerset,
and were left to make your
choice.
You very properly suggest that
"women have their own sphere in
life." My friend, the lamented
"Artemus Ward" heartily agreed
with you, and was accustomed to
say that he "liked to see woman
in her proper spear"
Many men and even women
have made the same remark; but
the sentiment as to what cOnsti-
tutes the "proper spear" of women
is not now 80 uniform as it was
some years since.
Your suggestion that l should
"put aside the attempt of being
an editor, and study until | am
capable of talking" while perhaps
not couched in language 80
melifuous as that of my friend
James Lane Allen, is, nevertheless,
a point we'll taken, and sugges-I