The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-11
Is UP ON HER EAR
NANCY YANKS JUMPS ON The
MEN WITH BOTH FEET,
Begins by Flaying the Male Sex Up
One Side and Down the Other and
Ends With an EncOmium on
Mrs. Lease-Social Fuuc-
tionS During the Week.

Are there women foolish enough to be
lieve that men really have their mental
advancement At heart?
They are willing that A woman should
advance SO far as to possess pretty ac-
complishments, play little, embroider as
beautifully as she may, since he doesn't
care to compete with her 10 that line,
paint little placques, cups and saucers,
little things that do not require real
artists skill; and sing in a weak parlor
soprano.
That far shall she go andino farther?
The moment she enters his domain, and
shows that she has enough brain power
to deal with learned questions and political
issues, what does he do? He doesn't
tear her into small pieces as the ancients
did Hypatia because she dared to be
learned but be revenges himself in Il way
perhaps, as complete.
He tears her reputation into shreds.
''She is crank" be says. ''lf she were
the right kind of woman she would be at
home with her children
with her children" "At home" 1"
Sweet words, children and home Yet one
might grow "A little weary with too much
of any good thing.
While man lives a broad, free, indepep-
dent life in the great, wide, beautiful
world, that is so full of light and humor
and sweetness; woman must sit by
her fireside aud rock the cradle
grooming into lullabies All her unutterabIe
longlngs, and stitching into her embroid-
cry the bitter regrets, disappojntmeuts
sorrows and tears of her narrow lie: nurs-
ing, III the twilight OF half darkened
rooms, shadows of the past that should
he diSpelled by the sunshine OF the world;
the gay, laughing. rollcking world.
Man lives upon idolatry. He must be
worshiped by somebody. And, until
woman's intellect developed, she supplied
well the place of worshiper. She kept the
sacred precincts of his tabernacle holy, and
the candle burning brightly upon
the altar. He would have been glad
to keep her thus, whatever be
says To the contrary. If he could, he
would keep her, intellectually, on IA par
with the inmates of a Turkish harem who
sit upon divaus all the day long, doins
nothing, thinking of nothing but the
wishes of their lord, and rising. only to
fail on their faces before him utteriDg
low-toned salaams to their ail-worshipful
master; or he would make her a beast of
burden, as they do i'll some European
countries, yoking her to the carts along
with the dogs and the exen.
Some OF US remember our school days
when, If we happened to go the head of
the class, the boys cried:
Look at her, Don't she think she is
smart ?"
ed US for being smart" by leaving us out
of their games and turning he cold shout
der to US, until we weDt scalding and bitter
tears.
Often we failed in our lessons purposely
so that they could "go ahead and smile
on us once again-and some of US are like
that vet. We would rather bask in the
sunshine of some poor foolish mans favor
than be the smarbest woman in the world,
Tor they haven changed a particle since
they were boys. They ostracize woman
quite as promptly now as they did then if
she dares to be too smart. just now they
are trying to ostracise our Mary Ellen, but
We won't allow it. They may ill their
columns with comments on her when news
Is scarce, but when IL comes to question
Of her character we rise TO demonstrate
Does not her very appearance refute the
charge?
Think you that those small and piercing
eyes, could fire and glance and melt under
loves warm rays, until those thin eyelids
but sparsely fringed with lashes, drooped
over them?
Hardly.
Was that long, thin, narrow and in
flexible mouth made for kissing and the
utterance OF soft nothings dear to lovers
hearts.
Ask Lewelling.
Lives there the man whose soul Quakes
not at the thought of clasping that gaunt,
spare, majestic figure in his arms even
Tor one brief moment?
DO men in general become enamored of
Their grandmothers? And how could she
possibly Weaver spells about him when his
wife was always around?
Base calumny! Ingratitude worthy of
Iopulistsl And to think she lodged de
cayed eggs all through the southern states
for thlsl However we will stand by her,
because she belongs in our collection or
curios-sbe and PETER, LewelIing, Jerry
Simpson and few others.
She is one of the oldest and best pre-.
served specimens we have