The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-03-17
wMATTHE LADIES SAY.
About the slnnderous Article, Con.
Corning the Portsmouth W. CT. u.

Portsmouth. Va. March l6. 1896.
To Washington Post. Philadelphia Rec
ord, Norfolk Landmark. Norfolk Virgil
man. Portsmouth Star. and all other
papers publishing article headed, "A
New Move In Matrimonial Lines" and
most particularly TO Special" OF Nor
toik, TO the Washington Post:
We can perhaps comprehend how the
press outside of Virginia can Islander
virginia women. but we find 1t mposs!-
pie TO understand how that OF our own
state. yes just think of it9, of our own
native city. can repeat this Islander about
the daughters of Portsmouth belonging
10 the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union.
me statement has been made to the
world. mat the Portsmouth W. c. n. u.
mas instituted a Naples Matrimonial Blu
ieau. IN reply. we assert that the idea
mas had its birth in the very fertile
imagination of that Norfolk Special
whose name we know nos. bu, which we
expect soon to know. We feel certain
ne Is some poor, sour lonely old batch
VINO would like to star, any bureau
That would enable him to get n spn,sn
He has failed. evidently. in every ohio,
way. anu now hopes by this brilliant
eitoft to organize this pairing bureau
over the country 10 help himself and all
other sour, cranky old customers to Oil
Yer Wendell Holmes idea of happiness,
-Four feet on the fender"
MY acar ~ Special" YOU need never
come to Virginia to get Il wife that way
ana especially to Portsmouth. Her
daughters are too womanly to WOO. and
wheh they are chosen, as they Ditch are
20 Ee queens of the home YOU NAV be
quite sure. Special" they have been
tenderiy and lovingly wooed And as TO
es'abiishing your bureau of mateing
-
oetter De economical and make IL a wash
S'ahd; even then. II will serve no pur
pose TO receive Virginia wife and so
utter your vain trial you had better send
IL 10 our Portsmouth Christian Mission.
40 county street, where IL can be of
use 10 some poor homeless one of your
own sex. See how generous we women
can be: S'
There is one very important thing
winch Specials " mama failed TO teach
nihi- DO not think he ever saw tho
MINI commandment, and we are hon
ing he will hunt IL up. and give II so,no
allehiloh. we would also suggest The
same to the Record. Post, Landmark
o'ai hhu all others of the press who re-
Pealed THIS defamatory article.
Before this, slanderers and soss,us
were thonEht to be of the sex feminine
put now, al the ending of the nineteenth
century, IL is the new man who talk AZ
II up anu with Il new method For-
merry, srlnder was behind the screen,
Dehlnd the fam, always behind some
thing; now II Is open, revealed and far
reaching. a tiny whispered word will
not DO the work quickly enough for
inns age OF progress. and so the libclous
proclamation goes forth i'm Il daily ma
per. anu This contemporary takes il up
ana repeats the story to be followed by
another and another, and the sweet.
modest, young girls and women OF
POI tsmOuth Christian Tenpcranca
Union have TO sit down and read these
attacks from those Of their own state
ana cityG0 who should be the ones To
defend them even 10 dying for them, II
heroes they are. as Nirginia's sons have
often proved themselves To be Gentle
men 90 we. the women of The Ports.
mouth w. c. T. u, demand from you a
pubic reiraction, and nothing less will
content us. In His name for truth.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PRESS
WORK OF PORTS. w. C. T. u.