Middletown transcript., 1896-03-28

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position. Of all the shrill complainers
thas vex the ears Of mortals there are
none SO foolish as the women who have
discovered that the Founders of our
Republic left their work half finished,
and that the better half remains for
them to do. While more practical and
sensible women are trying to put their
kitchens, nurseries and drawing rooms
in order, and to clothe themselves ra-
tionally, this class of discontents are
dabbling in the glavest National and
economic questions. Possessed by
restless discomfort with their appointed
sphere and its duties. and forcing them
selves to the front in order to ventilate
their theories and show the quality of
their brains, they demand the right of
suffrage as the symbol and guarantee
of all other rights.
This is their cardinal point, though
it naturally follows that the right to
elect contains the right to be elected.
If this result be gained, even women
whose minds are not taken up with the
things of the state, but who are simply
housewives and mothers, may easily
predicate few of such resu is as are
particularly plain to the feminine in-
tellect and observation. The first of
these would be an entirely new set of
agltators, who would use means quite
foreign to male intelligence. For in
stance every favOrite priest and preacher
would gain enormously in influence
and pow er; for the ecclesiast ical zeal
which now expends itself in fairs and
testimonials would then expend itself
in the securing of votes in whatever
direction they we're instructed to Sc
cure them. 1t might even end in the
introduction of the clerical element
into our great political council cham
bers-the bishops in the House of Lords
would be sufficient precedent-and a
great many women would really believe
that the charming rhetoric of the pulpit
would infuse higher tone in legisla-
tive assemblies Amelie E. Barr.
The restless spirit of the age that
seems to have taken possession of old
and young alike in horribly wearing to
one who was brought up to believe in
staid institutions, almost immovable
chairs, pictures and tables IN house
that stood for years and years in the
same spot, and the potency of the axiom
that rolling stone gathers no moss.
Though time has educated us to a |
more liberal view, as far as the fur.
nishings of the house is concerned, we
cannot become accustomed to the case
with which pc ople gather up the house |
hold goods, and decamp perhaps to an
abode only two doors away. We heard |
but recently of young couple who
have lived in four different houses in
two years. The latest change is to be |
made to house with porch for the |
sake Of the baby; probably after Il Q
baby fails off the porch a few times |
they will move to tent, also for the |
sake of the baby.
1t seems perfectly horrible that you
can hire house from month to month. |
A years. lease is bad enough, but this
month to month existence must de-
stroy all home feeling. How can you
get to loveyo surroundings when they |
don't surround you long enough for
you to know or care whether you are
in Philadelphia or Greenland An old |
saying probably originated by some
thriftless individuals, is that "It is
cheape to move than to pay rent"
Well, even that is fallacy. You have
to pay to move, and surely it does not |
do your belongings any good to be
dragged hither and you, subject to he |
rough handling of men who do not |
care w lether it is mirror or a feather |
bed they throw on the sidewalk.
Where does ambition have a chance
for growth in these frequent transi-
tions? Husband and wife ought to live
in their own home, bought by their
savings, if possible, if not their own,
at least as much as yearly renewed
lease can make it. This is the only
way individuality can stamp itself on
environment. What comforti there in
thinking of home that means dozen
different houses? Such life is shift
less," to use good old new England
term, and it is to lie regretted that
there are features of nineteenth GEN.
tury enterprise that bring it so easily
within reach.
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RECIPES.
uickory-nut macaroons.-One cup
nuts, powdered in mortar; one cup
sugar, whites of two eggs, two table