The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-03-23
BILE ARR is Ar WORK.
His wife Keeps Him Busy TO Help
. His Tsheumatism--A Lecture on
woman's Rights and Wrongs.

"Omahs EtShtS anu wrongs. g
i i like to work when feel like It.
but my wife likes for me to work wher
she feels like IL, and 50 between the
two have to work nearly all the time
Yesterday was grunting around with
rheumatism, but she took notion
that 1t was q good day to take the We.
randall trellis down and clean away all
ths old dead vines, and thought ii
/ would help me to get warmed up by
exercise-and 1t did She knows--she
has heard me try to play off ON grippe
and rheumatics before--you can't fool
the woman you have been living With
forty-eight years-so got the ladder
and climbed up to the top and cut
away the tang led web and trimmed
the running rosevines and the wisteria
and Virginia creeper and then tore
away the old canes and cleaned up all
the trash and burned it. II was u big
| job for the verandah is fifty feet long
ana l had to move the old rickety lad
der q dozen times-seyeral times L
got sorter dizzy and liked to have
fallen, but my folks don't believe am
as old as / am, and they never will be-
lieve it until break my arm, or my
leg, or my neck. Then reckon they
will be sorry.
q man never grows old to his own
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servant. The servant knows him too
well, and just SO my wife won't admit
that am too old to be useful, and she
keeps me trotting around. She gives me
precepts aud examples, for she is never
idle--makes UP the bed, cleans up her
room, puts out the washing and dis
tributes 1t when 1t comes in, mends my
clothes, darns my stockings, sews on
tho missing buttons, hides my best
pants to keep. me from working in
them and scOlds nae ever and anon,
about my carelessness. She keeps on
making little garments for the grand
children and still finds time to boss me
In the flower garden and go to the
missionary meeting, and writes letters
To the boys. She never reads until
almost bedtime, but next morning can
tell us all the news worth knowing,
and has her opinions about Cleveland
and Mckinley and Lyman Abbott and
DR.. Broughton and female suffrage. |
read to her the recent vote in parliar
ment about that and asked her what
she thought of 1T. "Well," said she,
don't care to vote, of course don't,
but Ii female suffrage will lessen
female SUFFRAGE hope it will pass.
1t makes my heart bleed to read about
these heartless men deceiving and be-
traying foolish young girls who trusted
them-what "a pitiful scene IL was
that ruined girl following that man
and his bride into the parlor cars in
Atlanta, and in her presence upbraid-
ing him with his infamy. And just
look around all over this country at
the young married women who have
been abandoned by their unprincipled
husbands, and now have to work and
toll and almost beg for living for
themselves and their little ones. II a
jury of women could try these deceiv-
ers and these faithless husbands they
would be sent to the chaingang, where
they belong. If a young man embez-
zles some rich mans money and runs
away, the judge and the grand jury
and the newspapers make an awful'fuss
about 1t and send kilograms all over
the country to catch him, but IL he
ruins woman and breaks her heart
and makes q wreck of her life it is
hushed up and nothing is done. L am
not woman's-rights w0man. She has
rights enough, but there ought to be
some way of avenging her wrongs"
That is fact, and my opinion is
that her wrongs never will be avenged
until she is not only empowered to
vote, but also to hold Office in school
rooms and in the government of the
towns and villages. The age of gall
iantry and chivalry toward women has
passed. This is the unfeeling age, and
woman has to shift,for herself. Thirty
years ago she worked at seventeen
occupations, and now at 130, and gcts
about half price for her labor--half
the price that the men get who do it
no better. / am ashamed of my sex,
and [ never buy shirt for so cents
but what remember that a poor wo-
man made it-made 1t In some garrett -
uOrka6 oil dau anH Y,art nf tho ;nhk
with fingers weary and worn
With eyelids heavy and red.''
And yet these lords of creation pre-
tend that If woman is allowed to vote
she will get down in the slums and lose
her purity. She is down in the slums
now and would get out IL she could.
know women who are at work for less
than dollar o day and have to support
themselves and their little children
out of it, while their rich employers
sit high up in the churches and say
amen and amen to the preachers pray
ers. know women, good women, ac-
complished women, whom men have
ruined by neglect or abandonment, and
all they can do is suffer and be silent.
| know women whose unprincipled
husbands have been breaking their
marriage vows ever since they, made
onoh, anu otiIl tuoy pass auu r9paSS Ia
the community as gentlemen. But
this Is the same old story-who cares
Now it is said that although the wo-
mans suffrage bill has passed the
house OF commons by large majority,
1t will be ignonimously killed ia the
house OF lords--why / should like to
know The lords are not senate
whose age and dignity might correct
hasty or unwise legislation, but they
are pampered purse-proud nobility.
The Lost OF them are and many Of them
have as many wives as Brigham Young
ever did. But the time Is near at
hand when women will be enfranchis-
ed In more ways than one. The laws
OF marriage and divorce are better In
England now than ours. They are
governed by the church--by the &C.
clesiastical courts. it takes no little
time TO get married. The matter is
considered and discussed openly and
| freely before an engagement Is made.
1t must be union thatis tito be made
and the bans must be published and
| announced from the pulpit for 50 many
| Sabbaths previous to the Ger nm O..y.
Consequently there are no elop ulents
mo runaways, and OF course not so
many divorces. Inconsiderate young
| people used to runaway to Gretpa
| Green, In Scotland, and be married by
an old Scotch blacksmith, but those
marriages were declared Illegal about
forty years ago, and now 1t Ia q crime