The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1897-03-27
BILL hRPP'S WEEKLY LETTER,
BEGINS TNE REGULAR ROUTINE
OF SPRING LABOR,
SAGE'S C0MPI ANTS UNHEEDED

His Wife Keeps Him on the s7ovc-Mcdi-
t.trS on Woman'> Rights, Grip
and l:lieuinatis,n.
like to work when l feel like it, but nv
vile likes me TO Enrl; when she feels like it.
ana 50 between tao two | have to work
nearly ali the time. lesterdayI was yrunt-
ing around With rheumatism. but she took q
notion That it was good day to take the
vcranuah trelis down and clean away all
| the Old dead vines. and thought it would
neip me 20 get warmed up by exercise-an
IL uid. She i.nnWs-SI" has heard mo try
to play off on grippe ilnh rhcumatirs before
you can't fool The woman YOU have been
living with for Is Years so cot the ladder
aud climbed up to ii, top and cut away tho
| tahSI'i web and trimmed the running rose
vines ana the w!stori;. and Virginia creepcr
ana men tore away the Old canes and
cIeaNe'! up ali ina trash and burned it. Il
was I. nag JOB, Tor III" vnrand:.A is 30 feet
iohS ana l. had to move the Old ricketv lad
''Hr u 'o%2h tlMcS several times; ! got sOrtcr
u'|:%y ana liked to have fallen. but nv folks
don believe [ an as old IT'S am, and they
never VIII believe if until | break INV arm or
my Lex. or my neck Then reckon thew
VIII Do sorry. \ man never grows old to
his own family: 10 :n&N is nero to his own
servant. The servant knows him too well
ana Just SO my wife won't admit that I am
100 o:u TO DC useini. and she keeps mo trot-
ing around. She gives me praccpts and
examples, for she is never ille-makes m
rae htu. cieans up E"r room, puts out tho
Washing and distributes it when it comes
III, n!eEds my clothes, darns my stockings.
9e"S on the missing buttons, hides
~, oe9' p"hts 10 Ehep me from work !
anon ABOUT nay carehSsness. She krcns !
on making little garments for Ike yra.t- !
children and still ;ins time to boss ,rn IN |
the Hover garden ;:ad 50 to the missionary
meeting, and write: letters to the bows. she
never reads until almost bed time b,,t nnvt
morning can tell Us I'LL the news worth kn0y-
lns' ana mas her opinions about Cleveland
,:no -hchlniey aud Lyman Abbott and Dr.
DrouSA'on and t"'E"io suffrage. Tread to
llcr Iue recent vote in parliament about that
anu ana asked her what she thought of il.
wen, SAID she, Il don't caro- to vote. Of
course cont, but il the female suffrage will
lessen female Suffrage, hope it will nYss
II makes my heart bleed to read about these
i ! men dccciving aud betrayiDy fool
Ism young girls who trusted thclN-yhnt a
Pitiful scene it Was that ruined girl follow
laS ti!as man and his bride into the parlor
cars IN Atlanta, ana in her prcseura 1ip-
praiulnS him with his infamy. And lust
look around all over thi; country 1T the
young married women who have been ahan-
TONED by their unprinriplnd husbands, and
lo" nave TO work and toll and ;,II.!cst beg
.or ATlnS Tor themselves and their little
ones: II a jury Of women could try these
lecelvers and these faithless husbands thew
"o''lu ee sent to the chGinyang. where thew
1elong. If q Young. man enbeszles son,s
'len mans money and runs away. the Judge
ma the grand jury and the newspapers
nuke an awful fuss ;tnout it and send tcie-
, = all over the country to catch him. bat
he ruins IL woman and breaks her heart
lno makes wreck Of her life it is huched
lp ana nothing Is done am not a won.an's
,!entS woman. S:l" has rights enough. but
mere ought 10 be some way Of ayen-iu- her
rrOnSs." e'''o ALL
l nat Is a TACT, and lily opinion is that her
wrongs never will be avenged until she is =
ot only empowered to vote but also to hold
nee IN schoolroomS and in the government
I inc towns and villages. The ago of gal
lnlry and chivalry towards woman has
assoc. This Is the urfeeliny age. and
'oman mas TO shift for herself. Thirty wears
80 sie worked ut seventeen occupations.
nu no" at l3O. and gets ABOUT half Price for
er lapor-lialf the price that the men get "
no 40 1t no better / a;n ashamed Of INV
* ana never buy a shirt for 50 cents but
nat remember that poor woman made
nd part of the night.
WITH fingers weary and worn
With eyelids heavy and red. =
And yet these lords OF creation pretend
lat II woman is allowed to vote she will Get
own In the Sums and lose her purity. She
oo"n IN the Sums now and would get out
she could. | Know wor.en who are at
OK Tor less tilaH d collar q day and have
support themselves and their liltle child
n out OF it. while their rich EMPLOYERS sit
gh up IN the churches and say amen and
men TO the preachers prayers. know
omen, Sooa women, accomplished women,
nom men have ruined BY neglect or ;shau-
and all they c:.n do is suffer and
silent l KNOW women whose unprinei-
ed husbands haze been brea.in: their
arrlage VOWS eTGr since they made them
ID still they pass and r2pasa in tho com
unity as gentlemen. B::t tbs is the Same
Il story-who cares!
Now it is said that although the woman's =
ira:c bill has passed tie house of COM
ons by large majority, it viii! be isnomi-
OuSly Killed IN the house Of lortIs-yhy, I
ould like to know? The lords are not q
nate whose age and dignity might correct -
sly or unwis9 legislation, but they are a
mpcr2d purse~proud nobility. The most
them are and many CT them havo as MANY
YES rs Brigham Young over did. But the -
30 is near at hand when woman viii be ~,
I:anrE'isad in more ways than one. The va
rs OF marriage and divorce are better in
gland now than ours. They are governed
the church-by the ecclesiastical courts.
takes 10 little time to get married. Tho
liter is considered AID discussed OPENLY
q freely before IA engagement is made.
must tc union that is tit to be made and
bands must be published and announced
m the pulpit for so many Sabbaths pre-
us to the ceremony. Consequently there -
no elopements-no runaways, and OF Nh,
lrse not 80 many divorces. Inconsider- no'
young people used to run away to Greet WI
Green, in Scotland, and be married bv sta
old Scotch blacksmith, but those marri- In
q az ~