The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-05-07
BEGINS THE REGULAR ROUTINE
OF SPRING LABOR.
SlGE'S COMPLAINTS UNaEEDED.
Isis wife Keeps Him ON the Move Medi.
tutcs ou Woman's Rights, Grip
aud Ehvumutlsm.

NtfuhNhh lfHllH down ana clean away nll |
the old dead vines, and thought Il would
help me 90 get warmed up by oNorcise-and |
Il did. She kuoWs=EhD has heard me try
20 play on on grippe and rheumutics before
you cant fool the woman you have been
living with Tor as years $50 I got the ladder
and climbed up 90 the top and cut uWuy the
tangled web and trimmed the running rosr-
vines and the wist0rIa and Virginia crpcper
and then tore away the old cuues and
cleaned up an the trash and burned it. Il
was big job, for the yoranduh is 90 feet
long and had 90 move the old riekety lad-
der dozen times several times ] got sUrtpr
dizzy and liked tu have fallen, bat my folks
don't believe 1 am Hs old as / am. and they
never viii believe it until break my arm. or
my leg or my neck. Then i reckon they
viii Dos sorry. man never grows old 90
his own lamilyi NO man Is hero TO his own
servant. The servant knows him too well.
and just so my wife won't admit that ! am
too old TO Doe useful and she keeps me tr0t-
ting around. She gives me- preeoVts and
examples for she Is never idle-makps up
the bed, cleans zap her ROOM puts ont the
| washing and distributes it when it comes
In, muuds my clothes daus my stockings.
sews ON the missing buttons, hides
my best pants 90 keep me from work
| ing In thom and scOlds me ever and
| anon about my curelg-sucss. She keeps
on making little garments for the grand
children and still finds time TO boss me I'm
the Hover garden and go TO the missionary
4 meeting, and writes letters To- the boys She
never reads until almost bed time. but next
morning can tell us an theucws worth know
! ing, and has her opinions about Cleveland
| and Mckinley and Lyman Abbott and DR..
| Broughton and female suffrage. 7 read TO
| her the recent vote in parliament about that
| and asked her what she thought of il.
well, said she, 81 don't care To vote. of
! course / don't, but If the female suffrage will
! lessen female suffrage, / hope il viii pass.
| 1t makes my heart bleed 10 read about these
! heartless men dcceiying and botfgving fool
! ish young girls who trusted them-what a
! pititul scene II Was-thgt ruined girl follow
! ing that man and his bride into the parI0r
] cars in Atlanta, and in her presence uu-
! braiding BIN with his infamy. And lust
! look around all over this country at the
! young married women who have been ahau-
| douot 10y their unpriueiplod husbands, and
! now have TO work and toll and almost beg
! for living for themselves and their little
! ones. If jury OF women could try these
! decciVcr- and these fathlees husbands they
! would be sent to the changing, where they
! belong. II young man cmhczzlps some
! rich mans money and runs away, the Judge
and the grand jury and the newspapers
! make an awful fuss about it and send tele-
! grams all over the country to catch him. but
| if he ruins a woman and breaks her heart
| ana makes wreck of her life it is hushcd
! up and nothing is done. ! am nOta wOmans
rights woman. She has rights enough. but
! there ought to bee some way of avenging her
| wrongs.
That is a 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 schoolrooms and in the government
of the towns and villages. The age of gall
lantry and chiYalry towards woman has
passed. This is the unfeeing age, and
| woman has TO shift for herself Thirty years
ago she worked ut seventeen occupations,
and now at $780, and gets 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 q shirt for so cents but
what | remember that poor woman made
it-made il in some garrct-wOrked all day
and part of the night.
"With fingers weary and worn
With Cyelds heavy and red.
And yet these lords Of creation pretend
that if woman is allowed to vote she will get
down in the slums and lose her purity. She
is down in the sums now and would get out
if she could. / know women who are at
work for loss than q dollar a day and have
to support themselves and their little child
rem out of it, while their rich employers sit
high up in the churches and say amen and
amen to the preachers prayers. l know
women, good women accomplished women,
whom men have ruined by neglect or aban-
donment, and all they can do is suffer and
be silent. | know women whose unprnc-
pied husbands have been breaking their
! marriage VOWS ever since they made them
and still they pass aud repass in the com
munity as gentlemen But this is the same
| old stOry-WhO CG-esl
Now it Is said that although the wOmans
Suffrage bill has passed the house Of COM
mons by large majority, it win be ignomi-
nicusiy killed in the house of lords-Why l
senate whose age and dignity might correct
hasty or unwise legislation but they are a
! pampCred purse-prOud nobility The most
Of them are and many Of them have as many
wives as Brigham Young ever did But the
time is near at hand when woman viii be
enfranchsed 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 ecclesiastical courts
1t takes no little time to get married The
matter Is considered and discussed openly
and freely before an engagement is made
1t must be a union that is fit to be made and
the Dands must pc puDnsned ana announced
from the pulpit for so many Sabbaths pre-
vious to the ceremony Consequently there
are no elOpements-nO runaways and oil
course not 80 many divorces. Inconsider
ate young people used to run away to Gret
ma Green, in Scotland, and be married by
an old Scotch blacEsmitH, but those marri
nges were declared illegal about forty years
ago. and now it is a crime to be married
anywhere save in the church after the bans
have been published. Great solemnity is at
tached to the ceremony. But here anybody
can run away with anybodys daughter and
be married by anybody in any
sort of fashion and get loose when.
ever they take notion. The
whole business Of marriage and divorce
should be remodelled by congress and made
uniform in all the states. It makes me sick
to read those divorce advertisements of law
yers in Chicago divorces obtained with
out attracting attention." But the devil il
now unclaimed and the thousand years are
] nnt-BIII. Arp in Atlnntn Constitution