Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-03-16

sweep house. make beds or trim hats
as it IS to twist watch chain.
So far as | can understand, the line
of responsibility lies between that
which is useful and that which is use
less IL women do that which Is of no
value. their work is honorable. IL they
do practical work. Il Is dishonorable.
That our young women may escape
the censure OF doing d!shonorable
work. l shall particularize. You may
knit tidy for the back of an arm
chair. but by no means make the
! money wberewith to buy the chair.
You may with delicate brush beauti-
| fy 4 mantel ornament. but die rather
than earn enough to buy a marble
mantel. You may learn artistic music
, until you can sQuall Italian. but never
| sing "Ortonvills'' or "Old Hundredth."
Do nothing practical if you would. In
the eyes of refined society. preserve
| fnical notions. / tell you woman.
| no more than man. has right to
occupy a place In this world unless
/ she pays rent for 1t.
In the course Of lifetime you con-
sumo whole harvests and droves OF
, cattle and every day you live and
! breathe forty hogsheads of good. pure
air. You must By some kind Of use
| fuiness pay for all this. Our race was
| the last thing created-;he birds and
/ fiznec On tho fOnrfh tar -ta c1f.lo a
| lizards on the fifth day and man on
| the sixth day. II biologists are right.
! the earth was 100000 Of years Ia
/ the possession of the insects. beasts
and birds before our race came upon IL.
IN one sense We were invaders. The
| cattle. the lizards and the hawks had
pre-emption right The question is
! not what We are to do with the lizards
and summer Insects. but what the
! lizards and summer insects are to do
with Us. II We want "A place In this
world. we must earn IT, The partridge
makes its own nest before Il occupies
| it. The lark by its morning song
earns it's breakfast before il eats r..
and the Bible gives an intimation that
| the first duty OF an idler Is to starve
when Il SAYS, If he Will not work.
neither shall he eat" ldleness ruins
the health. and very soon nature says:
This man has refused 10 pay his rent.
Out with him" Society is to be re-
constructed on the subject OF woman S
toll. a vast majority OF those who
her up 10 few kinds OF work. My
| Judgment IN this matter is that n
woman has right to do anything that
she can do well. There should be no
department Of merchandise. mechan-
ism, art CT science barred against her
If Miss Hosmer has genius for scuip-
.ure, give her q chisel. II Rosa Bon
heur has a fondness fer de,ineating
animals, let her make The Horse
Fair" If Miss Mitchell will study as
der If Lydia will be a merchant. let
her sell purple. II Lueretia Mott Will
preach the gospel. let her thrill with
her womanly e!oQuence the Quaker
| meeting house.
! The Rights cf Woman.
/. Is said if woman is given such
opportunities she Will occupy places
that might be taken by men. | say II
she have more skill and ada ptness for
any position than man has. let her
have K. She has as much right to her
/ bread. TO her apparel and to her home
as men have. But IL is said that her
nature is SO delicate that she is un-
,, fitted for exhausting toll. ask in the
! name Of all past history what toll on
earth Is more severe. exhaustinS and
tremendous than that toll of the nee
/ die 10 which for ages she has been
! subjected? The batterirg ram. the
sword. the cartine. the battleax. have
made no such havoc rs the needle.
would that these living sepulchres In
which women have for ages been bur
led might be opened and that some
resurrection trumpet might bring up
| these living cOrpses 10 the fresh air
and sunlight.
Go with me and l Will show you q
woman who by hardest toll supports
her children. her drunken husband.
her old father and mother. pays her
house rent. always has wholesome
food on her table. and when she can
get some neighbor on the Sabbath to
come In and take care OF her family
appears in church with hat and cloak
that are far from indicating the toll
| TO which she Is subjected. Such a
woman as that has body and soul
enough to fit her for any position.
She could stand beside the majority
of our statesmen and dispose OF more
goods She could go into your wheel
wright shops and beat one-half of your
workmen at making carriages. We
taiA about women as though We had
resigned TO her all the light work and
! ourselves had shOuldered the heavier.
But the day Of judgment. which will
reveal the suffeTings of the stake and
inQuisition. will marshal before the
throne OF God and the hierarchs of
heaven the martyrs Of washtub and
needle. Now. | say. If there be any
! preference in occupation. let woman
have it, God knows her trials are the
seyerest. By her acuter seDsitiveness
to misfortune. by her hour Of anguish
[ demand that no one hedge nm her