Year: 1861

thaI her singing treble better than she doe


bass results from usage, and that her sing
ing 'reoIe rather than bass was nurelv


matter OF accident at ffst. All onolop,


teaches me that if she had begun ON bass


aAid the other part had been given to man


we should be hearing TODAY Of Ma,re Pal


~; '"e CuaFmlng baritone and the mag


nlncenI oaSSo, Madame Jenny Lind Gold


ScumIu' "nIIe admirng crowds would tos.


Mowers TO Carl Formes, the unapproach.


aoIe Soprano or Mario, the king of con.
suppose that those who maintain that


woman mas no natural organs and aptitudes


ior singing bass, would say that she has no


natural organs and aptitudes for boxing and
playing at ball. Just because woman holds


her hSts 'he wrong side up, as if she we're


Kneau'iiS Dread rather than flesh. it is


claimed mat she was not made for manly
art ot seihdeIense,' aud from the wholly in


competent facts that she cannot throw a


0alI ihree ltet against q common northwest


WIND, and Is not as feet as deer il is
judged That she has no right to engape in


base baiI. But suppose all women had
been accustomed to boxing and nIaying
ball as much as the men have been wonld
'hey not nave arrived at corresponding cx.
ce'Ience But as women are now (and
they please me exceedingly they have not
muscle 10 mt from the shoulder with force
Sufficient TO make them formidable antapo.
nlstS; ana am aware that they lack some
thing in the length Of limb requisite for the
rapid locomotlon of The background, but
they have never had q chance. See what
the washer-wOmen have done for themselves
They seem to be separate race of beinos
for they all have large arms and shoulders
that would DO honor to Tom Sayers.
have seen negro slave women at work in
The field, with a muscular DEVELOPMENT that
would be the envy Of Bowery boy. The
washerwoman and the field slave show
what can be done by cultivation. l know
that their style Of figure is not quite so at.
tractive as have seen, aud know that
wherever there is an extraordinary tax up.
on muscle there is an extraordinary repres-
sion of mind and bunting of the sensibli.
ties, but it must be remembered that we
are talking about rights, now. claim and
| may as well come out with the |
whole of it, that woman has right to
do anything she chooses to do, with per.
haps the unimportant exception of becom.
ing the father Of family.


The truth is that women have never had
q fair chance. They can do anything they
are trained to do. The proper physical
culture Of woman, carried on through a
competent number of generations, would
develop her beyond all our present coucep-
tons. She would be likely to arrive at
high condition of muscle and q low con
dition Of mind, very unlike our present idea
Of the noblest type of womanhood; but very
possibly our ideals of womanhood arc con-
or traditional. She has hands,
and has right to use them tongue,
and the right to wag it in her own way
powers corresponding to those of man in
all important respects, and the right to de.
veop and employ them according to her
taste and choice deny, TO man, the pri
Vlege of defining the rights aud duties of
woman. A woman is mistress Of her own
actions and judge of her own powers and
lptitudeS and if any woman thinks she
,an do a mans work better than what So
,iety considers her own, then she has an
right to do it, if she can get it
o do, and is willing 10 accept the work
With the conditions that attend it,


am firm believer in 'woman'S rights
her right 10 do as she pleaSes
It's possible that, before the law, she is
Tot in possession of all her rights, but all
wrongs in this direction will lie corrected
IS time progresses. | speak particularly
1t this time of her right to slug bass, be.
,auSe it is representative right, aud cov-
RS, as with lid, a whole chest full Of 9th
rs. Yet while claim this right, con,
cSS that | should not care to see it eXercis-
d to any great extent, for think that
rebIe is, by all odds, the finer and more at.
raclive part in music. Is i worth while
o exercise The right of singing bass, when
! costs good deal to get up voice for
/, aud when treble comes natural and easy,
nd is very much pleaSanter TO the ear ?
Bass would be bad thing for lullaby,
nd could only silence baby by soaring


to death. If ! should have committed
o me the melodies Of the world, | would
are very little about my right to sing any
hing but melodies. If it were committed
o me to sing like bird, | would not care,


think, to exercise my right to roar like
u. If / can witch the ears and win the
ears of men and women by doing that
'hich l can do easily and naturally and
ell, then l shall do best not to exercise
~ right to do that which / can only do
ith difficulty, and unnaturally, and ILL.,


Woman, in my apprehension, is the mis-
ress, not alone, of the melody of music,
ut of the melody of life. Whatever it
lay be possible to do by cultivation and a
1ng course of development, it is doubtful
neither woman would ever sing bass
ell. am aware that she has the right,
nd the organs but question whether her
ass would amount to anythng-whether


would be worth singing When women
ak with me about the right to vote, and
heir right to practice law, and their right
0 engage in any business which usage has
sigued TO man, say 'yes-you have all
nose rights ] never dispute with them
t all. Indeed, you see how / put myself
,rward as the defender Gof these same
ghts yet should be sorry to see them
xercised by the women ] admire and love.
t is all very well to say that the presence
woman at the ballot-box would purify it,
nd restrain the manners Of the men around


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