Year: 1871

among a certain set, no words are To


hard To be said. We are worse thai


iOths and heather savages for our at


tac6s on the mistakes of what we ar


glad 10 believe is only the merest frac


tiOn of the Sacred Sex; but the yer,


persons who howl the lOudest are Jus
| those who seek to abrogate for wOmel


every characteristic of life and natur
by which this sacredness was create,


and has been maintained Notorious


rs women are for


THE WANT or LOGICAL FACULTY


there has been no manifestation o


that want more striking than the an
ger with which they received In,


blows incidental To a fight, though


they have voluntarily thrust them


selves into the midst of that fight
against the advice and warming q


their best friends IL they will pusl
/ themselves into the thick of a melee


and all such actively competitive life


rs they are clamOring for is 4 melee
] growing every year more fierce and
determined-at last they should be
able 10 take their punishment cheer
I fully, and not fall foul of the fighters
/ for their want of gallantry and con-
sideratiOn. No one wants them to
trust their pretty heads into the way
Of mems huge fists; and we, with
Others of their truest friends, are
shouting to them to keep back and
take care; but if they will come, why
then they must look out for hard
knocks, and not expect to shelter
themselves under a traditional sacred
ness which they have wilfully east
aside.


All immunity has to he bought by
certain sacrifices in exchange for its
privileges. If the MikadO went among
his subjects as one of themselves in
the tea houses, he would have 10 give
up his sacTedness for the sake of the
rOugher liberty of an ordinary man;
he could not retain both; and if our
women, whom hitherto we have re-
garded in 4 certain sense sacred to the
home life, come


STAGGERING OUT INTO THE STREETS
lille noisy brawlers in a rude crowd,
they must fOregO their privileges of
respect and protection for that liberty
which includes self assertive cOmpe-
titiOn among people struggling for
place and preccdcnce. What coIisti-
tuted the old sacredness of women {?
For one thing her very confession Of
weakness but mainly her unObtru-
sive life of help and love, the holiness
Of her function rs mother, the sweet
ness of her office as wife. No SLAM
ders could invade the home where she
was at once queen and guarded; and
save for the feminine fOllies which
came to the surface and were fair game
for satire, no one despised or scOrned
her. It has been reserved for our own
day to see women of culture and class
refinement publicly challenge the dis
dainful attention of their age by an
unseXed ambition like to nothing so
much as the AmazOns of DahOmey,
on the patriotism of les DANES dc Ia
Halle. But though they have un-
sexed themselves, and trampled under
foot most Of the qualities which have
hitherto been their glory and their
crown, they have tried to keep hold of
the sacredness which was the result
Of those qualities; wishing to make
the best of two states, and, while
usurping the distinctive places of men
retaining some of the pleasanter and
safer conditions of their own. But,
above all, they object to adverse criti-
cism, and, however mOnstrOus the
thing they do, they think they ought
not 10 be plainly spoken to, nor hon
estly dealt with for truth is an Offense
to their sacredness, which they can
not forgive. They set themselves
down before the doors of medical
college, dOggedly determined to force
their way into the ranks of the reluct-
ant students, thinking it no shame for
young men and women to study an
atomy and physiology together, 10


DISSECT DEAD BODIES


i'm concert, to listen to lectures on
obstetrics and kindred subjects, sitting
side by side on the same benches; but
they think it horrible brutality when
told that their determination is dis
gusting, and that, if they have lost
their distinctive mOdesty, men have
not. They take up 4 foul question,
which, before their handling, even
men discussed among themselves with
a certain reserve, but which now,
thanks to the unabashed manipula-
ton Of the Sacred Sex, has become n
household topic, discOursed on with
unblushing freedom by men and
women together, lectured on by wO-
men to men, and by men to young
women; hut they are highly offended
when rebuked for their free handling
of moral filth, and maintain that, be-
ing women, they should be dealt with
tenderly and spoken Of respectfully.
They are sacred by the grace Of sex
and voluntarily To make themselves
scavengeTs does not in their minds tell
against their sanctity.


If they are unreasonable in their no.
ton that they ought To be allowed to
take UP a position but not to accept its
consequences, so are they in their no.
tiOns as TO what position they ought
to be allowed to take up, and their
own fitness for the work they demand
to do. They ask to have a voice in
the Imperial councils but


TIIE GREAT SERVANT QUESTION,


which is emphatically AL their own,
is confessedly in the most unsatis-
factory condition; and the regulation
Of domestic life, the management OF
children, the reform Of fashions, and
the art Of getting the greatest amount
of pleasure in social intercourse, also
questions exclusively their own, are
in a hopeless muddle. The Sacred Sex
which cannot put its kitchen, its
nursery, or its drawing-rOOm in order,
nor even clothe itself nationally,
thinks IL can help to decide on the
gravest events Of current history, and
that its piping voice may be pTOitably
raised in the settlement Of the most
delicate and important economic ques-
tons. The better regulation Of the
army, the provisions of the Budget,
/ the righ hteOusness or unrighteOusness
Of war and the Poor laws, the future
/ results OF commercial treaties, all these
are within its scope, and great good is
/ expected from the application Of its


fine intuitiOns and delicate percept-
ions in the arrangement Of these mat
ters but


MARY JANE DRUGGING THE BABY


with q dose of "quietness" that she
may slip out more at her ease 70 her
cousin the Life-guardsman, and cook
/ poisoning the family with mistaken
herbs and arsenical cOlOring matters,
are beyond the functions or the
{ knowledge Of the mother and mistress
/ 10 prevent. For we must remember
l that women cannot abolish their du-
I ties; they can only delegate them
/ turn them down from hand to hand
I till they reach the lowest, which per
haps will refuse them in its turn, and


10 throw them hack to the starting
point. where they ought to be. Thus
Z all the cry raised now for a wide sphere


means only, in this case Of married


women, that they do not like theiI


natural duties, and that they want %
shuttle of 20 other shoulders the as
signed burdens which they do not
/ choose to carry on their own. They