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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 1, 1877)
30 THE AVE ST SHORE October OLD CHANY. Old 0 lUtty if"rc hy nil the I cut on That e umn ihe tree -tree -lle'i) do more work In MM ahi.rt day Than hi wificMiild do in three three Un OrSJUtY, 'he MM in. she says, "You hIiiiIJ hiivi: tnmlili; imw now For yen -lull do the work in the Iioum, Alul I'll i follow the flow .low lut you mint u milk ihu moolvy in Korfenmhe will go dry dry, Ami you nniHt few I thu little tif Whith in within Um ulyo rtye. And )N ii must ut the ansa in the chum Whieh In within the fniue fniJiiH, And you nutri IM to the fl In thu it 'I hut it don't "II u'i in the limine MBIS; And you tnillt (tfu the Meekled hen For (eur fche'll lay untruy stray, And yon mtmt nil the of yarn 'Hi.il I M ttenlay day." Mm. QnttUtl took thu whli in her hand, To w and lollow thu nluw plow, (lid dmnliy U thu i.iil in his ham! To milk liM0Mf SOW- BOW, The r eow die kicked -she raved, t ithin the stye, II. hit hit haad UlJntt .i l.i jui And hiM hair twimn lo fly My. Hi wttit t. watch the speckled him For leur vhu'd lay astray ilmy; Itut hu tatfOk the n h d Of yarn Ilia wife KMU Vealeniay day He weul lo iul the cream In the ehnm Which WU within ihu frame (nunc, lllf flit 111 lilt) Mll, tli. tiiiiw name; Sag Wenl. , lo,,ol i It M v lie im, ti luixotd-iy, Khu ml. ; III, uU.ul. nd aid that she ul wl ifUil. And then hehwore hy all tin; MVM 'Flint wem un the tree trM, Ilia wile OOUld do mCTS work In it day 'limn hu nuild do hi I lin three. AIHKJT OUK WOMEN. Tha Prince of Wale, tl u ritiif hi recent visit to India, requested tha native princes ti allow women tooonu tobia,fttsi with uncovered faces, it ih now reported thit In many of the protinoei omen appear freely with exposed faces, For thousands of yeii millions of the women of that lint ooontry have ifiiiii) alHiut gasping be hind niflboating vuils, ami now oomai a young man with a fancy for pretty girla' facts, ami ay, "i ihu IN thu fawn of these girls," ami forthwith it in announced tliat hereafter ami forever the women of Imlia will hail the name oi the Prinos of Wales as that of their deliverer. This Illustrates the awful power of fashion, it don't matter how small, how Hilly or how hurtful thu fashion may be, while it is tho fruition it in irretistihlo. Reason, philosophy, religion, protest in vain. The reason for covering the faOSS of thu wo rn f India duriuir 100 uencrationa wan ciiuallcd by the reason for ahamloniiig it. If the I'rineeof WslsS had lin n UUlU 600 much wine, ami had playfully suggested thu removal of the veil, and the adoption of a pretty patch nver ono eye, probably tho new fashion would go mi for 1 .(KM J years, producing partial hlind iims in millions; hut if Ubod should Ih' liold enough tit suggest that women lie allowed tli use of Ixitll tnuir sySS, hu wouhl hu hooted a it fanatic. If anyone thinks thin ituroliAhle or extrava gant. I wouhl rumind him that if, to-day, in our intelligent land, some weary mother, with any pretentions to social rank, should tind Iter corset or her high-heeled shoes unliearablc, ami should give her vital organs or her feet room, she would Lear on uvery hand thu startling inquiry "Old yim over ?" And llion would come that dreadful, wh pared reply: V "No 1 nuvur !" And unless that exhausted mother is made of better stuItT thuu martyrs are, she will lieu away to her private room ami put on, not thu veil of the women of India, hut other and worse in strumcuts of torture. i H AT hii a ii. wk no u I 111 WOMKMI My old friuml, the Kev. tieorgu Moody, told me that ho had apent 10 years in the study of human nature, and now he should give 10 years to the study of the nature of woman. We hear a great deal of women's peculiar OOUpOsi tion that she is such a strange being ' "What shall WS do v. ith her V is the great question. Kiir a long time the great American ipiestiou was, "What hall WS do with the negro V At length we solved that prohlem hy takine our humls otl' t him and letting linn alone. Iloml f, was the Itcginuing ami end of our 4utv- "What shall we do with the Indian ?" is an other great American question, In Canada tfhey auswenil that ipieatiou hy letting hun alone, with the result that they have had no tronhltf with him u 100 tears. He falls into his natural plnee (Hero m t aiiada and v.e never kear of hun. Such would hate Ixeu the storv of the In. Ii in in tlie Tinted States if wp had let him alone; hut no, we have Wen perpetually asking the question, "What shall we U with the Indian I ' The rult has Ueu iuuumerahle and horrihla hutcheries ami the waste of hun dreds of millions of dollar, to say nothing of the shame. Ami now another question is agitating our wits philosophers and politicians. It is " W'hul tKati nv shj - 'i i f" If I may lw alloweil to suggest an answer, it would lie, (W Mr oU'Hr .' If you see her walk ieg out, or at work in any occupation slu- may laneyi it you see hr nr-achiiig, or practicm law, or imilnihe, or goiug to tho Kills to ex press her Opinion sbott mattem, in which she kM with men a life and death uiU'rvst, 1 would , hands off; slautl out of the way and "gltS us a n-as in your roiie,uci a isse nations. Iwimld refer the man, wshu Is SO anxious to know what he should do with women, to tin. ranarkshle and hnlhant success of that other man who made f10,l.0 hy attendiiui to his own husuneaa, and an klditional tlO.tXk) hy letting tfeer petple's husiueas alone. Fn imertmem-e, noi io say impudence, I to do this or that is liecoming insufferahle. AUK WuMKK EQITAL TO MEN? Hut are women equal to men? Is it not true that woman isau inferior being the weaker vessel and that the Ouator'B plan is that she should he dependent upon man, a superior being, for protection ami guidance? It la hard to Bad the truth in this matter, so shrouded is it in preju dice. It is found out in the tho wild, new country, that young girls are equal to lioys in running, wrestling and other athletic sports. From the Superintendent of Poblu instruc tion in New York city, we learn that thu girls in the schools of that great town are, at 1 ycars of uge, about 13 in advance of boys of thu same uge, in the department of mathematics, and that in some other departments their hupcri ority is still more pronounced. A few women m our country have under taken to lecture as a profession, and they have achieved a very remarkable success, averaging much higher than the male lecturers. I have artendod rrmnv conventions hdd hvthe women of Now Kngland, and although they are rather unused to that sort ot thing, n i were called upon to taku the witness stand, 1 should testify that thu discissions and conduct of those onveutions evinced ;i u'riiMp nl nnml, a tlineruin- uation, u dignity, a decorum and delicacy, which I have never seen equalled by any politi cal convention among the men of New Kngland. 1 lie average miitcs.h ni tin; women Doctors oi the country 1 believe to l much higher than the a venire success of the men doctors. lo say nothing ot the achievements of a nioiuer ii btW&Tns un a large lainilv i children, which without doubt, if it be well done, demands a more complete and sustained co-operation of 1 1 - l - il. iii-liT.it .in. I llii.c.l lUihl IO..H nil', other task in human life. I believe it may be justly claimed that women, whether as teachers or writers, whether in professional Hie or ijubi ness, have displayed, with less opportunity, a brain not inferior to man's. Thu QUeeni of Kngland have been far more able than the kings. You see. the L'lrls ot our eountrv as they ar rive at thu age of u, are solemnly warned by iuhliu seiitiuieiit, which isuroiigcr than an uic atvs and armies that ever existed, that they must not Indulge In athletic SPOrtsi that they must not give liberty to their lungs or feet; that thev must not tlunk outnle ot certain narrow liimav. that thev must not achieve an indepetid nt Ni'll-suiiiiiirt, hut that they must look sweet and attract a beau, and then that they must, like a Tine, entwine themselves about the stal wart oak. How can cirls crow tinder such conditions: Why. tliev are Isildlv cautioned hv a prominent writer, that if they would win W0 love oi men, they must never express nn opinion .ti nit any matter in dispute, unless it concern dress, man ners or social ethics, and even in regard to such matters, it is better to seem to irivu way with graceful amiability to tho preference of any man who may participate in the discussion. 1 ask how, ill such an atmosphere can the brains of women ltiih: 1 hat so niaov escape this thral don and rise to success and eminence in liclds of thought, is a miracle, ami tho most convinc ing proof that woman's natural capacity is equal to man's. STKAK1MI OF FANATICS. Ami speaking of fanatics, I must tell vou a little anecdote told hy Wendell PhUllpt, Uloi trating tho part played by fanatics in tliu great moral movements of the world, lie says that while on his way from Boston to New York on one of those line Sound boats, and, promenading the upper deck, hu noticed a very tall, green looking countryman watching the movements of the WSiUng'beam with the liveliest curiosity, Me drew near Mr. Phillips and exclaimed, pointing to the great vibrating beam: "I say, Mister, ain't that what makes her go!" "That's what seems to make her go," replied Mr. I'lullip.; "hut the real force that moves her is a great. OMOU down in the bottom of the vessel. " You see in political itarties and other organ- ir-Atious a disposition to treat thu hhtck mnti, insane persons and other oppressed classes, in cluding women, with more justice than in for mer years, and yon speak m admiration of these polittoal partial and other organizations, and you descant upon the Christian temper of the nineteenth century. Emancipation, and every other great moral revolution of the world, began with one person whom the world hooted Mljhmtkt After a time others joined this fanatic, and finally all DSOamS aUditionistH, and congratulate them selves on their justice to the ioor Mam whose freedom thoy have always greatly desired! Such is me iiisiory oi every moral and social revolu tion. Such will tie the history of woman suf frage. I need hardly recall the treatment of thu pio nest advocates of woman's right to thu ballot. Already half of us are ashamed of it. The timu W'lll siHin come when weniau will have an op portutnty to SXprSM at the jnills her opinions and wishes with regard to many important questions in winch she lias a ital interest. And then iHilitics will bo lifted to the level of the parlor, instead of Iwing left in the slough of i ue grog-sruip. i..i men you win nave to ,.,-k long to Hnd anylsnly who was not always, from his earliest infancy, an anient advocate of w oman s equal right to thu liallnt. " , , ijlt,it n oil 1 tion and establishment in life of those children y A?t MSL IftdUfr - to P' H. will tell you that if O&d lmoW& but that lt W b-l'fcl Bcc tbim wall plwed, hi. hieht ambition J WHAl WOM) MM. is llilllHiM. Wtiat women ueeil is liberty. Make them fix-e and at once they twgin to grow. The othrr day I met at a depot in this city, counh of U.ly friends, who told me, with faces all aglow, that thev wen- going over to spend tie dav m San Francisco. Their laughing and gen era! jollity ot manner seemed to invite the inquiry "What was uii : Thev told me. with a erv hearty relish, that thev were lmiuu over on a spree. Now, that won nores is a very siJiulicani one. It means whiskev, clears. and other bad tiling. 1 mvBums my face loottM ouiueti, ami tncy t ypianu.i that they should do nothing naughty, that all thv should do would be ti go where they plewsetl, do what they plfaj.ed and swnd their money as they pleased; that all thev meant bva "sure'' Waatn l flm for a day, that they ahoeld .1 nothing and say the W01 without having any one by to tell them what they had beet do or w hat they migiu no. i i wits what they called a spree. They added that while an hour's walk, leaning on tho arms of their husbands, was fatiguing, they could run about from morning till night, while on one of their sprees, without fatigue. No good and noble quality can grow except in an atmosphere of freedom. When white men were captured hy the AJgerUM pirates, it i tl,. habit ftinoiiL' the Algerincs to declare of some worthless creature, that he aMiiM lie or steal like a white man. The utter ,,....,. nf Americana when held as iL that eountrv. Massed into a proverb. Take aw ay liberty and at once, even in the best race, weakness and vices begin to appear. Now, I do not mean to say thai women rv ,ti.nrived of their liberty in the sense that slaves are, but I do mean to Bay that they are so hooked and watched that t spsna a nay at unrtji both aa to time and money, la to II U veritahle spree. It demoralizes a woman to have to ask for the money she needs. If it is cheerfully given, then she is a fortunate beggar, hut nevertheless a Iwggar. W hat a curious commentary on " With all my worldly goods I thee endow," is the question, "Husband, won't you please let me have two dollars and uinotv-fivo cents to buy some shoes for Charley and Nelly." But says some husband, I earn the money and I dont know w hen my wife needs it unless sho tells inc. The money is mine! Haven't I any right to it ? Is there any harm in my wife asking me for what she necdB? It would really seem not. And yet just there is one of tho great wrongs inflicted upon woman. It is great because it is so common, so wide spread. I . t mo illustrate the demor alizing inlluence of this family begging. A young man who had been married but two nan. came to consult mo about a very serious trouble. 1 had lieen his physician, and our relations bad lieen ot IU0O a character mat ne was led to bring this new grief for my advice. He said, after making sure that we were alone, "I am in a sore strait, and don't see how 1 can escape. I have prayed anil agonized over it, hut have now made up my mind thai snip, wreck is inevitable." "Why, you frighten me I What do you mean: 1 cried. "I will tell you, and as calmly as need not tell you how I loved my wife, nor how lerfectly I trusted her. 1 soon found that she was very fond of dress, and what seemed to mo thu trilles of dress; hut of course I did not ex pact shu was perfect, ami I arranged it so that sho should not keep any money by her, but should ask me for it, and then you seo I could advise with her about her purchases. What was my amazement when 1 found that she asked for money to supply thu table and spent half of it in thu veriest nonsense. Ami she went so far as to contract debts at a store which she knew must come to my knowledge. It is a real case of monomania, and 1 baUsVS it will end in thu madhouse. Hut I have not told you the worst Night before last she took (no, Bir, stole is the word), she stole $10 from my pocket, while I was asleep. 1 .a-t night 1 did not sleep a wink, and this morning I made up my mind to comu to you and lay thu wholo matter before you. Do tell ihu for Hod's sako what shall 1 do." I asked a great many questions and tried to recall with all the art in my power this young husband's lirst love for his beautiful wife, and then astonished him by saying: "The fault is yours. "Mine! Why, what have I done!" "You haverfrmi her, almolntfly driirn her into all this weakness. " "Driven her! You astonish me. Why, I have explained, exiniBtulated, plead, prayed and agonized over her, and yet in Bpite of all this she will go on. And now you Bay I have driven her into it. Why, Bir. I have cono bo far as to keep all money away from her as if it ere deadly ihiisou, and yet she will contrive Y hook or by crook to got it. and inirchaBo thu most absurd and extravagant uonBcnso. I tell you, sir, she is crazy crary m a loon." e discussed the matter lnr two hmirs. and he linally consented to try my prescription for three months. Thu prescription, one which I have tried w ith success perhaps 1(H) times within years, was the loiiowmg Have a line lever lock put on one of vnnr bureau drawers. There must le two kevs: one give to your wife, the other keep yourself. When you give tho key to her, say : SU dear, I hope you will pardon me for treating you as 1 have. Instead of treating you as my partner ami sqtuL I have treated you as .in irreapousioie cuuu. nereaiter, I snail put all our money in that drawer. It is our, not -My income is j'JS a week. As fast as it Hues, 1 shall out it in that drawer. 1 will nut in that drawer, likewise, a blank book, and in that 1 shall imt down every Bona that 1 spend ; you can do the same, if you think best. JUU now l only ask that you will never eotno to me to get permission to use our money; it is our, and your right to it, 1 now sec, is just as good fwew nope jou win inrgive OS lor the wrong I have done you. " 1 reuiicBted him to come in and reuort nm. gress at the cud of the three mouths. Betoru titu tun. was up, he came to inform me, with much emotion, that he bad lieon a confounded fool. He assured mo that his wife had entered into the exiienae account book with rval intr..t and was fre.juently asking whether they could nv itn more ecououiicaii) ; uiat she had already put into a savings hank flan, half in her own name and half in his name. 1 do not believe there ore live extravagant w ivea in 100 who would not enter heartily and lovingly hsto such a rivalry with a eonhding husband, and 1 wonder if it would not lewd innumcralde husbands to attandon cigare and I'utri ex).-iiaivt' luvi.Mcv The feet u, men do not believe that their wies naie the same right with thciise thu family treasury. And just here lies the wnoie uimcuuv. i . t us examine thie. I he husband is a farmer, raises wheat and potatoes. If yon aak him what hie purpoee ... ...... iv un yVa tmut tar educe lie y:iUMicu, .-sii mm un- same onenti a hundred times and lie will never waver, h will always he my children: my children! N0 what part in this business does the huBhand play V Hu earns money it may be gold or silver ami oruigs it mime. iu who takes that money perhaps dirty rag money and tran.. inits it into the wonderful lndies aud bouU 0f those children. Ihe father sees them almost as a stranger. The mother is with them day and night, with her patient fingers and loving skill transmuting and weaviug the money which the coarsest fingers may earn, into the bodies and heads and hearts of those immortal children. Which think you has the bettor right to tht family treasury? Ho who digs tho marble out of tho quarry, or she who fashions it into the wonderful works of art which shall live for. ever? OH, 1 WIH11 I HAD IIKES 110KS A MAN! On every hand you hear women exclaim, "Oh. itn i had oeeii born a man ! And very fre- OUeutly this exclamation is uttered in the spirit of despair. 1 have never heard a man wish he had lieen born a woman. Is it not lamentable that half the race Bhould bo so misplaced that they mourn over tho fundamental fact uf their birth ? wuv Aitr, farmers' WTVM aicK? While I believe that the lack of freedom in the greatest source of bad health among our women, especially among farmers' wives, it is undeniable that there are many other unfavora ble conditions. Farmers' wives live out in the iiiutrv. where air and sunshine mav ho nn. joyed in abundance, but generally they shut out the air and sunshine, and are paler and thinner than city women. They might enjoy constantly those life-giving influences which city women seek with bo much protit during their brief vacations in the couu. try, but for Borne mysterious reason they refuse to accept these great blessings, Bhut themselves up behind Mind- and curtains, keep their win dows closed, and cultivate an active horror of night air. Then, for the greater part, they push the fashionable errors of tight corsetB, unpro teeted limbs, thin Bhoes, and high heels, to a greater extreme than city women. And, finally, tho cooking of a farmer's table is very bad. Pork, which is rare on city tattles, is a staple in the country, while grease and fried things hold a mischievous prominence. Altogether, tho lack of freedom in the woof money, the isolation, the unending work, the bad diet and thu excltiBion of air and sunshine, produce in farmers' wives a paleness, a habit of pain and uorvousncss, a prcmuttire failure, and an uidiappiness, which are the curse aud oppro brium of life in the country. Dr. Dio iftrw, in Rural I'rvw. CHAFF. A QOOD pp.kd will stick out with an inclina tion to spread like tho tail of a peacock. Wk can't understand why it was so awful lark in Kgypt when there were so many Israel lights then;. 1'iik Democrats are making pack mules of themselves this year. They have "carried" everything. PAPERS snsin brai'i'iiiu un N. Bull's literary aud military capacity. Ho may raid their neighborhoods, you know. T&n Boston TYfMserfot' advises parson Win- Blow to go to Turkey and take a command under the name ol All hcond rosha. Frank Leslie's agricultural and real estate transactions were not the only cauBe of his fail urc. He undertook to make trotters out of his Jersey stock and failed. It was an Irish coroner who, when asked how ho accounted for an extraordinary mortality in Limerick, replied uadly: "I cannot tell. There aro people dying this year that never died be fore." "How many children have you f 1 asked one friend of an old acquaintance. "Well, I have five, but they were eatiug cucumbers when 1 left home, and they may 1 all doubled up now." A RFXiiinms paper says: "There will be no issuoof this paper next week, as all hands de sire to attend camp-meeting. We aim to show Dy example that we nsneVO in attcnuinc gavu etings of tho Lord's people. Work in the job department will bo continued as usual." Draw your own moral, job printers. It is a Texas paper that is guilty of the fol lowing : "It is rejiorted that near San Diego, California, a toinlwtono inscription reads thus: 'This yerc iB sacrid to the memory of William Henry Skaraken. who cairn to his deth by bein ahot hv a ('nit, rfivnlvnr-wmn nf the. old kind, brass mounted, and 'of such iB the kingdom ol heaven. A w un ration of Hkkswax. The recent adulteration of yellow beeswax with resin has led to the invention of a new method for its de tection. K. Schmidt recommends the following process for the rapid ami accurate detection of relatively email quantities ot pine resin. " heats five grammes (75 grains) of the wax to he tested in a Mask with four or five times tn quantity of crude nitric acid, specifio gravity 1.31 to 1.SS, until it boils; and it is kept boiling a minute, then an equal volume of cola water v added, and enough ammonia (wnicn must added very cautiously) put in and "b0" sanse it to smell strongly of ammonia. The alkaline liquid is decanted from the precipitated wax into a cylindrical vessel. If the wax is purs the liquid will have a yellow color; if the wax was adulterated with resin, the liquid will hare a more or leas intensely reddish-brown color from the formation of nit ro-products. This beings cor orimetric test, it is well to have some perfectly pure w ax for compariaon. The reaction is much more violent during boiling if reein is Pretn.t As little as one per cent can be detected in this way. The latest fashijn for gents at watering phwj hops, is a neat pin cushion on the lappel ito full of pine to repair ilamagea to pin bscM And next day they can go calling for pins, yen know.