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About The new Northwest. (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1871)
V I I f I I 1 i ?! 41 .1 MR. A. J. BniffAV, Editor and rroprlttor, OHFICE-Cor. Third and WaliluCton fit, TEIIMS, IN ADVANCE: On your. - , . t- Six month . . " " i Three months i AnVRUTISEMKNTS Insert eU on Reasonable TIIE LONG AGO. BY n. r. TATIOR. Obi a TOmlerful stream U the river of Time, An H elides through the realm of tears. wina.laultle. rytlim and a musical rhyme. -u r tmwiler sweep nnd a mirje sublime, Anil bleu4a -rltli the ocean of yearn. How the wiHtern are drifting, like flakes of timtr, And iLe wmrar like buds between. And the year to the sheaf o fliey come and ueyo Oh tin. rim bratst, with Hr eMjan.l floi., As It IMe through the ahadovr and .sheen. Thercva msKtixtl iale up the river ofTlme, Where 1 Mittest nir are playing; TiMrre'K h elHMllewiky and a tropical clime Ad a aHff cm sweet as a vcsior ehlmc. And tkeJimeas with the roses arts sUiyln- Ami the mow or thin lle Is the Ixinj Ago; And we br-wr IpmMirM there; icmuij aim bosoms ofsnow mere me iieaiw or tlnst, but we loved them are trinket and trebles or hair. There are frapmentH or nong tlmt nobody Mil?, And a partofan infant prarer: Tiler a lute unnwept, and a harp wlthont TlMnare fcrekeu vowk, and pieces of rings, And the KHrment that she uxed to wear. There are hands that are waved when the fairy By the mirage Is lined In air, A1H weiwHSMineu hear through the turbulent roar, SwMtiMees ms heard In the day gone before nen me wind down the river is fair. Oh! remembered Joraye be the blessed Isle, All ibeday of our lire, till nhrlit- When the eveuing come, with It beautiful omtle. And our eyes are closing to Mumber awhile. May that "Greenwood" orwul beln M-liL A W0MA1PS EEPLY. ' ' J" ' ilV MIXJTIE MVKIXE MIJLLKlu Before uie lies an open letter, just re eclved from a friend in "Nevada, and I navojust read therefrom these words; "Is it possible tliat you are writing-, canvassing and working for a 'Woman's Bights' paper? You who in my heart n iiuarm j. nave always called '.Evange line' which name, with me, means pu rest and best what do you ask ? Have you not your dowry straight from the haruhof God ? Were you not born to be loved and is love not all in all ? 0, nEvangoline!" "''HPSan hear the tone of reproach, see - tV'rtfiPf ' Shakespearean head shake DilgoJtKfiflJy-. and the look of sad disap . pqintnlent in the kind eyes. It is not pleasant surely to be thought unworn anfe .J dread of course to be called 4SJP-Jed," but, my friend, it has cAjrmitbtoy heart through disappoint rigttVfa' real suffering that things are EJUpy ought to be. Not for myself, npwJlHit do you forget the little golden-haired darling that used to climb to Smrjihee, the childeyes that looked wgglMly into yours, and the lips that you kissed without passion? Time is passjng, and by and by the golden-hair -will crown a woman's head, and then what then? In regard to the suffrage question: Ido notsee anything better that can be done than to give everybody what they ask. There is now an unhappy clement among womenktnd who ask certain privileges," and let us judge thein justly and kindly Victor Hugo says: "It is not certain whe'ther we are happy because we are gqog or good because wc are happy." Do you not know loes not everyone know how much better wc feel towards the whole human family when wc are Jiappy, successful, victorious? Let us make woman happy not setting our selves up as judges to determine what will make her happy but let her have her own way about it. God in His wis dom has not made everyone alike. There are, now and always, men in the places where women should be, and women who are trying to fill men's places; they do It, and wiHdo it ; and they may as well be allowed to do it woll. And methinks there might be fewer ruined and debased women if those of a certain tempera ment and disposition had a sanctioned outlet for their proclivities. Let us not judge oven the unfortunates with an un kind judgment. Let us speak and think of them as though we were In the pres ence of God. Who -will deny that if tin. political privilege could act upon this class of humanity it ould do a great, grand good good to the wife, the sis ter, tho 'Triestess," and to man if it could take from and lessen the number of tho-lowest class of women under the sun, or, if not regain those that are real ly lost, at least save others. There is a certain spirit in woman as well as man, a morbid dread of proscribed duties, an overwhelming desire to be different from others; from this nature comes the "Priestess," who might with, the political privilege be an aspirant for po litical honors, a public laborer, lecturer, anything but what she is. I am speak ing of the unfortunate "humanity," as Thomas Hood did, "not of the stains of her." But,leavingoutthishoiefor1cr,thereis the importunate element before referred to that the privilege of voting would satisfy, and tbusdisconlancewouldcca.se and something else begin. This class, not having a talent, maybe, for making samples, embroidery', crotchctiii" flut ing, tatting, rufiling, etc., ctc-thls end less variety of nonsense that wears out a woman's eyes and enervate her brain not, maybe, having a genius for poetry or the fine arts ; or a taste for elaborate dress, parlies, llirtiug, gossipim-. ttn not having been employed in any or these legitimate ways, they have, for some time, been watching you men out of the corners of their sybaiine eyes. while you have taken from the depth of vrtT.TTT.rT'. -i . . ' A-vxtJLAvjL, JL.au tirs, xxiwrs-, SEPTEMBER 1, 1M. your mysterious pockets a bit of Immac ulate paper and deposited it, with some ceremony and evident responsibility, in a box. There you may ask, and with some propriety, why these women didn't have their sybalinc eyes upon the rising generation, and why their time was not employed in looking after the innocents, We do not find all of our time tuken up in attending to the physical wants of three or four beloved babies (and their physical wants arc all or nearly all they require for seven years after they are bom). We do not believe in giving a child three cold water baths evory day, changing ils ulothingasmany times, be sides frizzing its hair like the "true wife and mother" tloes, and it does not take a lifetime to stiank n baby and put it to bed. .So these women have been ob servingand they may have a littlo cu riosity, a desire for adventure and ex periment, but generally, I believe, it is pure and earnest desire to better and elevate men and women that they ask to vote. There is another class of bad, stricken. hysterical women, who really have had hard time, who are neglected and abused and long-suffering, and this ele ment it will protectand encourage. Then there is another class that it will not af fect, just as there is a class of men who are not affected by polities, who .scarcely take Interest enough to vote, litis is the littlo domestic dove, cooing softly, and content to coo ; the clinging vine, wiring only to cling; the real, orthodox true wife and mother," and if you men will keep on being good to her she will goon with her round of domestic duties, which is to her a labor of love forever and forever limiting up your very csscn tial slippers-, sewing on your iniiortant buttons and raking up the hair of her iby into little rows like a neatly ar ranged garden. Do not accept any of these terrible and heart-rending pictures of the result of woman sulfragc drawn by Congress men and speakers in the House and upon stumps here and there. Do not believe them when they tell you that omen will leave their homes and their husbands unprovided for, and their chil dren standing around the desolate hearth in attitudes, subsisting on bones and crusts. Look upon them merely as strong ly imaginative when they say that a woman -will leave her little babies to die. Women do not do this wav. If they were inclined to do so there are al ready plenty of temptations and oppor tunities. The truest, strongest, inherent feeling and motive In a woman's breast is her maternal love. You cannot in duce a true woman to neglect orforsake her offspring, and a false woman will do it anyway, and go to perdition. If she did it and went to Congress, it would be bet ter. Do not be sclfiish in this matter; do not be constantly thinking of what you will lose. Would you deprive millions of human beings of a privilege which they earnestly ask, just for fear there might be in consequence a missing button in the next decade ? There is a class of men who arc good and philanthropic, and I believe are really sorry for womankind. They al ways say: "I am glad I am not a woman." I was talking with one of theM; the other day; he said : "I sympathize witli women, and I do it in a substantial way." "I do not see how, since you arc not in favor of any kind of reform, or political or social change." "I do it in this way," he said, signifi cantly putting his hand into his pocket. "Yes, but there are many little cases around through the country that you cannot reach." After a little more conversation came the sweet old romance I had loved in days Iangsyne: "I was brave because a woman gave me her kisses; I worked because a wom an loved me; T waskindbecjui.se a wom an trusted me." "Yes," I answered, a little fiercely, "but that other man was not. Christ said : '1 eame not lo call the righteous, lint sinners unto repentance.' For Indi viduals like yourself, or the one who in spired you, these things are not intend ed, and be assured they will never inter fere with her trust or your troth." Tills man needs only to understand fully the wants and aims of woman and ho will give her his assistance. But there are other men who stand up, winking pensively at nothing, with a far-away look, and a "smile that is child-like and bland," ami tell us that we do not know what is for our good. This style of mau will not believe any thing until he sees it. Then there are others who are fright ened, and stand perfectly aghast at the idea that their wives maypossiblyclaim certain privileges, socially, which they at present most triumphantly arrogate to themselves. "WheuAcjrvotelwant to die," walled forth a trembling sinner the other day; "I never want to live to see that day." Well, such men might as well die; they are better oil away down in their "little beds," where the cold frowns of women can never reach them. S.VI.KM, Oregon, Aug. 20th. The largest deposits of anthracite coal t world aro Pennsylvania, the mines of w;hich supply the market with Hexhaustlb!emmUa"y " 4 PHTSIOLOQIOAL IKOEST. nv MUS. CARRIE F. YOCNG, M. n. None but physicians and physiologists have a correct idea of the prevalence of this sin. Our attention has been partic ularly called to the subject during the last three months. Why so many in curable diseases among children ? Why so many .shrunken limbs, enlarged joints, deaf cars and blind eyes? Why so many idiots? Why so many unbul anccd brains and fearful tempers? Care fully looking otter the families and chil dren of a ward in the citv, or a town ship in the country, there can be found all these lamentable conditions. They do not exist without cause, nnd chief among the causes we name the one at the head of this article. "Incest is defined to be the co-habita tion of parties who, by reason of consan guinity, cannot be legally united." We may extend this definition and say that the co-habitation of persons whose tan- jtcratnents and const Uutions arc noljthy' toiogu-nuy compatible is incestuous. The union of cousins is incestuous, not be cause they are cousins, but because their kinship gives them the srr;nc (cntpcra- incut, and renders them physiologically incompatible. The union of any two physiologically the counterparts of thee would be equally incestuous. The crim inality does not attach because of con sauguinity, but on account of the tem peraments being incompatible, of which incompatibility the kinship is but pre sumptive evidence. -aturc punishes theae violations of her law, "visiting the iniquities of the parents uion the children even to the third and fourth generation," and fre quently far beyond. Oh! these unwritten histories! Who shall proclaim them upon thchousc-tops? JJtcrnal jtistieean- swers, "1 will, in the blighted lives of the children of these unholy unions." Walking up and down the land on all her beautiful hills in all her pleas ant valleys walking the wards of asy lumsthronging the ofllces of physi- cian we sec evidences of physiological incest, in idiocy, rickets, insanity and i scrofula of every form and shate. In jails and prisons we see lowering brows, deficient moral faculties, and forms and heads indicating the rule of the animal propensities, and almost an entire ab sence of the finer feelings and faculties that make men and women Godlike. AH these aro children loni of parents living in physiological incest We know a fami ly of nine persons seven children where the mother has had from child hood epileptic fits, and four of the chil dren Inherit and are now daily liable to the same su fieri ngs. Fortunately for the race the curse fell upon the boys and not yet upon the girls. A girl is not as likely to marry a man thus afflicted as men aro to marry such girls. -Yet, un less these daughters can be guarded and strengthened in all those directions where this penalty of broken law is likely to manifest itself, their children will be very likely to inherit tho same or a similar disease. The boys of that family all show evidences of insane ali mcntalivcncss. Two of them gorge themselves with meats and drinks only to go into spasms. Notwithstanding tho expressed desire of the father to be come a Christian, we failed to make him understand that the sin of compelling that mother to bear diseased children is a crime for which there is no atonement a quadruple sin against God's holy laws, against the mother and tho child, and against society. This mother told us that slowly com ing to consciousness this thought had for years been taking shape : "It is a sin forme to bear children." She added, "I have begged and prayed to be saved the pangs and perils and certainty of giving to innocent children this terrible bequest. Only that I am a coward I would commit infanticide." In every town of one hundred iiilmb- , Hants iu the United States may be found suffering, fading, tortured women, dying by incites, to whom burning at the slake would not be as terrible as the conscious ness that they are doomed to be the un willing mothers of sickly, short-lived children. All these aro living iu physi ological incest. We know another case where, in a family of seven children, two are idiotic and blind not one of them being perfect orgivingproinlseofbeconiingoniamenls to society. Still their parents go on bringing into existence more children to become a tax upon the people. These, too, are living In physiological incest. We know another case where cousins married. Of nine children but ono could speak, and she a hopeless invalid was permitted to marry, iguorant of thoLaics of Life, She gave birth to a mhc child, which died, aged seventeen years. Eight of the brothers and sisters were deaf and dumb. Not one of tliem lived to he nineteen years old. This white-headed, broken-hearted father and mother in formed of and familiar with God's un changeable laws would have conscien tiously asked, "Are wc so organized and adapted to each other as to be when twenty years have passed satisfied with the results of our union?" Too often, even with Christian people, marriage is a means of cheaply gratify ing unholy passions and pecuniary am bitions, where it oughtin every Instance to be carefully, conscientiously consld erwl with a view to the future of thein Free SrEccrr, Free Press, Fuf.e People. own particular interests, and also with a view to the future of the race. "What," raid two of these parlies, "shall we do? We love each other! e cannot bretJi up our family?" "Xo, we replied, "God forbid it. But you can cease lo do evil. You can hence forth live as friends or as brothers and sisters, respecting each others rights and infirmities. You have ignorantly sinned Nbwyou know the consequences. Hence forth live to obey divine laws, and study read reason. Subject every passion ami impulse to tno rule of right. Purifv yourselves, uwiy and ulood, soul and spirit. Seek divine aid. Live to educate your ioor, sin-cursed children. Try to save them from the repetition of the sins of their parents. Cultivate In them anil yourselves a love of the beautiful na ture trees shrubs flowers birds- books music pictures. Also cultivate lersonal cleanliness purity of food and drink with an earnest longing to Uvea new life, that shall he crowned with health and peace. These are the means that will help you to rise above sickness, ixckst, discord and premature death. CORRESPONDENCE. This deiwrtnicut of the New South west is t j be a general vehiclo for ex change of ideas concerning any and all matters that may be legitimately dis cussed in our columns. Finding it practi cally impossible to answer each corres pondent by private letter, we adopt this motic or communication to save our friends the disappointment that would otherwise accrue from our i nnbil I f y to an swer their queries. We cordially invite everylnxly that has a question to ask, a suggestion to make, orawoldingtogivc to contribute lo the Correspondents' Column. Harry C. : We have not lately heard from "Barey, the great horse-tamer." We think there was nothing so very marvelous in his art. One of his plans and the principal one we have often seen tried with success when we lived upon a farm. Compel the vicious ani- ' , ?. nu8e onc fore foot !U,a t,,en' wh a leather strap and lmekli. sr-n (ho knee in a bended position. "Jumping stifl-Jegged" on three legs will soon sat isfy the most refractory animal that op position is a failure under such diagree able circumstances. Horses liavca great deal of good, hard sense often much more than their masters. If they are rationally treated by rational beings they can be broken without direct abuse. Mrs. A.: Thanks for remittance. Cor rect. Miss S. A.: Mrs. Laura DoForco Gor don's address Is Mokolumue Station, San Joaquin county, Cal. T. G. T.: Subscription received per Mr?. Carrie F. Young. Mrs. N. C, Ills. : Many thanks for your kind remembrance. Sent papers as requested. Did not see the number of the Woman's Journal containing the no tice of our paper. M. M. M. : Your countermand came too late. Poem already published. Sor ry you think poorly of it. Never mind; it's all right. Glad to know of your im proved health and good prospects. Shall we publicly "explain?" Mrs. M. L.: Your letter is received and requot complied with. Mrs. Ij. A. G. : Sent reversible shawl August i!d. $li Mrs. II. A. : Sent alpaca dress August 23d. Mrs. M. A. M.: WasdisapiKiintcd, but hope you can arrange the matter soon. Your subscription was not included. Miss Carrie O.: Fringe is very fash ionable. Bullies, fold, pleatings and fringe arc now often used upon the same dress, and two oversklrts are surmount ed by a basquiue and bows. Helena : You can utilize your broken black silk and make an elegant dress of it by taking four yards of black velvet een and the best parts of the heavy silk and joining in alternate stripes of each material the stripes not being over live inches iu width for the silk and four inches for tho velveteen. Make the sleeves and waist to match the skirt. An overskirt of tho best remnants of the silk, trimmed with fringe surmounted by the velveteen, will be a nice accom paniment. Wc have made over old and badly worn silks iu this way that ap peared really elegant. Hattie DcJ.: Llama lace shawls range in price from thirty to one hundred dol lars. "A disgusted mother:" We well know how to sympathize with you. Once when we were teaching scltool, and so busy that we had barely time to bolt our meals, our children became infested with a fiery, cutaneous eruption caught from some mangy young ones, whose school bill remains unpaid to this day which bade equal defiance to persistent bathing, hygienic treatment, redpercep itatc and repulsive sulphur and lard. Bah! It makes us squirm to think of it Finally, in our despair and consterna tion, a good Samaritan suggested the root of the common garden cle-campane. We pounded a quantity of this root to si pulp and stewed it in sweet cream, mak ing a pleasant ointment which, in less than a fortnight, utterly destroyed tho itching scourge, and permitted the tor tured children's flesh to heal. Tills rem edy we have frequently since recom mended, and have never known it to fail. Anybody's children arc Hablo to catch the itch, but no decent mother will willingly harbor such a visitant Where it Goes. BV ELIZABETH STCAKT I'ltEU'S. Boys and girls begin by being aston ishingly alike. Up to a certain point iney go uanti in Hand. The nrst thing we know the road splits, and before one can tell what has happened, or why, or how, lie is tripping down his side of it, she hers, and oft they go, "waving their hands for n last farewell," to that com munity of faculties, tastes, and interests, that possible (sometimes practical) like ness of mental and moral caliber which alone can constitute, iu any sufiiciciit sense of the term, equality between two people. Now and then a woman "cuts across lots," and now and then a man goes IlOIlestlv out to meet linr? nml iw.pl biuiiuiij, wirougit inicKets, and over rt ii.. ii' ..V .. . . v' "" rocKs, ami across briars, the two clasp hands with ati appreciation of mutual need, and a fitness for one another, and a content with ono another which would have been unattainnblo Imd tlu-v on tossing roses and llvlnc- kilns .it i.rw.h otlieracross tho growing distance of their several ways. Jhit this is onlv tft.it happy exception which proves the sad 1 1. 1 u. Mature life, which stunts the woman. Ho ff 1IX (111 Wllfn stands still. He unfolds. She ilmniw. He puts himself at She does well if she save her principal tirmf This is oTtecinllv what we call "educated" men and women. Mary and Josiali.:it lliohi..!. au.uu.-uiy, Keep step iiKe drilled soldiers. Mnrv. in fiipf tu i.. ..nr.. .i. J-.ticlld lesson in loss tim ii.-.. t,,:..i.. and Mary will graduate the higher rank in trcck. At the Shakspearc elocution ClUliS theV Will take turns -it (I.-.. dollar prize. If Josiah's composition on the principle of the cog-wheel is read at tho exhibition, Mary will write the iwriiiig iiymn. tr.ven at the base-ball match one August evening, Mary will be "pitcher," and Josiah must look to Ins laurels, or she will carry her "side" in spite of him). If they chance in a medical cortege together, Mary will be quite sure to bear the first honors over his head. But Mary seldom chances in the med ical or, alas! In imv oflii-r ii.ll,.,... Josiah plunges into Calculus and Des cartes. Mary subsides Into custards and dish-water. Iu fifteen years he Is a college professor, or a State surveyor, or iiiu iiiiuuiiiai oi iiic lounir American Idea. In fifteen years fifteen? in five! the chances aro that she will not read me tiuny jiapcrs. Apparently, tho girl started in life with the same chance of intellectual growth as the boy. What been mi nr it' To ail powers of observation and infer ence she seemed to bring, at the start, ns much mental stock as lie to their joint corporation. Where did it i?n ? Said the Hon. George B. Hoar, before a committee of the Massachusetts Leg islature, in 1S70 : "In the town where I was bom and educated, and where we had prettv good schools and pretty good scholar, the girls were always at the head of the classes. My friend who lias nreeeilml mo and my friend who sits on the coin- Everett that she could fill any professor ship in Harvard College. Under her tuition the university used to place students who were suspended for a time; and she kept them up with their classes In every study, doing a work which would have been divided among n dozen male teachers iu the college. She was onc of the few persons iu this country who aro said to have read the 'jrccani quc Celeste' in the original, without the assistance of tho translation of Dr. Bow difch; a Greek and Latin scholar to whose studies JEsehylns and Homer and Virgil were familiar; well ac quainted, too, with the languages and literatures of modem Europe: who could ten naturalists, like Tuckermaii and Gray, some tilings alwut their own studies which they were glad to hear." If there are such women as that among us and where we hear or one there are, of course, a dozen "mute inglorious what becomes of them? Why, if thev marry, do they sink into iiuracrv-maiifs and cooks; and why, if they do not marry, do we find thein for we do find them rusting life out in sewing-circles and strawberry festivals? Why do thev go so far and o "Why?" saitl a keen-eyed woman, to whom I once propounded the problem; "where?" sharply. "It's plain enough where. Women's wiis go into their clothes." After long, patient ami assiduous study, 1 am inclined to think unable to find for the worse a better reason that she was partly right. We hear a great deal about flic money it takes to effect a well-dressed woman. I wish we were oftener reminded of the brain it takes. Tho average young man walks into his tailor's twice a year, pays a bill, and has coats and pantaloons and vests. That is all ho knows. He requires shirts, and somebody makes him shirts. He tiiiuks no more. Will lie have a hat? Behold! a piece of felt, with a galloon string. It docs not Hop over his forehead. Jt will never twitch off his back hair. It docs not blow into his eyes. Its clastic cannot blister his neck, or produce depression of the cerebellum. It will not be out of date before the summer is over. It is seldom or nevera a matter of serious reflection. It is a fixed fact, like yesterday's dinner or the last election. The average young woman expends enough inventive power, enough finan cial shrewdness, enough close foresight, enough ' perturbation of spirit, enough presence of mind, enough patience of hope and anguish of regret, ujion one season's outfit I lind almost said upon one single street suit to make an ex cellent bank cashier or a comfortable graduate of a theological seminary. If you doubt the truth of this state- ........ I t I . . r . . i c ... : i T . . I . . ' "cricket's eve," the first young girl you j may meet down town. How fearfully iiL-ub jusi uihe in loryourseii, wmi mi- suppose those bias folds, and double box-pIalts,and fluted rallies, and corded bands, and shirred waists, ami pan- ii, 0,---s ami nowed, and liounced. und tied, and corded, und laced, and but toned, and spangled, and fringed, and folded, and dotted, and hauuehed, and bunched, and horrible mysteries got to- incre was mancuvcrlii!? nnm.ii proded upou tho dress-mSkw to" have ! Vnrltli Oliniml. eiectcu a representative, and concentra- J lienor mind upon the seamstress in- tense enough to have withstood a Wall """" i. pnium leu you soineuiing neitiieranaitir.it nor a unnstiau state of a lady who fitted me for college, of of things: that it is perverted and Pa- WflOIll it Was said bv tho Into Pn.siil..nt ' tmi.. Iwv.ntsn w nn nsvl tn It vn jNTJjXjBER IS. street panic, and headache enough put into the sewing-machine to have mas tered "Porter'sHumanlntclIect." And now it requires care enough tokeepher- rcii togetiier to save a soui. I once saw a young lady ride the whole way from Portland to Boston in the cars without once leaning back against tnc custuoncd scat, so tiiat she should not tumble her black silk sat-h. A barber told me that he "curled a young lady" once for a ball; "and she had two hundred and forty-seven curls when slio was done. And I began at ten o'clock in the morning, and I never got through with her till nine o'clock at night !" Dr. Dio Lewis tells of a bciuir who put tour Hundred anu twenty-live (I iiiniKj yams oi trimming upon one sin gle dress. "We gut no Christ from you," said Bumuey Leigh. "And, verily, we shall not get a poet, in my mind." And, verily, when society had re duced women to such straits as this onc hardly understands sucli a fact as Eliza beth Barrett Browning. Four hundred and twenty-five yards ! Conceive of the Hon. Charles Sumner or Professor Longfellow in four hundred and twenty-live yards of trimming! Imagine the speech on San Domingo, or the Psalm of Life, written in a black silk sask tied in a snarl to the author's coat-tails, he pausing at every classic metaphor, or at the close of each mar tial stanza, to sec if he had tumbled him self behind. Fancy Brown-Sequard at a consulta tion iu two hundred and forty-seven curls. Picture him timing the pulse of a dying man with one hand and tight ening his hairpins with the other. It is a threadbare experiment of out raged taste to fire broadsides of ridicule at women's dress; but it is neither fair play nor fair logic to do "only that and nothing more." Women arc what men have made tltcni. You had the first chance, sir. "Our hour is notyetcomc." It is quite as much your fault as ours that you write epics while we hem frills; and that you support the family while wc punch stiletto lioles in a piece of cambric, or prick yards of muslin into embroidered "insertin'," to encir cle our necks and arms withal. From the time that a girl-baby is put into a flimsy muslin upper skirt, with three frills and a bow to it, and a boy baby into a solid piece of blue flannel, wit li a sailor-collar and brass buttons. ' to the dav when Mary leavesschool and begins (alas! poor Mary !) to "do her own sewing," tue girl's mental rorce is imperceptibly, insidiously, poisonously draining away into the covering of her poor, little, innocent, beautiful body. By that it is "time for her to be mar ried;" and then the last state of that woman shall be worse than the first. Men dres to please themselves. Women dres to please men. A man's attire has regard to his comfort, his convenience, his means, his business, Ills whereabouts, his health, his happi ness. A woman's has regard to the whims, the fancies, the weakness, the admirations and passions of men. It Is surprising that it should be nec essary to maKc tue assertion mac tins is are not, thereiore, ndapted to it; tiiat it is as false as it is familiar, and as dan gerous. If they were not the most obvious truths which require the most demon stration, and the superfluous applica tions which oftcnest cry from neglect, it would be mere impertinence to remind the world at this stage of its history that the greatest blunder it has ever committed is the assumption that wom an is made for man. But the world, like the school-boy, "knows perfectly well only forgets." L infer the blessed dispensation or Jesus Christ, a man is just as much the helpmeet for the woman as the woman is meet for and help to the man. Under the dry and dusty old-time Jewish prej udice, which sticks like tills year's drought, that woman loscth her life, misses her purpose, fails of her final cause, who does not study to make her self useful and attractive to men; and mark the inevitable corollary by the very least elevating powers ofattractlon which she can exert or to which they can respond. I call them the least elevation. They might well demand a stronger term. Bun your eye over any "female" sem inary that you may chance upon, and how often would you find a girl to whom you would say .that it has ever occurred to inquire why It is that she .should put ten rows of velvet in a "Gre cian pattern" on the bottom of a dress, while her brother has his coat bound once witii a silk braid, and then calls it a "gimp," and never knows the dif ference to Ids dying day? Why she wears four feathers, several yards of rihlioit, a piece of lace, cambric flowers and a vail upon her straw hat ; and he only n lute-string band pinned straight uronnd the crown ? Why her hat tips over her nose, and his stays on his head? Why she is burdened with a pink parasol, and lie goes haudfree and burned and happy? Why he may freckle from forehead to chin, if he likes; and why she locks herself in her room and cries when she discovers the tenth, upon the bridge of her nose? Why he should wear comfortable, loose coats, and alio uneasy tight basques? Why he in broadcloth, she in transpar ent muslin? Why her pretty neck is bare, his decently covered? Why she pays four dollars for a laco collar, he twenty-five cents for a linen? Why she is pinched into corsets, and ho is not? Why his shirts are made into plain bands, and every article of her uu uerdress is trimmed ? Why her very handkerchiefs are reduced to a senseless, useless mass of fine embroidery and lacework, to which he would refuse the dignity of a niosnnllo nMtir.,.9 wi... in short, ailtlie wc of dress is his, the hL?'0 nsoThis',tue nonsense Hers. The beautv I heifnt r i km hers? . A m. not a graceful being; buf In this fSStS vated year of our Lord one tlS very-s ove-pitHj hat and sack coat yield the field to the unparalleled andunap- l'roaehed and unapproachable deformity of women's attire. 3 Tt. fnlriMs niniv. nml n. . i , . 1 1 1 1 Ulllllis i? ',u,en arc Peeled to dress. -" ouise uian brains thlukC1P,lrr,V5ua.rl wome" know I ,nl ."JflS " la.t modes, , ll.-lil..' . HIU JUieSL IUOUCS. , ne K.?from the corrupt n b r..." ""mM narl0W om Good women oa, t n i rt i J theirdutyto see, Wo ignore? to exile? A Journal for theTcopIc Devoted to the Interests or iMmanity. Independent in Polities and Religion. Mlve to all Live Issnes. nnd ThnmntliK- P-ndlcal In Opposing and Expo-sing tSeVrons ol the Masses. Correspondents wrltlnz over assumed slena- lures must make known their names to the rxiitor.or no attention wilt be given to their communications. not to Thf- miJh TV J au i-"nioucsc style. i.i..t- o T he thl W.T V"1 Inta quality. ' "'""ve or moral These are sharp, plain words in which to put a very satf, subtle troth; tot they are the sad and subtle truths which Re quire sharp piain words. This would bo no place to say them if they were said in their place. If every' woman who has the trainln of young girls in her hands would teaefi them, us fast and as far, as slowly and as finely, as carefully and as tersely as she can, that the entire past and present theory of feminine dress is a degradation to a good woman and an onnortnnitv tn a had one, she would do more tow.ini saving the world than any pulpit but the 'STmt- MV.titntilntlt ..till llin.i ...... ... 1 but St. John. When the world learns that there is worse than no reason why womenshould sacrifice any moro time, money, strength, intellect or modesty to their dress than men, we shall have ten wom en citizens, scholarsj inventors, sculp tors, artists, poets, scientists, and rulers, where it would be impossible, in the na ture of tilings, to find more than one now. "I think you hardly allow margin enough," interrupted a thoughtful wom an, looking up from hor sewing at me here, "for the inside women." "What do you call the inside women?" "Those who caunotboartistsand poets and" "They can be citizens, at least. I said scholars and citizens." "Well ierhaps. And isn't there a goodness in the influence of women's dress upon the world ? It is very bad, I know; but it isn't all bad." "Good women will make goodness out of any tiling. If women over ennoble so ciety on a wrong principle the credit belongs not to the principle, but to them. Any principle which demands that one-half of the world shall in tluenee the other half, primarily, by physical beauty and its adornment is degrading botli to its subjects and its objects, and therefore wrong." .My lricnd tooKiip lier sewing silcutlv, and while site was musing the fire burned; then spake I with my tongue: "I more than suspect that some plain, neat, sensible and graceful costume flittering iu the two sexes only so much as the necessities of society and the finer instincts of women shall require will be at sonic time devised for general street, house and business wear; that women will, in due time, be no longer in peril of life every time they step from a horse-car, or of dropping the baby every time they go up stairs, or of a rheumatic fever every time they walk out in the rain, from their long, entang ling skirts; or of social ostracism if they wear no streamers upon their heads, or of that most dire calamity, not being popular In society,' if they cannot com mand good dressmakers." Of course, being in Borne, mean while, we do, more or less Heaven send it may be less and less! as the Bo mans do. These "bloodless revolution" in so ciety come on tiptoe, and some coni formity to established standards ofpro- "i eiegance js as necessary as flannels in nn east -wind. As long as we cannot change the temperature, we must, in a measure, adapt ourselves to it. Xevertheless every woman who has so far pulled her sex back into the Dark Ages as to put on one of the dragging uncleanly, senseless street-dresses wqiioli disfigure this spring's fashion-books has done a deed of which she ought to feel ashamed. And, notwithstanding, tho day may come when no refined and respected maid or wife would be seen in what will be called a fashionable outfit in any country town in the land this very' summer. Oi-k Coming Gihl. The following communication to the Chronicle speaks for itself: 1 Editor Ciinoxicr.K: Under the cap tion of "Jjcrve vs. Muscle," tho follow ing editorial paragraph appeared in the issue of Tuesday: "Mrs. Stanton says the nerve oV the Coining Girl will be superseded by muscle. Now, as nerve is the nearest tangible approximation yet found to mind, and as muscle is the symbol of mere brute strength, does Mrs. S's pre diction argue well fortheiutellectualitv of our Coming Girl?" Muscle is to the nervous system what the foundation Is to a house. Women are top nervous to-day for sustained mental action. All other things being equal, the larger the brain the more muscular ijower; the greater the man or woman. Daniel Webster, one of the greatest men of our times, was a largo man with great physical as well as mental strength, his brain weighing 42 ounces Francis Power Cobfie, who stands high hi the literary world in bngland, weighs 300 pounds. So have no fears, Mr. C7roie?c, that when onec girls throw aside high heels, paniers, chignons, corsets, and exorcise the in alienable rights of deep breathing and easy locomotion, that they will lose any of their intellectual capacities .nr spirit ual attractions by a strong physical de velopment. Elizabctii Cady Stanton. The Bukdexs Upon Wives. "Un married ladies may take comfort from the fact that they are likely to live about ten years longer than wives, if Dr. Hert niuller, a German physician, says what is true." Those anxious to learn of the terrible hardships of married women, should visit the farming district of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, the farming and great manufacturing districts of Europe, and notice tho burdens of labor imposed on wives and mothers, In kitchen, laun dry, sewing-room, cow-yard, hog-pen, chicken-house, nnd vegetable-garden, in addition to those of bearing, nursing, and rearing from one to a dozen children, with from fourteen to eighteen hours dally of exhausting drudgery, harassed with corroding cares and carking anx ieties; the wonder will not be that niar ried women arc cut down so soon, but rather, they will be astonished that they do not, under the pressure of adverse conditions, melt away more rapn'O J A. Collins. now pse to run VVutttoi selecting .from bo . too ptittretshe best nauTes of each. This pi i cheis "'-r ..i far bv women. ll.CK . i...t m- woman .supporting it w.L-i.t iH1T1(JL IW ' " . . ' utZ bo' rWible for the vote of her lsbatheror friend. A