While the unmarried women of the year 2000, whether voung or old, will enjoy the dignity and independence of the bachelor of to day (says Mr Edward Bellamy iu the Ladles’ Home Journal for February), the in sclent prosperity at present enjoyed by the latter will have passed into salutary, if sad eclipsq. No longer profiting by the effect of ths pressure of economic necessity upon women, to make him indispensable, but de? pendent exclusively upon his intrinsic at. tractions, instead of being able to assume the fastidious airs of a sultan surrounded by languishing beauties, he will be fortunate if he can secure by his merits the smiles of one. In the year 2000 ho tean. whether lover or husband, may hope to win the favor or maid or wife save by desert. While the poet, justly apprehending the idea! proprities, has always persisted in representing man at the fest of woman, woman has been, in fact, the dependent and pensioner of man, For all that, we can never usurp the maternal functions of a woman, and when all the " women ’’ are turned into parsons, politicians, lawyers, merchants, clerks, 'bus drivers, and all kinds of workers, what is to become of us men ? Are we going to stop at home and perform the usual duties of domesticity ? Would it not be a great metamorphosis! Fancy a man staying in the house on a raca d’y, iS rd lug ths necessary maternal nourishment to his !| days' o'd baby. Read what D. Martin, R-q , IJ, Ferry road. Glebe, N S, W , says : “ I am deeply grateful for immediate and unexpected cure of »ou ralgia by Clements Tonic. X suffered severely for two years or more and tried many remedies, hut none gave such marvellous relief as Elements lonic. T t hall recommend it to all my friends,’for It Is'tlie only remedy for neuralgia,” and Mr W. Din'gawin, Enmore road, Sydney, N.S.W., writes : " I have been a great sufferer for upwards of twpqty ffve years from attacks of fever and ague, contracted while serving In the United States Army during the civil war, and have been iindei> the care of several prominent physicians and used every kind of patent medicine. Two years ago I commenced itaking Clements tonic and have derived more benefit from its use than from all other .remedies, and can confidently recommend it to all similarly afflicted.” Insist on having the genuine Clements Tonic, on sale at every Satent medicine vendor In Australasia, eylon, India and the Hawaiian Islands, Laboratories, Sydney, Nf.a.W,
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 658, 12 September 1891, Page 2
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423Untitled Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 658, 12 September 1891, Page 2
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