AN ESSAY ON WOMEN.
«» After man cams woman. And she has been after him ever s nee, She is a pr^ou of noble extraction, being made of a man's rib. I don't know why Adam wanted to fool away his ribs in that way, but I sa ppose that he was not accountable for all be did. Woman is the superior being in Massachusetts. There are about 60,000 more of her sex than males in the State. This accounts for the terrißed hunted'-down expression of the single men who eim\ grate from the East. Woman was not created perfeel . She has her faults— such as false hair, and false complexion, and so on. But she is a great deal better than her neighbors, and she knows it. Eve was a woman, and must have been a model wife, for it cost Adam nothing to beep her in clothing. Still I don't think they were a bit happy. She couldn't go to sewing circles and air her information about everybody she knew, nor excite the envy of other ladies by wearing her new winter bonnet to church. Neither could she hang over the back fence and gossip with her near neighbor. All these privileges were denied her. Poor Eve ! she's dead now. And the fashion she inaugurated is dead too. Ii i' hadn't been for the confounded ' snaik ' perhaps the ladies of the present day would dress as economically as Eve did. Woman has the capacity for learning everything she was divinely intended to know, and a few extra items besides. A woman may not be able to sharpen a lead pencil, or an umbrella, but «he can rack more articles in a trunk than a man can in a four»horse waggon. The happiest period of woman's life is I when she is making her wedding garments. The saddest is when her bus* band conies home late at night, and yells to her from the front doorstep to throw out a handful of keyholes of different sizes. There is some curiosity in feminiie nature. For instance, I once know a young lady who could easily pass another one on the street without looking around to see what she hud on. Poor thing ! she was blind,— Argonaut,
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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 14 June 1880, Page 2
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375AN ESSAY ON WOMEN. Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 14 June 1880, Page 2
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