Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1886 — A Cowardly, Contemptible Saying. [ARTICLE]

A Cowardly, Contemptible Saying.

“A woman is at the bottom of every mischief. ” So say a legion of noodles who know not what they say, and wiio think they think, when they only repeat what they have heard others say before them. Do these faddists ever reflect that there are tAvo kinds of people in the world, male and female, and as they generally associate together it is probable that every occurrence will directly or indirectly involve some individual of both sexes? But unfortunately for the faddists, there are some conditions in life in which their theory can be thoroughly tested. In the California and Australian gold-mining regions they had no women, and yet, if our memory serves us right, their days and nights were not altogether passed in halcyon simplicity; nut, on the contrary, their camps were scenes of fighting,stabbing, gouging, shooting, lynching, and bloody murder generally. On board ship they have no women to make mischief, and yet they are not altogether lamblike in their relations, living in brotherly love and harmony. The soft answer is often a belaying pin, and the hand of fellowship is frequently at the end of a yard-arm. Now, if the opposite were a popular expression, that “there is a man at the bottom of every trouble,” it would be much more difficult to disprove. No, the oft-quoted saying is a false, cowardly, and contemptible one, and a disgrace to the whole male sex. It shows that men are ashamed to assume the responsibility of their own evil deeds, and meanly try to shuffle them off on the shoulders of poor, weak women. —Texas Siftinqs. “I’ve stopped to get a bite,” said a vagabond to a lady in her garden, in an insolent manner. “Here, Tiger!” cried she; and as a huge mastiff came bounding to her side, she said to the tramp, “If you don’t leave at once you’ll get one.” He didn’t stop to expostulate