Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1881 — Married and Single Women. [ARTICLE]

Married and Single Women.

Springfield Republican. A married woman in New York who claimed that she had been "betrayed” shot her seducer, and a Kentucky woman under similar circumstances blinded the man with concentrated essence ot lye. The newspapers show a lack of discrimination in commenting upon these cases. Society must, for its own protection and in just recognition of the equality of the sexes, differentiate between the young girl who is led astray and the woman whose knowledge makes.her a responsible agent. In the wholesome freedom of our American life married women must, save in very extraordinary cases, be held in equal accountability for their conduct with men. The wife who permits the attentions which Mrs. Coleman of New York suffered and encouraged from young Coles does,so with a full understanding of be* position. However much the condudt of the man is to be condemned, it will not do to condone the offense of the woinau, as oould be done in the case of a trusting young girl.

Man reigns by employing one-half of the animals to master the other. Bo the political art consists of cutting the people In two. and dominating onehalf with the ottw.-rßetafi. ”; ' When-an arm of the sea encircles a neck of laud, look out for Sifting smacks. •