Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1876 — An Essay on Woman's Rights. [ARTICLE]

An Essay on Woman's Rights.

BY MISS LIBBIE WALTON.

y ' I 'i jj, . }* • i The first right of woman, is to rule her householdaffaifA No man should dictate what ought id be done of* undone in the housed as thohgh the woman was not capable, of Managing her own duties. She should help in the management of the finite*. It it Yerjr humiliating to be compelled to ask lor every fifty eOhU dne iriajr need. Men pro fees th admire domestic women. They ftlsh' a td anderatand all Unde of work; to be competent to oare for the nursery; to eduoato the children, to oversee all the kitchen work-in • fact to know everything., Arid then are they satisfied ? No, they lire not. Men begin to tike ot a domestic; wife after a few years. They meet

ladiea who are well read, Jadiee who dividO their time between work and study, who are qualified to carry on conversation, in fihoft who do juaooe to any adbjefct that is introduced; then they discover the difference between the domestio and intelligent woman, to the disadvantage of the former. It is the right of every Woman to ttoy whether she will be a domestic drudge or the mental eqrla! df ffian. How often is the advice givW Women to meet thdif fiusb’anda with smiles. No matter how tired they are Witt cases 6f children, preparation df bread, paddings., pies aitd tte like foi the f>alates of their husbands, neither doeeit matter if they have beard of thtfrii little flirtations with that gushing Mifis Soandao. Sow oan women wreath their faces in smiles tor such men? H woman pesessod more ot tjffi rights they 4mm* there la be moeh drKftMfe gwnVlmg and oain good standing; 4dm K exist Does the salodn keepier ever think of the Day of the many crimes he will then have to answer for, and the many drunkards’ graves be has been the means ot filling? If women were permitted to helpmake the 1 aws there would be lower saloons with windows deoorated with the beautiful red, white and bine. Foreigners may have all the rights of citisetfship in this glorious country of hWe —they may vote and fill offices no' matter how gross or ignorant they are, so, also, may the male Colored' people; bat woman, if eversb intelligent, ia domed the right of suffrage which she needs a i much as they to proteot her welfare and her interest. Were Wotoen permitted to vote, inear wotffd h’s've more respect for them and aol accordingly. It bas been declared that! all men are dqoai originally; but are they? Where is their equality? Is it in virtue, in talent, in In industry, in eonditon? Are they free by nature? So far from it that they are bom in n conditio*! of dependence upon others, from? whioh they are a life-time being' emancipated. And the sanie ma)‘ be said of women. The rights of men and WoibeA' afe so mingled and Intertwined that if if impossible to separate t&euh mi a**' - Bfobftm is afflicted with' a wife benlltf. The fitor office at Lowell, Coubty,is tar sale. ;; p'r: ■ *^:■ * Laporte city boasts a growing, thistle orop. lalm county Ciaiihs td Have the champion wartritishr. A. W. Carnahan Has become ’proprietor of the Ox'Toi'df Tribune. The Montfeello Btrdld entered upon its fifteenth volume lasl week. Mr. Jut! ah bas 400'acres'cl growing corn, waist high, on what was' formerly a portion of the bed Beaver lake, in Newton county