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WOMAN'S EXPONENT. -- surround their daughters later in life "If, as il n If we, as young sisters-- , would read more ot soon" a3 the mrl3 IeTtschoo ., the father, ine uiDie ana ojner unurcn worKs, we wouia , , with Jhe advice and supervision of the mother, gave becomfrbetteia'ctjuainted-ith--th- V to her a fixed sum, out of which, with no more, be able to answer of the Gospel, then we she was to furnish Jcr wardrobe, by the time of any question which m?ght be asked of us. .. .Ilk marriageshewbulcLbive learned perfectly hot ' jiiSome of-u-s , may think to spend money and'how to get st for it, we study a great deal now," but I don't think and her lover would be pretty sure to have we can study- too much of the principles of in formation of the fact and lie able to govern r : ": the Gospel. ; Muslim and the himself of schools, Coptic accordingly, and 'either maintaining In most T In standing up before a congregation to little a and the same or or learn his arithmetic, it as children increasing diminishing l of the reading occupy a few moments, we naturally feel timid, income some could or and still have passages Scripture required, but the more we speak the more of that fear recognized writing, the fact, and left her that little but necessary the Koran. Many slaves attend the religious goes from us. If we .ask the. Lord to help us often ai.d are far wliieh better o n her schools, own nilssi d independence an before we get. up,. He will do s6J because we gives every purse ': " woman. t .. ... educated than their masters; who take great cannot get along wi thou t the hel p ofThe,, Lord wife as The are herand does not work for mother frequently at all times. He says' if we ., will open , our pride in their learning. Copts schools mission to as self and toils but the to and their;6Wn, alone, sent I mouth He will fill i ti And vv hy shou Id we unceasingly for, others, she is entitled to some other .wage than love' be afraid to get-uare very clever and intelligent. At Cairo there is to speak? When some of and kindness; for wjbat is it she. does? In many us are called on to sing or recite we sometimes a boarding school for girls, conducted by nuns, houses the wife is the only servant; she is cook, where manj girls spend a year, or attend as think4Wrell, why didn't they call on some one n-the - work - n urse, and - seam families is a m a she , stress; that cou Id do i t better?- '- If we all were like is who teaches tailoress for the boys trpwsers, milliner. for the that, what would become of our meetings or employed, foreign governess le- - work ; bu t need a r cseldom and ch Fren gi rls"' hats,teu to one makes if she does not the young people of the Church. girls also in and and their as cut one an make to frocks; baste, im; write, they might any taught , I remember when we first had an organizais these it their Teachers of use of recognized capacities universally Knowledge. proper tion ot the Young Ladies' Mutual Improve- is for do the other laborer $bt that their that worker, up every girls keep reading agree' jintAssociation Jhe rjeside alter they leave school ; the books loaned them "worthyTrofrhis hire."Ascook us to do something to take up the time; call on are often returned with the leaves uncut. But woman, her wages would be more than a hunone, --' Well, I never sung, I. know I can't." It with as or dred dollars a nurse some there have been and are board; year seems a3 though nq one was interested in the while neither tailoress or even Muslim women in the higher classes; they are seamstress, more, meeting. . But we all know that the president, dressmaker would have much less than a dollar nor her counselors cannot counted particularly dangerous and their excarry on the meeta day. And, meanwhile, we pass over her ; - . ample "pernicious. ing alone, and if we know' this, why not try general management, marketing, mending, and help them? (laminar, overseeing ami all the rest, because "I can say that the sisters have improved there the "wages ot love may be deemed suffiTHE ALLOWANCE.. very much since the comfnencement of our cient, and doubtless she feels them so for all; meetings; those- - who do come take right hold heris for she when so it and much not asks, There are few ways in which wives-armade and help all they can. That is some en cou ,? more uncomfortable than on the question of self as for the sake of maintaining the decency, for who those ment are presiding. If we cans and good appearance, which would their personal expenditures, nor for which they food nameshame two three or words, that js far better , only say the if she did not have.- have to suffer greater humiliation. than refusing. I notice in our meetings it jg " We think that husband who has If they want a new dress,-- a pair of gloves any certainty seldom any one refuses to respond; we of income would do well to take into considera "very, new pair of, shoes, a ribbon, they must go and know a week ahead that our names are on( t,he enter into an explanation about it all with the tion the subject of his wife's wages, and see if programme, and why is that not time enough iusb'and and very possibly before the children, he cannot accord to her the spending of one for us to study our subject? who cannot but be injured by the lesson they. unquestioned dollar, and then make, according The meeting will not improve us unless we thus learn concerning the dependence of their to his ability, some fixed allowance of money, try and Improve ourselves; if we get up from mother, not to mention her fallibility; which is be it ever so small, on which.the wife can rely, time to time, and do not try to say a few words apt to be tolerably well exposed irx the course and over which she can be absolute mistress. more each time, "I don't think we will ever.be . ot the- conversation. i There is not one wife in ten thousand that will able to do so. ., - " Nothing, surely, can so belittle a wife, and abuse the pleasant confidence; and- all but that Let us try and set an example for theypunger make her unfit to be the mate and helpmate one, will be likely to make it cover some of the childrens and some of the family expenses, as ones; if they think it is worthy of imitation she should be, as to dwarf and crowd her into - cowardly suppliance she feels she well as their own; and it can be done at first they will certainly take notice of our actions. We are doing as well must have and cannot. do without- We have provisionally . for one year or two, so- that in here be as can old to the up expected according to the known of women whose proud spirits were so case it did not work well. a return number there is' left, as' the town has almost system of dependence and petition could be : hurt by the ordeal, that they have worn members1 their shoes to the ground and have turned and had. We can hardly, however, think of a gone away. We have twenty-twirolled4n-4he-Yo- u ies T Assoeiatiou mob-wng-LWltheu , and scourelTand plecefan 4made overTor yearsX about ten 'attending; one half does the work, "while looking like shabby genteel beggars, doubt, any head of a house would find his adand the other half are quite willing to let rather than ask for their right and due, while vantage in this course, in the .character it them do it. their husbands never gave a. thought to the would give his household, in the happy sense For one I feel like going forward, and doing ' matter as long as they heard no- - complaints; of responsibility it would give his wife, and. in the best I can to help others and improve and as for themselves, wore the best the tailors the relief from requests and advice in small . ' mi could give -- them; and : we have Lknown other. things which it would give himself. thu3 he could his as he wife, If women who determined, after sore experience- improved Your young und inexperienced sister in the fw-be would the he n neither to go without nor beg, lay in wait improving hardly help doing, Gospel, ' conduct of all his family and increasing: the " Maggie Evans. household. this week, and a quarter that, making false harmony of his In the meantime, let him remember that entries in the housekeeping accounts, and evefl O stealing and selling the hen's eggs to swell the the wrongs done the mother, nature avenges in NOTES AND NEWS "the childrenr and where .even in. so small a secret amount into a sum sufficient-t- keep themmatter as her clothes, that mother is a slave selves' and their children's supply decent, beJulian Hawthorne owns the little old oak and a beggar, the children are the children of coming, thieves in the process, and liable' to table upon which Mary Stewart wrote her last transmit the tendency to, dishonest dealings to a slave! and a beggar, and sooner or later are Tetter, the morning of her execution. , sure to betray their descent Selected, children born after the habit was formed, owing " to the At the United Labor Convention, which pehliryor distrust of theiFhjusbands. " If a man is really poor, and"isxstruggiing in Cincinnati on the 10th inst., the chief met WOMAN'S VOICE. hard, to keep his head above water, he has point'of discussion wa3 woman suffrage. This some justification; but if his wife is worthy of tended Jby adopting a resolution "thrsuffrag-- is EiGiM RocKrldahprMay 1118887 the name of wife at all, even then she will do - : inherent in citizenship, and is not to be abridged better for being trusted in the matter and not or denied on account of sex. Dear Editor: having to run to him for every spool of ' i Mrs. Lide Merri weather, of Tennessee, says ' cotton.. : ; It gives me' great pleasure to have the oppor-tuoitIt was early in The power of the fathers of that Southern men are not so apt to favor sometimes, of reading your paper, and these wives to have obviated, to some extent, in perusing uie umeieiit aiuutca uuutwujug I woman suffrage as the men of the North and he difficulties of this nature, which were to West, but that when they do favor it, they f many of our people. which grew louder d ti 11 the little brown bodies rocked, to and fro as When the recitation was though: intoxicated.;" and looked at the slates, over, we walked about crowded up in a dirty corner, at the babies made our obeisance to the statue of the Sleepy God on the divan, and as we went out, jie fell low joice, tJon begaun; a ent mom der every an'TTou Balf-nake- T -- -- the-mo- - ; hac'k'xipou--'his-pillowe-"V- - - , - ; - I,-- - , p -- day-scjiol- afs -- -I- aid-of-- of-the-ri- ch, 11- - . , -- well-educat- ed : . . . -- e r-- " ; - . - , for-tbethin- gs . - - o ease-where- of k-w- eUr ad . ; . . ; o -- " ? v. . -- , . |