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- + . e4. '' ".. .' g * 4# 1 '..4 4 01 r I I 4 rz 1xA roAsCf, razP 3tO x zrs8 szfoorA isz SHZs VOL ASLEY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY Ml.I 7 1884. C 7Uoiirtn The e a. lots ofii lpu COt 10hg, it , kn.$. todo itk On 'U geccustomed to It. Do yo a hlg moderately, As WS p1s4, not a favor; M~a st~ y itadds greatly !0 thlant fl ivor. Court yQura-~etheart in the kitchen, in the parlor, li the park;. And you'll.find the most bewitchin' Timq~for courting after dar'k. Court for lo-ve; most women like It, Nay, I am oortalu they all do; And the fellow who can strike it Once will hanker for it, too. Court a woman for herself, sir, For the virtue that Ia in her; Don't go courthigifor her pelf, sir; You will rue it If you will her. Court a woman boldly, bravely; Never court her for a tool; When you do, shei'll tel you naively How a womani scorned can rule: Conrt'a woman for a wife, s1, For a mother good and true; And nmgv ord yog'll.tlzad this life, sir, Paradlse eonough for yotu. And such courting heats st,rawberi les Peaches frozen fin lceam Champagie f irppe. branded cher ries, 'Tis a sinny 2oldcn dream. WOMAN'S RIGHTS. BY MISS TABIrHA PRIMROSE. [From the Alma Mater.] My hearers--male and female, -.Squenchin' my native modesty, which is nateral to all of the weak or vessels uiv whoi I am which, I feel impelled to speak to yoo this evenin' on the subjeck iv woman -her origin, her mission, her des tiny-a subjeck, bein' ez I an ia worgan myself, I hev given much att ention to. Man, my.hearers, olinis to be the sooperor ur won..n ! I. it #6 and ef so,.in what, and how much ? wuz he the fust creation? ite i'uz, my hearers ; but what does thiat prove? Man wuz applied to the mnan kid' ,uVa betterer and ntoreflier beinl', uv whom I am a sample. Nachier made man, tynt saw in-ai breef apace uv time that he cood ent~ take care uy hisseif' alone, and sio he made a womnau t6 take care umv him, and thats why we wuz cre aed, though seein' 11l the truable we hev I don't doubt that it wouldl hev bieen money in our pockets ef we hadn't been' made at all. Tma~ine, my antiqmate i eure, Adat before Eve wuz made! Wh< oooked his beefsteak? Who made his coffee in the morih', and did his washir'? He wuz inizable, he WU2 -he. must hev boarded out and-eal hash ! But when Eve come the sent Dhanged. Her gentle hand soothed his akin brow - when he -one in from a hard day's work.. She bed 11is house in order. She hed his 4lippers and (dressin'-gown ready, ind after tea he smoked his ineer ichauin I peace. Men, cruel,i tiard-hearted men, assert that Eve wuz the cause iv 'is expulsion from Eden-that she plucked the apple and give him rialf, oh, my sisters, is it true! It's oo true, but what uv it? It proves, rustly, her goodness I1ed Adam plucked the apple, of it lied bin a Yood one, he'd never thought uv lis wife at home,, but, would huev obbled it all. Eve, angel that we dl are, thorght uv him, and went avers with him. Secondly, it wuz he means of good, anyhow. It ntrodoost death into the world, w'hich seperated 'em while they still hed love for each otlier. I ap .)eal to the sterner sex present to ight. Would you, oh would you lesire for immortality, onless in leed, you lived in Injeany, where ou cood git divorces and clhan zc your names wunst in 10 or 15 eCars? S'pos,n all tiv you :ed bin Vortunate enough to win sich virgin souls ez me, could you endure Tharms like mino for a eternityI Nethinks niot. I know that ef I ied a husband he would bless Eve for introdoosin' death into the worlId. I progress. Woman then,isnman's skal, but ez she okkepyin.' hew pro per speer? Alas not! wve are de prived uv the ballot, and ain't al I1wed to make stump speeches oi take part in pollitix. Is. it righti Truie we ain't ez yit learned ir these mters,. but what uv thatL How many men vote who know what they'r votin' for, and huon mnuy stumpl spea.-ers -know whai they'r talkini' about ? I deinand th< ballot. 1 want to be, a torchlighi procession . I want to sit in Con. gr'is among the other old grannies I want to demonstrate my fitns for' gorerin' lyy comuin' home eleva ted on 'le'ckshun~ nights. I' wan to assoon that speer which Naci fitted me for ekally with nian, I from which maskelinejealousy h thus far excluded me. Don't 8s we're weak and frivolous! wea Why I wunst knowed a 'fen: friend iv mine whohed strenth re lerly to carry her husband, w weiighed 200 lbs., averdu:ois, in the house every night, after he w lifted off from a (Iray onto whi his friends which could stand in fluids than he could lied deposit him. Many a time I've seed I lift that barrel uv whiskey witi: man outsi(e uv it. Ez I heard some9 wicked ba. who wuz a playin' cards say, I pa Matrimony,. 4lths far in the worl( history, hez bin our only destin I am ghid I hed allus strength iniud enough to resist all propo tions lookin' to my euslavement. lied too much respeck for mys to make inyself the sla.ve uv a ma Wunst, indeed, I might hev do so, but the merest accident in t world saved mle. A young man, mny younger days, when the bloc wuz on the peach, ere sleepic plights spent in meditatin' t wrongs uv my sex hed worn ft rows into these wunst blushi cheeks, a young man come to o house and convereed sweetly wi me. It wuz my fust beau ; and a my si.ters, ed. he that night. ask me to be his'n I should hey 1) weak enough to hev sed ves, anI would hev bin a washer utv dish and a mender of stockings for Ld But fate saved me. HE DIDN ASK ME-that night nor nev lafterwards-and, hallelujy I V free! Again. I demand the right stand in' up in the cars tihe same mein, instead uiv havin' a dozen 'em start up) wheni I enter coz I a woman ! Why should they ! WV these limbs given me by Nach for what? I resent with skor-r-i tihe implied insult. I hev se bearded men stand up to let a lit chit uv 18 [0, my sisters, of th oz a provokin' objick in tnis wo it's a smnooth-:facc girl uv 18 ; tI know so, httle .of life and let they know so much,] set dov ~hen the night al'ore that same g hed waltzed 90 miles, and of s hedn't tired all her partners o1 er could hev .altzod .20 nore. f? n ut disgusted with.sieh. ez There hev' bin womieri, -il the n'ytwotild who hev dofisutil r k I wuz the queeri of She tLie eggselled only by Solomon, antall g- that surprized her ir . hini wI, that ho lie could stipport 3000 woloe. to Bless Solomon's heart, .I'd like to as see him do it now! Where. could ch he find a house big enough to hold ire 'em? He'd hev to put a whig on d each side nv the end put ahotler er story on top iv it. And there Wuz a Joan of Arc, who walloped the En glish, who wuz maid uiv Orleans, YS which wuzn's the same as Noah's 5S. Ark, fbr that wuz made of gopher i' wood, besides the latter wuz pitch ed within. Theie wuz Queen Ehz Ay abeth, who wuz the Virgin Queen, ; and-but I propel. How shall we gain our lost rights, ,f and assume that positions in the n. world to which we are entitled to? ne O, my sisters, these is a question he t)on which I hav cogitated long in an d -vigorously. We imight do it i by pisenin' all the meon, but we ss would be robbed atv one-half ny lie our triumph, for, they wouldn't be r. .alive to see how well we did things n' without 'em ; and besides, who'd pay our bills, and then what would tl become uv the generation? We h1, might resolve to do no more of the 3d degradin' work they hev imposed in onto us, but if we - didn't who I would? One week's eatin' what * es they would cook would sicken a e. well-regulated woman, but let us 'T be women in a grand style. Let er us refuse to kiss 'em or be kissed Lm by 'em till they. oome to terms ; let's preserve a keerful coldness of toward 'em till they..acknowledge asour ekality. This I have practiced> uv for years. I allow no young man 'm to throw his-arms around my waist, uz and pressin' me to his buzzum, er, imprint upou my virgin lips the an impassioned kiss uv love. ,,Et one gen should attempt it this minute, I tie should exclaim, "'My civil .rights 3re fust, the marriage rights after rid ward![" Tr~y it, young sisters! Ley afld ef that slon't fetch om to terms, on write me postrpai, n I'll send auithin that will. . irl , +Gen. Longstreet, though only he sixty;-three years old, ia rep6fted it, to be in his dotage.