Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 ir, AxxW. ? cii, ri' xoiz irs sirooii ki w VOL. 1.] EASLEY, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY MAt"1 7,188 Courtlui. There's lots of inn In courting, ,f you know the way to do it; It's the 4iQcest kdad of sp9rtiig One. you get accustomed to it. Do your.courthiig moderately, As a b'usincs. not a favor; MakO.efastq ggwly, it adds greatly To ttien a piquait fl.ivor. Court your sweetheart in the kitchen, In the parlor, in the park; AndI you'i)l fin( the mfiost bewitchin' Time for courting after dark. Court for love; most women like it, Nay, I am Certain they all do; An(l the follow who can strike it Once will hanker for It, too. Court a woman for herself, sir, For the virtue that is in her; Don't go courting for her pelf, sir; You will rne it if you win her. Court a woman boldly, bravely; Never court her for a fool; Whien you do, she'll teach you naively How a woman scorned can rule: C(ourt a woman for a wife, sir. For a mother goo(d and true: And my word you'll alnd this life, sir, Paradise en'ough for you. And such courting heats strawberi les Peaches frozen in ice-cream; Cliampagne frippe. brandied cherries, 'Tris a sunny toldlen (reai. WOMAN'S RIGHTS. BY MISS TAnITnA PRIMROSE. [From the Alma Mater.j My hearers--male and female, -Squenchin' my native modesty, which is nateral to all of the weak Or vessels uv whoM I am which, I feel impelled to speak to yoo this evenin' on the subjeck uv woman -her origin, her mission, her des tiny-a subjeck, bein' ez I am a woman myself, I hlev given much attention to. Man, my hearers, chlins to be the sooperior auv woman ! Is it so? and ef so, in what, and how much I wuz he the fust creation? H-e wuz, my hearers; but what does thai prove? Man wuz applied to the ma kin' uv a betterer and niore fluel b)ein', uv whom I am a sample. Nacher made man, Int saw in :' breef space uv time that he cood ent take care uv hisself' alone, am. so he made a woman to take cart uIv him, and thats why we wuz cre ated, though seein' Al'l the trlahl( we hey I don't doubt that it would bey been money in our pockets ej we hadn't been mnadleat all. Tmaine, my nntiqnated sis~.r; Adarn before Eve wuz made! Who1 sewed oli his t buttons ! Who cooked his beefsteak? Who made his coffee in the morin', and did his washii'? He wuz mizable, he wuz -he must hev boarded out and eat hash! But when Eve come the sene changed. IIer gentle hand soothed his akin brow wheii he ome in from a hard (lay's work. - She lied his house in order. Shel hed his slippers and dressin'-gown ready, and after tea he smoked his meer schaui in peace. Men, cruiel, hard-hearted men, assert that Eve wuz the cause iv his expulsion from Eden-that she pltcked the apl)Ie and give him half, oh, my sisters, is it true! It's too true, but wldt ut it? It proves, fustly, her goodness IIe(d Adam plicked the apple, ef it hed bin1 a good one, he'd never thought uv his wife at home, but, would heV gobbled it all. Eve, angel that we! all are, thorght uv him, and went havers with him. Secondly, it wizI the means of good, anyhow. It introdoost death into the worbl, which SC)CIated 'eli while they still hed love for each otler. I ap )eal to the sternier sex )reseit to nigVht. Would you, oh would you desire for immortality, onles In-, (eied, you live( inl Injeanly, where. you cood git divorces and chan ze your naimes wutnst in 10 or 15 yea"s ? S'po3,n all uv- you :led bin fortunate enough to win sich virrifn souls ez me, could you endure charms like mino for a eternity? Meth inks iot. I know that ef I lied a huIsbanid he would bless Eve for iitrodosin' death into the world. I progress. Woman then,is man'si ekal, but ez she okkepyin' her ro-I per speer? Alas not! we are de prived uv the ballot, and1 ain't al-{ Jowed to make stump)1 sp~eeches or: Atake part in pollitix. Is it right? True we ain't ez yit learned in. these matters, b.ut what ulv that?~ .1How man)~ meni vote who know what they'r' votin' for, anid how marnny stump speakers know what thbey'r taulkin' about ? I de~mat d. the~ balIlot. I want to be a torefi-Iight processioni. I want to sit in Con-l gris among the other old1 grannies. I want to dlemlonstr'ate my fitness for goverin' by Comin' home eleva ted on 'leckshun nights. I' want. to alssooi that speer which Nacher fitted me for ekally with nian, but from which maskeline jealousy hez thus far excluded me. Doni't say we're weak and frivolous! weak I Why I wunst knowed a 'female friend uv mine whiohed strenth reg lerly to carry her husband, who weighed 200 11b3., averidul:ois, into the house every night, after he was lifted off from a dray onto which his friends which could stand more fluids than he could hed deposited him. Many a time I've seed her lift that barrel uv whiskey with a man outside uiv it. Ez I heard soni wicked boys who wuiz a playin' cards say, I pass. Matrimtony,- thus far in the world's history, hez bin oir only destiny. I am giad I lied alltus strength liv mind enough to resist all proposi tions lookiii' to my enslavement. I hed too much respeck for myself to make mnyself the sla.ve uv a mart. Wunst, indeed, I might hev done s0, but the merest accident in the world saved me. A young man, in my younger days, when the bloom wtz on the peach, ere sleepless nights spenL in meditatin' the wr'on gs u1v my Sex bed worn fur rows into these wunst blushiiin' cheeks.', a young man come to our hrous-e and conversed sweetly with MO. It wuz my fost beau ; and oh, my sisters, hed-lhe that night asked ue to be his'n I should hev bin weak enough to hev sed ves, and I would her bin a washer uv diShCS and a mender of stockings for ltfe. But fate saved me. lIE DII)N'T ASK ME-that night nor never afterwards-and, hallelujy I am free ! Again. I demand the right of stand in' up in the car's the same as meni, instead uvn havin' a dozen uvn em start up when I enter coz I'm a woma~n ! Why should they !Wuz these limb~s given me by Nacher, for what? I resent with skor-r-r-nm the implied insult. I hev seen bearded men stand upj to let a ltl chit uv 18 [0, my sisters, ef there cz a provoki' objick in tuis world it's a smooth-face girl uv 18 ; they know so lhttle of life and let on they know so much,] set dlown, when the night afore that same gir] led waltzed 20 miles, and ef shte hednr't ti red all her 1)tatrters oult. could hev waltzed 20 more. I' n disgusted with sich. There hev bin women in the world who hev dontisuthir'. IT'idre wuz the queen of Sheba, who w4g eggselled only by Solomon, and all that surprizcd her in him wuz that ie could support 3000 women. Bless Solomon's heart, I'd like to see him do it now ! Where could he find a house big enough to hohl 'em? He'd hev to puit a wing oil each side uv the end put another story on top av it. And there vuz Joan of Arc, who walloped the En glish, who, wuz maid uv Orleans, which wuzn's the same as Noah's Ark, for that wuz made of goplier wood, besides the latter wuz pitch ed within. TIre wzII Queen Iz abeth, who wuz the Virgin Queen, and-but I propel. How shall we gain our lost right, and assume that positions inl the world to which we are entitled to? 0, my sisters, these is a question upon which I hav cogitated long and vigorously. We might do it by )pisenin' all the men, but we would be robbed uv one-half n% our triumph, for they wouldn't be alive to see how well we did things without 'em ; and besides, who'd pay our bills, and then what would become uv the generation? We might resolve to do no more of the degra(in' work they hev imposed onto us, but if we didn't who would ? One week's eatin' what they would cook would sicken a well-regilated woman, but let us be women in a grand style. Let us refuse to kiss 'em or be kissed by 'em till they come to terms ; let's preserve a keerful coldness toward 'em till they acknowledge our ekality. This I have practiced for years. I allow no young mani to throw his arms around my waist, and pressin' mec to his buzzumi, imprint upou my virglin lips the imp~assioned kiss uv love. ., Ef one should attempt it this minute, I should exclaim, ' 'My civil rights Lust, the marriage r'ighmts after ward !" Try it, young sisters ! and ef that don't fetch em to terms, Write me post1paid, and( I'll sen(I authin that will. - , -Gen. Longstreet, though only sixty-three years 01(1, is repb~'td to be in his dotage.