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ESSAY ON WOMEN.The following is from the Eureka (Nev.) Sentinel: After man came woman.And she Ljis been after him ever since.She is a person of free extraction, being madeof man's rib.I don't know why Adam wanted to fool away his ribs in that way, but I suppose he was not accountable for all he did.It costs more to keep a woman than three dogs and a shot-gun.But she pays you back with interest—by givingyou a houseful of children to keep you awake allnight and smear molasses candy over your Sunday coat. Besides, a wife is a very convenient articleto have around the house.She is handy to swear at whenever you cut yourself with a rasor, and don’t feel like blaming yourself.Woman is the superior being in Massachusetts. There are about 60,000 more of her sex than males in that State.This accounts for the terrified, bunted-down expression of the single inan who has emigrated from the East.Woman is not created perfect.She has her faults—such as false hair, false complexion. and so on.But she is a great deal better than her neighbor,and she knows it.Eve was a woman.She must have been a model wife, too, for it cost Adam nothing to keep her in clothes.Still, I don’t think she was happy.She couldn’t go to sewing circles and air her information about everybody she knew, nor excite the envy of other ladies by wearing her new winter bonnet to church.Neither could she hang over the back fence and talk with her near neighbor.All these blessed privileges were denied her. Poor Eva! she’s dead.
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The Baltimore County Union
Towson, Maryland, US
Sat, Oct 11, 1879
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