California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



Womciu 



Something About Woman's Sphere 

 and Work. 



Wo7nan''s 



BY NELI, TAN. 



W. Higginson, 

 Jonrnal: "If 



in tlie 



woman 13 

 ^ merely a duplicate man, she is a very 

 inferior man. If Le is the standard 

 of human perfection, she is so far beneath 

 that standard as to be hardly worth con- 

 sidering. But, on the other hand, if he 

 be tried by her standard he is equally far 

 removed. Thus we discover that each is 

 one-half of the whole; we must set his 

 greater physical strength against her 

 greater pliability and endurance — his 

 slow logic against her swift intuitions, 

 before we can do justice to either. And 

 when we once do this, the inevitable out- 

 come is — woman suffrage. 



" The same principle applies toco-ed- 

 ucation. If by adding twenty-five girls 

 to a school of twenty-five boys, or the 

 converse, you merely filled an additional 

 number of seats, it would be a matter of 

 little importance. But the teacher finds, 

 when the change is made, that his school 

 is not merely enlarged in size, as if an 

 added number of the same sex had been 

 enrolled. With the other sex a new ele- 

 ment has come in, which gives new life 

 and interest to the school; an element of 

 mutual excitement, jileasure, courtesy, 

 pride. 'I never yet saw a school,' said to 

 me a teacher of great experience, 'that I 

 could not rule by the waving of my fin- 

 ger, if I could only have boys and girls 

 together.' 



" The same rule applies to occupations. 

 In the introduction of women into a va- 

 riety of employments the assumption is 

 often made that you are, after all, only 

 increasing an inferior class of men. But 

 the Womaiis Journal has again and again 

 pointed out that the general introduction 

 of machinery is the introduction of 

 woman into all industry. Every step in 

 machinery exchanges brute strength for 

 delicate manipulation. Woman finds 

 daily more and more work, of a kind 

 which she can not only do as well as man 

 but better than man, by reason of quick- 

 er wits and nimbler fingers. This pro- 

 cess bids fair to go on, we hold, till the 

 sexes compete fairly in the business mar- 

 ket." 



When such good words come to us from 

 one who has long been a keen observer of 

 the capabilities of our sex, should we not, 

 as a body, strive to deserve the exalted 

 opinion so publicly expressed, and each 

 do what wo can to elevate the down-trod- 

 den and encourage them in becoming the 

 thoroughly practical beings it has been 

 proved we are cajjacitated for? Encour 

 agement is what we need. Give us the 

 right hand of fellowship, good men, help 

 us to obtain honorable employment, and 

 let us enter the ranks of the world's work- 

 ers if our tastes so incline, without call- 

 ing us disagreeable names to remind us 

 of the accident of sex, which we have 

 been told by wise physicians must debar 



us from attempting any but the prescribed 

 employments belonging to woman's sphere. 

 Many capable women hide their talents, 

 or prevent their full development, from 

 fear of the censure of an unsjmpathizing 

 world. Sometimes the possession of 

 wealth and position interfere with their 

 growth; but the hand of adversity comes 

 only too soon. Sadly the poor victim finds 

 her.self wanting in time, opportunity, 

 strength and money, which prevents her 

 from pursuing the most congenial pur- 

 suit of her life, and the consequence is, 

 the world is robbed of an efficient artisan, 

 and the ranks of the sewing woman are 

 swelled with perhaps but another indif- 

 ferent worker. Come to the rescue of all 

 womankind; teach young persons that 

 they are never fulfilling their destiny till 

 fairly launched into some industrial pur- 

 suit, congenial if possible, then this 

 world will possess ten-fold more attrac- 

 tions above those ordinarily enjoyed, and 

 the cause of humanity will be advanced 

 by living specimens of practical industry. 

 A foretaste of usefulness will be obtained 

 which cannot be taken away, and life will 

 be so much the richer to those fortunate 

 ones. The world moves on. Never de- 

 spair while so many good persona have 

 the welfare of humanity at heart. 

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A Lady's Opinion Upon Political 

 Questions. 



POLITICS AND TEMPERANCE. 



How strange it is that some dislike some 

 mixtures and hke others. If there is alcohol 

 in the mixture, all's well, but not otherwise. 

 This is the reason why many are content that 



INTEMPEKANCE AND POLITICS 



should bo mixed together, as they always 

 have been. The stomach is the great ballot- 

 box of the nation. A mixture containing al- 

 cohol is the most powerful argument which 

 politicians can wield to gain the favor of the 

 "de.ar people." Hum formerly controlled our 

 elections, and it still influences them more 

 than most people imagine. A few years ago 

 it came out openly, and a shai-p eye might 

 have seen at every election ground the beau- 

 tiful Goddess of Liberty sitting astride a 

 V. hisky cask, with a jug on the end of her 

 poll. Intemijerance and politics were insep- 

 arable. 



DISSOLUTION OP THE UNION. 



"Union is strength," they say, but it de- 

 pends on the kind of union. The union of 

 rum and State is the destruction of streugh. 

 It is the people's interest to get rid of this 

 union as soon as possible. Now, we must 

 either carry temperance to the polls, or carry 

 rum there. Which do you prefer? If a man 

 comes to you to work in your orange gi"ove, 

 or to plow or dig, or to take care of your 

 horses, you want to know if he is a sober 

 man before you employ him. But is his em- 

 ploj-ment isto make laws, or to administer 

 them, or to guard your property, a drunken 

 man will do just as well, provided he belongs 

 to the right political party and has a good 

 chance of being elected. If a temperance 

 man refuses to vote for the drunken candi- 

 date, the air rings with the cry of "proscrip- 

 tion," and "mingling temperance with poli- 

 tics." There is more need of temperance at 

 the polls now than almost anywhere else. It 

 would be a curious sight to have a legislature 

 of sober men, and we want to see it as soon 

 as possible. 



EEPUniATION. 



Let us repudiate all office-holders that are 

 adieted to strong di-ink, and all diunlcard- 

 makers also. 



VETO. 



Let us veto dram drinking in every form, 

 and we shall have a free and happy peojile. 

 In exercising the veto power, we are treading 

 on no doubtful ground ; we exercise no doubt- 



ful privilege. We have a constitutional right 

 to do so, and no ooe will dispute it. 

 I am also in favor of a 



NATIONAL BANK, 



and I will give my plan of it. Several hund- 

 millions of dollars are wasted every year in 

 these United States to purchase alcohol and 

 to remedy its consequences. Let it bo laid 

 aside as a capital for a national bank. 



INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS 



I go in for to their full extent. A number 

 who were old topers a few years ago, and who 

 have signed the Declaration of Indeijcndenco 

 know by experience what ' 'internal improve- 

 ment" means. 



PKESEEVE THE CONSTITUTION 



by repudiating alcohol, the greatest enemy of 

 the human constitution. It is impossible for 

 a free government to exist where it is used. 

 No man who drinks is free. He nnij' talk of 

 liberty, but he does not know what it is^ 

 Throw ofi the shackles of appetite and enjoy 

 Uberty. 



I want you all to mingle temperance with 

 politics, so far as to produce an effectual dis- 

 solution of the union between intemperance 

 and politics. Carry temper.ance to the polls, 

 so as to ajiply the doctrine of rei)udiation to 

 rum-di'inking .public agents. Save your 

 money, and in this way get rid of National 

 and State debts. I want every man, woman 

 and child to practice internal improvements 

 and preserve the constitution inviolate from 

 the influence of mm. 



A New College for Women. 



Our correspondent, "Nell Van," who was 

 acquainted with the family, and who has 

 taken so much interest in educational move- 

 ments, would call attention to the establish- 

 ment of the new college for women, which 

 Ijromises to become a grand institution for 

 the advancement of the sex in many of the 

 qualifications for a useful hfe. 



The Northampton, Mass., Jonrnal and Free 

 Press of July 17th gives an interesting ac- 

 count of the inauguration of Smith's College, 

 of Northampton, an institution founded ex- 

 pressly for giving women a complete college 

 education. We briefly extract from its col- 

 umns: 



Wednesday last was a bright daj- for the 

 cause of higher education in Massachusetts, 

 and, indeed, in the world. It was the oecji- 

 sion of the dedication of Smith College, at 

 Northampton. The fact is an index to the 

 progress of the movement which brings 



WOMAN TO THE FRONT, 



in the equality of privileges, and gives educa- 

 tion its place as the foundation for the secu- 

 rity of rights. These features form the basis 

 of the institution. Says the instrument which 

 is the constitution of the college: " By the 

 higher and more Christian education of 

 women, what are called their "wrongs" will 

 be rethessed, their wages adjusted, their 

 weight of influence in reforming the evils of 

 society will be greatly increased; as teachers, 

 as writers, as mothers, as members of society 

 their power for good wiU be incalculably yi- 

 larged. " And again, the object is stated to 

 be " The establishment and maintenance of 

 an institution for the higher education of 

 young women, with the design to fm-nish 

 them means and facilities for education equal 

 to those which are afforded now in om' col- 

 leges to young men." 



THE FOUNDER OP THE INSTITUTION 



was a woman of the true New England type. 

 Miss Sophia Smith, of Hatfield, Mass. The 

 family was among the earliest of the settlers 

 of that beautiful Connecticut Valley town,and 

 though it has now become extinct, it has left 

 a vitalizing force in the community that wil) 



