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But sympathy does not imply justifi- 

 cation. We may pity but uot approve. 

 I may help my neighbor out of the mire 

 ■tt'ithtnit stopping to ask by what steps he 

 got into it. 



San Jose Institute, Sept., 1)^7(1. 



MASCULINE SUPREMACY. 



BY " GIELS' RKiHTS." 



Now Grandpa says: "When masculine 

 supremacy is duly observed in its legiti- 

 mate sphere, yo\i have there found al- 

 ways the most happiness." Yes, that is 

 right. But Grandpa is not quite clear 

 in defining the boundaries of that "legit- 

 imate sphere" in the case ho points to 

 to show the good results that came from 

 a firm adherence to the doctrine of 

 "masculine supremacy" in the husband. 

 It may have been very well in that par- 

 ticular case; but I fail to see how it 

 proves anything in favor of "masculine 

 supremacy" in other cases. Now I could 

 mention a good many cases where hus- 

 bands have used this assumed suprem- 

 acy to the ruiu of their fortiines and 

 brought their wives to poverty and pri- 

 vation, when, if they had listened to the 

 good judgment and earnest entreaties of 

 their wives, or had observed their rights 

 in the premises, they might have been 

 saved from that disaster. 



Again, he says, "it is the husband's 

 home" the wife comes to, and "he only 

 is competent to judge," etc. Now, 

 couple this last sentence with another 

 further back, "where is the wife who 

 does not love her husband the more for 

 being able to confide in him," etc., and 

 we can draw a conclusion, and that is, if 

 you have made up your mind that lie w 

 competent, and that you are not compe- 

 tent to judge in these matters, and you 

 have full confidence in his love for you, 

 and that he will treat you with kindness 

 and due respect, and you truly love him 

 — why then you need not ask any more. 

 But I am puzzled to understand how a 

 man of judgment and culture can really 

 love and respect a woman who does not 

 know enough to be a competent judge in 

 the matter of the ability to have a com- 

 fortable house to live in, or a comforta- 

 ble buggy to ride in — if she is posted in 

 the financial ati'airs of the firm as she 

 ought to be, and has a rhjhl to be. 



But we will now consider the proposi- 

 tion, and wait the result. He says the 

 "home" is his, and in consequence of 

 his "masculine supremacy" he alone is 

 not only qualified to judge of the necessi- 

 ty or propriety of any change aljout the 

 wife's residence, but has the sole ritjlit to 

 make or not make changes. 



Soquel, August, 1870. 



"RACHEL'S" SENTIMENTS AP- 

 PROVED. 



Me. Editok: Please give my regards 

 to "Rachel A. Ely," Mrs. or Miss as the 

 case may be. She has told us a valua- 

 ble truth, and told it well. No one can 

 wilfully violate a physiological law with- 

 out violating, at the same time, a moral 

 law. 



A man has no more right to destroy 

 his constitution by slow degrees than he 

 has to do it by suicide outright. Chew- 

 ing and smoking tobacco and eating opi- 

 um, for examine, are only species of 

 slow suicide, moral and physical — cer- 

 tainly deteriorating both mind and body 

 during life, and cutting off many days at 

 the close. 



I have seen men who would shudder 

 with holy horror at the thought of a lit- 

 tle needed work on the first day of the 

 week — which the Lord never command- 

 ed to be kept holy — and yet thrust great 



quids of the nastiest of all nasty weeds 

 into their mouths and masticate them 

 with the zest of one enjoying religion. 



Now, the use of tobacco tends to in- 

 duce general debility, making the body 

 a ready prey to all the diseases to which 

 the human system is liable. To use it is, 

 therefore, a sin; and he who does so, 

 how-ever loud he may be in his profes- 

 sions of rehgion, is a sinner, and can 

 hope for salvation only through the 

 abuiulant mercies of God. 



Look out there in the street. See a 

 half dozen little l)oys\vith cigars in their 

 mouths. Others than they, in this case, 

 are sinn<"rs. If the parents and instruc- 

 tors of these children had done their 

 duties to them, they would not have con- 

 tracted this suicidal hiibit. It is morally 

 and physically impossible that these 

 shall ever be fully developed men. They 

 can never be what they might have been. 

 Debilitated, diseased, they must of ne- 

 cessity be. Growing old before their 

 time, they will be superannuated at fifty, 

 and die of senility when they ought to 

 be in their prime. 



Are not that father and mother sinners 

 who have permitted their children to use 

 tobacco before they have arrived at the 

 age of accountability? 



I this day passed the doors of a Sab- 

 bath-school, and saw a dozen young 

 urchins iiufltiug away at their cigars pre- 

 paratory to their religious e.\ercises. 

 What have the Sunday-scliool teachers 

 been doing, that they have not taught 

 them that it is a sin to defile "the temple 

 of the living God?" Nemo. 



San Jose, Sept., 1876. 



and carry it sorrowfully V)ack. But, on | 

 the other henrl, put ui) with the bother — : 

 if indeed it is a bother — and say, "Oh! 

 poor little doggie! He shall have a good 

 home, and we will feed him so nice, and 

 he shall not be abused." In short,make 

 your child happy by your own earnest 

 sympathy and interest, at the same time 

 cultivating a regard and sympathy for 

 helplessness in every form. 

 San Jose, Sept., 187G. 



CHILDREN AND PETS. 



BY BUSY BEE. 



I wonder if parents, as a general thing, 

 realize how important it is to cultivate 

 and encourage a taste for pets in their 

 children. Every chihl should own some 

 special pet — a dog, cat, calf, cow, horse, 

 or even a chicken, anything it may fancy 

 — and be taught to take (^are of them and 

 to be kind and gentle with them, and on 

 no account be allowed to strike or scold 

 them. My little boy has a dog, of no 

 particular value, at the same time we 

 would not take a good deal for him, be- 

 cause the child is so attached to him. 

 At first, as children will, he would get 

 angry at the dog for not minding, per- 

 haps, and strike him. But I make it a 

 point never to allow a child to strike an 

 animal, and by telling him how bad his 

 dog would feel to have him scold or whip 

 him, and that we must try to make all 

 dumb animals love us, he now thinks it 

 would be dreadful to abuse the poor ani- 

 mals that cannot talk, and he notices the 

 least cruelty in others. Only teach our 

 boys to be tender-hearted, and to love 

 dumb animals, and I think it will have a 

 beneficial influence all through their 

 lives. The same rule works as well with 

 gn-ls, only I think they are naturally 

 more gentle and thoughtful than boys. 

 But let them all have pets, and plenty of 

 ;hem, and teach them to love them and 

 oare for them. We make pets of every- 

 thing on the place. Each cat has some 

 particular trait that is noticeable, and 

 our horses are all individuals, and each 

 dog has his peculiar way. If your little 

 boy or girl brings a poor, forlorn kitten 

 or puppy that they have found to you, 

 expecting your sympathy, do not say, 

 "Oh! the nasty little thing! Go take it 

 right straight back; I can't have any 

 eats or dogs under my feet," and see 

 the poor child gather the scrawny, for- 

 lorn cat or dog up in his arms, and with 

 eyes full of tears, and aching little heart, 

 take the beautiful pet (beautiful to them) 



CLEANINGS. 



BY HELENA. 



Dear Editor: It may bo interesting 

 to your readers to know some of the 

 hardships of life so patiently endured by 

 many of our women. In this Centennial 

 year, when the question of womans' 

 equality with man is being discussed 

 freely, and the rights of women as law- 

 maker and voter has, to many minds, 

 become a settled matter, it would bo well 

 to enquire into the reasons for such con- 

 victions. In the course of 



A DAY SPENT IN CANVASSING 



for your excellent journal, I found ample 

 proof to convince the most skeptical of 

 the one-sided arrangement of afl'airs at 

 the present time. Slothers with children 

 clinging to them, told me, with tears 

 starting to their eyes, of their han-owing 

 circumstances. Of their husbands who 

 were once thrifty and prosperous, now- 

 passing their time at the grog-shop: and 

 when remonstratiKl with for bringing 

 themselves home in such a plight, made 

 the flimsy excuse that the liquor cost 

 them nothing at all, as the liquor dealer 

 was a good iriend and was grateful for 

 past favors. No thought was given to 

 the needed 



BREAD AND BUTTER FOR THE FAMILY! 



No new clothes for the once attractive 

 wife and grow-ing girls. The mother 

 had been self-supporting as a girl, and 

 with money in the bank, she laid her 

 hand in his, promising to love, cherish 

 and obey till death. The burden of that 

 promise was beginning to be felt; and 

 what but despair in the future for such a 

 heai-t? At every turn the open door of a 

 saloon to entice one to enter where boon 

 companions made the time pass pleas- 

 antly, and all care banished away. What 

 matter if the sad-eyed wife sat sewing by 

 the lamplight to bring food to her hungry 

 family, he was having a good time, and, 

 when hardly able to stand alone, he 

 crept homo and to Iiis bed to sleep away 

 the efl'ects of the miserable liquor. 



Turning with a saddened heart from 

 such a picture of man's degradation, I 

 enter a neatly painted cott;ige, and the 

 opening door disclosed to my view a 

 glimpse into such a homo as 



TEMPERANCE AND IND0STRY 



only dwells in. Entering into conversa- 

 tion over tho merits of the Acjricdltci!- 

 isT, I chanced to remark upon its sound 

 principles of temperance reform, when 

 the lady, with enthusiasm, exclaimed: 

 "That's the pajier for us! Yon know my 

 hnsband, who used to lounge away his 

 time at the saloon and come home at all 

 honrs of the night. ^\■elI, thanks to the 

 good Champions, he is now all right. 

 We sit together in the evening, after the 

 children have gone to bed, and t.alk over 

 the old times, and I know he will never 

 go back to them. See he has paid for 

 our home and built a house on the end 

 of the lot, which is rented to a good ten- 

 ant. He tells me he was never so happy 

 before as now. Y'es, we must have the 

 paper, and I wish all the world could 

 know the joys of life with a good, tem- 

 perate man." 



When I meet with such a case, Mr. 

 Editor, I feel it a duty to place it before 

 the people that all may believe that re- 

 form can be accomiilished. 



A SATURDAY-EVENING REVERY. 



Kl:OM 31. E. T. 



Supper is over — the last pot and pan 

 neatly w-ashed and set away. With tired 

 feet i seek the plain little sitting-room, 

 and sit down to meditate. I do think, if 

 there is a class of people on this earth to 

 be pitied, it is that class denominated 

 "poor, but respectable." To some this 

 may appear a strange way of thinking, 

 but those who have experienced the 

 troubles and trials belonging to this 

 class will certainly agree with me. I 

 ask, what does the effort cost us to imi- 

 tate our more fortunate friends, those 

 with whom we associate alid who — appa- 

 rently, at least — regard us as equals? 

 We must dress as nearly as possible as 

 they dress; to return their hospitality we 

 must load our table with delicate viands, 

 and to enjoy their visits we must fashion 

 all our surroundings after a style that is 

 not our own. To accomi)lish this diffi- 

 cult task, we not only make of ourselves 

 positive slaves, but do a thousand things 

 that tend to rob our homes and our loved 

 ones of true comfort. Not that I would 

 condemn that innate pride in the hiiuian 

 heart, which is right enough and com- 

 mendable to a certain extent, and wilh- 

 ont which we would be comparatively 

 worthless; but, rather, by what means 

 are we to kivow when we have just 

 enough? Wkere shall wo place the di- 

 viding Hne that confers on one side all 

 due courtesy to friends, and inflicts on 

 the other side no injustice to ourselves.' 

 And, above all, how are we to possess 

 ourselves of that firmness and indepen- 

 dence necessary to a course of action? 

 Why will w-e go on acting for ever against 

 our bettor judgment, treading a thorny 

 pathway merely to look at the roses that 

 bloom for others, giving, O ! so much for 

 so little? The majority of us are aware, 

 too, of the evil consequences atteuiliiig 

 such a course — consequences that I ask 

 some sympathizing reader of the Ai;ni- 

 ctjLTURLsT to assist me in numerating, 

 and which shall furnish food for another 

 Saturday night's revery. 



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i;^ 'Watehes of superior and attrac- 

 tive style and make at Louis Chopard's, 

 at very low prices. Something worth 

 your while to look at. 



^»oiio ami 6ivl 



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Turn About. 



DY £LXA WHEELER. 



Tutu about, boys, turn about. 

 Hilp us drive the demon out; 

 Turn Ixforo yon reach tbe brink 

 \>1ioro so mauy thousands sink 

 Into ruin, who be^^au 

 Just like you. my little man. 



How? Well, first they etnittf-d round 

 With ciffaritas that they found; 

 Then, to imit.ite j;rown men. 

 Sipped at liquor now and then, 

 Interspereiug with a "chew:"* 

 Now, is not that just like you? 



When they grew to man's estate. 

 Can you guess what was their fate ? 

 Drunk'irds. loafers, luuts. and knaves. 

 Filling j.iils and early graves. 

 Surely ynu would rather grow 

 Into noble men I know. 



Think, then, think how they began; 

 Shun their habitiii, little man. 

 Turn alwnt, yes. turn about 

 Ere yuu grow to be a lout. 

 Turn about boys, turn about, 

 Help us drive the demon out. 



