The Delightful Place for the Ladies.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 219, 20 January 1874, Page 7

The Delightful Place for the Ladies.

The following particulars occur in a letter from San Francisco A lady here is so tho roughly independent of her husband that she may not only embark hi any business.without his consent or knowledge, but she may actually, if she pleases, engage''him as a servant, pay-him his wages, and; whilst still living with him as his wife, hold herself entirely free from any of his actions, debts, and liabilities. -1 have seen over and over again wife, husband, and children enter a cab, the wife leading tho way. 1 have seen her coolly give the conductor cash or car tickets, as the case might’ require,’ 'order her husband to stop the car when necessary, get out first unaided, leaving the. husband.-to extricate and follow with the children, .-and .sail grandly away on the sidewalk in serene unconcern at any difficulty he might Find in following. 1 have seldom seen a woman attending to her children in any public conveyance or street. But 1 have hundreds and hundreds of times seen men out with s\yarms of them, sometimes alone, sometimes preceded by a grand lady, who may be discovered accidentally belongs to the group by any change of position which brings them all together for the-raoment. Large families, by the way, are the rule in this State; heaps.of people-quite young themselves have quivers very full indeed. Young ladies do not pay any groat respect to either mamma or papa ; and it is not at all uncommon to see in the newspapers,’ where everything is reported which English people -keep to themselves, that “Miss So-.and‘Sogave a ball last night at the residence of her.pai’fciits,” Ac.,'<fcc. • The young lady is. usually called the “ fascinating hostess,” and’hereafter follow not only notices of the young ladies* costumes, but statements of .what the reporter thought of their appearance, as thus : “ Miss Elh\ Blank, a lively brunette, looked particularly charming in pink tarlatans, with natural flowers in her luxuriant and jetty ringlets ; but the accomplished belle of, the evening was the beautiful and accomplished Miss Dash, an exquisite blonde, who dehutedUm this oc-

casioh, and whose sparkling' sallies', not less than her unsurpassed- personal appearance, secured her a crowd of admirers during the [whole' evening.” Within this last week a j woman debated, in the law courts,'under the ! following circumstances :—“She stated that j she kept a butchery,”— aiujlice, butcher’s shop, —“ that the defendant had seized the stock and fixtures of the same for a debt of her husband’s, whereby she had been prevented from serving certain boarding-houses with beef, and had sustained serious loss of custom, wherefore she prayed recompense and damages. Being cross-examined, she deposed that she' employed her husband to manage her butchery for her, giving him his board for his services, ’ and ten dollars a month for spending-money, but that the business was entirely ber own, and that he had no part in it but that of a servant. She further stated that the meat in the shop at the time of the seizure was worth twenty-five dollars ; that it was ordered for certain boardinghouses ; that she would have made fifteen dollars by the sale, but had lost her profits and her customers too. The judge declared the law was entirely-in her favour, and the opposing counsel agreed with him. —Ncivs of the World”

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