THE DUTIES OF OUR WOMEN. (From the "United Irishman.")

New Zealander, Volume 4, Issue 242, 23 September 1848, Page 3

THE DUTIES OF OUR WOMEN. (From the " United Irishman." )

In the coming time the weapon nearest at hand is always the cheapest. Only dilettanti go about pickin£ and chosing. Shillyskallyers are cowards. Brave men are always armed. Brave men and brave women, a few suggestions to housekeepers we have always given ; we could supply thousands more. There is no better weapon, for instance, than one winch is to be found in every house in the refined quarter of the metropolis. A grand piano sent down upon a tioop of hussars will play such a sonata over their heads as the scoundrels never marched off to. A chimney-glass is a rare thing for smashing. I should not like to be the Saxon assatsin upon nhom some white-armed gill of Erin flung it. Pokers and tongs everybody will know the use of. A cut-steel fender is an awkward thing for a dragoon to ride over. A guardsman won't look well with a copper coal-scuttle for a helmet. Ladies' linen will make the best of lint. A laced handkerchief tied round a wounded warrior's brow will be well bestowed. 1 have seen a servant m college knocked down by a glossy boot, ever so slight, of varnished leather : if a footman, why not a private soldier i Have at him, ladits from the bedroom windows. Your husbands will be away yonder at the barricades. A hot §addle of mutton, flung by cook into the face of a bawling Saxon colonel, willsiience him ; send the dish -cover with it ; or at tea time try him with the silver tea-urn. Our wifd has one. She Jongs for an opportunity to fling it, heater and all, into a Saxon face. Besides the bottle-rack, the use of which and its contents are evident, jour husband will leave the key* of the cellar with you, and you know what (odo. Old port makes excellent grape-shot ; a';ci I don't know any better use which you can make of a magnum of Latouche than to floor an Englishman lyitb it. Have at them with all the glasses in your /iO'jse, the china, the decanters, the lamps, and the cut-glass chaudilier. A good large cheise would be found rather indisgei. tibleby a Saxon, it dropped on his nose from a second, story. And the childi en's washing tub artfully tidiniu istered may do execution. Recollect, it is a tub to catch a whale. Tne water-pipei will be excellent things to tear up and launch at the enemy. They may make a klop in the house at first, but ihe mains and the gat. will be let oft". The ruffians shall fight us if they dare in darkness- and in draught. You will of course empty the china closets on tho rascles, and all the bed-room foot-baths and washing 1 basins. Have them already, and the chests of drawers balancing on the windowsills. Send tho^e after[them too And it any coward Saxon bullet pierce! the /air bosom ot a maid or wife of Jtrin, may the curses of Heuven ligl't on the butcherly dastard. May the pikrs ol Erin quiver in his writhing heart, the bullets of linn whirl thorough hi, streaming eyebt.lL>! May hiboiplians peiihh howling, and his true l^ve laugh o\er his grave ! Way hi» bister's fair fame be blighted aiidlusgrandmother held up to scorn ! May remorse fang him like a ban-dog, and cowardice whip him like a slave! May life weary him! demh dishonour, and lutniity punish him! Liir Saxon ! ruffian Saxon I coward Saxon! bloody Saxon! Ihe gentle and the pure defy ye,a-id sni on ye I—Punch.