FALLACIES OF THE GENTLEMEN.

New Zealander, Volume 7, Issue 546, 9 July 1851, Page 4

FALLACIES OF THE GENTLEMEN.

By a Lady who unfortunately knows them only too well. That women are only born to be their slaves. That dinner h to be ready for them the very minute they come into the bouse. '1 Jiat a lady's bonnet can be put on as quickly as a gentleman's hat. That wo can dress in a minute ; and that ringing the boll violently has the effect of making us dress one bit the quicker. That they can do everything so much better than we car. — from nui&ing the baby down to poking the inc. '1 hat they ara "the Lords of the Creation" — (ptetty Loxh, indeed.) 'i hat nothing cm he too good for them ; for lam sure if you weiH to put a hot joint before them every day, that .still they would be dissatisfied, and would be grumbling that you never gave them cold meat. That they Know our age so much better than we do ourselves. ( h'b so teiy likely). They may invite whom, and as many, as they please ; hut ll wo only invite our mamma to come and stop with us, and just ask a dear unmarried sister or two to stop with us foi a month, that there's to he no peace for us so long as they remain in the house. That nni^ic can be learnt without practising, and that if is necessary for them to rush out, and to blam the door Molently, the very moment we begin to open our voices, or to lun over tha last new Polka. That sleeping after dinner promotes conversation. Thai they knovr what dress and bonuet becomes us so much better than we do. That it is necessary to make a poor woman cry, because a stupid shirt-button happens to be off. I declato some men mubt believe that their wives cut off (.heir shut buttons purposely, from the savage pleasure they take m abusing them for it. Hint we aie not allowed to faint, nor to have the smallest (it of l^sterics, without being told "not to make a fool of ouivelves." That housekeeping does not require any money, and if we venture to ask for any, that it is pleasant to btf met with all soits of black looks and insinuations as to "what we can do wilk it all;" or very agreeable to be told that we will be the ruin of him some day" — (I should like to .see the day !) '1 lut the house never requires cleaning, or the tables rubbing, or the carpets beating, or the furniture renewing, or the sofas fresh coveis, or, in fact, that any thing has a right to wear out, or to be spoilt, or bioken; and, in short, that eveiy thing ought to last for ever ! '1 bat a poor lone woman is never to have any pleasure, but always, always, to slop at home, and "mind her children" — (I'm tired of such nonsense.) That the wish to go to the Opeia is to bo the »ure pi elude to a qu.urel. 1h it their daughters can learn music, painting, playing 1 , dancing, and all the accomplishments, without the aid cf a single master. 'I hat the expenses of one's household do not increase with one's family, but rather, that tun children can be suppoi ti d (or the same cost as one. That no husband is perfect, like Hercules, without his club, and that the less the wife sees of her husbitnil, the fonder she actually grows of him. Th.it it 13 a pleasuie for us to sit up for them. Oui f.ni con csponde»t says, she thinks the above fallacies me enough for the present, and we certainly aguv mill her: hut if the gentlemen show any more o? tLou «vis, she declares that she will give them a lot 111010.