LADIES' COLUMN.

Tuapeka Times, Volume V, Issue 225, 23 May 1872, Page 8

LADIES' COLUMN.

A SATIRE ON W6MAN SUFFRAGE. Acommitteeof women, including Mrs Stanton and Mrs G-ordon — the latter of this State — have sent a taemorial to the House of Representatives at. Washington, praying for permission to appear at the bar of that body and present their views on the woman, suffrage question. . It required, a two-thirds vote to Suspend the rules for the purpose desired, and the vote was 86 to 95, the the woman suffragists lacking nine of a majority. " At the same time this matter was before the House at Washington, a municipal election was progressing in. Salt Lake City, the main question at issue was polygamy, or the choice of city officers in favour of, or opposed to that institution. Our telegraphic news stated that all chance of defeating the polygamists was lost by the enthusiasm of the , women and girls voting for polygamous canditates. Woman suffrage has been legalised, we believe, in but two Territories, Wyoming and Utah. In Wyoming" it has lost caste, and as we have just seen, "in Utah it has been employed: to • boUter up and continue one of the most unnatural and disgusting iniquities that has ever blotched our Anglo-Saxon civilisation, an importation frqm the beastlydesp'otisrns' I of Persia, Turkey, and the far East, logically dragging after it in the days of its' ripeness or rottenness, trains of eunuchs, spies, and intriguantes such. ! "as made the 1 courts- of Sapor and Jus- 1 tinian the abominations of, history. Will riot 1 the- ladies first above mentioned V who we< believe are 'labouring .in w.hat they conarcientiously rbelieve to be-a just cause, .take warning from this evidence which ;«ttfe. sisters 'of- Utah have given >ofothe bad practical operation of their theory ? . Is it riot a fact demonstrated by > impartial., s history j that wherever' and whenever women generally thave <taken uponi-tbemselves in poHtics/an equaUpart with men,- *he«

tesult has been evil and ruinous to the State ? We shall be told of the marvellous wisdom of Elizabeth. But that is the exception; and, .moreover, it waß not Elizabeth so much as he parliaments and ministers ' that governed England; and for every Elizabeth there is a score of Theodoras, Antononies, Cleopatras, Mammons and •Montespans. If we seek out those nations and periods of history in which society was best governed, we shall find men generally excluding the gentle sex from their politics ; while those most marked by intrigue, frauds blood, cruelty, and . misgovernment, will be found to be- precisely those in which women enjoyed the mistaken elevation of political equality. The Antonines ruled Rome themselves, their wives taking little part in public affairs. Theirs was the " golden* age " of the human race till the United States dimmed its lustre. The Claudians were ruled by their wives and others, and theirs was an age of the most blackened political fraud and infamy. — " Sacramento Union."

An exchange tells of a woman in Detroit who lately celebrated her hundredth birthday, and who " can knit socks in four languages and repeat the commandments with one hand behind her back."

A Kentucky damsel, who had determined to elope, carried her design into execution by calmly lockings her astonished parents in the house and riding away with her true lover.

Misprinted Moral : Delight a father by praise of his daughter's beauty ; a mother by praise of her son's brains. The reverse practice is unsafe if the father is an author, and the mother has been a beauty.

Colours : It is a great art to know exactly what colours go best together. Green ' looks well with gold, violet, or red ;• pale blue with scarlet ; pink wijih black and white, aud grey with scarlet or pink. A cold colour generally requires a warm tint to give it life White and black are usually safe for any complexion. Pink is becoming to some, but not if there is much colour in the cheeks or lips. Maize or straw colour is- particularly becoming to people of dark complexion, with dark hair and eyes. Above all, whatever be tue colour of the dress, the ornaments and trimmings, throughout, should be correspondent one with the other. If all that finishes a dress harmonises, then th 3 general effect cannot fail of being good.

An exchange says the amount of trouble a fashionable woman will take in dressing to please the other sex is incredible. It is not incredible. A woman does not dress to please the. masculine mind ; her costume and appurtenances are fashioned with strict reference to the feminine. A moment's reflection will convince any one of this. Men do not like false hair ; they abhor powder, detest paint, and execrate every new and outre fashion. Grecian bends, high-heeled boots, and all correlative vanit'es, they ridicule in public and protest against in private. Their disapproval is marked, emphatic, and unquestionable, and is based upon the fact that these things are in bad taste and of unpleasant aspect. Has our shallow contemporary any information tending to show that fashionable women have ever been thereby iuduced to abandon them? If there is any one truth which may be considered established, it is that men admire in female apparel nothing so much as simplicity and naturalness, and it is precisely with these that fashion will have nothing to do. Simplicity and femininity are in a condition of chronic warfare. The most popular and permanent fashions in female raiments are those which most thoroughly outrage masculine tastes. Women dress for ' the eyes of one another. It may seem strange that a woman should be at such pains to please her own sex. It does seem strange. In fact, it is not entirely true.