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THE SPOILED MAN BY EVA B. It is the easiest thing In the world to spoil a man. This was the outcome ot my reflections as I sat and mused over what Susan B. Anthony is stated to have said at the Friday Morning olub during her latest visit here. All ber statements were the exact truth. They proved what woman has accomplished during the last half century. This was not all. They proved much more. Thsy demonstrated unintentionally and nnoonoiously that while woman has "advanced" step by step, man has been "spoiled" ditto. Susan said: "There was a time, when I was young, when it was considered indelicate for a woman to express an opinion. Girls were to be seen and not heard. Then it oame to be said that if a woman held up her head no man would marry her. But she held up her head and she was married all the same. Next she began to strike out for her self and work. Then it was said no man would marry a girl who had her own money. Now the only onea sure of getting husbands are those that have money. In faot, they are the only ones who oan afford the luxury of hus bands." True. Doesn't this show how pro gressive females have succeeded in spoiling men. It is as good an illus tration as could have been thought of. There was a time, long ago, when Susan and I were young, when brothers, hus bands and fathers felt dishonored when through their misfortunes, illness or old age it devolved upon their wo mankind to put the shoulder to the wheel. That was necessity. Parallel with these instances oame ths woman who wanted to rise to her "proper sphere." She has risen. She is in it. She made the change. The man who disapproved at the beginning has sons who today are quite used to having women work, and more than that, they think it woman's duty to work. Homes are divided into inde pendent factions, and very frequently it is the woman that is the chief cup bearer and Btatf-of-llfe winner. It would seem that a certain girl of well to-do parents, whose sisters were dress makers, made a diplomatic reply when asked why sho did not learn to sew also. She answered, "If I don't know how, I won't have to do it." I wonder where it will end. Man will not only desire woman to work, but will feel aggrieved if she does not. The time is ooming when he will feel "awfully angry" If his wife does not al low bim sufficient pin money. He will feel slighted if she forgetssten one time to slip an extra two-bits into bis porte moDnaie when there is a particularly good matinee on, and if she happens for onoe to be so absent-minded as to forget to give him an additional nickel to treat his friend and himself to soda water (ii cents each, two for 5), he will be mad and think that she is getting real mean. Where will it end ? It is not man's fault. As I sit and muse over this revised condition of affairs many thoughts of all kinds flit about my mind that refuse to take their proper plaoes. Some touch on tbe coming man, and they make me smile. Others wind themselves in reveries of the happy old-fashioned days gone by; memories sad, and visions bright and gay weave iv and „,.» in iUKic, huu regardless of the natural sequences that well regulated thoughts always take in well regulated books. But more than all they wander to the long ago, clinging lovingly to hap py days ot old-fashioned girlhood and womanhood, and refusing to be recon ciled to tbe elements that are sweeping away the old landmarks ot a contented and peaceful home life. Childish days oome up with romps in the gar ret (those who never played in a garret can never know what they have missed), country school days when everybody took their dinners, ex changed pieces of pie and bestowed "bites" of good things, impartially all aroi-ad. The seasons as they camo aur went brought their Maying par- Ms, nutting expeditions, sledding, snowballing, and what not. Later oame decorum, grown up boys and girls went to '.'the oity" to school. Then oame the first parties and balls. Was woman's education negleoted? Nol Perhaps in those days her school ing bad not the ramifications of today, but her culture was on a higher plane. Scenes again take shape of quiet, peaceful winter evenings when' the whole family gathered about the par lor fire when father and mother sat happy in the midst of their young flock. The daughters busily engaged in hemstitching a pillow-case, em broidering table linen or mending a week's batch of stockings took turns with their brothers in reading a new book or magazine, whioh was frequent ly interrupted with opinions and dis cussions of the story. In summer there was tea on the lawn. Can any thing take its place? At this point of my reflections reveries vanish and I become prosaic as well as retrospec tive. When callers came at that hospitable hour, did the women talk gardens, dish The Poster In Politics. The "boodle" alderman might adopt the high art poster as a novel means of advertising his candidacy. washing or oooking? Yes, if it hap pened so. Or they may have discussed the fashions, shopping or a neighbor hood gossip, but they were not neces sarily engrossed in these subjects, us is now supposed. Toen every woman prided herself on h<?r knowledge of culinary arts, en her multitudinous shelves of preserves and ou her medi oinal knowledge of dispensing teas, paregoric, brandy and jellies to tbe poor and ailing in the neighborhood. With these domestic accomplishments came her social, religious and humane duties, whioh she filled with equal grace, dignity and ability. For high culture, brilliancy and wit, we oan take her as an example, and envy her that true repose and geutle courtesy that marked the gentlewoman at home or abroad. Was there no woman of note before today? Her soul was not any more wrapped up in dishwashing (except the washing of ths precious family china) than the new woman's. Since we hive ceased to wash our old teacups, make jellies, doctor the babies around tbe neigh borhood, have laid aside the manners handed down to us and have lost our womanly attributes gen erally, we are developing a new sphere. Nowadays any woman who does not believe that suffrage should be the main struggle of exist ence Is advised to return to old times and wash dishes. This may not be the only alternative in the world, and she may not hanker after it as a lire work any more than of old, but she might do worse. Orators, male and female, are getting np and trying to laugh down old prejudices against woman's en franchisement. Burdette ridiculed the idea that woman's voting would en danger the home structure. "Why," he said, "It only takes me three or four hours a year to do all my voting. (Bur dette, however, forgot to mention that he is not of the feminine gender.) "Woman spends many more times than that in shopping." True. Dr. Carlos Martyn, in his defense for women, gave as an instance a woman's reply to the question, Who would take care of her baby when she went to vote? whioh was, "The same person that takes care of it when I go to pay my taxes." The reverend doctor also scoffed at the idea that dainty woman would soil her bands by drop ping a slip of white paper into a box. These statements have a knack of tickling the ear, but as an argument against the belief that the home life will be endangered by woman's voting they are nonsensically weak and even silly. If voting really meant only spending four hours a year in politics, leaving the baby for an afternoon and dropping a slip of paper into a box and si .oh other trivialities, there would be no occasion for a host of men and women to put themselves out to argue the matter. But much greater questions binge on the to vote or not to vote. To quote Susan again. She said after rehears ing all the things that woman had wanted and obtained, "tbe only thing left is for woman to vote, and that bugaboo will go too." Exactly. After tbat statement, the question that must have arisen in every mind was, "after that bugaboo is gone; what will woman want next?" From the feeling that has been smoldering for the last half oentury in the breasts of thousands of women, will she be satisfied after she has a right to vote to confine her liberties to tbe narrow limitations parallel with a shopping expedition? Will she need only one afternoon's substitute for her baby? Will she be ft i-ani lou'diu io vote, ntatea mattsr of-faotly, she will never stop. She will want more and more. Tbe home life will be shattered. There will be none. That speoies of unrest, excitement and feverishnesa that is now the bane of American existence, and that is the very pulse of the new woman, will grow . and multiply until we may consistent ly ask: Where will we be at? It is evident that among the women suffrage fighters there are numerous classes. Those there be who wish to rescue women from their "down trod den" conditior.; to pull them out from under men's feet. Tbeir sole idea is to gain power, to have the right of suf frage and to show the men what they will do. Exit—this typo. We will have nothing to do with her. Women, again, there be who have nothing but the good of fellow-women at heart; who think that property rights should bo equally distributed between the sexes. Anyone with a proper s9nse of mercy and justice be lieves that this inequality should be adjusted. It is the men, however, that should be made to do it. This will seem ridioulous to those women wLo do not know the word "diplomacy." Man is a good-natured animal. But woman will not gain anything from him by fighting. It would be exceedingly out of place for even anyone of my age to "give away" the secret. The old stand-by proverb, "Where there's a will, there's a way," was made solely for woman's delectation. Try our port and Sherry wines at 75 cents per gallon. T. Vaehe & Co., Com mercial and Alameda streets. Telephone 309. Garbage collection days have been changed. See ad. on classified page, ".Spe cial notices." My prices for wallpaper beat all the city. A A, Eekstrom. 324 South SDrlng street. LOS ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING-, APRIL 5, 1896. IN OLD KENTUCK These Kentucky legislators who lay their eix-shooters handily on the desks and loosen their bowie knives in their sheaths before proceeding to an other ballot for United States senator are, after all conservative men. Their lethal weapons are simply evidences that the doctrines of heredity are sound. One is disposed to casually dispose of Kentucky styles of argu ment as radical and their methods of enforcing the same as drastic. Thus they may be measured by other than Kentucky standards, but the charac teristics mentioned are those ot age. The only change to be noted is in the make of weapon. The double aotiou hammerlesß bus succeeded the cap and ball six-shooter—the original Colt model which thirty-five years ago re placed the old time horseman's pistol. The Kentuckians honestly inherited their quickness on the trigger and fine mechanical alertness with the knife. The Ohinne, the Clays, the Bronstons of 100 years ago cleared their farms with an nx in one hand and a rifle in the other. The usually peaceful en terprise of driving home the oows was often interrupted for the purpose of killing off an Indian or two. So the weapon t eoame pert of the every day equipment of the oitizen, and the logio of the bullet became the convinoing ar gument. They have a strong sense of their personal importance, do these Ken tucky men. The mountaineers possess this mark, or evidence, to a greater degree than their neighbors of the low lands. They are as proud and haughty as Scotch Highland men, and have not the smoothness and polish of educa tion and contact with the world that the blue grass Kentuckians have. These latter are gentlemen in all the word implies, education, accomplish ments, social ease and the greatest confidence in the purity of their pedi grees. The mountaineers are the same without the graces. They have lived isolated for generations, and, while they are no doubt thoroughbreds, are yet to be trained and groomed. I saw an entertaining instance of the high personal regard in whioh the moun taineers are disposed to hold them selves. It was on a Lexington and Eastern train coming down from Breathitt county — bloody Breathitt. Two yuung men of Jackson were pas sengers. It might be told as showing the popular trend of popular habit in Jackson that local statisticians com pute the number killed in the main street in the last twelve years at more than 100 persons. "An' not a nary a case ot bushwhaokin'," said tbe narra tor, strong in his local pride, "they was all shot off on the square." The front of the courthouse is chipped and scarred by bullets until ft looks as it made of rough-faced brick, instead of tbe sym metrical parallelepiped used by the masons. But one man has been legally hanged in Breathitt. He was ""ar! Tom Smith," who was borrowod ro a au adjoining oounty for executio.. oy way ot an objeot lesson. However, this has little to do with the incident of railway travel. I These two young men, who were going to Lexington, had the front end of the smoker to themselves, and the bottle which they held in joyous alter nate embrace. The .Lexington and througn mountains. IU curves are sharp and of small degree. Its sidings are quarried out from the hillside— absolutely blasted from the face of nature. Naturally, in the expensive construction, the sidings wsre made no longer than necessary. Near a stretch of land locally known as In dian Oldllelds, just before coming out of the hills, the passenger train stopped and presently began to back. An up-bound freight, oomposed largely of empty cattle oars, had gone up the aiding to permit the down train to pass, but was too long by three ears and the caboose, which remained out ou the main traok. The freight backed out of the switch and the passenger train, which was short, was taking its place to leave the main traok open. "What's the matter?" asked the young mountain men, with the' curi osity of infrequent, travelers. "What's he-all a-doiu'?" pointing to the brake man, who waa throwing the switch. "He's switching us into the Biding to let tbat freight train pass," explained tbe conductor. "Not on your life!" said the outraged young men. 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The rest of tbe train crew and a few passengers fell upon the proud spirited Breathitt county boys when they had shot tbeir pistols empty, and sat upon them until Clay Oity was reaohed, and Tom John ston, tbe effective and persuasive town marshal, assumed charge. ft ft w Senator Brown, of one of the interior distriots, was my seat mate one day on the Cincinnati Southern. At a way station some Salvation army soldiers took the train. "There has been a great change in re ligious methods within my remem brance," said the senator, reflectively. "Befo' the difficulty 'tw'xt the no'th and south there were k. eat religious gatherin'a as regular as harvest. Nig gers and whites flocked to 'em in droves. Yo' oonldn't stop 'em. It looked like the preachers brought the 'power' with them—that's what we called the religious feelin'—power —and then they'd work up the excitement one "Br these camp meet in'a all havin' the power at once, a-hollerin' an' a singin' till yo' couldn't rest. It's very exoitin'. I recall one camp gatherin' ever at Foxtown, on the Lexington an Richmond pike; tbey bad the power hard there. I never did know befo' nor since suoh strongly marked cases. One was that of a most beautiful young woman—one of the most beautiful young women, 1 reckon, sir, that Ken tucky ever produced. She come a-r'ar in' an' a-ohargin' down the open space to the preaoher's platform, for all the world like a 2-year-old thoroughbred turned out to grass. On she comes a-jumpin' an' holleriu' an' her eyes blazln' like young suns. It was most a noble sight, the way she cavorted. Just as she was nigh me she gives a special holler an' falls olean exhausted onto the ground. She was bantin' like a colt after ruanin' the Darby distance an' looked most at tractive and appealin'. I turned an' left, It was too exoitin' a day fer me." "Why didn't you pick ncr up and re suscitate her, am itoc f' "Well I thought of that too, but I passed it up. 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