The evening telegraph. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, March 14, 1870, FOURTH EDITION, Page 6, Image 6

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    'the daily avhisiiN iKr.T
Tlte aKxrliiftl-i ,io of Women.
From the London Satiiriltty Uoinnc.
One of the oddest tiling in thi strange
contradictions lifo f imrs in tlio (liiiromnnt
cont iumill v i:cnrrix;g Untwoe.u uiatnriat fnot
and inoriil re:ility. "I'hiug are r.ot vchnt
they ficcin," iu very truth; ami we
should seldom lie far ont if we
took rpjieurnucrs, ns the witches of
old used to nay their prayers, buck wards.
And foremost nmong theo contradictions are
certain circumstances touching the written
and the actual condition of the women of
Englnnd. 15y law a wife is nowhere. Ranked
with infants und idiots, sho is the property of
her husband; her rights are vested in him,
her very individuality is merged in his; of
herself, and disallowed by him, she can do
nothing either to defend or to maintain her
self; all of which is bad enough when the
marriage is a failure, and the home
falls asunder, and the wife has to bear the
brunt of two evils at once fetters on the one
hand aid want of protection on the other.
And yet what is the moral reality in the face
of this positive legal fact ? That nine times
out of ten the woman is the mistress and the
man walks in leading strings; that
the law assigns her as property, but society
grants her possession; and that she, being
more exclusive, more jealous, more arbi
trary, and narrower than he, is able to im
pose her own will and code on him, and to
make him accept her will unconditionally.
The man must be very hard or very sharp
whom a woman cannot sail round as she
chooses, and manipulate to any form she
takes a fancy for. She has but to adapt her
battery to the character of the citadel sur
face submission for the blustering, coaxing
for the soft-hearted, flattery for the vain,
deception for the obtuse and she gains the
day on her own terms.
Unfortunately for herself, she generally
gains it by something less than the rigid
truth; for though Merlin and Yivienne re
present an extreme cose, still the type is true,
if exaggerated, nature, which denied woman
strength, having made np for it by a double
share of subtlety. It all comes to the same
thing in the end; and that end is mastery.
The tummum bonum of life, the thing for
which all nations, all religions, all men have
Striven since the world began, that desire for
supremacy and mastership which is to human
history what iron is to the blood and lime to
the bones, is by no means a specially masoa
line characteristic, still less a specially mas
culine possession; albeit compassed by dif
ferent methods and exercised in different
ways, it is as much the central desire of
women as of men, and their tummum bonum
too, when they can attain it. And they do
attain it, in spite of Elackstone and the laws
touching and regarding the rights and condi
tion of baron and feme.
In nothing do women show their mastery
over men more than in the extent to
which they carry their exclusiveness. No
women in the world, not told off into castes,
are so exclusive as the English, none so
jealous of shoring their good things. It is
not in one thing, but in everything alike
dress, station, domestic happiness, the com
panionship of men; they would, if they could,
keep all they call distinctively their own,
rigidly to themselves; they would suffer no
longing eyes to look over their park palings,
still less allow another to share in their fruits
and flowers. As a rule it is not the man's
fault that the English home is so dull as it
generally is. It is the wife who prevents all
easy intercourse, all simple friendliness be
tween her husband and other men, and yet
more between her husband and other
women. It is she who bars the house
door, and forbids it to be opened
save with such pomp and ceremonial
as makes the opening a weariness to all
concerned. The very woman who, as a
spinster living with her sisters, is glad
to have a facile unceremonious society about
ber, as a wife sets her face decidedly against
that kind of familiarity which lets a person
feel at home in her house; and above all
she fears and dislikes a female friend who
admires her husband, though in the most in
nocent way, and who says so. The profound
moral skeptcism which has penetrated society
from end to end has eaten away feminine
trust with the rest; and even pure and vir
tuous women, incapable for their own ports
of anything like immorality, are not ashamed
to suspect their sisters of improper feelings
and naughty practices, and to think them
selves safe in their married homes just 1 in
proportion as they are isolated. Especially
are happy wives suspicious of those who have
made shipwreck of their own venture. Un
married women and contented wives may be,
if rarely, admitted into the heart of the
charmed circle if the husband is conspicu
ously indifferent to them; but an unhappy
wife is held to be a kind of pirate in disguise,
a rival who will steal away the husband's
affections if she can, and on whom it is more
than probable he will bestow them unasked.
Very few women have generosity enough
to befriend one of their own
sex when in matrimonial difficulties,; if
their friendship is to include their husband's.
Of all things most abhorrent to women we
may count duality, under any name, or
aspect. Only a man, and a masterful man,
could have written as Coleridge did about the
'two beloved women' in his "Day Dream,"
with Asra's eyelashes playing on his cheek
and Mary's hand upon his brow, Mary's lap
the pillow of the two lovers, and her head
leaning on the tree where the two names
were carved. This sharing of a man's affec
tion, though in widely different proportions
and in quite distinct spheres, is a thing no
woman could be found to praise, if even Bhe
enforced herself to endure it. It is not gene
rally seen, however, that women are as rigid
in their exclusion of mole friends from
their own hearts, most women having
set up a tame cat of their own some time or
other in their lives, though not liking tame
mice for their husbands. The fact is, a wife
in England claims to be her husband's all.
Bhe is not content to possess the whole, of
such love as rightfully belongs to a wife,
but she must also possess the whole of his
Bympathy, his interest, his admiration. Bhe
must be the only woman in the world to him;
and the rest of her sex must be neither as
man nor woman. Though sometimes poachers
s i jj - : : l i a. i if .. n.i
intruue iu bjjuo ui not euro, u is seiaom mai
even a sister an maintain her sisterly rights
and privileges when her brother has married;
and though we of ten see a man'helDincr to
support his wife's family, and even taking her
sister or mother to live with them, when the
same thing happens on the other side the
woman thinkB herself very hardly used, and
' almost invariably makes it a grievance. An
old couplet says truly enough, ,
Tonr son Is your son till lie gets him a wile,
Jour daughter's your own all the davs of her life.
It is only the man who is absorbed
by his new relations, by virtue of
the exolusiveness of women; by virtue of that
same exclusiveness the woman keeps her own
while she excludes his, and even if the hus
band objects in the beginning and wishes to
maintain his past and his associations in their
integrity, a vwy little Uct on her part can
fashion thir.gs in time to her own plans, and
briDg the most recalcitrant of spovmos to his
proper place as wheeler, not leader. There
is scarcely a husband of the good and domes
tic kind who docs not suft'er under the exclu
siveness of bis wife, aud whose life is not im
poverished bv her determination to be his
sole source of pleasure and interest. Some
times he is driven to subterfuge and decep
tion, and has to keerj up his independence at
the expense of his trnth; but for the moa
mart he rives in. and habit after awhile fits
the voke more easily to his neck.
The same feminine characteristic of love of
exclusiveness comes out in matters of dress.
One of the greatest proofs of friendship that
one woman can oemow ou anotuer is to give
her the pattern of some unhackneyed unpur
chasable article of dress; and the sine qua non
of local patronage is the undertaking, on the
milliner s part, not to make any other crown
or bonnet like my lady's. It is not the beauty
of the thing wnicn charms bo much as its ex
clusiveness; and this it is whioh leads to those
wonderful exaggerations of fashion wherewith
women love to mske themselves singular and
remarkable. For if they cannot have what
no one else has, at least they can have things
as no one else has them; which answers the
purpose as well, and supplements if it
does not supply. It is this same feeling
which separates mistress from maid so
far that vou seldom see any sense of
the community of sex. but only that of the
difference of station between them. A French
woman and her bonne are on a very much
nearer footing than the typical Englishwoman
and her maid; our national exclusiveness of
temper marking off the grades here sharply
and harshly, while in France and Italy and
even Germany we cannot say the same for
Spain or ItaBsia there is a much more catho
lic sentiment; and in America, of course, all
men and women are equal, save niggers, red
skins, and Chinamen. No doubt we are all
worms and miserable sinners before heaven,
and Christianity means love and equality.
catholicity and the sweetest humbleness; but
phrases are good for just so much as they are
worth in action, and things do not always fit
in with the words that describe them.
Christian equality gets Badly put about be
tween rent-roll and pedigree, and the
charity which thinketh no ill is seldom
so strong as the jealous exclusiveness
which cannot bear that any one should share,
however remotely, in the pleasure and affec
tion of one's own life. Fortunately for hu
manity we every now and then come across
certain large-hearted, generous women, who
care more for the great body of the human
family than they care for themselves, and who
find their own best happiness in increasing
the happiness of others. And n ith these are
no petty jealousies, no small suspicions, no
narrow exclusiveness; to them home is a
temple rather than a prison, and the domestic
hearth an altar, thoroughly sacred and holy,
but not an adytum whence all outside the
veil are to be excluded. No one wants the
house-door flung open to the street, and the
home turned into a lounging-place for a mob
of the idle and curious unattached to congre
gate at will; but this is very different from
the exclusiveness which most women feel and
cultivate as their right, and whioh has the
effect chiefly of boring their husbands beyond
measure, and of making domestio life an
inimitably dull affair to all concerned.
PROPOSALS.
-FFICE TJ. 8. ORDNANCE AGENCY, CORKER
J HOUSTON and GREENE Streets (entrance on
ureenej, r. u. box mil.
New York Citv. March 7. 1870.
Sealed proposals In duplicate will be received at
tllla iMll'ia nntll thn hh rl r n n A n-ll 1CTA .1 O n'nlnnlp
blUB VIIIW UUkll VUG UVII UU 'l jgU mv M 1 tviUVtk
P.M., for the purchasing, deliverable at the points
wnere sioreu, ine ioiiowiug naruea uranance stores,
to wit:
2193 Artillery Valise Saddles, repaired,) at St. Louis
nuu rcpairaoie, Arsenal,
6;i63 " Collars. I Ho.
&39 " " atRocklslandArBenal.Ill.
The Ordnance Department reserves the right to
reject all bids not deemed satisfactory. Terms
Cash in Government funds; ten per cent, on the day
of sale, and the remainder when the property is de
livered. Thirty dajs will be allowed for the re
moval or the stores.
Proposals to be addressed to the undersigned, en
dorsed rropoBais tor purchasing eauaies ana col
lars."
Samples can be seen at this Agency or the Arsenals.
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r0 ALL WANTING FARMS IN A LOOAL-
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851 Secretary.
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INCORPORATED 1864. CHARTER PERPETUAL,
FIRE INBURANOK KXni.TTNTVTTr V
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J Dn uompany, favorably known to the oommamty lor
aver forty years, continues to Insnre sfrainat loss or danv
ae by fire on Pnblio or Private Bnilduiirs,ieither penna-
neuLiy or lor a luniiea lime. Also on r nrmttire, otoc
of Goods, snd Merohsndise senerallz. en liberal terms.
Their Camtal. together with a larira Rnprtlna vn
Invested In the most careful manner, whioh enables them
uj oner io we uunrsa an unaouoiea seosxll m aba aa
Of loss.
Drsjtoz as.
Daniel Smith, Jr., John Dtuveranx,
Alexander Benson, I Thomas Nnrith.
Isaac Ilaslehnrst, I Henry Lewis,
Thorn- Robing r 1 J. Git,n.ba Frtt
-WM. O. OROWFIJ?1 J' "g,
QREAT WESTERN
Mutual Life Insurance Co.
OF NEW YORK.
EDWIN E. SIMPSON, MANAGER,
Ho. ffia WALNUT St., Plillada,
All the rood, equitable and liberal features of the best
Life Insurance Companies ara soaranteed to the polioy
holders of this Company. 1 32 stuthSa
Libaral arransements made with competent anenta.
" WANT8.
TO THE WORKING OLA88.-Wa ara now pre
Pared to famish all olsseee with constant employ
nient at home, the whole of the time or for the spare
momonts. Business new. light, and profitable. Persona
of either eex easily earn from 6uo. to i per evening, and a
proportional sum by devoting their whole time to the
bnainess. Boys and (ir e earn nearly as mnoh aamon.
That all who see this notice may send their address, and
teat the business, we make this unparalleled offer: To
suoh aa are not well aatiatlsd, we will send tl to nay foe
tlis trouble of writing. Full particulars, a valuable sam
ple, whioh will do to aommenoe work on, and a copy of
i'A. ftofile'i Literary tWijxMium-ons of the lareeet and
best family newspapers published all sent free by mail.
Reader, if vou want permanent, proii table work.addres
It, Q. ALLEN a CO.. Augusta, Maine, . lid fen
' TOHN FARNUM A CO., COMMISSION MEE
93 ehaaU and Manufacturers of Oonestoca Tlokio eto,
ft fta OHfcbJiUX b treat. PhiltdaliiU. , tlwtaal
1NSUR ANOE.
DELAWARK MUTUAL SAFKTY INHUKanoiC
COMPANY. luoorporated bj the legislature
of Pctinaylvanla, 1S36.
Office sonthesdt corner tf THIRD and WALNUT
KtriM-ta. I'hlltKltUphla.
WAR1NK INSURANCES
On Vessels, Cargo and Frclgut to all parts Of Ue
wiirici.
INLAND INSURANCKS
On goods by river, canal, lane ana laud oarrlsffa to
nil t'lirtA of the Vnlon.
F1KK 1NSUKANCKH
On McrcbaiKllBo grnonilljj on Stores, DweUlBgs,
Houses, eto.
ASSETS OF THE COMPANY
Novpmber 1, W.
IVOO.OOO United StoU's Five Per CenU
Loan, ten-tortlen $31 8,000 -OO
100,000 Untied btates Six PerCenU
Loan (lawful money) 107,760-00
60,000 United btates Six per Cent.
Loan, lssi S0.000-O9
00,000 State ot Pennsylvania Six Ter
Cent. Ixan 113,960 1X)
800,000 City of Philadelphia Six Ter
Cent. Loan (exempt from
tax) 900,WS"00
100,000 State of New Jersey Blx Per
Cent. Loan 109,006 09
90,000 Pennsylvania Railroad First
Mortgage Six Per Cent.
Bonda lMfiO-OO
86,000 PeuiiHyivanta Railroad Se
cond mortgage Six per Cent.
Bonds KLSSBOO
80,000 Western Pennsylvania Rati
road Mortgage Six Per
Cent, Bonds (Pennsylvania
Railroad guarantee) 90,000-00
80,000 State of Tennessee Five Per
Cent. Loan 18,000 DO
T,000 folate or Tennessee Six Per
Cent. Loan 4,970-00
19,500 Pennsylvania Railroad Corn.
pany, lo shares stock 14,000-00
6,000 North Pennsylvania Rail
road Company, loo shares
stock: 1,900-00
10,000 Philadelphia and Southern
Mall Steamship Com
pany, 80 shares stock T.600-00
90,900 Loans on Bond and Mort
on Ke, first liens on City
Properties I4o,900-00
11,881,400 Par. Market value, 11,966,970-00
Coat, ll.ain 9i-n
Heal Estate 88,000-00
Bills Receivable for Insurances made... 823,70070
Bmances aue st Agencies-
Premiums on Marine Policies, Aocrned
Interest, and other debts due the Com-
o.pa5I'i"j: o,097-95
Btoek, Scrip, etc., of Sundry Corpora
tions, 14708. Estimated value 9,740,90
Cash in Bank $l68,8l8-f
Cash la Drawer 979-so
169,99114
11,869,100-04
DIRECTORS.
Thomas C. Hand, . .Samuel E. 8tokes,
John t Tinvla.
William (4. Boulton,
Edward Durllnirton
Edninnd A. Soudcr,
Theophllus Paulding,
James Traqualr,
Henry Sloan,
Henry C. Dallett, Jr.,
James C. Hand,
William C. Ludwlg,
Joseph H. Seal,
Hugh Craig,
John D. Tavlor.
li. Jones Brooks,
n-uwara Laiourcaae,
Jacob Riegel,
Jacob P. Jones,
Jamea R. Mnli'arlanil
Joshua P. Eyre,
ppeucer jncuvatn,
J. B. Scrapie, Pittsburg,
A. B. Berber, Pittsburg,
D. T. Morgan, Pittsburg.
George W. Bemadou,
William (1 TRnnnton
THOMAS C. nAND, President.
JOHN C. DAVIS, Vice-i-Tesldent
HENRY LTLBUKN, Secretary.
HENRY BALL Assistant Secretary. 11
INSURANCE COMPANY
OP
NORTH AMERICA.
JaNtTAHT 1, 1870.
Charter Perpetual.
Incorporated 1794.
CAPITAL. 8500,000
ASSETS 84,783,581
Leases paid alnce organization. ...823,000,000
Rrcelpta of Premlnma, 1809.. ..81,991,83745
Interest from Investmenta, '69. 114,69674
106,53 1'19
81,035,38684
Loaaee paid, 1869
Statement of the Aaseta.
Pint Mortgage! on Oitr Property $766,460
United Btates Government and otber Loan
Bonds 1,122,8M
Railroad, Bank and Canal Stocks 65,708
Uash in Bank and Cffioa SM7,6
Loans en Collateral Becurity 82,568
Notes Receivable, mostly Mai ine Premiums... 831,944
Aeorned Interest 20,367
Premiums In coarse of transmissiea 86,198-
Unsettled Marine Premiums 100,900
Real Estate, Offioa of Company, Philadelphia. . 80,00
84,783,581
DIRECTORS,
Arthur O. Ooffln,
bamuel W. Oones,
John A. Brown,
Cbaries Tsylor,
Ambrose White,
William Welsh,
B. Morns Wain,
John Mason,
George L, Harrison,
Francis R. Dope,
Kdward U. 'rrotter, -Kdward
8. Clarke,
T. Charlton Henry,
Alfred 1). Jossup,
Lonis C. Madeira,
Charles W. C nab man,
Clement A. Griaoom
WUham Brockie.
ARTHUR O. COFFIN, President.
OHAKLKS PLATf, Vloe President.
Mattbias Mabis, Seoretary.
O. H. Rxzves, assisUnt Seoretary. 8 4
1829. CHARTER PERPETUAL, 1370
Frantlin Fire Insnrance Companj
OF PHILADELPHIA.
Office, Nob. 435 an"d437 CHESNUT St.
Assets Jan. 170, $2,825,73167
CAPITAL
ACCRUKD SURPLUS AMD PREMIUMS..,
.400,000-00
LNCOMK FOR 16i0,
tblO.OOO.
LOSSK8 PAID Hi 1869,.
Losses paid since 1829 over $5,50D,Q0O
Perpetual and Temporary Policies on Libera) Terms.
The Company alao iaaues polioios upon the Heutsof alii
kinds of buildings, (.round Rents, and Mortdagea,
The "iKAK&LlN" has no DIStUXKI) CLAIM.
DIRKCTOR8.
Alfred O. Baker,
Aitrea Fitter,
Thomas Bparks,
Wilhara H. Grant,
Thomas 8. Kins,
(aiiwt.avna N ItAn.nia.
naiunei urant,
George W. Kichards,
Isaao Lea.
George t ales,
ALFRED O UAKKK. Praaidant.
GKUKOK FALK8, Vioe-President,
JAMES W. McALLINTH K, Seoretary.
TliEODUKK M. RAGKR, Assistant Secretary. 8 199
A S B U R Y
LIFE INSURANCE CO.. N. Y.
Number of Policies issued by the five largest Nsw Yortb
Oompaniss during the first years ef their aiiatenoei
MUTUAL (2S months) 1093
NKW y OR K (18 months- iohi
MaKHAITaN iT months) o03,
KMCKKKBOUKItlt. .. (SO months) 66-
KQUiTABLJtt. (IT months) sua.
Daring tue 81 months of Its existence the
AHOURY
. HAS ISSUED 2600 POLICIES,
1NSUBINO NEARLY 18,000,000.
Reliable Oanvassing Agents wanted throughout the.
eouniry.
JAMES M. LONGAORB,
atanagerfor Pennsylvania and Delaware.
JMPElOAXi FIRE INSUltANCK CO.
LONDON.
E8TAHIJNI1ED 1803.
Fald-np Capital and Aceomnlsted Funds,
8,000,000 I IV OOLDi.
PEEV0ST & HEREIN 0, Agents,
1 41 Na 10T a THIRD Street, Philadelphia,
CUA& M. PRBTOST. CHAS. P. HJEKBlNfl'
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