Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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taining herself. It seems to melike a contemptible insult to her palpable ability, to directly or indirectlyraise the question* 9<W ESSAYS FOR YOUNG AND OLD. Ladies Should be Allowed to Pop the Question. WhatI solicit gentlemen to marry them? Certainly!—why not? Havenot ladies preferences which they have a natural right to indicate as wellas gentlemen ? Is there any good reason why ladies should not have theprivilege to choose, as well as refuse ? Strange, how firmly rooted falsenotions become by education! Custom is a powerful law-maker, but netalways a just one. He is particularly despotic in his conduct to ladies, andwinks at many improprieties committed by gentlemen. He opens to man awide field for industry and the accumulation of wealth; to woman he givesa seven-by-nine room, in which she may labor in-penury until she canobtain absolution by marriage. And then, to crown all, if she wishes tomarry, the old tyrant commands her to wait and accept or refuse such offers Fig. 194.
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YOUNG REBELS OF THE YEAB 1900 AGAINST OLD KING CUSTOM. as may be made, while to man he gives the exclusive prerogative of choice!True, woman has choice between her suitors, if she have more than one ;but it is often synonymous with a choice between two evils, while manmay select from a hundred or a thousand. Women, in justice to them-selves and their female posterity, should rebel against this despotism as didour revolutionary fathers against British tyranny in colonial times. Empe-rors and kings do not monopolize despotism. Custom, though not himselfa despot, is often despotic, and women are the most patient and uncomplain-ing victims of his tyranny. How many women, says Dr. Davis, have wished themselves men!Because, simply, that a ridiculous custom deprives women of social freedom. LADIES ALLOWED TO POP THE QUESTION. 907 * * ^YThat wonder that some strong women-natures have burst the bonds,and steeled their hearts against the shafts of ridicule and derision! Howlow must be the socia

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