If It Be Decided That Women Shall Have Political Power,
Let Them Have It All To Themselves For A Season.
If that be so
resolved, I think we may safely leave it to them to name the time
at which they will begin.
I confess that in the States I have sometimes been driven to think
that chivalry has been carried too far - that there is an attempt to
make women think more of the rights of their womanhood than is
needful. There are ladies' doors at hotels, and ladies' drawing-
rooms, ladies' sides on the ferry-boats, ladies' windows at the
post-office for the delivery of letters - which, by-the-by, is an
atrocious institution, as anybody may learn who will look at the
advertisements called personal in some of the New York papers. Why
should not young ladies have their letters sent to their houses,
instead of getting them at a private window? The post-office
clerks can tell stories about those ladies' windows. But at every
turn it is necessary to make separate provision for ladies. From
all this it comes to pass that the baker's daughter looks down from
a great height on her papa, and by no means thinks her brother good
enough for her associate. Nature, the great restorer, comes in and
teaches her to fall in love with the butcher's son. Thus the evil
is mitigated; but I cannot but wish that the young woman should not
see herself denominated a lady so often, and should receive fewer
lessons as to the extent of her privileges.
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