Thare iz so mutch ced about the importanze ov female eddikashun, now a
daze, that a near-sighted person wud suppoze that wimmin was running
tu waist. The more that wimmin ar elevated, the more men ar histed
up too, so tha sa, and them who maik this statement, ain't fur from
out ov the wa fur men hav bin clus after the wimmin, ever sinse humin
beins waz perpetrated. Dear reader, dear, don't be maid a fool uv, by
beleaving for the space ov a half-grown seckond, that Josh Billings,
(more properly Joshua Billings, Esq.,) don't love, respeck, adore, and
worship the sex, and ain't willing tu fite, even with the belly-ake
onto him, two hundred pounds ov any kind ov man, in behalf ov enny
vartuous, and worthy, or even good-looking woman.
I beleave in femail eddikashun, clear up tu the handle, provided
the woman hankers for it, but if she don't hanker for it, i kant
see why she shud be histed up into a posishun, where men has got to
cease luving her, just in proposhun az tha are asked to wonder at
her. Tha tell us that thare aint enny posishun that man kan fill, but
what wimmin kan fill it tu; but iz that enny reson why it iz best to
prove it. I haven't enny doubt, that you could eddicate wimmin so
muchly, that tha wouldn't kno enny more about getting dinner, than
sum ministers ov the gospil kno about preaching, and while tha mite
translate one ov Virgils ecklogs tu a spot, tha couldn't translate a
baby out ov a kradle, without letting it cum apart.
I hold that natur haz its laws and programmy, all the wa down, from
the biling over ov a volkano tu the wiggle ov a lam's tale.--Suppose
you shud take 100 yung injuns and eddikate them tu the highest
pint, and then turn them luce! 95 ov them wud throw a blanket ontu
their shoulders, bid fair-well tu civilizashun, and dive intu the
wildnerness; the uther 5 wud wander about among the pail faces, az far
from hum az a Bufferlo wud be among a herd ov short tailed durhams.
I believe in femail eddikashun, but i had ruther a woman cud beet me
nussing a baby than tu feel that she cud beet me or enny other man in
a stump speech or a lektur on veteranara praktiss.
If Billings understands human natur, and he thinks he duz, thare aint
nothing that a true woman luvs more than the hole ov a man's harte;
and, in order tu git this, she haz got tu kno less than he duz, or maik
him think so. I thank the lord that thare aint menny wimmin in the
wurld who want tu know evry thing. I kalkerlate that 9 out ov evry 10
ov the wimmin who luv their huzbands and glory in their children, will
sa that tha had ruther be looked down upon in luving tenderniss than tu
be looked up tu in silent aw.
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