[Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt Talmage]@TWC D-Link bookAround The Tea-Table CHAPTER XXXI 3/5
The poor cooking stove has sometimes been the slow fire on which the wife has been roasted.
In the day when Latimer and Ridley are honored before the universe as the martyrs of the fire, we do not think the Lord will forget the long line of wives, mothers, daughters and sisters who have been the martyrs of the kitchen. Accompanying masculine criticism of woman's temper goes the popular criticism of woman's dress. A convention has recently been held in Vineland, attended by the women who are opposed to extravagance in dress.
They propose, not only by formal resolution, but by personal example, to teach the world lessons of economy by wearing less adornment and dragging fewer yards of silk. We wish them all success, although we would have more confidence in the movement if so many of the delegates had not worn bloomer dress.
Moses makes war upon that style of apparel in Deuteronomy xxii.
5: "The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto man." Nevertheless we favor every effort to stop the extravagant use of dry goods and millinery. We have, however, no sympathy with the implication that women are worse than men in this respect.
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