| | 1 | Author: | Addams, Jane | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Women and Public Housekeeping  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | A city is in many respects a great business corporation, but in other re- spects it is enlarged housekeeping. If
American cities have failed in the first, partly because officeholders have
carried with them the predatory instinct learned in competitive business,
and cannot help "working a good thing" when they have an opportunity, may
we not say that city housekeeping has failed partly because women, the
traditional housekeepers, have not been consulted as to its multiform
activities? The men of the city have been carelessly indifferenct to much
of its civic housekeeping, as they have always been indifferent to the
details of the household. They have totally dis-
regarded a candidate's capacity to keep the streets clean, preferring
to con- sider him in relation to the national
tariff or to the necessity for increasing the national navy, in a pure
spirit of reversion to the traditional type of government, which had to do
only with enemies and outsiders. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 3 | Author: | Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Blind Lark / Alcott, Louisa M.; illustrated by W. H. Drake | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | HIGH up in an old house, full of poor people, lived Lizzie, with her mother and
baby Billy. The street was a narrow, noisy place, where carts rumbled and dirty
children played; where the sun seldom shone, the fresh wind seldom blew, and the
white snow of winter was turned at once to black mud. One bare room was Lizzie's
home, and out of it she seldom went, for she was a prisoner. We all pity the
poor princesses who were shut up in towers by bad fairies, the men and women in
jails, and the little birds in cages, but Lizzie was a sadder prisoner than any
of these. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 11 | Author: | Anonymous | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | The Louisiana Amendment the Same as Ours! | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | The pending amendment in this State is a copy of the Suffrage Amendment in
Louisiana except the property clause. The Constitutional Convention of Louisiana
adopted the amendment in 1898. It went into effect soon after. There has been
the fullest possible opportunity to study the question in all its detail. The
city elections last year were held under the provisions of the new constitution.
This year the State election was held under it. No word of complaint has been
heard. No white man has stated that his right to vote was denied. No test has
been made of the question in the courts. So we take it that the working of the
amendment in Louisiana will be its working in this State. It has stood a
practical test there. In order that the people of the State might have the
fullest information on this subject, Hon. Josephus Daniels, editor of the News and Observer, has been to the State of Louisiana and
made a study of the question in all its bearings. He was specially active in
seeking information as to whether white people are disfranchised. His letters
from the South are interesting reading. He interviewed men of every shade of
political opinion. He did not confine his investigation to the towns. The County
Parishes—our townships-were visited and people themselves sounded on
the subject. Attention is invited to some of the leading points taken from his
articles. In the light of experience the people of Louisiana declare unanimously
that their amendment was the only possible solution of the suffrage question,
and the amendment is regarded as an entirely satisfactory solution of it. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
| 13 | Author: | Austin, Mary | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Bitterness of Women | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | LOUIS CHABOT was sitting under the fig tree in her father's garden at Tres Pinos
when he told Marguerita Dupré that he could not love her. This sort
of thing happened so often to Louis that he did it very well and rather enjoyed
it, for he was one of those before whom women bloomed instinctively and preened
themselves, and that Marguerita loved him very much was known not only to Louis,
but to all Tres Pinos. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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