Our Foremothers

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OUR FOREMOTHERS.—

There is a great deal of significance in Esop's fable about the picture of the man conquering the lion. "If the lions painted the pictures, a different state of things would be represented." So it is with men and women. The man, as a general thing, write the histories and edit the newspapers, and the selfish creatures hardly give the ladies a fair show. That small but smart paper Life Illustrated, comes to the rescue of the belle sex from the oblivion to which the egotism and selfishness of the lords creation would consign them. It remarks very truly and fairly, that—

We have our monuments commemorating, and our songs, our toasts, and our public dinners celebrating, the wonderful deeds of our forefather, but where are those in honor of our foremothers? We had better be getting them ready. We talk ourselves hoarse, and write ourselves round shouldered, while boiling over enthusiasm about the nice things our forefathers did, and yet nothing is said about our forefathers did, and yet nothis is said about our foremothers, to whom many a virtuous act and brace deed may be ascribed, such as any hero would be proud to own. Besdies, we forget to remember, that if it had not been for our foremothers, we ourselves would not be here to know and be proud of what our forefathers did.

We wish not to detract. All hall to the noble boys, our forefathers, say we. May the glory of their deeds never be less, but the good Book tells us to "render unto Caesar," &c., and we wish to speak a word in season for women generally, and especially for our noble and self-sacrificing foremothers, last time and the one-sided page of history shall blot them forever from our memories.