Mr. Editor: — During my residence in Concord I have daily read your paper, and have become an admirer of Edgar L. Wakeman's Wanderings,—writings whose terse, graphic, and poetic style is richly flavored with the true ideas of humanity and equality. In your issue of January 17, however, are certain references to American women which deserve and elicit brief comment.
Mr. Wakeman writes from London, that a noted English leader, whom he quotes without naming him, avers that the "cursed barmaid system" in England is evolved by the same power which in America leads women "along a gamut of isms and ists, from female suffrage, past a score of reforms, to Christian Science." This anonymous talker further declares that the central cause of this "same original evil" is "a female passion for some manner of notoriety."
Has Mr. Wakeman, this man awake, been caught napping? While praising the true Scotchman's national pride and affection, has our American correspondent lost these sentiments from his own breast? Has he forgotten how to honor his native land, and defend the dignity of her daughters with his ready pen and pathos?
