Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures

<h2>POSTSCRIPT</h2> <br/> <p>Our duty of editorship is closed.&nbsp; We hope we have honestly fulfilled the task of selection from a large mass of papers.&nbsp; We could have presented to the female world a Lecture for Every Night in the year.&nbsp; Yes, - three hundred and sixty-five separate Lectures!&nbsp; We trust, however, that we have done enough.&nbsp; And if we have armed weak woman with even one argument in her unequal contest with that imperious creature, man - if we have awarded to a sex, as Mrs. Caudle herself was wont to declare, &ldquo;put upon from the beginning,&rdquo; the slightest means of defence - if we have supplied a solitary text to meet any one of the manifold wrongs with which woman, in her household life, is continually pressed by her tyrannic taskmaster, man, - we feel that we have only paid back one grain, hardly one, of that mountain of more than gold it is our felicity to owe her.</p> <p>During the progress of these Lectures, it has very often pained us, and that excessively, to hear from unthinking, inexperienced men - bachelors of course - that every woman, no matter how divinely composed, has in her ichor-flowing veins one drop - &ldquo;no bigger than a wren&rsquo;s eye&rdquo; - of Caudle; that Eve herself may now and then have been guilty of a lecture, murmuring it balmily amongst the rose-leaves.&nbsp; It may be so; still, be it our pride never to believe it.&nbsp; NEVER!</p> <br/> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />