Samantha on the Woman Question

said, and he sent me to Senator D., and he did cry onto his handkerchief, he wanted to do the errents so bad, and said it would be such a good thing to have 'em done. He bust right into t

went on his sobbin' advice to Senator E., and he wuz huffy and didn't want to do 'em and said so

nmarried wimmen and widders, and if they

, "They ort

wait for some man to ask 'em, and if they didn't c

, but honest, and wouldn't tell me w

s. He looked real hilarious, but drawed his face down when he ketched my eye,

d with all my efforts and outlay of oratory and shue leather not one of Serepta Pester's errents could I git done, and no hopes held out of their ever bein' done. And about the middle of the afterno

nd majestic proportions of the buildin' I wondered to myself that a small law, a little unjust law could ever be passed in such grand and magnificent surroundin's. And I sez to myself, it can't be the fault of the place anyway; the law-makers have a chance for their souls to soar if they want to, here is room and to spare to pass laws big as elephants and camels, and I wondered that t

to yourself is tuckerin'.) "You look v

. Agin he looked clost at me and sort o' pityin'; and sez he, "You look tired out, mo

gton anyway. And I didn't know but it wuz their way to make some present to every w

d insist on't. But if I have got to take sunthin' I had jest as soon h

uld do me some good, else what wuz the good of bein' treated? And I thought that if I had got to take a present from a strang

an beer or wine or l

y shues and dignity

saloon right here ha

nited States from Caucus to Convention than anything else duz, and it is highly proper to have it here so they can soak the law

y for the Senators and Congress

on suffers enough from that room now wit

rye whiskey. I have all the drugs right here." And he took a little box out of his pocket. "My father is a importer of rare old wines, and I know just how it is done. I have 'em all he

a's fashion and commit suicide, I will hire a rattl

ta's errents ondone. But my conscience opholded me and told

ink with a red rose pinned over a achin' heart, so I spoze, for she loved the young man who wuz out with another girl May-flowering. Burnin' zeal and lofty principle can't take the place in a woman's heart of love and domestic happines

acy and impropriety of wimmen's appearin' in outdoor meetin's, forgittin', I spose, the dense procession of wimmen that fills the avenues ev

wuz worryin' over his offer to represent me

all right. So that lifted my burden. But I thought best not to tell Josiah, as he wuz so bound to represent me. I thought it wouldn't do any hurt to let him thi

lots of times, breakin' colts, ploughin' greensward, cuttin' cord-wood etc., etc. Men and wimmen want equal legal rights to represent themselves and their own sex

here long before the parade hove in sight, the yeller banners strea

he lady speakers and their friends on it, all dressed pretty as pinks. For the old idee that suffragists don't care

man spoke favorably of women's rights the sarcastic

icule would silence argument and

, and the contemptious ridicule of the onthinkin' and igno

in' through an unswept house onmindful of dirty children or hungry husband, but the world moves onward and public opinion with it. Suffragist

more a woman knows and the more justice she demands, the better for her husband. The same sperit tha

nd in hand toward Happiness and Contentment, Justice, with her blinders offen her eyes, goin' ahead on 'em. I never liked the idee of Justice wearin' them bandages over her eyes. She ort to have both eyes open; if anybody ever needed good eyesight she duz, to choose the straight and narrer road, lookin' backward to see the mistakes she has made in the past, so's to shun 'em in the fut

ut good sensible wimmen are reachin' up and pullin' the bandages offen her eyes.