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lotDESIRE for the ballot, which distinguishes what is probably -quite a small minority of our tlnine population. Is motived by one other of three considerations, writes te Rev. Charles H. Parkhurat, D. D., the Ladies’ Home Journal. The balls claimed by some because of the ■ mistaken notion that suffrage is a right Inherent In personality. Other women are suffragists not because they care anything for the ballot In itself considered, but because possessed of those masculine prepossessions that make them restless at seeing men do anything that they are not themselves allowed to do. Many of this class probably are not so anxious to vote as they are anxious to know that they can vote if they want to. It would be interesting to know how many of such women would be converted from their views if should seriously be proposed to pass a -HI requiring women to vote. Human h'a.ture is a peculiar thing, and it certainly twill not be ungallant to say say that 'all the peculiarity is not monopolized by the male sex. Prob-lably the particular stripe of suffragists 'X am commenting on just now would .find the virulence of their distemper 'jpeasurabl'y relieved by having the coveted privilege accorded to them for a*time. It would work something as in t^e case of a jealous child who is cured oil -Its jealousy by being allowed to hold it its own hand a little while the exclusive plaything of the mate it is jealous of. There are, however, in the .third place a considerable number of iwomen that are considering with a great deal of honesty and womanly seriousness the question whether the hballot, if put into woman’s hands, ||would not be a means of correcting ^certain evil conditions in society that ;couId be less easily reached In any other way.It is very easy to have a prononnced opinion upon the effect which such an .extension of the ballot would produce, although the data do not seem as yet to be sufficiently at command to give to such pronounced opinions any particular value. Our uneasy sisters would be making a substantia] contribution ’ to the cause they have so closely at heart if they, for instance, would canvass two of the wards in this city, say • the Tenth and the Twenty-second, and by that means put themselves In condition to inform the public distinctly and authoritatively just' what effect would ;be produced at our next election by having the privilege of suffrage accorded to the women of those two most important districts.other laughed and they passed on. But1 I noticed the woman blush painfully. Without a doubt she had heard the re* mark and comprehended its meaning. Do you remember the Incident?The girl bowed her head and I saw the color creep around to the tips of her ears.The manager continued: That woman was my wealthiest client Do you think it would be advisable for me to introduce you to her as a young lady who would occasionally take her dictation?”The girl arose silently and passed out of the office. I don’t know that she felt any sense of gratitude for the man’s rebuke, but she should. Few men would have taken the trouble.The Husband.Who weds because we are so dear, And then forgets—-when it is here— The anniversary every year?The husband.Who, when he’s donning evening clothe*. Would with an angel come to blows,And let the whole house hear his woeB?The husband.Who sometimes makes us quail and quakf With tales about the bread and cake His mother used to make and bake?The husband.Who calls the landlord with a frown. And then slips out and goes uptown. While wifey talks that landlord down?The husband.But when the clouds are dark and gray And ruin seems not far away,Who takes the helm and saves the day?The husband.Cheap Writing; Board.Who grumbles lota, as well we know, That there no wine shall ever flow, \ Yet in his heart is glad ’tis so? ^ The husband.And so, in water pure and clear,Fit emblem of our sisters here,I drink the health of those so dear— Our husbands.Won by a Woman.Women’s rights advocates will find pleasure in the remarks of the Civil, Service Commission on an examination.; recently held for library cataloguer and library clerk for the Agricultural Department. Of the thirty applicants
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Cedar Falls Semi Weekly Cedar Falls Gazette
Cedar Falls, Iowa, US
Fri, Jun 14, 1895
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