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Show WHILE THERE WAS YET TIME - Mean Man Made His Suggestion and Departed in Some Haste From Meeting of Indignant Women. With tense, eager faces, the great audience of women leaned forward In their seats, eagerly drinking In the noted speaker's every word. "Mere man," she was saying, "Is wont to belittle woman'B ability to enter en-ter the fields already usurped by him. As a matter of fact, she is capable of filling any post of public or private office now held by man, and, if appointed ap-pointed to it, could even perform man's tasks with greater faithfulness and greater daring. "Name, if you can, one post for which she cannot lit herself! Jiame one office to which she would not, could not, give the greatest measure meas-ure of capability, the highest-degree ,of courage, the " A mere man, who had slipped unnoticed un-noticed into a back seat, rose at this point, and the light of sudden inspira- -tion gleamed in his eye. "Rat catcher!" he shouted. And then he fled. i |