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Show TllE WHOLE TROOP of strong-minded women in tho east are becoming insane on the lecture question, and they are preparing for an extensivo raid over tho entire country. All of their heads have been turned by witnessing the notoriety and financial success achieved by Mrs. Stanton, Anna Dickenson, Olive Logan and others who have mado the woman-women business a means of livelihood. They say they are willing and ready to speak ot woman's wrongs, provided tho wear and tear on their tongues can bo compensated com-pensated at the rate of 00 to SiiiiOper effort. Knowing that reputation aud notoriety arc necessary to obtain paying pay-ing audiences, these candidates for stray ibur-bit pieces have gone to work in earnest. 'I he novelty of hearing a woman speak has worn off, and the stories of woman's wrongs, the demands de-mands for the ballot, and tho tirades against the brute man are thoroughly threadbare, and further success on those topics is out ot tho question. ; Ah, the little dears have struck it! i This is an age of sensation, and by1 dealing with indelicate subjects, by making bold, brazen hussies of themselves them-selves they discover tho way to hidden coin. A girl of the period, aged twenty years, scekiug to become notorious and rich, said, in her maiden effort at lecturing in Clcvelaud, Ohio, recently; "If you hate your husband, shake him, and live alone, or look up an affinity.'' Another female seeking a lecturer's honors and compensation hopes to draw crowded houses by the title of her harangue, which is "How to keep the family down." The strong minded evidently prefer money and notoriety rather than the success of tlie cause which they pretend to champion. Alta. |
