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Show Mrs. Stanton and a Father of Many Children. Mrs, Stanton, in a letter to the Revolution, from Iowa, relates h"w she pent a man howling out . of her si-ht. ohc says: "In my travels I occasionally meet men who think that the chief glory of all women is to bear children. One of those conceited con-ceited lords told me a few days since that his wife had fourteen children,, and aked me if 1 did not think that was the highest right woman could, deire. Looking at his little head, contracted chest, and crooked legs, I replied, ' That turns somewhat on the character and capacity of the father. I must confess, sir, I never saw a dozen men worih repeating fourteen times.' The poor man, reviewing hia own defects, de-fects, looked aj though he thong ht hi I own wite mighthave blundered in not preferring enfranchisement to the eduI 'tip'yiagof so many shadows of him" i wlf. 'It ia better, says John Stuart j Mill, 'to give the world ona lion thai I twenty jackaasej.' 11 |