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Show WOMAN'S WORLO IN PAR-vCOAPHS. Willi I tho K.-uan tt Ik. rrJudl. Kiu: Vluwa SoanUn? About thin time of th( year you t ir the newTanors advertismju uts ofli-n.ij ploa.uut, uiry nom to uhiukt Kmnbrs, "i'tstleincn pri'TerriHl." Iu ni.t rasi-a tho boardiliff her.ses thus .lvei1isin are run by w,in-n tlieiuwdvM, who thu. set beforo the world j 1 1 ly iin eliiuipli of dUvrimimitin cnielly and buti-Hy aaiunt tlioir own wx. II.w can we ever exi t iiirn to do jintu to w tm'a when we our lvm treat a-ti othrr like that? I uin Nitb llrl tlu rx in no iv.uwhj for this discrimination rvtj t a cnud prejudice, far fi'ched, rr.'in tiu:-i that were worse than pa-aii. Woi.ii a Ivird-in- hoiu-e lo'ler! if you never did a dismtero-ded act in the rourxn of your hanlworkixl bv.-i Ingm now, an I for the Kike of your own s. -x nrvi-r ii rt that bub ful clan-,, in an nimiti-viie-tit ai'ain. I know it in n. t niiteh fun keeping boarder. If I bad lay cboic between that and K"ini; to purgatory I would taketlie latter uiid lighter puniih-ment. puniih-ment. But doi oii4di r for once Women iKiarders do not "luimr about tlirt li, nifc any inori. ns they u.- d to. They rut I heir breakfast and go olY to luciii. ts like little men. They do not expect. 'ratt on tho cnets or break tho fnniitui. They do not mnoke. They do not ndiiit bomii drunk at il o'rlork iu th inoruiiu; and raixo tho hou with r;iv;inn the front door U ll Imwiuno they i (. befuddled to find the key hole. Th.-y don't nit as mu. Ii m nieti, though I mil glad to suy they are doing U tter in tins ie-inet lately, nnd eating more than in the sentimental days when they lived vn ton-it and tea. 1 lmveUen inveligatm this snbjix-t anil the only hjrtioit I find to tho (rirls is tlmt they wn.th their tin k-ings k-ings and handkm hirfs in their wash basins and want to heat an iron ouen a Week on the laundry ntovc. to iron them with. Well, what of ii? That dm not annoy nnyUidy, and it's a good deal letter let-ter to w.uth thi! thing than to Ut them go without, isn't it? No, bl"M the prist I yield to no woman alive in my admiration admira-tion of the masculine sex, of their intel-liK intel-liK tiiality, their lionbkn stmngth, their tin utd, generous tolerance, yes, and their good looks! When mi lt bavn kept their Ixulies at. their U'st, and arn not too fut, or unable down old wns ks, there Is not an object in iiaturo nioit) upleudid than they. 1 have always eppret iatel thnn, I CoilfeM. Now, 1 hote thut i Mttlnfno-tory. Mttlnfno-tory. Hut if 1 had to tako my choiei Us-tweeu Us-tweeu living in a houwi with all tb UiardiTH men or all women, I rlmuld tako tho women. What pleasure, 1 have bad with my women comrade! clean, kindly, loyal, eympathefio, merry. While I likn men, as I have niul, I uiunt own that tho truest friends of my life ban been women, and It hurt me, this iliit-crimination iliit-crimination BKain.4 wiaueu boarders. For twenty-two years thn Indie of the National Woman Huffriign Hms'lntlnii have Wn told at their annual conventions conven-tions that they had not gained a g in tho way of progresn niriee they Ugin. Now, however, they can retort on their persecutors that they havo gained one Ig, just one. Tho judiciary committee of tho bouse of reireiM!Utallvee bavu agreed to rs-oinmelid an auieinbueiit to tho national constitution entitling women wo-men to Vol'). This Inw never liappi iexl in either bouse of emigre U'fore. Th nearest approach to anything lik it in the senate wan theapjioiiitnieiil lant Jeur of a coinmittee on woman auffragi. But tho progroN is reidly very little. Tho Iioiiho commilten rioinnienil thn pas-sago pas-sago of thn amendment, it is true. Th-n thn bouso ilwlf mtiKt pnt lb nm'-iid-jnent. After that th" senate, in lit lumbering, lum-bering, awfully flow way, would Uk it tip. Kay that iu tho coursn of tlir'-o years or so tho senate actually did pu the nne-ndment, too. Tie n it would ti!l bavo to vn Morn tho stab, to l rnti-fiisl rnti-fiisl by thrif-pwiru-r of Okim. Tho wholo pruce would tako novel al yars, Mon-over, the ipn-.tion U still la dwputo whether thn ib-cli ion iw to wninaii suf- ; fragu belongs properly to vrmicm or to j the legii-latun-s of th" sevi rul at !. Wyoming has dncldi-d this for h- rx. lf. territorially, by admitting w rien to the right of full suffrage. I buvs lmn looking oer a rc(sirt of j tho work done the pant nr by a ff im-bernf im-bernf women's clulw. "a thewie.le U:o work in eiicouragiiiK. and leU U'f ly with tho burning qu -itiuiis of bb') , tie j things on which hanxs tb" artlily salva- j tionof men and w.m ':i. But om .f ; t!in nibbi di tbeMi woiie n bv Ui n p v '.-iii4 '.-iii4 into tlndr brain is duntpiniritmg. i Wbilo not half tho w.,i. u know in wh it caigriiijl d.strirt fn y liMr, wloln not ono woman iu twenty bus tu U-l tho VniU d Hud i,nHitiite.(l or t!..it. of j thn fiat' in wlii'll sIim liven, wi il le.t j ono woi;mii iu a hundred ran K'' "" '"' i ti'Ilig-vit atitrai t of tV-1 1 " K '.i-miiu 1h jrev ity ritbt f i..."'.'i I '!:" and wi'l. iu l.er own -ute, I fibiuit xvhetber it d" n-t I a hu' far Mi:r t" hn inM-ti!;fn work ot the early Bun-uau 'i ; i ' i On of "' edl;i m ill I tr. il W the , Mary W. I'nlm.-r M.-.h'no '. V i--. jl chnr h. I if til- w.;uw ' ba" K,',' ' liiiliioiis f tie .-e y t cbun b- Mr. J'allner iii uiioitt tie on! oiio.sii.. b,w Teeeiveil an' r.".g7.it..on cf 'hi f n't te-i; was worth in' ;i'i..::':ii'. Wb-re !-.. tu : I'rotitant ;br,.'CwiA i 'i.'ir- h' tlHllil-1 f'lftt WOlii Ui? Mi l:li,-b.-lil i'idlld V 'hat tU most U-S'it.1;! p-Mji!' oui jr'h ar Iu Sim.'.-;or Tie-ir ..Mr ItU- J '!. ; t.'K-ir . om; :-!!-- h'-J- ' ! ; ' and their v llt and ccrrw x- H-a '4 giUaiid fib-.. Tii-ui i -.- even mors b--.ici.ful tlu.n the w.ni-!i. In saying thw MiM I'Us i ! " ,; racedeve'jt.iiU'fit. AiiftK .t4a;ci , unnviliiy .j';-!':e th.i I n r- i.U-; Ulhr proc-ri-rf i!y. li.j:-'-'"'-r aw. i more finely i -nn-l! .fi IM J tho progrrw f f.ia'i''i tiwB ; ileveijjrtoent (irt- v:uitan. - ; hJ rr n:.pW d .T'd'a-ot ln "y j race. Bat i- w.tl nm. TbUw p-;-Tt.U only v., iay j Tho Woman Joiii-pa!. |