Show A comans womans toast the ladies association in great britain is relaxing the severity that ed women seem to think it incumbent apon them to assume andi one of their i chairmen gave as a toast at a great banquet the gentlemen bless deml they halve our joys they double ou sorrows they treble our expenses they our cares they excite our magnanimity they increase conr self respect awaken our arouse OBI affect tion St control our property and us in everything this would be a dreary world without 1 efiem in fact I 1 may say without prospect of successful contradiction that without them would soon pine and wither and the last female would have to put up the shutters I 1 do not envy her that job |