Show IC SHOULD SUE SHE A HUSBAND OR OD W AGENCY Uy By y STELLA LLA suffrage speaker and canVasser canvasser canvasser can can- oncan in vasser for votes AS iS S born a suffragist not made on one also I was born to spout om high knee high to a grasshopper Ive I've en harangUing unhearing relatives whatever subject happened to inest inne in- in est ne me not them i Ahl there thero she goes again Get barrel irrel they would cry Bu It was no use It was not nal Dosle pos pos- le lo shut me up And when then the rr n 1 i wa was finally produced I 1 was funding triumphantly on top Ev Evidently some other people shared opinion of my relatives 1 hat h t business have you here landed a stout and angry old lady night when I was addressing a wd Im an Anti and I r say that mens men's brains will never be able compete o pete with mens You ought to tob b home me My dear madam replied I with all due deference if I ought to be home what about you It takes no longer to talk than to listen Well my suffrage canvassing has not yet won any woman a vote It has bas not yet yot landed me in a polling booth But it has pinned me securely securely In a dilemma on the horns of which I am still squirming It has confronted confronted confronted con con- fronted me with the tho eternal feminine problem the problem the choice b between tween marriage and a career Shall I sell bicycles washing machines machines machines ma ma- chines or neckties or shall I marry a man with a home and a heart It is a very go good d homo and a very earnest young husband hero here alluded i to but I have tasted the delights atthe of at the road I It all happened Part of a suffrage campaigners campaigner's work Is to canvass individual voters the One day it fell to me to persuade furnishing proprietor of a gents store to vote Yes reson es on the suffrage amendment I worked long and eloquently eloquently elo elo- NoSo No was q and his answer So I sadly made for the door i called I back he Say Say come come dont don't take much stock in this suffrage suffrage suffrage suf suf- frage business but i if you ever want wanta a job canvassing for me you can have haveit it and very welcome That was tho the first There came camo with bicycle store stor others A man a rae offered a start to fame and fortune by selling his lis products on the road Another dangled before my admiring and eager eyes a proposition to sell washing machines to tho the tired housekeepers housekeepers housekeepers house house- keepers of America And aft after r that the dilemma mma You see sec it is not possible for any anyone anyone anyone one to talk Incessantly Your throat grows rows raucous and your tongue goes dry and your audience becomes morean moro more an and more restless It is not good od to irritate your hearers I dont don't I speak to them inaudibly That is I write Several suffrage articles of mine had appeared In various New York papers and my was published Then some weeks later I espied In my mail mall an envelope post-marked post Guthrie Guth- Guth rIe Okla It was a small yellowish envelope very insignificant most un un- exciting But as they say you mustn't judge a book by the cover It proved to b be the most interesting letter of a bunch The Tho writer said ISaid he ho felt sure that thata a young lady with such a sweet face who could pen such beautiful thoughts about suffrage would not be vexed at ata a young man who was interested Inthe in tho the same subject for writing to her c It Is not necessary to quote in full My Iy readers no doubt can supplement supplement sup sup- what follows I replied in a spirit of caution Oklahoma to my mind was the tho abode of the primitive the home of squaws not white girls But Dut though cautious cautious cautious cau cau- I was by no means curt And the result was a perfect deluge Letter on letter came in an over over- increasing torrent Each and all declared de- de declared declared de de- the young mans man's earnest conviction conviction conviction con con- that I was the woman of his dreams He said He-said said he was lonely It was obvious that he was honest And he spoke sp-oke of a law practice a farm oil wells and a climate that inferentially inferentially ally rivalled that of Eden Would I not share hare them all Would I I looked at his picture He is earnest and has very large cars Will WUl WillI I I think of washing machines and my happy times on the tho tho road lOad I 1 There Thero arc are drawbacks ks of or course toa to toa a career I have havo experienced them and they come in many forms torms One Is that of immense letters immense letters documents that appear at i intervals in my mall mail and inform me in no uncertain terms that we women are nothing but fools Once they took the form of peanuts That was in Greenport L L. 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I where I had gone one night to speak There were sailors in the audience evidently from a cruiser who kept up a perfect cannonade Crack Crack Crack went the shells and the disastrous I fate of at my suffrage speech seemed certain There was no holding on against that volley I was about to retire when out went the lights There came camo a lull in the peanut fusillade and then a voice spoke from the tho rear Where was was Moses when the lights went out In the tho cellar said I eating peanuts peanuts pea poa- nuts The lights went up and my speech went on and we wo won that town at atthe atthe atthe the election It was at Greenport too that I climbed a ship for the cause There was a big ship construction yard there whoso whose o several hundred wor workmen men I canvassed As I was abo about t to leave the yard I spied several m more re menat menat men menat at work on the top deck of a ship in the dock Good morning sirs I want your our votes I called up If you want em climb up and getem get em emt em was the cheery response The narrow gangplank looked steep and the water water deep but with Nov 2 coming on so fast every vote was precious so remembering cherry tree climbing experiences of my early youth I gritted my teeth and started up V Well youre you're red-headed red and you climbed aboard so we wo guess we wo wll will have bave to give you our votes yoles they said when I finally arrived and they all lt t signed my little yellow slip sUp I Yes Its It's a good life liCe when the wind wind blows your way But what of or the home and the tho heart Can you OU help olp me readers Which would you choose The washing machines machines ma ma- chines and the fun of the road or orthe orthe orthe the honest young foung man and his fruit frutt farm fum |