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Show go to college and come out ready for anything They will be nust-lers nust-lers by necessity, and in. the professions pro-fessions and lighter duties of commerce com-merce they will capture everything in sight, from clerkships up. They will get into politics and stay there. Why the women have already demanded at least one nomination in each of your conventions, conven-tions, and got it. Next time they will want more, and if they don't g tall they want they'll have a convention of their own, then its f rewell to party politics. How will that sound : Women vs. men ? and women in .the majority. "I tell you, sir, there's no chance for a young man in this town. Your girls re too numerous and too pietty." Iho youth subsided and when the bystander had controlled his mirth he remarked: "The young man can at least marry." And the seedy philoF.cp-her philoF.cp-her muttered 'nit" and walked away. Salt Lake Tribune. AFRAID OF THE GIRLS. A young fellow, a stranger, in seedy clothes but with an air of eminent respectability, stood at the McCornick corner the other day sunning himself and incidentally inciden-tally "sizing-up" the passers-by. He appeared to be bored until the ordinary run of pedestrians gave way to quick-stopping groups of homeward from High school. The youthful stranger stared intently, even impertinently, nt the young ladle :, and strange to say, he eyed the boys of; the school with the t-aine 'apparent interest. The emit si ty of a by-stander was aroused aid v. hon a pnrticulary happy bevy of girls .had passed, the bystander addressed the stranger. "Pietty, r.iit they," he sdd, indicating the girls. "Very," replied the seedy youth with an accent of enthusiasm that betrayed the artist rather than the master, and with a show of attention attent-ion he invited further conversation on the topic. The'Lystnr.tler remarked: "We have a great many girls here and the most of Uem are 1 retty." "I've noticed both facts," respond re-spond id the yt uth, "and therefore I propgfe not to stay in Salt Lake City." !'Oh ho," cli tickled the bystander, bystand-er, "yon are t w eeptible, then." "Not a bit of it," rebated the youth vilh an earnest, deprecating gesture. "If I v c re susceptible to the blnndishmi nts of the fair sex 1 wouldn't want a better field, but I've stalled out to make my own enreer and I don't wimt to be handicapped hand-icapped by feminine opposition. This is doomed to be a petticoat iown. Those girls are going to rule in everything from society to government. Why, look at them. They are healthy and apparently big-brained. They are young too, to bo carrying such advanced books-Then, books-Then, they outnumber the boys in the school, and in nearly every instance in-stance give evidence of mental and physical superiority. They will |
