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Show Some cj-nic has said that gossip is tha engar of some women's tea. An Object Lesion. Alice Stone Blackwell tells a delicious little story. It was town meeting day in Barton Landing, Vt. The ladies thereabouts there-abouts had been tainted with the poison of woman suffrage notions, and a number num-ber of them determined to attend the meeting to see how the superior sex conducted con-ducted itself on dignified public occasions. occa-sions. They accordingly attacked the hall in a body. At the same day and hour the schoolteacher of the place marshalled mar-shalled the pupils, male and female, of the political economy class and took them to the town hall also, that they might see how the sovereigns of this nation na-tion hold it level. Arrived at the building build-ing they found their political rulers in a squabble and state of disorder only ex celled by the famous scrapping match in the British parliament. Unpleasantness was in the air plainly. To see how in the twinkling of an eye the members of the superior sex snatched their feet off the desks, threw away their cigars, straightened themselves up, hushed their angry words aud began cooing as gently as a dove on the arrival of the visitors was an object lesson both to those who did and did not believe in woman taking part in municipal government. |