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Show An Appeal to Enfranchised Womanhood. From New Zealand comes an amusing and suggestive story of an occurrence which took place since the recent election, elec-tion, when women enjoyed the right of franchise. It seems that . some of the ladies seated in the stalls of a theater thea-ter were wearing hats which interfered with the view of those behind them, a circumstance not altogether unknown in this country. Suddenly a male voice from the pit exclaimed, in a tone of pathetic pa-thetic remonstrance, "Ladies, now yon have got the franchise, you might really take your hats off." Whether the suggestion sug-gestion produced any other result than the inevitable roar of laughter is not re-latedj re-latedj 1pt it is safe to conclude that there were; fyn in the theater that did not realijY, permitted to vote make life fy- "-ely thomless. Ex- |