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Show The Rib. At a luncheon Dr. Lyman Abbott sat beside a suffragist who harangued him from the hors d'oeuvres to the coupe Jacques on the Importance ofj woman. 1 With his urbane smile Doctor Abbott Ab-bott endured the young lady's elo-j quence till tho coming of tho coffee. Then he ventured to say very mildly: "Tho Importance of woman? The Importance of woman? I havo heard! nothing but 'the Importance of worn-', an' for the last hour. Yet surelyt Scripture teaches us that woman Is, but a side Issue!" |