Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-02-24
scenes In the Life Of a Snowman.
ny AR7sMus WARD.

Df ARTEACS MAhD'
A Snowman meats with strange sites
He sees human natur as she are, unmask-
ed i without no close on, Il lie must be
stoopider nor ded kah boss if he duZzcnt
stock his Branes with several kinds of
nollege.
The undersigned won't Boste. Ime a
American sitterzun. go in for the fast
salin, snug-bilt & full-mand skeuner Uni
ted States, which runs herself, she duz: /
on whose decks ! man is as good as an
uthcr man, & frequently moore SO if he
conducks hissclf strate. To useu Shakes.
peerinn Erase. Inc nativ & to the mannere
born, & don't want to put on airs cimply
becaws I've met with crate suckscss in the
show pcrtcshun (which I've bin into gOin
on % yeros.) My wurthy projennytors
was unable to Civ me cassycal eddyca-
shun, & all nose pickt,up
"AsI soled,N ,Ns snled,"
to koto from Captain r. Kidd, the seller
brated pirut. But thank IIevn my sire
and stress gave me good name, & l pint
with feelins of pride & pleshnre to the
fack that nun of our family was ever in
Congriss or on the New York perlice, or
Arms house Guvncr.
The ensooin seems in my checkered kar-
wIMINs RITES.
pitcbt nv tent in a small town in In
jianny one day larst secson, L while was
standn ut the dore takin mummy, deppy-
t,shun of ladies came up sed they was
members of the Buucumvill Female Moral
Reform & Wimin's Rites Associashun, and
TINY axed me if thay Good go in without
p"yin.
I.No I1- Gshut rou tnO nay
without goin ill.,"
"Do you know who we air?" sed one o.
the wimin, tall & feroshns lookin crittur;
with blew kottOn umbreller under her
arm, "do you know who We mir, SURF"
t'SIy impresshun is," Sed !, "from kur-
srry vew, that you air females" -.
1--WE air, sur" sed the fcroshus womaE
-s'wc belong to Sosiety which bleeves
wimin has ritcs-whitch blecves in raisin
her to her proper speer-whitch bleeves
she is indowd with as mulch ihtelleck as
man is-whitch bleeves she is trnmpild
| on Il aboossed-& which will resist hens
4th 4 forever the incroachments of proud
& domineerin man." a
Durin her discourse, the exsentric female
GRABBED me by the coat kollar L was swing
i'll her umbrella wildly over my he'd.
"I hope, marm," sez l, startin back,
"that your intenshuns is honerableP Tine
n lone man, hear in II strange place. Be
sides, I've wife to hum"
eyes" cride the female, '& she's slave!
Dotli she never dream of frccdom-dotli
she never think of THROWN off the yoke
tyranny, & thinkin & spenkin & votin for
herself? Doth she never think of these
here things 2"
"Fot bcin notral born fool" sed l, hy
this time n little riled, al kin safely say
that she dothunt."
"Oh, whot-whot I" screamed the female,
swingin her umbreller in the air, ''Oh,
whot is the price that wooman pays for
her expcriense |"
81 don't know, marin" seq /, ''lhe price
to my Show is is cents per individooal."
az can't our Sosiety go in free 2" asked
the female.
Not if know it" sed 1.
"Crooil, crooil mani" she cride, i bust
into tears. az
"Won't you let my dartcr in?" sed an
uther of the exccntric wimin, tnkin me
afee kshunitly by the hand. "0h, please
let my darter in? Shees sweet gushin
child of natur!"
'Let her gushI" roarcd I, as mad as I
Good stick at their tarnal noncents; "let
her gush"
WIereupon they all sprung back with
the simultaneous observation that was
Beest.
"My female friends" scd I, "be4 you
leeve, I've few remarks to remark WA
them wall. The female woman is of the
gratest institooshunso of whitchthisla land kin
boste. It's onpossible to git along without
her. Had thar bin no female wimin in tho
world, shood scarcely be hear with my
unparleld show ON this very auspishus oc-
cashun. She is good in sickness-good
in vellness-roo6 NIL the time Oh WOO