Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1860-05-04
Wimin's Rites.
by ARTEMAs WARD, TnR SNOWMAN.


ptcht my tent il small town il H.
janny one dag last season, & while was
standin at the dore lakin mummy, deppy-
tlshuu of ladies' came up aud sed they
was membcrs OF the Buncum7ille Female
Moral Reform & Wimin's Rites Associa-
shun, aud they azed ne if they Good goi
without payiu.
"Not exactly sez I, "but you can pay
without goin in
"Do you know who we air?' said one
Of the wimmin, tall aad leEoshus looking
crttcr, with 4 blew cotton umbrsller uu-
der he. arm-"do you know who We all
sur %
"My improsLan is, 4" sod I, @from kur-
sere view, that you are females"
+ awe air, sgr," said the feToshcs woman
five belong to Society which b!eeves
wimin has r.tes-which blseyes in raisin
her to her proper specr-which blceyes she
is iuiowel with as mutch intellect as man
/ is-ahich tlesyes she Is tramgi.d on &
aboosed-& which will resist Aeusi;h &
4oyeE i fggor tie eucrcachacl;s Or proud
& domiacsr;ng mau."
Duru her discourse, she grabid me BY
the coat -kollar, 6 vas swingin her umbrel-
Ter widely over my he'd.
81 hope, marm,' see l, startin back,
''that your inteIshuns is honorable l'me
a lone rnaa, hear in strange place. Be
sides, I've a wife to hum"
"Yes, cried the female, "& she's slave!
Doth she never dream OF ffeeiom-doih
she never think of throwing off the yoke
of tyranny, 4 thinking 4 speaking 4
voting for herself? Doth she never think
of these here things"
''Not being a nataral fool" said |, by
this time little rIcd, II kin safely say
that she doth not"
"Oh, whot-whOt." screamed the fe-
male, swingin her umbrel!er in the air,
ooh, who; IS the price that woman pays
for her experience ?'
81 don't 10, marm," sez l." the price
to my Show is 10 cents pur individOoul.'
"And can't our Society 60 in free:'
asked the female.
"Not if know it," scd I.
"CrooiI, crooil man - she cried, i bust
out into tears.
"Won't you let my darter n?' said
anuther CT the xcen;ric w;min, takin me
afecLshanilly by the hand, "Uh, pleas
let my darter ia. Shc'sa sweet, gusAin'
child Of Datur..'
''Iet her gush, - roared l, as mad as l
Good stick at their tarnai nonceuis, ''let
her gush."
WhereupOn they ali sprung back with
the simultaneous observation that was
Beest.
"My feemale friends" sed I, "bci you
leeve, I've a few remarks to remark way
them wall The female woman is l Of
the greatest ius;itooshuns Of which this
land kin boste. LIS onposs;ble to git
along without her. Had there been no
female wimin in the world, should scarce
ly be hege with my uuparaled Show on
this very aUsPichus occashun. She is
very good in sickucss-good in wcliness
good all the tine. Oh, woman
cride, my feelings wurked up to high
poetici; pitch, ''yOu air an angil when you
behave yourself: bat when you take oH
your proper aparisi & (mettyf0rically
speaking git into pantylooDs-when you
desert your Gresides Il with your heds full
Of wimmiHs' rites nosbuas 60 round like
roaring lyons seakia whom you may de-
vour sumbody-in short, when yoa play
the man, you play the devil, K air an en-
fat;ck uoosance. My female friends"
continued, as they were Indignantly dePar-
tin, "way well what \. Ward has sei."
\ FEMALE CAPTIVE RECOVERED FROM
INDIANs.-A correspondent Of the St. Lou
is Republican, writing from Tuscon, Ari-
zoaa, on April lst, states that Mrs. John
Page, (recent'y a bride, and but eighteen .
years old, who was stolen By the Apaches .
aad carried into captivity, bad been re
covered by party OF her friends. 1t
would appear she gained sight of the pur-
sung party, and refused toprocced farther,
when the Ipiians, rather than give her NJ, (
and suPposing themselves closely pursued,
lanced her in several places, aud LEI. her
for dead She recovered, and binding her /
wounds, and sutsisiiug herself for two
weeks on roots, &c, managed to drag her
self to her friends in the pinery. Capt I.
Ewall, who had come in for supplies, LEFT !
on the lst ior Arayypa Canon, to effect !
the release of the little SKI who was sto
len with Mrs. Page.
PEACE has been concluded between |
Spain and Morocco, to the advantage of
the former Morocco not ouly yields up
an important strip of sea. coast, but makes
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