Weekly Trinity journal., 1860-05-12
Artcmus Ward Br~iegcd by strong Wi indcd
Women.

A Snowman meets with strange sites lie sees
human nature she are, uuma>ked Il without no
close on, & he must be stoopider nor u dcd kab
hoss If he duzzent stock his Brains with several
kinds of nolege.
The undersigned won't Bostc Inc a Amcr-
can ctterzun. | go in for the fast sailin snug
bilt Il full maed skeuncr United States, which
runs herself, she dus, ~ on whose decks man
is rs goods as anuther man, * frequently moore
so if he conducks himself strate. To use
Shatespeeran fr0sc, line natv to the manor
born, n | don't want to pat on airs cimply be-
oaws I've met with crate suclisess in the show
perfesshion (Which I've bin into goin on twenty2
years) My worthy projcnnytors was unable To
! give me q cussycal edycashun, X all | nose L
| pickt up
"As saled as sailed"
to kote from Capting X. Kidd, the sellcrbrated
pirut. But thank Heaven my sire and slrercss
gave me n good name, and pint with feeling OF
pride peshurc to the fact that nun OF our fam
! lily was ever in Congress, or on the New York
perlice, or Arms house Guvner.
Tho enSooin seen in my checkered career is
| respectfully submitted
wmIN's RITES.
| pcht my tent in small town in lnjianny one
day last season. N while was standin at the dore
takin money, Il deppy ytashun of ladies came up ~
sed they wos members of the Bunkumvile Fe-
male Moral Reform a. Wimins Rites Associashun,
and they uXed me if they Good 30 in without
payn
" Not exactly" sez I, " but you can pay with
out going in."
"Dew you know who we are ?' said one of tho
wmn--a tall feroshus looking critter, with II
blew Gotten umbreller under her arm" dew you
know who we are, Sur ~
"My impreshun is" sed |, h" from kersury
view, that you are females"
" We air, Sur" said the feroshus woman
"we belong to u Society which bleeves wimin has
rites-which blceves in rain her to her proper
place--which bleeves she is indowed with as
much inteleck as man is-whitch she is tram
piled on aboozed-& who will resist henselth
& forever the incroachmcnts Of proud IL domi-
ncerng men"
Durn her discourse, the exsentric female grabd
me by the coat koller & was swinging her UNI
breller wildly over my he'd.
81 hope marm," sez |, startin back =" that
your intenshuns is honorable line lone man
here in strange place, Besides, I've wife to
hum"
"Yes,' cride the female, "& she's a slave |
doth she never dream Of lreedom-does she new
er think Of throwing off the yoke of tyranny Il
thinkin ~ votn for herself? Doth she never
think of these here things ?"
d" Not boin a natral born fool" sed |, by this
time little riled, g kin safely say that she
dothunt."
90, whot-whotr' ~ screamed the female.
swingin her umbreller in the air. 40, whot Is
the price that woman pays for her experience !"
al don't know" seq :" the price to my show
is Is cents per individual"
"& can't our Society go in free ~ asked the
female.
" Not If know it," sed J.
"Crooil, crooil man !" she cried IL burst into
tears.
"Won't you let my darter in ~ scd anuther OF
the xsentric wimin, taken me aieckshuntey by
the hand. 80, please let my darter in-shees u
sweet gushn child of natur."
" Let her gush!" roared |, as mad as | Good
! stick at their tarna nonsense " let her gush ~
Whereupon they all sprung back with the stimuli
taneous observation that was Beest.
"My female friends" sed l. "be you leeve,
! I've few remarks to remark wa them we'll.
| The female woman is one Of the greatest nstitoo-
tions of which this land can bOste. It's onpossl-
BILE to get along without her. Had there been
40 female wimin in the world, should scarcely
be here with my unparaled show on this very
occasion. She is good in sickness-good in we'll
ness-good all the time. o, woman, woman !"
| cride, my feelins worked up to poetck pitch,
4" you air an angle when you behave yourself
but when you take off your proper apparel u
| (metty foricaly speaken) get into pantaloons.--
when you desart your hresides, * with your
heds full of wimins rites noshuns go round like
roarin lyons seekin whom you devour somebody
lin short, when you undertake to play the man.
you play the devil and air an emfatic noosancc." !"
MY female friends" | continued, as they was
Indignantly partin, " wa we'll what a. Ward has
sed p'-Clecetand Plaiadealer.
ENGLISH papers say the Suez canal is the
greatest failure of the age They don't rcmem-