The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-05-18
scenes in the Life OF :. Show
man.
By ARTEMCS WARD.


He sees human natur as she are unmassed
and without no clothes on, and he mus.
be stupider nor dead boss if he duzzen,
stock his branes with several kinds of mol
lege.
The undersigned won't Boste | go in
for the fast sailin, snug bilt and full made
skeuner United States, which rms herself
she does, and on whose dsx l man is a:
good as another man, and frequently more
so, if he conducks himself strate. To use
a shakespeerian Erase, line native and tc
the mannere born and doant want to pu
on ares simply because I've met with CRATE
success in the show profsshun (which I've
been in go;n ON 3 years. My wur,hy
projennyturs was unable TO give me {
cussical eldycashun, and all nose pick
Ad up
4" As I sailed as l sailed,'
SO kwote from Capt. B. Kidd, the seller
bratei pirut. But, thank Heven, my sire
and siresa gave me a good name, and
pint with feelins of pride and plasure t.
the fact that nun of our fammily WAS evel
in Congress, or on the New York perice
or Arms house Guyner.
The ensooin seen in my checkered ca
reer, is respectfully submitted:
wIMIN's RITES
7 pitch my tent in small town in In
janny one day last season, and while wa:
standing at the door taking money a dep
py tashun of ladies came up and sed they
was members of the Buncomville Female
Moral Reform and Wimin's Rites Assoc;a
shun, and they axed me if the Good &c
in without paying.
mot exactly sez l, "but you car
pay without goin' in."
"Do you know who we air?' sed ot
the winlnin, tall and fcroshus lookin
creature, with a blew cotton umbrealla
under her arm" do You know we air,
SUI 2"
any inpreshun is sed I. I" from kur,
sery view, that you air females" !"
I'VE air, sur" said the feroshus wo-
man; We belong to Society which be
leaves winlin has rites-which bleeves in
raisin her 20 her proper speer-which
bIeeyes she is endowed with as much in
tel!eck as a man is--which bleevqs she is
trambied on and abooset-and which will
resist hence4th & 4ever the encroachment
of proud and domineerin man.
During her discours the excentric fe-
mail GRABBED me by the coat kolar, an was
swingin her umbreller wildly over my
he'd.
II hope, marm," scz I, startin' back
that intenslIuns is honorable. Ime a
lone man here, in strange place. Be
sides, I've wife at hum"
Yes" cride the femail, "anG she's a
slave! Doth she never dream of freedom
Doth she never think of THROWN off the
yoke of tyrrany & thinkin Il speakin &
votin for herself? Doth she never think
of these here things?
Not bein natrul born fool" sed 7, by
this time little riled, Il kin safely say
that she doth not"
"Oh, whotn' screamed the femaiI
swingin her umbreller in the air, "Oh
whot is the price that woman pays for her
experiences
l doant know, marm," seq I, the
price to my show is Is cents per indi-
vidoouI.'
'E& can't our society 60 in free ~ asked
the femal
"Not if ! know it," sed I.
" "Crooil, crooil man." she cried, and
burst into tears.
"Won't you let my daughter in - said
anuther of the excentrc wimin, takin' me
affecksiunately by the hand "Oh, plees
let my darter in-she is q sweet, gushin
child of nature"
Let her gush - rored !, as mad as l
could stick at their tarnal nonsense let
her gush -
Whereupon they all sprang back with
the simultaneous observation that | wa. a
beest.
my femail Friends" sed 7, bed you
leeye Ive few remarks to malk; way
them well. The femail woman is / of the
greatest institutions Of which this land
kin boste. Its ompossible to GET along
without her Had there bin no femail
wimin in the world, shood scarcely have
been here with my unparalleled show on
this auspishus occashuu. She is good in
sickness-good in wellness-good all the
time.
ooh, woman, woman" I cried, my
feelings wurked up to high poetick
pitch, "you are an sngil when you behave
yourself, but when you take off your prop
er APPAREL & (mettyphorically speakin,
git into panty tyloons- when you desart your
iresides, and with your head full of win
ms rights noshuns go round like roarir
lyons seekin whom you may devour some
body-in short-where you undertake tc
play the man you play the devil, & air ar
emphatic noosance Nv femail friends,
| continued as they were Indignantly de
partin', 4" Way we'll what A. Ward ha
sed."
ES Mrs. Livingston, wife of the trav
eler, has just returned to Eng gland from Al
rica, bringing with her a little daughter borl