The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-09-06
FEMALE SUFFRAGE AND EQUAL,
RIGHTS.
We ind the following communication

RIGHTS.
We fnd the following communication
lin The freedoms Champion:
Mr.. ED1roR;-I used to oppose wo
mans voting. but I'm for it now. NJ,
wife is President of the ''Female Suffrag,
and Equal Rights Association" iu this
place. She has turned my parlor into {
council room. and best bed room iuto q
COMMITTEES room; hired nurse for the
children two extra girls to do the house
work, and she is holding meetings, some
times at home-then our house is full OF
gentlemen and ladies'. of all shades, from
pure Caucasian 10 jstty black. They
are of all classes of society
lawyers. doctors merchants clerks, and
men who 10 nothing that know of-and
ladies. About these my wife is little
more particular-uone but the most re
spectacle can come into her house So
you see she is a moralist. Sam Wood
has been here. I didn't Ike him very
well, but my wife says che is love of
a man. Lucy Stone was here, too. 1
can't rightly see why she isn't Lucy
Blackwell, but my wife tells me to "shut
your mouth and I shut.
Since these meetings commenced l tell
you I'm q happy man. I'm delighted
10 see how popular my wife is-so many
gentlemen come to see her-gracious!
how they flock in; and she receives them
so cordially, and they talk together in the
parlor, and ia the committee room-and
what pleases me most is she amt at all
bashful, don't seem the least bit afraid; ;
talks to them. all just as though she was
used to 1t; and then they get in a car
rage and go off to meeting. 1 like this,
too, but wish they'd come with two-seat-
ed carriages and let me go along; but
then one in the family is enough to be
out till midnight, and have to stay at
home and take care of4he children and put
the house in order for the return; which
sometimes ill next day.
n wife says she shall be a candidate
for office next year, and shall canvass the
State. l want to go along but she tells
me l must stay at home and see TO
things; that she will provide me with a
good girl, and only one of US can leave at
a time. She never rides out with any but
the most Elegant gentleman" and a
"iove of man." aud says l ought to be
proud of the attention shown her, and
wonders if / amt ashamed of myself to
see cow large and black my hands are.
You see she is improving in her tastes.
She has me walk with cane, aud wear
my hat ga little one side and has tied
to my button hole an eye glass, through
which / am to look in company; and has
shown me how Sam Wood and DIR. Black
we'll enter drawing room, and sit down,
and get mp, and make bow; and how to
salute a lady, and how TO stabd up before
an audience; and thus she fills up her
time teaching me when there is nobody
around. Oh, how happy I am; how do
love the men for paying so much atten-
ton to my wife, and sitting up with her,
aud riding out with her. never saw the
beat oft. I never had half so much atten-
ton paid to me; and my wife didn't until
Sam Wood introduced her to Lucy Stone,
and they pointed out to her her powers as
ga great moral and social reformer." NV
wife says che never was so happy 10 her
hfe-not even when she was a girl and
they crowned her Queen of the May"
She says if I'll stay at home and take care
of the children, she'll bring me some
thing, and make me her deputy when she
gets an Office.
Oh. I'm happy man. It is so pleas
ant TO have such an interesting wife, aud
TO know it's all on her account have 50
much company. and then 70 know she is
to have an Office, and am to be her dep
uty. OLIVER GOODMAN.