The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-12-23
"SINE DIE"
The Council of wild Women in SessIOn-Their
Future Meetings to be Held in UtODin-PathOs
Too DeeD For Words.

| The Council of Wild Women In SesslOn-rhelr
| Future Meetings to be Held in UtOpin-PathOs
Too DeeD For Words.
| Some eighteen or twenty of the forlorn and
| faithful even unto death met yesterday after
| noon in New York. Mrs. Wilbur called the
| meeting to order with the remark that they had
not expected to meet at ALL and should transact
! no business, which assurance was altogether
| superfuous-the association having never trans
acted any business except talking. The orators
and oratresses of the occasion looked crestfallcn
| and hung their heads as If something fearful
| had happened, the said personages having been
engaged for whole week in altogether useless
rumination. Murmurs of discomfort, loud and
prolonged, went up from all parts of the room,
or rather from all parts where anybody was
| seated.
| 81 can't stand this, sighed one. "Talll, why
talk is the last solace of broken heart, moaned
Il second. ooh, my lost lecture!" shrielled a
| third and "What is the world coming to ?" ques-
toned a fourth-a query to which the empty
| desks, once occupied by the faithful, responded.
or seemed to respond, 'Not to the meetings of
| the Suffrage Association, certainly
The grave Madame President, or Vice-Presi-
dent-for Madame President (she of the gray
and glorious frIzzle) was not present-listened
| with pathetic expression of countenance,
which was almost tears in and of itself.
Sisters" she murmured at length, In softest
accents, "let the lovers of suffrage join the
Oneida Community; for, behold, have they not
| lately endorsed its peculiar principles :"
Then, 81 have husband" and Il have a hus-
| DanQ, ana Il nave q husband, 100, was OuZZeQ
from lips unused to speak respectfully of hus-
bands, land he might get divorce, you know,
and the walls of Balaclutha would be left
desolate."
Let him get divorce, bristled the sauciest
of the faithful. Cant | smile upon the Judge
and get decree for alimony?"
81 haint got no husband and don't want
none," grimly lnterposed the vestal of the asso-
ciation Husbands is nuisances; | want a
| fight" and with an exhibition of far more apti-
| tude for pugilism than correct English, which
| has been voted altogether superluous by special
| resolution the vestal took attitude unques-
tionably menacing. Husbands is good for
nothing but to pay bills, and ] never permits
any bills to be presented. l fights 'em Off"
| The vestal relapsed into an attitude of musng
pensiveness, having been safely delivered of the
| preceding Oration; but still discomfort reigned
| rampant.
The fair president looked sad not to say
| yeXed, at the pugnacious remarks of the belige-
| rent vestal who talks no more, but fights and
| order having been restored, the resolution manu-
| facturer ventured to begin the drawing of u re-
solution voting and decreeing and directing that
the members of the association should join the
Oneida Community in q body.
I've got husband, objected one. II want
a husband" objected another land I'm not
going to have one of them Oneidas either
"Ah shameless creature" cried out the
ancient and pugnacious vestal of the association.
''Ah shameless creetur, after all I've taught ye,
to speak right out in meeting in this way. / tell
ye that's no way to get one: I've tried and |
| know" and again the Vestal compressed her lips
! and looked the impersonation of Jupiter in
! petticoats. Presently, however, an expression
| of benignity crept over her iron features and her
lips moved ecstatcally! The few who were near
! enough might have heard her murmur, "I'll try
| a new dodge-a brilliant idea; why haven't
| Thought of it all these years I'll have one yet,
| without goin to the Oneidas after him.
As the venerable spinster murmured ''all these
! years an expression of unutterabe pathos and
! patience suifused her aged countenance as If the
| recOllections of other and sweeter JyS had sud
! denly come over her. She gazed dreamily at
vacancy, and sighed, 'All these years-all these
! years unmarried.
The most incorrigible or aged celebrates, had
! he seen her then with all the fight gone out
of her. would have pited her forlornness, even
| to matrimony, and proposed on the spot. There
was pathetic fascination about it that would
| have proved dangerous had there been single
eligible old gentleman present. The sternly
set jaws RELAXED, the rigidness begotten of long
| Vestal solitude, and the stern Napoleon of sut.
| frage looked dangerously amiabe with the
dreamy, but ah, how fallacious anticipation OF
| possibilities
| The fair resolution manufacturer had, in the
| meantime, completed the resolution. The sub
| stance was that, whereas the members of the
association believed in the right of every citi-
| zen, male and female, but female particularly,
| TO be a matrimonial repeater, and that, whereas
it has been proved by the late assassination that
the world was not yet educated up to the stand
| ReSOlUed That the members of the Suffrage
Association secede from the world in a body.
| and join themselves unto the Oneida commu'
nifty. in connection with which this sacred right
| of the citizen is respected and provided for.
| But alas for the fate of resolutions The
spirit truly was willing, but the flesh was weak,
or else the flesh was willing but the spirit weak.
| Whichever may have been the case, the resolu-
| tion was received by the few who had husbands
with Kisses, in the midst of which motion to
| adjourn sine die was put and passed, with the
| proviso that those who wished to join the
| Oneiders should have the privilege of doing sc
without forfeiting the respect OF the associa
tion; and no more will the hall at Packard,
Building resound with the defamation o.
the stylish Mrs. Wilbur, or the modest sugges
tions of DR.. Lllliput, or the oracular evclutioni
of Packer PillboX, or the Boanergian eloquenct
of Mrs Stanton, or the "Get up fight, please,
of the iron-visaged vestal. The occupation o
the pretty creature whose business it was t
manufacture stunning resolutions, is gone, lill,
"Othello's;' and no doubt in few days tn
Oneida community will have an opportunity t,
| add to its accessions.
The poor Suffrage Association is no more.