The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-07-01
From the El Paso I'm } Journal
SNOOKS HAS AN INTERVIEW,


be best for me to give myself
away for the benefit of my family, when
there came knock at the door.
There, says /, is some one anxious to
subscribe for the Ell Paso Journal, so /
uttered in loud voice, Come in.''
She was dressed in pair of store boots
and an iron gray set of spectacles, and
she walked up to me with majesty In her
mein. i knew who it was the minute /
set eyes on her.
1t was a woman.
gracefully arose and said, 'sIIow are
you, ma'am, was you wishin' to subscribe
to the Ell Paso .Journul?'' at the same
time dippin' my pen in the ink and open
in my subscription book. This alwuz
get 'em. 1t looks like bizness.
1t didn't git her.
She fixed her CLASSY eyes on me and
said: ''young man, are yew an advocate
for the holy caws of woman's rights -
"No, ma'am," said 1, 81 am Presby-
terian."
"Air you," she said, ''prepare3 to en-
bark with us over the sea of equal suf-
frage 70
s'Ma'am," said I, ''I baint no objec-
ton to takin' quiet sail with you, pro-
vided the boat aint leaky and you'll do all
the rowin'."
A smile perused her features for mo-
meDt, and then she said, ''I am willing
TO suffer for the caws"
Yes" said /, in polite and softenin'
manner, ''itll only cost two dollars, an
we'll send it to any address for an entire
year.
''Hev you wife ?' she asked.
''I hev," said l, wonderln' what she
was comm at. $50 that you see l
couldn't marry you eff l wanted to ever
so much" / threw this in as soother.
"Air you willin' that she should share
with you the burdens and trials Of life ?"
81 amt noways pertickler," said |.
San I'll let her shoulder the whole of 'em
if she has hankerin' that way"
"Wood you consent that she should go
to the poles?" said she.
'She can 60 where she pleases," said
I, ''She ginnerly duz.''
"Yew air hole souled man." SAID she,
and throwin' her arms around my neck,
laft wildly.
''Git out said /, "wbat air you up
to l amt one of them men. Stop"
After much labor | succeeded in un-
loosing her hold and sit her down in a
chair. l judged from her conduct that
she stood in need of few moral observa-
tiuns.
"Yoo air an impulsive femail,' said
/. "Your nature is at once spontaneous
and out break in. Yoo need pair of
martigails. Consider what would be your
state if mans witc was to catch 700 a
huggin' of him in this style
She wiped her face with her dress. 3
She had on dress. l forgot TO mention
this fact in speaking of her speetacles -
Says she-''I am a worker in the caws of
Woman's Rights
eyes," said /, "you air. Yoo ought
to be ashamed of yourself l should
Judge yoo was one of them lobby woman
that the Chicago Tribune correspondent
tells of But you can't come your nefa-
rous arts over me. I'm sealed against
'em."
81 should be pleased" she said, "to
go arm in arm with you to the poles"
'sNo you DON'T" said /, in alarm ''not
eff have anything to say in the matter.
| wont go with yoo-not single darned
pole"
"Young man," said she, hast thou
children
81 hev," said I, ''seven of 'em. Can
VOC show "a good a record 7"
"Wood you," said she, ''hev your
girls grow up and be married 10 base,
sordid men, who would take away their po-
lilical rites and allow 'em no franchises!'
"Darn the franchises" said I, in a
range 'these are the things that win
men put on behind to give 'em the Gre
clan bend. Eff my daughters ever go to
wearin' en-"
"No, no." said she, "they are PAN
niers."
"Well," said l, 'panniers or fianchis-
es, or whatever 700 call 'em. They are
unnatural and humpty. They degrade
the human form into likeness of camel,
and bring lovely woman down on all fours
like cat"
"Then," said she, "come with me, and
we will emancipate woman from the sla-
very of dress"
''No," said I, with severity, 81 heV
no wish to take the close away from emmy
woman. Wimmen without close would
be a sad spectacle, particularly in winter,
when the bowling blasts prevail. Who
are you, anyway 7" asked of my visitor
81 am Pilgrim" she said 81 belong
to the Agitator, noosPaper devoted to the
caws of femail suffrage in Chicago"
SWELL" said calmly, ''the wimmin
in Chicago need something of this sort
Where them that are married never nj
on goin' to bed at night, but what OF
wakin' up in the mornin' they may b.
divorced; and them that amt married
spend their time in bettin' how many
times they can be married and divorced