Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1870-04-23
young srunters were cnioying themselves

youn: grunters were enjoying themselves
hugely. When Mrs. Buttermaker went
to The pantry door, bein: suddenly sur
prise the old she hog made lunge to
escape In doing this, she inadvertently
darted between Mrs. Bu.tctmaker's un.
derstandinss, taking the lady on hef back
rs far MS the outside door, and thfo~ing
her Of in a rude manner as she (the hog)
leapei out. Being badly frightened the
pigs scampcrei into nearly all the rooms
below. and appeared, when Mrs. Butter
maker recovered from the shock Of her
rapid ride aud went after them. to be in Il
/ deep study of longitude. Awaiting her.
scE OF the use Of club from the wood
box: and having au edgcd-tool temper upon
her, the way the she voter went after and
! Knocked the longitude out of the pigs
was caution to the porcine portion of
J animated nature not to intrudc themselves
into lady's premises when she has gone
to serve her country at the ballot-box.
The hens, also. had not been idle, but had
left their marks behind them. The car.
pct, we're punctuatcd with numerous peri.
obs, seMicolons and commas, in the best
style OF hen literature. Like that of Mrs
Tidy, the domcilc of Mrs. BNtermaker
was really in a sad plight, and in the Ian
2uagc of the former. "a pretty looking
house. Mrs. b., Also charges that her
troubles enumerated above were the result
Of the exercise Of suffrage by females, and
condemns in sharp and pointed English
tie orisinators Of the female suffrage non
sense.
But the worst Of the troubles resulting
the day Of election at Suf'ragcville, has
not been told. Mrs. Doughnut went to
the poll leaving two beautiful little daugh.
tcrs, a-cd respectively seven and nine
years. Imagine her feelings upon returning
home. to find the two lying scared and
scnscless upon the floor. BY some acct
dent. it is suppose the clothes of one had
caught fire, and that the apparel of the
other became i2uitcd in an attempt to put
the fire out Mrs. Doughnut thinks that
in view OF the troubles resulting from the
absence Of mothers from home on days of
election, female suffering ought to be
substituted for female suffrage. She's
down on the institution
Mrs Chckenhatchcr had several hens
sitting. the eggs of some of them being
"pipped' when she left home for the
poll. During her absence the children
had been to the nests aud finding some Of
the eggs broken. and in some cases the
bills Of the chickens sticking ont Of them,
they pitched in to shell out" the
chickens. taking tn. "pippcl' eggs FIRST,
an then breaking opcn the others until
all tn. cgLs Of all the sitting biIdcs had
been opened and the chickens taken out Of
them. On arriv!ny'at home aud divcs.-
ing herself Of her town-mectu. habili-
mentS. Mrs. Chickenha!chcr hurried off to
thc hen. house to see how the sitting hens
| We're getting along. Her feelings can be
more easily imagined than described here.
when she found all the chickens torn on.
of the shells, and al! dead and stiff Mrs
Chickcnha,cher turned pale, looked sad
and sorrowful. and believing that she WAS
not capable Of doing justice to the ease,
she only broke silence by saying, That's
the work Of them young ones Female
suffrage is at the bottom of all this Had
it not been f.. ,:u=aa .in:hony, Horace
Greeley. aud lot Of other crazy headed
fools, Id not lost these chickens.
Many other cases Of trouble and grief
Detailing the she voters Of Sulragcyillc on
their first going to the poll to exercise the
suffrage right. might be related, but
enough has been told to enable the reader
to see the genera! effect Of the practical
carrying out of the Female Suffrage idea
SLUlCE-FOEk.