Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-02-24
4. WHITMORE.
Publisher and Proprietor.
Mrs. LivermOre Hears Herself Dis
cussed through n thin Partition.
At No. 1s Madison street.


Womaf's Journal, February Ill
Humboldt was the only town in Kan
sas where they did not choose woman
suffrage lecture. Here they preferred
some other subject, while in all other
towns they would have the woman
question discussed, and no other, ex-
cept where / have been second time to
a place. Humboldt is on the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas road, and is only fifty
miles from the southern boundary of the
State, and from the Indian territory. 1t
is very new town on the Neosho river,
with one thousand inhabitants. 1t has
Just commenced the erection Of substan-
tial buildings, something better than the
temporary cabins that spring up at first
1t has a good-sized and handsome new
hall commodious and easy to speak in,
and large stone hotel in process of
erection. The hotel in which | am
accommodated tonight is Of the
most primitive kind. Not one of
its chambers can be- warmed, nor
can one 90 down into its little seven
by-nine sitting room to the fire, for the
floor is covered with sleeping men, The
partitions of the sleeping rooms are OF
the thinnest board, through which l can
even hear the sleeping occupants of the
chambers breathe. / had been in my
room for two hours, vainly trying, half
frozen, to coax sleep to my bed OF straw
when four men came to their room, op-
posite mine, and commenced discussing
me and my lecture on Queen Eliza
beth, delivered that evening. The tran
som windows over the doors were all out
if they had ever been in-and so for
an hour listened to a most entertain
ing discussion concerning my ability, my
personal appearance, my age, with va
rious speculations concerning my skill
in domestic affairs, the goodness or bad
ness of my disposition, and other equally
important points. Who says that women
monopolize the gossip of the community i?
Three of them had quite settled it
among themselves that / never wrote my
lecture-that was impossiblel Some
body had told them that my husband
was smart mana presiding elder !"
and he had written the lecture, which
| had Learnt by heart" 1t was some
consolation that they allowed the credit
of the lecture to reside in the family
The fourth one, who had also Joined in
the talk, and who said he was raised in
old Kentuck," now became my cham
pion. 80.
He'd be derned if he didn't b'lieve
that woman was smart nuff to write her
own lecter He couldn't read nor write
never could learn it-but he was great
on figgers, and that's how he'd come to
make money. He'd carry the derndest
heap of fggers in his head of any feller
thew ever see. None OF these railroad
chaps could cheat him--he could tell to
onct how many yards of earth he'd got
ont and how much it come to. But he
couldn't read nor write. He'd got little
woman for q wife, though, and, Lord
she read an writ anything. He'd lick
any feller that said his wife couldn twrite
ANYTHING, for he'd just sot beside her and
seen her do it. And he'd lick any feller
that said she didn't know nuff to vote,
too. She knew more n he did, and he
could vote and she couldn't, and it was
derned shamel And when he knew
what his little woman could do, you
couldn't make him b'lieYe that that
woman didn't know 'nuf~to write her
own lecter."