The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1871-01-26
A DREAM OF SUFFRAGE.
BY FANNY ELLETT. aE .m

BY FANNY ELLETT. saE .@.
: think dream is series of vivi,
pictures rather than narrative. Word
if they occur, stand out like those pro
ceeding from mouths in caricatures
But in the shifting panorama ofa dream
there are often hints that are developed
by meditation in waking hours into
surprising plot. Hence the old heather
adage, dreams are from the gods. can
not tell what Of the following was til,
inspiration of sleep, nor what the resul
OF waking reflection. Nor does it mat
ter. os-@a ,s-.n9 ..E#ag@5f.
went to sleep, young woman de-
pendent on my earnings in apublit
school, and my home was frugal board
ing house near Boston. found myself
mistress of house in Fifth Avenue
New York. l know the house well, fol
it is hospitable one where have been
a guest for weeks together. Its mistress
was born in a parsonage in New Hamp
shire, and no one of her fathers fifty
years of labor in that parish was rewar-
ded with as much money as one of her
mirrors cost. But was not the mother
of her family, for in my dream, was
the childless wife of a descendant from
one Of the oldest and richest families i'm
the city.
was at the breakfast table; it was
heavily loaded with silver. ard fragrant
with coffee and chocolate. A trim Irish
girl was explaining to me that it was the
day for presidential election and that
she the chambermaid, and TIE cook,
must be out all day because the priest
had appointed her to distribute votes, to
get out voters. If we pleased to vacate
! the table promptly they would be glad
to set on cold dinner for us before en-
tering OIL their higher duties to their
country.
BY the side of my plate she laid her
electoral ticket on tinted paper. At its
head stood the name of no candidates
for the high offices to be filled; there was
only series of names chiefly Irish,
headed (strange anachronism!) by that
Of the late Archbishop Hughes, and
every one that followed was that of a
Romish priest.
"And for whom do you vote for Presi-
dent, Ellen?" asked I.
"Sure and his Holiness knows. The
blessed st. Peter gave him the right to
appoint the rulers of the earth, and our
electors should do the same" Ellen
withdrew.
"Gear," (strange that ii did not seem
strange that bearded man should call
me by such a termD MY dear this is a
bad case. L. the Pope to cast the electo-
raj vote Of the Empire StateP This
Mouse is to cast three votes to enable
him to do it, and you and can kill but
aesvo of them"
.he."You and! l You do not mean that /
nm pill vote!"
ling NCertainly you must, love-"
rem, 7 dare not. Just think Of the fish
'ntS ut6 zen, and wosre, that I must crowd
lay amongl"
is dreadful, but the burden is
A. 'hi upon you and it now becomes a
ases u's God. l. must keep house of
ioqs 'ouf you return
cted coSi Lord forgive them that laid it
amy amy vi ~" the brawling women that
,3rk @ s'o.' EN- into it," cried I.
sund myself in front of the
o'a o.yPalace Qong since burned)
III WIZ Pred protection of human
,'s",' nllot in my clenched hand.
hing to point me to the
,o"" ,te, for about the south door
throng Of the toughest
'rov- women l q r, a. e..
fully rank, saw, 800 I,,on hnt an
with .,:. neat Ellen, out, on
mae o". she disappeared like a
re, Sno" ',. ~ N.ed by muddy surface.
oors '''eu W .oer but it was impossi,
to penetrate vi Is,ond ,hora trors.
N fixed by the lai .aarosson - mo
The whole of -,
dol. into my mind ID ,s.,nt u.o,11 s,u
c OF gest about the sat to.,;o. r. 80,
ptn cien. u"se ~ pod there, but it
anty T9,; seeii'e' n .Nnear me three
,r, iei'o",.ion9 " Anthony, ac-
pray err meeting. OF h,.a,.
lc.s eyed damsel Of twenl, ,,oaa f.oo u,os
Or even then beaming VI ;o,,;or .;a
to them and me, Con -, ),
lubs We stepped away, II 10 fro,,
aeh, that glass PandemonT W. u..,
.,o your help" said she to n n,,,s. s.aoI
rated the livery of the devil to- = -,
,ntihc in. Your Irish girls 80. -
s. clothes?
.,o" o., 81 Eyes" said in amazen
Y IEears tor 1--WE must have them. l..
: emf, tall disguise can we hope to vol s''A
,r,ops, ,l,s, We were soon masqu. :.
,wr PRO Ellen's room. The trollope
d ,.sn for saucer. 1t gave almost suspid an ~
j. to our noses. A match and
", nished blackened eye for on 'u. NJ.
= all of US were resplendent in gla -,
bons, and stunning colors, but v aro
ansi' is5i,' not very tidy, as group.
But we met better reception fn
wv on ,.,.ao,,s ~ r,,r around tho nolIs
ircut nIueouS tAioHS "io"N '
n the onuaazed through the press.
hard, ,,, a. -
hun sense was aSSalIed. he HrsC ouoi
ionne ionne whiskey, the next was tobacco.
which Next we gagged at the nauseous
l.nen- epenf Of unwasled skins and putrid u
writ of Now the sense ofsmell was ovcrpo'
by blasphemies, but we pressed on
acand and further into the seething mass. !
begun nized my neirhbOr's cook and the
tered woman whose stand was rou
freoh 'ition Broadway. Now came language
prf. was meant for obscenity, words tol'
,&.@#.sse...
only in ancient writings. My
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