Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-11-01
AN EVENINGS ExTERrAINMrSr.
eNASD RAPIDS, OCT. 2s, 1878.

do H. " you ever should be so unfortunate
keep mum, Ill tell Tou how Il was. You see,
Sanger, tdarn Sanger I'll be even with him IL
hhkes oil winter he boards over on Second
street, and at the same house there are stopping
somewhere in the neiRhborhood OF seventeen
school msrms. Now understand me individu
ally haven't anything against them school
mans no, individually, they are nice. In fact
iadiriduoRy, tof a Sunday evening they are
bewitchingly ntoxicating. Bat take ZEN. in
a Roek- and, great Cesars Rhostl Cayenne
pepper and aquafortis aint novherei Now
that fellow Sanger is as cute as n fox he can
get along with Jrigade of school mans, just
like nothing. He never crosses them the y
may pout their rosy lips and abuse mankind
from morning iii night, and that miserable
critteT will meeky acquiese, and dcplore his sex
and the situation generally. Now aiut tina )
kind Of a hair pin Scarcely. 1have an opiu.
ion Of my own, aud am just little forward
about expressing IL. Sanger is acquainted with
this popularity Of mine, aud ! suppose he
thought he would turn IL into an evenings en-
tertaiIment for himself. fle also knows that
can get along with one schoolmam as well al
anybedy, but that I'm as ignorant Of them
en- n'aise, as pig is about Sunday. Well he
invited me to come up at certain hpur and
spent the evening with the girls I went. /
cam in with my bandest smile bid the
youIg ladies, "good eveAingi" aud as there
wasn't any vacant chair, | took a seat on
hugely mirrored, marble.topped dressing case.
Tiny were talking about "tobacco" (Sanger
had maliciously introduced the subject Just be
fore came.) Well, the way them girls talked
abunt tubUcco and the II sers Of that deleetable
weed was outrageous. | felt uneasy-U had
some in nv month"; But there was one, sweet.
rosy checked, blaek-eyed darling on the oppo-
site side Of the room from me, who never said
word. Now, was awful sweet on that girl,
and had been thinking seriously of speaking to
har "dad." knew she didn't like to talk
much when I was around, but was determined
she should give them girls piece of her mind
So with my sweetest look said "Miss -
what do you think of all this ?" "Darn INV
skin" if that little wretch didn't get right up
on her tip-toes, and declare she " wouldn't
maTy man that used tobacco No, mt ir he
was the lastman in the world" Yes sir, that's
what she SAID and I'll stake my reputation
as Christian and a member oI the Baptist
Sunday School, that it hadn't beeu three DAYS
since she told me there was nothing she liked
so well MS he fragrance Of a good cigar. There's
gratitude for you That girl has cost me ten
cents week, right along, ever since school
commenced for the single item ef chewing gum,
alone, to say nothing about peanuts and bo
logna. Yes sir! Had a 1Db of my gum in her
mouth when she made that speech. felt for
half mi, mute. Il somebody was poking some
thing cold down the back Of nv neck didn't
saw anything, Just smiled kind of a sickly
M ia nv hop nd boz, Of I Il,
rously wiped my mouth and deposited the
handkerchief (and big cud Of tobacco in N
coat pocket. In the mean time a dazzling lite
blonde took the floor. (I'd seen that blonde
the day before-about ! | O'Clock P M.-and
thought she was an angel; but there not being
much light on the subject probably accounts
for thatl. She said, " Ii was their custom, on
Monday evenings, to discuss some subjects Of
general Importance to the female sex. They
were not in the habit Of having callers on Mon
day evenings They had not expected any
this evening" Nevertheless she didn't know
as their pressure would deter her from saving
what she had to say this evening on the subject
Of Female Suffrage" | begged her not to
mind me in. the least, but to "drive her oxen
under the she'd" (Sanger didn't appear To
hear what she said. he had turned around and
was looking out of the window ,snd he appeared
to be shaking all over. | thought the fe How |
must have an ague, but I've since come to the |
conclusion that the miserable cuss was langh- |
ing himself half 10 DEATH. Well, Miss blonde |
turned up her nose at me, gave me a stare with |
her butter eyes, (I thought they were !
heavenly blue the night before than she mount |
ed an uttumsn and made few cred pepper" re- |
marks bout "noble man " ''usurpatiOn" "ty- |
rannv," " biggOtrv," "egotism," &C. &c |
(Yes II she'd been a man, I'd have got up and !
kicked the hind sights OF OF her). Then she |
branched out somewhat as follows: "Permit |
Sonen to vote, and you will thereby prevent |
brawls, riots, smashing Of heads and ballot |
boxes, and the horrible scenes of outrage that |
have rendered our falsely STYLED uHicersnl snf- |
trage bye-w"rd iu Europe" even the noble |
men { two inches OF sarcasm on tha) would re- !
Train from Draining and stabbing each other IN |
the presence of their wives, mothers aud |
daughters. There would be no mobs, no riots !
no fnnl language, no tDbrcco but to all legal |
voters would be secured the unimpeded exer- !
else Of the elective franchise, and tile polls |
would be as quiet as the U. B. Church on Bro. |
Merchs day" "The>e would he the immediate |
and palpabe results Of the participation nt wo
men in political elections" 6 But the general |
consequences would be infinitely more i'm tort
aut" 'rhe aggregate vote uf the female electors |
would he cast in favor Of honest men, capable |
men. and against cnrrup ptionists, imbecles, and |
bu!ies, and the political influence now welded |
BY rutlianism, rowd ism and ignormce. tan in |
huence which is undermining the very pillars !
aud butreses of our Republican system) would
be counter balanced and rendered a negafiOn.
That settled it there was no galn-saving a
single word. Seventeen peppery remarks 1oaIed
up to the noble man on the dressing case in as
many seconds. Sanger said mournfulIy, he
had long been convinced Uf these facts. Then
red headed girl asked me, With "A complHisant
smirk, if had anv remarks tu make. YES, |
HAD. got right up on that vanished, marble-
topped big swinging mrrored, dressing case.
and with my head within two inches Of the
ceiling, | said, "Ladies r. 4" FeiioU Ciiizems,
II yoH please" shrieked the red headed girl.
Well, fellow citizens, then The theory
which this gifted lady has just advanced, il
carried into effect, would be simply moral mad
Hess"-( seventeen sniffs-and | discovered for
the first time, that every one Of them school
mans had png nOse) There are IN every
city in our land, from one to twenty thousand
| females with whom no modest woman would
| like to cone in contact at any time least Of all
! at the polls of "A hOtly contested election
| The rowdies know these women and would be
sure to have them on the spot to vote their tick.
/ ct. every fast woman every woman un-
/ der the costr1l Of an unprincipled man, would
be forth coming at the polls. Where is the
respectable wife aud mother that would choose
| to g" herself or send her daughters where they
w0uld have to mingle with the most degraded
If their sex. Read the history Of the French
! Revolution Everybody knows that the profit
! gate aud fanatic female politicians Of that time,
oere 'sorIe h0n be corst of men. II wOuld be the
same thing her. Decent women would be
driven from the ballot boxes by ViTagOs u! The
i lowest caste; the latter would vote the former
! would have no chance 10 vote. And the s6ret
OF extending the privilege Of voting to women.
! would be TO swell the vote Of rowdyism, and
render il more potential and absolute than at
present. You will perhaps argue, th at il is the
/ duty Of police tO protect weak voters against
violence. DO they doill Have they ever been
! able tn d. so2 And if they are no match for
! male TuffiAnsm, alone, what head could they
make against il when reinforced by unscrupu-
! lOus female friends In the cuuntry where
there is more purity aud decency than in cities
respectable women might perhaps approach
the polls without danger nf contamination or
indiguitI, but not the dense eammnHhiesl Aud as
the regulating suffrage must be uniform
| in their application To city aud country it is