The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-07-03
WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
Mississippi Republican.


From time immemorial to the present
writing-from the hour in which Adam
smoked his pipe in peace after hard day.
wife), to the present day of shams and
swindles, cheek plumpers bust protuber
ances, hip pads, bustles, hoop squirts,
strange appliances for front and rear, i'm
possible shapes for the head, uncomfortable
inventions for the feet, false hair, false
teeth, glass eyes and wooden legs, woman
has had rights. She has claimed and taken
to herself the right of sitting up all night
awaiting with trembling anxiety the IN
certain steps which plainly said ''lodge-
office ---couldn't- getaway shutup--Im-
tootiredtotalk, and then supplemented,
amended and passed unanimously, while
her lord snored an eloquent response to
her daring claim, an additional clause
authorizing her to trot a bowling baby up
and down the room till daylight, with the
understanding that at sun-up she might 90
out and chop wood for a breakfast fire.
She has many times exercised the right of
coming out second>best in arguments in
which the husband tried to demonstrate
that her head was harder than all the fur
niture in the house-skillets included. She
has often played second fiddle in divorce
suits and enjoyed the high privilege of
being thrust, characterless and stained out
into the Attic regions of public sympathy,
when she knew that the whole thing
amounted to ''drunk, disorderly, and re-
fusing to fght'-with the latter clause for
her share. She has filled the leading role
in the tragedies entitled "The Silent Suf-
ferer," ''The Drunkard's Wife, :" Found
Dead, Z" "The Wife.beater's Victim, " "Sui-
eide, and "The Poisoned Wife" She has
frequently stretched her always liberal all
lowance of liberty to that extent that she
has even picked up her hungry children
and went to cher mas house" because her
husband-good>hearted, but careless fell
low,-had, in an absent~minded moment
filled his jug and forgotten the market.
basket. She has been known to search a
town over, at midnight, prodding along in
the bitches, as though filled with wicked
desire to rob her husband of the right 10
lay out all night in gutter and freeze to
death, If he happened to take notion to
do so. Woman's rights What more do
they wantP Do they expect us to allow
them to spend two or three dollars a week
and not give a strict account of every
nlcKel! DO they think We can possibly
put up with the extravaganza of fifty-cent
calico dress when whisky is fifteen cents a
drinkp Do they aspire to a dcllar.store
shawl when few oysters, a broiled steak
and small bottle of wine costs us two
dollars and a half2 Preposterous We
can t stand it-too much loser-in the box |
already! See 'em dead first and then |
No, sir, Col Susan B. Anthony.
and DIR. Mary Walker, and all weak imi. |
lators OF such breechaloonatics, you have
all .he rights we can spare you-and then.
who will pull of our boots at night, cook
our breakfasts in the morning, wash our
clothes, black our boots, or keep the flies
1f while we take a comfortable afternoon
lsp2 Rights You are "right'' where we
want you've feel like we had struck a
good thing; and, don't you let it escape
lour memory, we are going to hold it
Ill Gabe plays his last trump in this game
II Might vs. Right.