Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1881-10-08
: CU NRT FSTOWN JEFFERSON COUNTY, W. VA SATURDAY O
THE EMAyCIPATION OF NAN.
Which goes to sio,c that 'ce can get along rer
areN wifhom romea, after GN

Which goes to sio,c that arc can get along rern
1reN rifhom iroalen, after al.
She looked Just like that kind ofa woman
when she came into the sanctum, and all
the seniors he ame instinctiyely very busy
and so absorbed in their work that they did
not see her, and this left the youngest man
on the staff an easy prey, for he looked at
the visitor with little natural politeneSS,
and was even soft cfough % offer her
chair.
"You are the cditor?" she said, in deep
bass voice
lie tried to say Yes" 50 That she could
hear him; while his colleagues in the sanctum
couldn't. but it was failure, for the woman
gave him dead away in minute.
''You are?" she shouted, "then listen to
me look at me what am l?''
The foolish youngest man looked at he
timidy and ven;ured 70 say, IN a feeble
voice, that she looked 20 be about forty
sev-
"Am not 4 woman ?"she said.
The youngest young man weakly tried 70
correct his former errer, and said she seemed
more like CIR
But again she broke in on him with a
scornfull hiss:
"Gir-r-r-l = she sail, Il am woman-a
woman with all tke hcayen-born aspirations,
the fathomless feelings, the aggressive
courage and the iniomitable will of a
woman. What can you see on my faco?'
The position of the youngest man on the
staff was pitiful, but none Of the old heads
appeared to CD serve it. ~ least, they
didn't offer to help him out. So he looked
at her face for moment, and said tim.dly:
"Freckl-"
"Nursling, "she shrieked, had you the
soulful eyes of free man you could see
shining on my brow tn rising light OF Il
brighter dawn"
Gould | ?" asked the youngest man
timidly.
"Ycs, you could t., the woman said in
tones of ulmeasurable sc0rn. Now hear
me have YOU a-but can not bring my
self to use the hateful expression in the style
of masculine possession; are yoG anybody S
husband?"
The Youngest man blushed bitterly, and
said that he wasn't as yet, but he had some
hopes. ....,,. no. o,,o.,
the woman whose husband you will be to
support your"
The Youngest man blushed more keenly
than before, and tremblingly admitted that
he had some expectations-that-that being
the only d,ughter of his proposed father-in-
law, if he might put it that way
Yah" snar.el the woman; now let me
tell YOU, the day of woman's emancipation
is at Ian |. From this time we are free,
free! You must look for other slaves to
bend and cri1ge before your maje'ties, and
wait upon YOU like slaves. You will feel
the change in your affairs since We have
burst our chains, and how will you live
without the aid of woman? Who make 5
your shirts now" she added tiercely.
The Youngest man miserable said that 4
tailor on Jefferson street made his.
"IIm," said the woman, somewhat dis
concerted "Well, who washes 'em then?'
she added t-iumi h mtly.
"a Chinaman just west of Fifth street" "
the Youngest man said with hopeful light
in his eyes, .s
Thn i oman glared at him and groaned
under her breath, but she came at him
again with:
" Proud worm who cooks your yictuals!"
The younCe.t man said truly that he
uluu kuDN vac AsiiilG Va wv ''tN az ''''
restaurant. but he vas a daikey ahODt forty
years old, and round es p barrel, with a
beard like the stufing of sofa"
The wonor looked rs though she was
going to strike him.
"Well," she said, as one who was leading
forlorn hope, "who makes up your bed and
takes care otyQur roOm?'
The youngcs' nan replied with IN air of
truth and franLness that he roomed with a
railroad conductor, and an eXpuilman sleep
ing-car porter took care of the room.
She paused when she reached the door
and turned upon him with the face of a
drowning man who is only five feet away
from a liic-buoy.
miserable dependent she cried, who
scws on your buttons?"
The youngest man on the staff rose to his
feet with proud, happy look on his face.
Haven't scwed button on single
clothes" he cried triumphantly patents,
every one Of EN-, fastened or Ike copper
riyets and nothing b9t studs and collar but
tons on my shirts. Haven't had button
sewed on for three years. Patent buttons
last for years after tic garments have gone
to decay"
And thoNGa ID fed down the winding
passage and the labyrinibine stairs with a
/ hollow gr0an, while the other members OF
the staff, breaking through their heroic
reserve, clustered around the youngest man
and Congratulated him upon the emanclpa-
I zion of his Huntington Hqwkeye.
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