The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1884-05-21

ried. and then look out what klnd OF IolKs
they marry, 'twouldn't work jest So"
bland alive, Dorkis Winkwire; you
know what fools women be, now don't
ye2 Quick as man comes foolin' round
they dursn't say their soul is their own"
al guess, then, Miss Morgin, you'd bet.
ter try to kinder stiffen up the matters of
women afore ye give 'em more rights'n
they've got, hadn't YEP"
TO this pithy remark Mrs. Morgan
gave no reply, but went fuently on.
"Well, now, there had oughter be laws
to protect women's property, and men
won't never make 'em so long as the
world endures, not never If women had
a finger in the pie, them things would be
settled quicker'n winkin'."
al do'no' that" said Miss Dorcas,
"don't ye call to mind that time we he'd a
meetin' to the schoolus about Sunday
school matters, and the brethren an Sis
ters got agoin' about the libery2 Why,
they couldn't settle to nothin'; them
women got mad right off, and stead of
stickin' to the matter in hand they fell to
and raked up all the old scandal and
flung it at each other like snow-balls
some ont hit an some ont didn't, but l
tell We there was considerable OF muss
and the men Just sot and larfed. l seen
enough of women a doin' public business
that time |"
"But they want used tot; and now
look here suddenly changing her
avenue -" supposin' yod was took sick,
wouldn't you sight ruther hev woman
doctor to see to ye than rough man
"No, wouldn't don't hold to hevin'
women studyin' sech things as doctors
hev to; a sawin' and cuttin' up dead
folks 1t rifles me to think ont. l want
woman for to nuss me, aud see tot tibet
Pm took care of aocordin' to doctors
orders, and 1 tell ye nussin' is more of a
trade than doctorin', by long sight, and
docs heaps more good why, doctor
skips in an gives stare at your tongue
n feels your pulse. Well, what if he
does Your tongues reliable mabbe,
but his very comm in of suddin' sets
your heart abeatin', if you're anyways
weak or nervous, and he says, Bad very
bad and gives ye suthin' quietin' when't
amt noway needful; but nuss, she's
there and she knows just how you be
right along and what to do for ye if she
is nuss worth salt Besides, ha'n't
and l shan't never have sech confidence
in a female doctor as have in mas
kyline; / do'no' jest why tits so, but 80
it's"
"But now lawyers; why can't women
folks study the law just as good as men 2"
"Well Mis- Morgan eff there is women
that has the observation-disclosures and the
sharpness to do what lawyers hes to, why
1 expect they'll do it whether or no, votin'
or not l don't see what votin's got to do
with it,"
claw don't ye suppose the polls would
be sights and sights more respectable an
quiet than they be, and the laws consid.
er'ble more to the puppus if women had
their say about em ?"
III should think we'd better learn to
keep the laws we've got Already, before
maxim new ones," Miss Dorcas replied.
"Well, think what likker laws we'd
hev if women made 'em !"
"And what would they amount to, any
way? What do them that men makes
amount to? They amt KEEP no more'n
the commandments be. Folks will drink
that likes drink eff you make laws pun
ishin' of drinkin' with death they banker
fort all the more when they hev to get it
on the sly that's human natur'. But I'm
a digressin', as Priest Halves used to say,
when he kinder strayed off'n the tex. As
for maxim the votin' place any better and
quieter, how long would that last, do you
suppose ? Amt there bad women Jest
as well as bad men ? And how do you
suppose they'd vote, for or aginst likker ~
"But them that is drunkard's wives,
Dorkis, think o. them p
"How many of 'em would burst to vote
any other way than their men folks told
emp Do you expect they like to be
kicked and struck and half-killed any
more than they be now? l guess not /"
"Well, don't hold to argum much. L
amt tonguey by nature, but it's plain as
the nose on your face to me that this bein'
a land o. liberty women had ought to
have eksl rights with men, and l b'lieve
it's So"
"Who says they hain't got 'em ?" said
Miss Dorcas, reused in spirit, and lifting
her head up to look keenly at her visitor.
"Ive got my rights same as any man
has 'em; and one of 'em is to set still
here and arm my Twin under shelter,
while men folks makes roads for me to
walk on, and railroads for me to ride on
saws and splits wood and digs coal for
my fires, makes caliker and meryno for
my gowns, and grinds -four for my bread
1 ha'n't got to ride nights in all weathers
to help folks die or get well, as the case
may be, nor ha'n't got to make their
collins nor to dig their graves nuther ; mol
yet to cheat the gallows for 'em, nor to
convict 'em for prison; ha'n't got tc
preach to 'em Sundays and then have EN-
sass an scorn me weekdays because
don't live up to my own preachin'.
ha'n't got to sail no ships nor run nc
steam-engines nor ride no locomotives
that's men folkses business; I've got my
own. I've got to tend up to the sick an
poor 80 fur as l can, and labor with my
hands sewin' or knittin' or school-teach
in as Providence ordains, and try to live
'cordin to the gospel. Eff I'd married I'd
ha' had to mind my husband
"You'd ha' fellowshiped that much,
guess " interrupted Mrs. Morgan, witt
fine satire.
DWELL, dooties ant always agreeable
as know of, but they've got to be die
just the same, and / hope I'd have hat
, grace to my needs in that respect, though
don't say but what the material maj
might have and likely would have KICKED
, against the pricks, some then I'd proba
bly, have had children to fetch up, ant
that's chore men folks don't skerce eve
have throwed on to 'em, and it is chore