Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1884-06-30

say that's right, but it's so; men have
hankerin' after money that ant
natural nor hardly believable to
woman but if women folks would
see to it that their money was tied up
to 'em tight afore they was married,
and then look out what kind of folks
they marry, 'twould work jest so."
stLand alive, Dorkis Winkwire J
you know what fools women be, now
don't ye? Quick as man comes fool
| in round they dursn't say their souls
is their own"
81 guess, then, Miss Morgan, you'd
! better try to- kinder stiffen up the
matters of women afore ye give 'em
more rights'n they've got, hadn't ye"
To this pithy remark Mrs. Morgan
gave no reply, but went 1uently 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 quick
erin winkin'."
| 81 do'no' that" said Miss Dorcas,
''don't ye call to mind that time we
he'd meetin' to the schoolus about
Sunday school matters, and the breth-
rem an sisters got goin' about the
libery? Why, they couldn't settle to
nothin' them women got mad right
off, and stead of stickin' to the mat
ter in hand they fell to and raked up
all the old scandal and flung it at each
other like snow balls; some ont hit
and some ont didn't, but / tell ye
there was considerable of muss and
the men just sot and larfed. | have
seen enough of women a doin' public
business that time y
''But they want used to it; and
now look a here''-suddenly chang
ing her 'venue'-''supposin' you was
took sick, wouldn't you sight ruther
hev a woman doctor to see to ye than
a rough man?'
"No, / wouldn't / don't hold to
hevin' women a studyin' sech things
as doctors hev to; sawin' and cut
tin up dead folks? 1t rifles me to
think ont. | want a woman to see
to it thet I'm took care of accordin'
to doctors orders, and tell ye nuss-
in is more of a trade than doctorin' f,
by long sight, and does 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 sudden sets your heart
abeatin', if you're anyways weak OIL
nervous, and he says, Bad very
bad = and gives ye suthin' quietin'
when it amt noway needful; but 8
woman, she's there and she knows
just how you be right along and what
to do for ye if she is a nuss wortf
salt. Besides, / ha'n't and SHAH
never have sech confidence in fe
male doctor as / have in a maskyline
/ do'no' jest why It's so, but so 'tis. ,
"But now lawyers why can't wo
men folks study tie law just as gooC
as men?"
'Well, Miss Morgan, if there il
women that has the brazenfaced
ness and the sharpness to do wha
lawyers hes to, why l expect they'll
do it, whether or no, votin' or not
l don't see what votin's got to d'
| with it.
CLAW! don't ye suppose the poll
would be sights and sights more re
spectacle an quiet than they be, ant
the laws consider BILE nearer right i
women had their say about emf"
II should think we d better learn t
] keep the laws we've got already, be
fore maxim new ones," Miss Dorca
replied.
, ssWelI, think what likker laws we'
;. hev if women made 'em p
!, "And what would they amount t
anyway? What do them that me-
make amount to? They amt KEEP n
6 more n the Commandments be. Folk
will drink that likes drink if you max
laws punishin' of drinkin' with death
they banker for it all the more whe
: they hev to get it on the sly; that
. human natur'. But I'm digressin
as Priest Hawes used to say, when h
kinder strayed off, the tex. AS fe
q maxim the votin' place any better an
+ quieter, how long would that last, d
3 you suppose? Amt there bad wome
! jest as we'll as bad men? And how d
= you suppose they'd vote, for 9
+ against likker?"
s'But them that's drunkard's wives
' Dorkis, think of them y
4 "How many of 'em would burst t
: | vote any other way than their me
, folks told EN-? Do you expect the
' like to be kicked and struck and hal
killed any more than they be now!
e guess not! And how would it b
!, 4 with the Irish? There amt none {
D 'em now but what votes under th
4 priests thumb, and there amt tw
r in ten. nor two in hundred, bl
+; I what's dimmicrats and likker mel
s and if you let their woman folks hel
d the votin' wher'd you be then, Mis-
r Morgan?0
t. "Well, I don't hold to arguil
N much. l amt tonguey by natnr
e.