The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-10


a Girl Tries 10 Uaderstand Politics.
iNomans Realm in PIT ssurg Commercial Ca
zet.e.I
Pep rays there's no occasion tor being
ALARMED. that we'll take to voting as natur-
ally az ducks take to water; that he thinks
won en- are born politicians, and he is in IA.
yor Of their voting first, last and all the time,
which only goes 10 show that pap's early ed
ucatIon Was neglected poor man! He says
aieo that We'll never know the fun we've
misssd all these years. until we've voted for
q successful candidate belonged to q tony
upper crust club and attended q primary
meeting" bus Billy MagiDnis says 1--WE must
after q . fYss-class Democratic banquet and
an iHsgurstion ball. march with the militia
until orr feet are sore and our threats
parched ar d dine on b uquets and five.dollar
bills before We reach the climex of earthly
hsppiress.
Gam tays that when Catholicism, and Prot
esteutisu, and Rspub ic;sm, and Democracy,
and ar!stocracy, and orthodoxy, are all dead
and burisd with the isns and oxy's OF the
past; when Woman CT fftagists and Prohibi.
sionists; Woman's fhr.stian Temperance
Unions. Uniyeralists aud Spiritualists rule
the weird, lot only Will Lions and lam s''
dwell te get her in unity. bat bulls and bears.
P,ohibitisnists ar d R7pubIicans; monopo-
lists ard communists: and people, and othsr
people lilly Naginlis says, he hopes to
be translated before every thing comes to pass,
se be thinks that when al the crooked places
are inside straight and al the rough places
plain this may be very pretty country to
lock ct, but he is afraid il would be a mighty
Ionefcme one II live in. especially during
campaign
Aunt Maria says she hopes all this viii!
cone about without women voting, or men
hasiDg TO give 90 .hsir little pleasures, or
any body meddlibs wi.h anything, j@-sst Jet
me aiocss close gradually OF themselves,
,bar '5 1;. Gear men cease dr'ns. -g because
~ n,.es'e' i''@ At really, in time, is apt
- -..e somewhat il furious il INDUCED in
10 excess, and If The dear communists will
only be patient and Il dustrious and eoonom-
cal they will no doub. IN time be in posi-
tion to moDcpolizs, il they desire to do Sd;
but, OF course, VIXEN one OF them becomes q
millionaire he will sooD shuttle of the sup
erahundant riches, and see that his poorer
neighbors haze a strawberry short-csks for
tia
Our relations and neiehbors are OF every
der omination and shade of belief, from
Episcopslisus to Infdels, and do you wonder
that q susceptible person like myself grows
gathered mp and each one fitted to its sur
rourdiDgs, / hardly know what to think or
believe or how / would vote IL I had o
chance, after Pap has held forth all event ng
on this great and glorious country under
Republican rule AID has assured rs, over
and over egain, that "all the religion, and
morals, intelligence. wealth, property, good
clothes, railroads, telephones, patent medi-
cines. dynamite aud skating Kinks, are the
result Of Republican principles and Rspubli-
can ruel' say, La mel is that SO, Papp'
and ne caps, "Oi course it is; don't you know
that ycarself?'' And / really believe every
s;rgle word Of it.
Thea we 60 over to spend the evening
with Susan, and Billy Msginris, and Billy
says. This country is utterly ruined by Re.
publican rule, or m,s.ruls; the hanks are
csyipg in, the mills shutting down. business
dull. farms NOR gagged. the country filling
Up with Cinnamon, Hungarins. Nihilisss,
haH Pc, free-thinkers, aud free voters riots,
communists, strikes, cigarettes and civil ser
vice reform. to say nothing OF signal service
bad weather"
And Isay, LIS, ne. is that so, Billy
Ard be ssys. OF course it is; don't you see
that yourself? rhere'n De a change now. Give
Us twenty four years al stretch, aud you'll
see every man under his own vine and fis
tree, and money in his pocket" And
think 10 myself how very nice that will be
I'll lust wait and see. Sam says. "All tbs
folly, immortality, wickedness in high places
hard times and dull times. are the result of
too much orthodoxy. politically as well a.
religiously; regular Kilkenny cat fighting
going on ali the time, because every body
sure he's right and nobody else is. JUS
wait till the great third party comes into
power-tbe outgrowth of the best parts OF a.
the old rarties-when all men and wome1
thsli have equal rights. and equal lays
That will be the true republic. No more
immortality bat perfect laws. truly ad min
!stersd :" Aud | say, La me, Sam,
thoushs you couldn't iseislate morals into
men. and Sam says, Wait and see it tired
oncs.r
Aunt Maria says u wouldn't be compelled
to enter politics for all the honors in the
world; re women have our own places; and
sc should stay where Providence so evident
~ Intended ne u stay; anywhere that VS.
happened TO be at the time, don't you know
there's war with China or anywhere? Aud
we'll have tn go to the dreadful polls on cleo
ton day ard hear wicked men swear; aud
zee drunken men intoxicated; and be one o!
amob. don't now what polls are I'm
sure, bnt oil the dear men say they are some.
thing dreadfuuy. asfGliy demoralzing.
tbinf, perhaps. It's what they call the tart e, :
ard We can't AVOID il, either, il see ms, for
you either require tariff before you can go
TO the polls poll" before You can 2,
tofhe tariff" i can't remember which, but
Of course the vosers will know; and I say.
La. Maria! is that SOL That's what troubles
me there's SO many things / can't under.
stand"
Wemen Authors Mxsquerading rs Men.
ITw. Higginson In Harpors Bszsr.l
The daprer clerk, Mr.. Chuckster, in the
"Old Curiosity Shop" 10 quite dissatisfied
when Kit Nubbles is proved innocent oil
theft; and remarks that although the boy
did not happen to take that particular tiYe'
pond note, he is no doubt always up to
something or other Of that kind ft is in
this wsy that critics Of certain typo con.
triys to console themselves. when . woman
has dore good thing in literature. By point
ing cut the number OF good things she has
not yet done To be SURE. Miss Mary n.
MuIlyee, Of St Louis. when she wrote under
the name Of Charles Egbert Craddcck. was
thoreht to have achieved creditable work !;
bus this discovery only gives these critics
oIYo1t99ity 70 point out fha. had she tried
On euypody positively ssy, for insia oes.