Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-04-16
WOMAN',S REALM.
by MRS. l.. Il. BLANK, ASSOCIATE Ep1rol
The Women VINO do Abound Abovs
All Others

lsuCeS lHclueilt 10 cauy uyttSSluS loF petl.
tions for woman suffrage IN Kansas
A paper for remonstrants to sign was
also presented to each person along
with the petition. One lady reported
five hundred names for suffrage and
eight against, in two days. Two ne
groes and two swedes, who had been in
this country but a few weeks, TIVE
American men and two women constis
tuted the eight remonstrants. One OF
the women, who fdid not want to vote
was eShausting herself over a crazy
quilt, which she declared should have
more pieces in than Mrs. Jones had in
hers. The other woman, who chad all
the rights she wanted" while declaring
her principles, sat nursing a poodle
with milk from a bottle, us il it werea u
child. Whsta contrast those women
present to SUCH us Mrs. Ella Grant
Campbell, OF Cleveland, Ohio, to whom
wasawarded the bid for city decorations
upon the death and burial of Garfield.
The entrance and flower building about
the cemetery gave her q national repu.
tatiQn. She began business some fiji
teen years ago us a little girl with );
basket Of boquets, and now is famous
as the proprietor Of the Jennings Ave-
nue. Greenhquses.
70 wnQin, did Senator Edmunds re-
| fer when No spoke of the women :'whG
do abound above all others" when adj
vocating his Jill DISTINGUISHING the wo-
men of Utah? Was it the crazy quill;
crankess; or the poodle dog dudess, OF
such women as Mrs. Ella Grant Camp,
bell? ] feel anxious to be enlightened.
for am determined to be on the right
side Of the fence. ToPsy
1t is about as easy to tell what class
of women is meant by "those who d,}
abound" as it is to see the logic in Sen.
ator Edmunds' reason for disfranchis.
ing all the women of Ttah after they
have been voters for seventeen years,
He stated THAT the proposed law "is in.
tended to relieve the Utah women of; :;
condition OF, slavery, in which they arr.
: held 10y their hierarchy" We do nos
see why the men should not be includ.
ed. IT disfranchisemenJ gives create.
power, why are not men anxious to-,
it? But whatever "class" the senator
meant, we know Of "Women who do
abound throughout the civilized worlt,
intelligent, hQme-loviny women, hav~
ing the love OF rome and native lane.
SO strong Within their hearts that laws
would be more just and politics pureF
it their influence could be felt through
the silent magic of the ballot box
| Being quite apropos as an appendix
to "Topsy's" communication, we insert
the following pleasantly ironlcal and
|sugar-coated, caustic article from the
nimble pen Of Mrs. Gertrude Garrison.
She heads her article, The Woman
Who Does not Want to Yote,' and to
such women we respectfully reconi,
, mend u perusal. 1t will not only bu
good for dyspepsia, but may act as y
brain stilIulant so the ladies for whom
It is intended:
'''The woman who don't want to vote
May Heaven enlighten her.
With her feet on a blue zephyr dog.
eyes on the fashion plate, and a luench.
less love for her art, she hears the mas.
mob of Equal Snffragists go by. Sup,
ported and sustained IN spirit by cro>
chet work, brica-brac and beautiful
, self. satisfaction, she has no fear OF f;ll +.
lingavictlm to the epidemicof advanced
thought.
Whatever comes, she keeps her cum
: ming little sphere. Empires may van
ish, thrones totter. kings die. fashions
fall into disuse, republics perish, earth
quakes change the face Of the country
but she is undisturbed by any of them.
Her mind is the one thing in the uni,
verse that never changes. You know
: where to find her. She is always in her
: sphere. In fact, she thinks the ballot
l l is ''just horrid," and politics "quite too
awfully manish for women to think
about" and the polls 'inGnitely wors:
than The small pox" She Is superior tl'
opinion on the ethics OF government.
The law of her life is to keep her mind
on her sphere She outdoes Cassibiani-
!. ca in refusing to abandon her post Slsa
. is comfortable-why should Others
. wall? She lives IN dear.little worlc:
of woods and worsted, matinees, gossip
, and gum drops, and is sweetly grateful
that she isn't strong-minded for any
2 thing. And she never is.
!: x 4 * x ::
Nevertheless, predict that when tbs
r long-deferred day does arrlye-when we
! odious, uproarous, masculine, sphere
: shooting, trong-minded women dc
f come into our klngdom-the woman
= who doesn't want to vote will put or
; her seal skins and feathers, her pain,
and powder, take her little lapdog and
march down to the polls and put in hel
D little ballot all the VIII lie declaring that