St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-11

CURED if she was voting for Eva Nc
Donald. mo, Pm nOt.7' she snapped.
her false teeth coming together with q
click that made me jump.
"Is there nothing cOuldd do to change
your mind?" | asked. with an insinuat-
ing wink in the direction of soda
water fountain.
mo, there amt" she snapped again,
the same piStol-like click of her teeth
lending deadly emphasis to her words.
at seems TO me one woman ought to
support another in matter of this sort.
Don't you think. yourself, you ought
to stand by one Of your own SeX?'
mot when she's-ciick-a Catholic
click"
ooh! but that's bgotry."
Well, she didn't care what 1T was, and
telling John, her aged companion
in life and politics, who was sorting
over the tickets, to be sure he didn't
get her one for that Mcdonald woman.
she then turned inquisitor and wanted
to know how was going, to vote. L
told her | hadn't registered. and she
said, "Well, why don't you go: around
and put your name down now"
''Are you sure | can?'
Yes. of course; there's no trick
opO0O lls ou JuGu ~ up tAtNiS SihNN
give in your name and where you live.
l gave mine in two weeks ago. but
better late than never, you Know" she
concluded facetiously, and asking John
if lie "had 'em all right" she teddled
off, and without having looked at her
ticket, took what her lord and master
gave her and enjoyed the glory and
rare satisfaction of dropping it in with
her own hands and nobody to help her.
As was said in the beginning, you
don't know what you can do in this
warld until you have tried. and when /
started out to visit the polls in Mime
apolis it was with the painful convic-
ton that l was going where
women have no right, us social
prejudices exist, and it was with
my teeth set to endure without finch
ing, experiences that must OF necessity
be more or less dlsagreeable. But let
women know. and let men count it to
their glory, that woman, If she have
an honorable mission. may go anywhere
among men and maintain her dignity i'll
tace. At score OF more polling places
[ saw women deposit their ballot, SUBJ
ject to no more unpleaSantnesS than
would man be, performing the same
act. In no instance was woman
cbCl lCoS lHSuIlCOs uli-
less some undignified proceeding of her
own secured her deserts. The young
woman who tore up an Eva Mcdonald
ticket, threw it on the ground and
stamped on it. made an exhibition of
feminine ill-temper that was justly SUBJ
ject to decision. But as rule, women
cast their vote with dignity and
without causing sensation of
any sort. The advent of pettlcoats in
their midst excited at the most. mild.
respectful curiosity i'll the minds of
men, who were more inclined to stand
off from the stranger as from horned
horse loose in circus, than to abe
familiar. l found that woman may
even hang around the polls, be the
only one OF her kind in the crowd and
have no cause to blush for her position.
Why, bless you, when | was walking off
from one polling place, head UP, with
all the dignity at my command, and
ran my high head against an awning.
knocking off my hat, not a mothers
son among them was mean
enough to chuckle so that /
could hear him, OF smile so that could
see him. / felt like going back and
hugging every last one of them for the
abnOrmally good-hatured brothers they
seemed. If day among voters does
not change ones conviction that
women suffragists are no startling
evidence of feminine progression, and
are largely women who have spoiled
good housekeeper to make a poor
politician, it will convince one that a
polling place does not breed cOntami.
nation, and that it is possible for a re-
spectacle woman to vote and remain
respectable woman still.
PAULINE PRY.