, 1891-04-19
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womAN's woRLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
"a. for Ne. olive Me Liberty or give
Me Death"

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As for SIC. olive Me Liberty or give
Me Death"
With th1 proyerbial shrewdness Of his
race. solomon chose wisdom as the best
gift he could ask for, perfectly well
aware-the sly old Hebrew-that if he
only had wisdom he would know enough
to obtain everything else in this life that
ho wanted. 1t was his long headedness
quite AS much as his true piety that
prompted him to make that choice. but
since we cannot all have wisdom. then
the next most precious gift 10 man, and
woman, too, is liberty, the right % do ak
actly as you please, 30 long AZ you do not
interfere with anybody else. That is the
sole restriction that should be put on hu-
man beings. The right to think your
" honest thoughts; TO proclaim them
openly and brnvely, fearless Of all the
world, knowing that no old monster of
a Mrs. Grundy will crush you under her
iuRgernhut wheel for telling the truth:
to dress in comfortable and convenient
clothing without being hOOted: 10 asso-
ciate freely with people whom You like,
and with no others; to have no nasty
minded social spies on your track, no
Miss Nancys of either sex 10 claw you.
To write and print the truth ms you feel 1t
and know il. without hedging and trim
ming and trembling; 10 liye daily with
out a pack Of bigots, critics and Typo
critics in cry after You; to follow no con
ventionalities of fashion. society or be-
lief that did not suit you: TO wander
out alone in the beautiful wilds OF free
dom; TO climb the cliffs and breathe the
sweet, strong air Of liberty upon the
mountain top-to gain such life / wouid
die a thousand deaths,
The other day | was going up Fulton.
street in Brooklyn in an elevated train.
4 young lady sat beside me, reading at
tentively. In cars | always look to sees
whether girls Rre reading novels or
newspapers, and | accordingly inspected
tins young lady's book. It was q re-
ligious volume, and 1 anu bound to say
she seemed profoundly Interested. BY
and 10y she laid it down, and | saw that
its name was THE One Thing Needful."
In her lap beside the book were five pack
ages Of chewing yum, and she was man
i~pulating the sixth as fast AS her Jaws
could work. Chewing gum was tho one
thing needful,
If. after all. the fogy element In the
Methodist church manage to keep wom-
en- out Of beng delegates 10 the quarter
~ and general conferences, II will not
be strange II a large proportion of the
ablest ladies in that denomination leave
it in a body and connect themselves
with other Christian organizations that
a v more Christian views on the woman
question 1t will be strange, in fact, if
they do not.
United States Senator Joseph NJ.
Carey, Of Wyoming, made an eloquent
address at the late meeting of the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage asso-
citation in Washington. The voting at
the first election in the new state was
one under the Australian ballot sys-
TEN, and senator Carey said: What
ever objection a man could have raised
before to a woman's going to the polls
and voting was entirely removed by
this system,
No; we don't want men 20 take a back
seat just because they are men, but we
intend women shall AVE their share Of
the front seats from this time on. it is
nut tue tlltIlhk On Alla VI luhA ottulA-
ton, or even following this or that line
Of conduct, that is insisted on in behalf
Of our sex. We would force nobody into
any trade or profession. 1t ia that we
want the liberty TO chouse our own occu-
pations and do as We please without be-
ing forced either this way or that. I'm
der the system Of liberty for all each
will quickly find his or her own level.
Lady Florence Dixie tells in a manner
that is altogether delicious how she
eyadcd the words Glove, honor and obey
in the church marriage ceremony. She
says: For myself l am not ashamed to
confess 1t, did not pronounce them.
| merely substituted er, er, er, in a low
voice" Girls, don't forget Lady Flor
ence's er, er, er. Years ago, when a be-
loved girl chum Of mine was about to be
married 10y the Methodist service, before
the ceremony l saw the minister at her
request and asked him to omit from the
pledge the word obey" 1t was sur
p~-isingly refreshing to me to hear this
good Methodist clergyman answer: "Oh,
never put that word in. No preacher
that has any sense ever does any more"
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