Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-05-17
LIGHTS ON woMAN.s RIGHTS.

Introducing the Subjects OF Love, Mar
riage and the Steps Leading Thereto.
do you believe in woman's rights?''
asked the girl with the roses on her
hat
THAT depends upon what you call
woman's rights. If you mean the right
to buy your own mantinee tickets and
cling to a greasy strap in street-car
say No. If you mean the right to wear
all the pretty things your father will
pay for and to say that you are two
years younger than the family Bible af.
firms say YES" replied the girl with
purple veil
You've been rea2ing the comic pa
pers. 1 see," said the girl with the
roses.
The other yawned: Never; all the
men do that and tell you the jokes
they never forgive if you say you have
read them, and it is difficult TO greet
them with a proper show of mirth
If"
That's just it-and if you don't
laugh until you are weak they GO
away and say, Women have no sense
of humor anyway Sense of humor,
indeed! Some of them may be very
glad we haven't"
my chaperon always used to say to
me-" remarked the girl with the pur-
pie veil, Now don't try to be witty;
just look up at the men appealingly
and admiringly, and laugh when
ever they attempt to be funny, then
they will think: "How stupid you are;
how smart 1 am" and seek your so
ciety ever AFTER"
30, what wise womanp' cried the
girl with the roses. mo wonder you
have made such a success.
The girl with the purple veil exam
ined her gloves thoughtfully. "Ye-es,
but Kitty, did you ever have a real,
genuine proposal?"
why, wees, I suppose So"
"You suppose so-that's just it. The
men are so careful nowadays; they edge
up to the subject with such care and
ask the question in such a roundabout
way that girl doesn't really know
whether she has right to cut a notch
in her parasol handle or not
Yes and II she gives a plump No
they wriggle out of it in such a way
that she is made to feel as if she had
said it without being asked"
True. .. for the good old days when
lover would fall on his knees say:
BE mine without any beating about
the bush. Girls really had proposals IN
those days"
did they?" replied the other dubi
ously, "at any rate they say so''
They looked at each other and
laughed.
II never thought of that!" cried the
girl with the purple veil, perhaps we
will tell the same thing by and by"
Every likely. But there is Marie
she really does have proposals."
"Heiresses always do"
Yes Well, she says that when 9
man does it too beautifully she sus
poets that he has done it often before.
Doing it properly must make the
trousers bag frightfully at the knee,
said the girl with the purple veil,
thoughtfully.
True, but they could wear the ones
they do in church"
II think that in these days of spe.
cialties there ought to be bureau for
teaching young men how to propose. u
That's so-now when Charlie"
20, Kittie, you never told me''
That's true, didn't mean to tell
anybody yet. Well, he simply said:
See here, Kitty, every body is saying
that we are engaged-that's right, isn't
itP and just blushed and said yes be-
fore thought"
10, you dear thing. When is it to
be?"
"In June. He's desperately in love,
my dear-orchids and candied violets.
Well, here's my car"
But we were going to talk about
woman's rights" protested the girl with
the roses.
"Well. perhaps we did. Good-by."-
Chicag Tribune.