The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1893-05-10

"Do you believe in woman's rightsp"
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 matinee tickets
and cling to greasy strap in street
car say NO, if you mean the right
to wear all the pretty things your IA
ther will pay for and to say that you
are two years younger than the family
Bible affirms say ayes" replied the
girl with the purple veil.
you've been reading the comic pa
pers, 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 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 hui
NOR anyway Sense of humor, in
deed! 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 whenever
they attempt to be funny, then they
will think: "How stupid you are; how
smart am," and seek your society
ever AFTER"
80, what a wise woman!" cried the
girl with the roses. mo wonder you
have made such success"
The girl with the purple veil exam
ined her gloves thoug ghtfully. "Ye-es,
but-Kitty, did you ever have a real,
genuine proposalP"
"Why, ye-es, l 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 round
about way that a girl doesn't really
know whether she has right to cut a
notch in her parasol handle or not"
"Yes, and if she gives plump No
they wriggle out of it in such way
that she is made to feel as if she had
said it without being asked"
"True. o, for the good old days
when a lover would fall on his knees
and say BE mine without any beat
ing about the bush. Girls really had
proposals in those days"
"Did theyp" replied the other dubi-
ously, "at any rate they say so."
They looked at each other and
laughed.
girl with the purple veil, perhaps we
will tell the same thing by and by"
"Very likely. But there is Marie
she really does have proposals"
"Heiresses always do"
"Yes. Well, she says that when a
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."
Il think that in these days of spe-
cialties there ought to be bureau for
teaching young men how to propose.
That's so-now when Charlie"
90, Kitty, you never told mel"
"That's true, l didn't mean to tell
any body yet. Well, he simply said:
See here, Kitty, everybody is saying
that we are aged-that's right, isn't
itp' and l just blushed and said yes be-
fore thought"
20, you dear thing. When is it to
beP"
"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,
DEAR"