The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-05-05
LIGHTS ON woMAN's RIGHTS.


riage and the Steps Leading Thereto.
"Do you believe in womans 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 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 1 say "Yes," replied the girl with
purple veil.
you've been reading 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 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 / am," and seek your So
ciety 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
lned her gloves thoughtfully. "Ye-es,
but Kitty, did you ever have real,
genuine proposal?"
why, wees, | suppose So"
"9ou 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 rounda bout
way that a girl doesn't really know
whether she has a right to cut notch
in her parasol handle or not"
eyes, and if 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 o. for the good old days when
a lover would fall on his knees say:
BE mine without any beating about
the bush. Girls really had proposals in
those days"
Ibid they?" replied the other dubi-
ously, "at any rate they say So"
They looked at each other and
laughed.
81 never thought of that" cried the
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
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"
81 ink that in these days of spe-
cialties there ought to be bureau for
teaching young men how to propose"
''That's so-pow when Charlie"
so, kittie, you never told mer
"That's true, l didn't mean to tell
anybody yet. Well, he simply said:
See here, Kitty, everybody is saying
that we are engaged-that's right, isn't
it,? and l just blushed and said yes be-
fore l thought"
so, 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 o Tribune.