Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-17
LOVELY WONAN'S OPINIONS
They viii, Like the Brook,
"Go On Forever"
ABOUT POLITICAL Quotations
Should Real Nice Women
Have Positive ldeaS2


in Worldly Places--1s Gratitude an I'M
known Quantity?
Special Correspondence of Gazette and Journal
New YORK, May 11.-Opinions?
That's what they are all claiming to
have nowadays. And by they, | mean
woman with or without capital, with
or without IL spring bonnet, but always
with Il tongue calculated, like that
famous brook, to run on forever. saw
picture the other day Of the pre-his-
toric woman and after her death, evil
IDENTIFY to keep her quiet, there had been
drawn through her lips long strings of
fax so that they could not possibly
move. There are some women would
ike to see unergo this treatment while
alive, and there are some Others who
are so delightful to listen to and who
say such truthful things that one wishes
time wasn't tleeting and art less long, l
listened to both kinds the other day.
One of them gleefully announced that
she had put her name on five different
petitions advocating woman's suffrage,
and she supposed when she got vote
she would be able to vote five different
times! She finished up by saying: Il
can't understand why you object to suf-
frage, because / think it will be so
awfully cute"
THE WOMAN WHO HAD AN IDEA.
Its cuteness hadn't struck the other
woman, so she started in to tell why she
didn't believe suffrage was desirable.
sin the first place." said she, "instead
of extending the suffrage, would con-
tract it, l would let no man vote who
had not lived in this country five years,
who did not know how to read and
write, and who was not property
holder. Then, do not think the women
of this generation or the next, or the next
will be politically educated. What do l
mean by that? | mean this, II is in
herent in every man to value his vote.
Generations of men have taught him its
worth. From the standpoint of profess
scr of English literature, this man may
know nothing, but politically, he is edu-
| Gated. He knows the meaning of great
movements, he knows what men in po-
litical life represent, and he hasn't learned
this yesterday or last year, but it has
come from father to son in straight
| line. Then, do not believe that women
will be able TO separate the man from
the politician. At present they seem to
think that when they get the vote, all
men will become saints. Now, If you
happen to hear that the man who was
put up for mayor had committed little
fault that was against your idea of what
was right and wrong, you would refuse
to vote for him, and perhaps keep out
of place man competent to make good
laws for the commonwealth. Women
are essentially emotional, and their
votes would represent, not their knowl-
edge of what was good for the nation,
but their personal likes and dislikes,
Then there is another thing tits proven
| by statistics that one-Quarter of the life
OF every woman finds her in condition
when, mentally and physically, she is
not able to cope with men. l tell you,
the whole thing is wrong.
"There is what you call the bad vote
and you say, very glibly, that you will
keep these unhappy women from vot'
ing, How are you going to do it9 VIII
any one of these women register hel
trade? Wont her vote be boughtP BY
the-by, talking about her registering, re-
minds me of funny story heard once
which may be true or untrue.
VERY CLEVER WOMAN
got up an opera, and, standing behint
the scenes, she said to friend: Isn't i
lovely to see good ballet %
"And the friend answered; Yes, they
dance very WE'LL
"And she said ooh, that isn't what
mean; isn't it lovely to see virtuoui
ballet?'
"And her friend Asked How do 70,
know they are all virtuous?
"'Oh, she said, 4 scnSa paper around
and every one Of them wrote that thel
were, opposite their Names
Nov, that is what will happen t
what you call the bad vote. Then Their,
is something else. 1t is right and prope
that a woman should love pretty clothes
Don't you suppose there is many younj
girl who will sell her vote for blue sill
frookg Or a pretty brooch? Or new
parasolp
"Idon't deny that men sell their votes
but don't believe as many sell them q
is believed, and think the sale of vote
would be less if suffrage was restricted
"Wyoming? Yes, the women vote il
Wyoming, and people who have live
there tell me that gambling is allowe
by law, morality is at its lowest cbl
and if there have been fewer hangings-
legal ones, ! mean-it has been becaus
lynching is more popular. What the in
tluence Of the favorite clergyman ma
be upon the votes of his congregation
who can say? heard one woman al
nounce that she wouldn't vote for nh
who ever drank glass of wine. Shade
of George Washington, Jefferson, DaniC
Webster, Henry Clay, Winthrop, Ro;
coe Conkling, Randolph and all til
great procession who were fine pol
, ticians, who made good laws, and VIII
yet saw the virtue of taking littl
wine for their stomach's sake and the
J often inflrmlties, what do you think c
this These are few OF my reason
for Directing 10 suffrage"
The other woman didn't say mucl
!. but she pouted little, and then, for he
criticism announced: II don't thin
; that what you have said is very mic
,, and | don't think you ought to hay
! such positive ideas; it isn't refined.
THEATRICAL OPINIONS ADVANCED.
f And this woman thinks she ought
: have vote h..
Somebody else was talking about Il
s play which has caused so much discu
=. sion-"Hannele." Said she: 81 saw
n the night that there was an invited q,
4 dience, and right here must say tina
{ under those circumstances, when Il
!, people were thinking, cultured sc
! who came not to condemn withol
a reason or to praise unless they sa
@ cause for it, and when there was /
!, noise, it presented itself to me as at on,
d one of the most powerful dramatic pla,
and one of the saddest had ever see