The advocate., 1894-10-24
PREPARING FOB SUFFRAGE.
sophia Writes Letter With the COnVen-
tlOnRl Postscript
NO. XIII.
NO. XIII.
BY CON HEALY.

ASS
your task of trying to figure out ma
jority where there is none rest for q
while and listen to a letter which l
have just finished. 1t is letter to my
sister in New York and I would like
to have your opinion on it before I
send it,"
'I don't think l care to hear it, So
phis. 1t is probably filled with de-
tailed description of how you had your
latest dress made and what the fall
style Of hats is out here in the West,
and how you nearly died with fright
last night when Lucy had the Group,
and lot Of nonsense like that. No,
l haven't time to listen to it. Send
her my love and tell her you have gone
crazy on the subject of voting. Put
that in for your second or third post
script, and seal it up and let it go. If
it should reach the dead letter Office
that postscript will be evidence that it
should be returned to Kansas"
"Well, now, wait till you hear the
letter before you pass judgment on it.
Remember that you have habit Of
falling into that exclusively feminine
error Of jumping at conclusions, and
you always have to abandon them
when it comes to sustaining your
ground by argument"
"Well, we'll, go ahead and read it.
1t will take less time to listen to it than
il would to argue you out of reading it.
will try and keep track of the trim
mings and rufflles and lacings and but
tons and all that kind of truck. If I
do get little mixed up and fail to
keep the run Of the story, will prom
ise to ask no questions. Go ahead"
"You will need to ask none. Every
thing in this letter is within the COM
prehension Of any man who has his
eyes open to what is going on around
him. You will be disappointed in this
letter. When 1 write one such as you
have described l don't need to ask your
opinion about it, Now, stop saying
over to yourself that a vote for Over
myer is half a vote for Morrill,, and
listen:
MY DEAR SISTER IL have neglected writing
20 you for the past three or four month, and
when mentioned the fact to Cicero the
other day he remarked that my mind was
lately so taken up with politics that had no
time for anything else. HE said that it was q
veriAcatlon Of what he had always claimed,
namely, that when women commenced to
dAbble in politics they would neglect the other
duties OF life. He does q great deal OF unnec-
essaFy worrying on that subject.
But there Is some truth in the charge that
my attention has been occupied lately In the
study Of politics. Yet, when l take into con-
Bideration the fact that had to read up and
inquire into the history OF political issues
for the past forty or fifty years before could
get run OF the story, l think / have done
very we'll for q four months course. | imAg-
ined before began that politics was o very
difficult subject and that only men could COM
prehend IL. But find that 1t is nothing more
than current history, and / see nothing more
unwomanly in reading and trying to under
stand history as II is being made to-day than
in reading the history Of the past.
It Is thought to be perfectly proper for girls
in school to study history and even political
economy, but the woman who expresses de-
sire to understand the political situation as 1t
is to-day is sneered at by some, and is said to
be manish. Why, when 1 think Of all the
hours that have spent in reading novels