The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-29


appointed to go among the poor and get
the women TO sign the bill that would
give them all vote. Well, that made
me mad, so I said: You've come into the
wrong place if you're lookin' for the
poor; amt poor. My man makes
enough to keep me, and I've got com
Portable home and more blessings than
most people She kind of flushed up and
then she went on and said: Do you
know what the vote will do for .you?
And SAYS /. No; what will itl Well, she
/ said 1T will let you go out in the world
to earn your own living. you'll have
| your own money; YOU can 90 as you
! please and you can send people to con-
! greSS to represent you and your Opin-
ions. Then l did laugh. Miss. And 1
answered her pretty quick, for / was
vexed Says T.: I had quite enough of
goin out into the world and earnin' my
own livin' before | was lucky enough to
marry good mau who takes care of
me. l know what goin' out in the world
to work mems, and I'm Uh1nkln' you
don't else, you wouldn't speak of it so
glibly. know what it means TO take
care of yourself, and l advise every girl
l know to get a husband to do it for her
as soon as she can. AS for havin' my
own money, why have that now. My
man brings in his wages every week,
and after we've laid aside what we've
got to live on and allowed little bit TO
go in each of our pockets. the rest goes
in the bank and in my name And as
to dom as l please! Why ma'am, my
Jimmy lets me do as like except when he
sees I'm wrong, and then he tells me why,
and | amt such a fool as not to know the
difference between right and wrong.
don't want anybody to represent me in
congress I've got something TO represent
me on earth and in heaven; and, Miss,
r1zFT rnl hA no NtrsNa nF lNar 4 10 md
showed what real treasure was.
SHE TOSSED HER HEAD Up
and says she: My good woman. when
you have the vote, you'll see the folly of
having children, ana you won't talk all
this nonsense about heaven. You will
be educated beyond all that
Il Rugged the baby closer because [ was
afraid would say something I'd be very
sorry for, and I'm nightly afeard l
wasn't altogether polite, for says |: You
are beast to talk about the folly of beiu'
a mother. You're not a woman, for you
havn't got the first feelin' of decency, and
/ want to tell you, you had better not go
around sayin' things TO the Irish women,
else some one of them will knock you over
the head. How dare you, you who are
perfect stranger to me, come here talkin'
about things that only concern my hus-
band and me? I've got as good a right to
come into your house and ask you some
sensible questions l could ask you why
you don't know how to make a home
and you wouldn't have sense enough to
know that 1t was because you were too in
decent to bear children for your husband :
that you lived with him for your bread
! and butter, but that you weren't a wife,
cause you shirked wife's duties; and
want to tell you, ma am, that the door is
open, and want you to 60. My home is
as much mine as yours is, and because
we work honestly, that doesn't give you a
right TO come here with your impertinent
questionsJ
We'll, Miss, it's true might have been
a little more polite. but l can't quite ex-
plain to meself what right that woman
had to come into my place and make her
self that free"
She hadn't any Maggie, and I think
you treated her quite properly
l saw Mis- Connolly was getting very
red in the face, so l asked: Did she go
to see you, Mis- Connolly"
She did, ma'am,' answered Mis- Con
molly. She come in and
SHE sMELT THE MEET A-COOKIN'
and says she, When you sign this paper.
and get vote, you won't waste you r
money on meat, you will be pure-minded
and eat nothin' but vegetables I give
her one look. and basted the mutton And
says /, I'm feedin man. not a dude
And then she looked over in the corner,
and she saw my Charley and Isadore
looking at book, and she saw Charley's
crutch, and says she, If you had had a
vote,you would have never brought child
like that into the world Then, miss.
It's dreadful thing 10 say. but |
cursed her there and then in good Irish
Probably she don't speak it, there
is a good many ignorant people in this
world. But she knew it wasn't q bless
ing. And says |, at the end of it, n hat
boys been the JOY of our lives The
KNOWN that it would hurt his feelin's if
his father wasn't right, has kept Con
molly good man, and his weakness has
made me feel gentler to every sorrowful
thing on earth Then l begun to cry, and
she says. With vote, women wouldn't
! be havlG' to take care of Children'-she
got just that far when somethin' in nv
eye told her to get out, and Ma am, it
wash t refined, and | wish I could blame
myself for it, but there was basin of
dirty water srandin' there, and threw il
on her and says l, Take that YOU low
minded thing for comm down and talkin'
to decent women as they never were
talked to before" l told Connolly about
II when he came in. and I thought he'd
say, Mother, wouldn't done that but
he give three cheers for me, and kissed
me like as if we'd just been sweet
! heartin'.!"
DID LAUGH.
and in my heart of hearts 1 agreed with