Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-21
THEY ARE MlsJUoGeo.
Meeting of the Advanced American
 Business Woman's Union.

Tho president of the Advanced Ameri. can Business Women's union wore her most becoming street costume, and the consciousness that sho was the best dress. ed woman in the room lent an additional dignity to her manner as she rose in her place with the gavcl in her hand.
 Tho members will please como to or der" she remarked us she rappcd vigor. ously on the dosk.
 Instantly the hum of conversation ceas. cd, although dismembered fragments of such commercial and technical phrases as "puffed sleeves, " "49 cents yard, " "iri. descent passementerie, still noated through the room.
 Before proceeding with tho regular business of the mccting," said the presi- dent in penetrating and scornful voice, II wish to read n portion of a vulgar and most offensive communication I have re- ceived lately
 'It is in tho nature of n topical song and attempts to cast feeble rdiculo on that crowning triumph of our dawning twentieth century-the advanced woman The wretched doggerel runs as follows: "She wants to wear trousers. just like a mani
 She's captured his vest and his coatl She tries to play tennis as well as she can,
 To smoke cigarettes and to vote.
 CHORUS.
 " Just like a man!' Just like 0 manp She wants to be just like man! You cannot persuade her That nature has made her On a wholly different plan. "Of course" remarked the president, "I should not have bored you with even this slight portion of this imbCcile effu- sion if 1 had not wished to take some mo- tico of the fact that the impression 1t con- veys is so widely prevalent among the un- educated and lower classes-that is to say, among men in general
 It is just too perfectly ridiculous for | anything to say we want to be like man, '' she continued hotly as sho raised her arm and adjusted her husbands best necktie, | which was climbing over tho back of one of his new imported collars. The collar, | it must bC admitted, was sizo too large | for her. Men nro SD thoughtless! Like a man! Tho ideal Why, we be- 1 licVo in advancement, not retrogrcssion. | We would sooner initiate our ancestral | apes than the modern members of the 1 masculine sex.
 | Apes never belonged to horriu clubs I and came home at unholy hours too inc. briatcd to use latchkcy. Apes never forgot to mail letters or made fun uf their wives cooking or objected to tidics and | window curtains. Apes never refused tt ! pay household bills or lccturcd about cx. trayagancc, And apes, ," she continued 1 with magnificent emphasis, never rcfus cd women tho right to vlto.''
 After waiting for tho thunders of ap | plnuso to subsido she went on: ] So what is man that we should imi tate him2 We utterly deny that thCrc l. | a single trait worthy of even half hearted admiration in his mental and moral na turo that is not derived directly from hi! mother. No. Tho fact of tho matter il just this Man has always s2lhshly select cd and appropriated for himself tho bcs of everything"
 Here a few hopeless spinstcrs oIh tn, back seats who were sadly conscious lha man had never appropriated them nushcC and looked uneasy.
 Now that th" progress of science anC civilization las irdisputably shown his in fcrior nature, we, advanced women, fee that we are entitled to tho best, and W, arc going tu wrcet it from him."
 Huw;" asked pretty girl in n ricl brown cloth gown, with coat to match and blue velvet toquc.
 The pres IGcnt frowncd. That has Il" been settled !tj. but it will be done W want tEr best. not because man has il but htcau~. Nr want it!' sho said coucll. sivrly. A.d that di>poSrs of all thi silly talk about imitation. Do not forge that we arc IioLrrrs ill glorious move mont. Nh, Iny sisters, tLo day shall sure ly como when man will lio upon the bar gain coum;,r of creation and find nn or, to take him, even at his rldiculousI mark Il down vLiuation.' | And every oUe present felt a dcNruU thrill Of cXpeCtant hOpc that this stuptE duLs lIoVacyy might Do realized in he time Harry Homaine in Lie