Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1896-04-08
EXCHANGE OF RIGHTS

mrS. JONI mOrflSOn naQ JUST returned
from the women's convention and as a
result could talk of nothing else but
woman's rights during dinner.
Mamma" said her little daughter,
who had been listening for long time
with great attention to the conversation
without being able to gather much from
it, what is woman's rights?"
Her mamma did not answer right
away; in fact, it was rather puzzling
question, but she thought for few
minutes over what she had heard at the
lecture, and when the question was re-
peated, she had it all in quite good shape.
"Woman's rights, Bessie" she be-
gan
"Is all bosh," broke in papa, finish
ing the sentence.
"No, John, it is not" said Mrs. Nor
rison, a little annoyed. ''There is a
great deal of justice and truth in it,
and don t want any child to grow up
with any narrow and bigoted ideas
about it. Woman's rights, daughter, is
the emancipation of our sex from the
yoke of inferiority under which we have
80 long labored, and as natural result
it allows to woman the right of suf-
frage."
well, if that is what it said," said
Bessie, after pausing for a sufficient time
to let the long words sink in, "if that's
what it is, I guess I'm not woman g
rights. don't want any more suffrage
than I've got already. Why, last week
when Carlo killed our poor rag baby, "
her tears rising up at the remembrance
of the awful tragedy, 81 know | suffer
ed more than George did, cause he just
said the dog had eaten one of the dolls
and went on making Indians all over
his spelling book, and I felt SO misera-
BILE couldn't even go to Cousin Ada's
tea party. y
"Come here, daughter, and I'll tell
you all about it SO as you can under
stand" said papa, laughing heartily
Woman s rights is where all the man.
mas and big sisters and aunts and girl
cousins go to meetings and make speech
es and vote and form clubs and preach
sermons, and all the papas and brothers
and boy cousins of every one stay home
and take care of the babies and cook din
ner and scrub floors and darn stockings
and everything like that. Mamma ism t
that far gone yet; but, never mind,
you'll know all about it soon enough.
This was something Miss Bessie could
understand, and though mamma laugh
ed and said papa was only joking, and
"that wasn't it at all, " it seemed more
fun than just suffering and my lady de-
termined to try how she liked it the very
next day. Accordingly the following
morning she hurried over her little tasks
as quickly as she could, and when
George had pored over the much abused
spelling book for the required length Of
time, she told him of her new plan, and
got permission from mamma to play
house in the nursery instead of going
down to lunch.
Then the pair marched to the kitchen
on an exploring tour and succeeded in
capturing few slices of cold ham, a
lemon, bunch Of raisins, two apples,
some ginger snaps and various Jumps of
sugar, ON which to begin housekeeping.
After surveying the provisions for n
few minutes George seemed as fully sat
isfied with the new plan as his sister had
been, and as they went to the playroom
both thought that woman S rights"
might be very nice thing.
"Now, Mister Doogan," said the
young lady, as she adjusted her NAM
mas big red shawl i'll graceful train
behind and tied very forlorn little
bonnet, which had been rescued from
the ragbag, ON her curly head, II don't
spect I'll be home before O'Clock, SO
you get the children dressed and put the
things on to cook. and don't let any one
in the house p"
"Allright, ma'am, replied her obe-
dent spouse. "I'll tend to everything,
and you just go down town and have a
meeting and make some money, and You
can tell the Indians there is not going
to be any war today, cause I've got to
stay home and take care of the chill
dren.''
"I'll invite them to hear my sermon,
and then they can be converted, and
there needn't be any more wars ever, -
said Mrs. Doogan. "And don't you eat
anything till 1 come homo, George, :"
she added as parting injunction,
cause if you do you're awful mean,
and won't play.
can right, said George in subdued
tone. Then he called, "You better let
those Indians alone, cause they're very
savage and might cut your head off and
eat your up.
Mr.. Doogan went back to the house
and obediently started to dress his nu-