The herald., 1896-05-31

and reinforcing Paul and the man angels
and the made government. l was SO
afraid my Methodist nephews wouldn't
be consistent, but they were. wanted
to wire them congratulations, but Jonas
said 1t wasn't necessary.
There's Mehitable and Melissa (my
suffragist nieces). think mythology Is
pagan and so bad. but there were god
desses rulin' and beautiful pure maid
ems. like Ariadne, a helping to kill the
dragon. But, oh dear! | started to tell
you about the parliament Chats from
the French word to parley, SO l got to
parleying on the way).
Well. they spoke real we'll Of the men
In general and didn't see any indica-
tions of their setting up a government
of their own. They confined themselves
mostly to children and microbes and
schools. They talked SO poetic and
dainty about the little ones and the
school house beautiful, that 1 almost
forgot about the doctrine of total de-
pravity, and / jest wondered If it were
true that the sweet little things We're
all pitch inside and God so angry with
the little things. They told us to study
the laws of nature and to reverence
them, and to receive and guide the little
ones with sacred care. 1t made one feel
real religious-like.
To tell the truth don't feel any more
like deserting Jonas than I did before I
went to the parliament. / was gladder
to get home than If I'd been al home all
the time, and the wind sounds Just as
musical ALLOWING through the trees and
the whirr of the reaper just as sweet,
and the hay looks as golden, and my
nephews are just as dear to me as ever.
/ wouldn't speak of your faults to my
nieces, but I'll tell you so you can brush
up little so my nieces can have no fault
to find with the male garment
One of my nieceS said the general con-
ditions of the household depended
whole lot on the way the public house
keeping was done: that professor OF
the law at Oxford said that the landless
people of England and the United States
had no legal right to live or rest any
where without express permission from
some land owner. They couldn't legally
rest on the highway nor pass over the
land in balloon, no matter how high
it might be. My heart just went "a
fluttering; l never would have believed
you'd have such a law; But 1 remem-
Der 1t was made when man wasn't evO-
luted very far. But just think of one
half of the families in the United States
who are landless and have no legal right
even in balloon without permission or
rent. o, it is awful! No legal right In
q balloon, and then you let a few men
hold all the coal beds and oil lands and
millions of acres of land by little paper
you call deed. And some of my neph-
ews are lawyers, too. Do you remem-
ber those awful words to lawyers! l
think you ought to read them they
weren't written to women.)
You've got whole lot of responsibility
ties on your shoulders, for every animal
will fight for life and subsistence and re-
produce it's kind, and you can't blame
men if you shut them out from such
rights.
So hope Ben S. May and all of you
will look after this matter. ard don't
keep one-half of the people in balloon
or atramping, and just a rev landlords
to hold them up and the rest tenants.
You must straighten up and assert your
rights to life and liberty and pursuit
of happiness Then my nieces will sub
side in this matter of suffrage IT Is in
the interests of the male government
that your old Aunt Sally has taken up
her pen. It's time for the mail, but be
sure and send your wives to the pcrla-
ment AUNT SALLY