The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-10-28
NoMANS RIGHTS-A LECTURE RE-
cEIvED BY KATE THORN.


aspects, and may help the superior sex
in deciding whether women Is fit to be
intrusted with the ballot
KATE THORN.
"a Lcctur delivered at I. Spruce Ridge
School House before the Debating Club,
by Ann Maria German, spinster. Jan.
z4th, 1889, A. D.
friends and Fellow Citizens-When
the Lord made Adam out of the dust of
the yearth, He knowed that no male crit
ter could ever keep house without break
ing the frying pan, and bling the kit
ties dry, and shutting the cats tail inc
the door; and He knowed that when
came to running sewing societies and
church fairs, man wouldn't be anywhere :;
so He went to work and made Eve, and
put her onto the farm with Adam,and she
buckled down to bizness at once, and went
to bossing the old man about the cider
apples rs handy as hough she had been
in that line for forty or fifty years.
"She was a smart woman. She kept
Adam in nights He never had any
latch key--leastways, faint likely he ever
had. If he had staid out to lodges and
clubs, he would have found the door
shut, and Eve would have been abed with
hot flat-iron to her feet.
'Friends and fellow citizens, am
for women's rights. That's where | stand
every time. / want women to have
some privileges. think that it's high
time they did. Let 'em have the right
to go out nights, and loaf around the post
office, and smoke cigars, and spit at the
sidewalk, and set up te-he every time
anybody goes by, jes as he men do. And
let the men stay at home and wash up
the supper dishes, and mix the flapjacks
for breakfast, and plan what they'll
have for dinner the next day; and let
them tend the babies and doctor their
mumps and their COLES, and darn the
stockings, and sew on the buttons for
things long cnuf.
"The masculine sect tells US that wo-
man is frail, clinging critter, and needs
to be protected; she's the ivy and the ten
der vine, etc., etc.
'sHumph! they don't seem to think |
sc sill with heir fee inf mfw mfw
that thress much ivy to her when they |
set still with their feet onto the mantel-
tree, tipped back in chair that they've
ranted the tidy all off from, and read the
paper while she Tugs up the coal from the
suller, and splits the kindlin-wood, and
sits the ashes.
''They don't seem much vine about her
when they let her go round the house
to lock up the doors, and hunt in fhe
closets for burglars, and then go to bed
first to warm up the bed. Not much!
"Protection, indeed! Why, Lord bless
YOU! one decent-sized, red-haired, freck-
led-faced woman could kill three men
when its comes to hard work, and not
half try.
"You Jest let a man git up in the morn
ing after living all night, with baby
in the colicks doubled up into his arm,
and his hair done up in curl papers, and |
the neuralgia in his back, and let him take
and wash, and iron, and fry, and stew,
and bile. and scrub; and in the course OF |
his life bring up ten children on the bot
tie. or other ways, just as it happens
and see how many frisks there would be
to him by the time he was eighty
ayes, my friends, you let that man that
think. he's one of the strongest sect, try to |
do what the average woman does, and
he'll soon find out the sect he belongs to.
Let him make the childrenss clothes, and
patch sem up, and know how to make soap
and sassidge, and ketchup, and Chilly sass
and paint picters on plaques and table
clothes, and make crazy quilts, and read
all the new religious novels, and he'd be
a raving maynack in six months.
ga man my friends, is the most help
less critter on the face of the yearth. he
can't find anything if it lays rite under
his nose. And room, after he's hunted
over to find his cuffs, or his handker-
chief. will look as if it had been struck
by a Western cyclone; and he'll stand IN
the midst of the ruins, as mad as ne
can be, and ask his wife what in the
thunder she has done with that collar OF
his?
~Men are good in their places. don't
dispute that. But what want Is TOT
women to come forward and take the
place that belongs to them. They've
had back seats long enough. It wo-
man can keep school that man gers
fifty dollars week for keeping, why
shouldn't the woman get the same payf
re a woman has got thousand DOLLARS
to pay tax on, why amt she got right
to vote her tax the way she wants it to