The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-07

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statement in writing that / was for
'em. 1t was the loss Of my Job. IL not
my life. to do otherwise. 1t Is now
up to you. 1t Is expected that you will
write by return mail and that YOU
won't use any ambiguous words IN
your reply. Don't work in any Dutch
| or Latin.
My son, let me give you tip. Put
your ear to the ground. Don't you
hear 10OO00.000 women yelling for
the ballot2 Don't you hear the cords
of bondage swapping like so many
muskets? Come down II you don't
they'll fetch you down. We've got to
whack up with the other sex or therell
be earthquakes and cyclones every
day in the week. Let's make a virtue
Of necessity and pretend that we were
ready to give women the ballot 100
years ago. She's got started with her
broomstick In hand, and we'd better
let her wback the other feler than get
II ourself
Pap Gives Pointers.
And I dunno, Willlam--I dunno.
was rushed into this thing, but I guess
I'm kinder glad 1t happened. I'VE seen
thousand men who couldn't tell an
old burdock from q stick of basswood
walk up TO the polls with their chests
swelled out and feeling that they
was the whole United States, and on
the score of intelligence guess the
women folks will come out way ahead.
1t won't take 'em long to post up and
know who's who. | was thinking this
think over for two hours after l got
TO bed last night, and guess the man
who falls into line now won't make
any mistake. You needn't come out
with a whoop-hurrah and wave Of
your hat, but just let It be known that
you have lifted your tyrant heel In
case you decide TO do this / have some
suggestions to make.
| Jim Skinner's wife has raised eleven
children and is still at It, She has
surely rewarded her country, and now
let her country reward her. The old
gal has turned flfty.seven, but saw
her jump rail fence the other day as
spry as any girl. Take time by the
forelock or fetlock or somewhere else
and appoint her game warden for this
district Poker is about the only game
around, but she'll catch on in week.
The wife Of Elder Flatbush has
pleced seven crazy quilts, made 200
| yards Of rag carpet and manufactured
fourteen barrels of soft soap during
her married life thus far. That's rec
ord, William, few men can equal. It
would be a nice little thing on your
part to create her an office. She might
be commissioner of the pure food
law and go around with ax knocking
cold storage eggs In the head.
Give EN- Offices.
The Widow Harper is pretty lively
in this woman's rights movement.
She doesn't go In for having thou
sand corpses lying around loose for an
object lesson, but the grim look she
wears means business. She'd make q
| fine fish commissioner. Any fish which
came her way would want an extra
tall ON him to get away. Jericho
creek Is full of mud turtles and min
nows, and they ought to be looked
after A salary of about $40 a month
would swing the widow to our side,
and she'd talk Taft and Plnkham even
In prayer meeting.
Cy Parkinsons wife has had the
lung fever, broken kneecnp. measles,
whooping cough. rheumatism and
about forty other things and Is Just
now struggling with two broken ribs
and sore heel She's laid In bed and
read up on this question until she can
talk hair on the head of q baldheaded
man. She ought to be encouraged.
It would please hundred women to
see her encouraged Make little Of
fee for her, William. Let her be
drawn around the country In cart
with club In hand and whack every
body who exposes pesky made In
Germany picture postal card for sale.
They have become the nuisance of the
day.
And Just one more. Joe Allbrights
wife has supported him and the chill
dren for the last fifteen years by
washing and mopping for the neigh
bors. Appoint her sort of commits
| sloner of charities and corrections.
| Tell her she can leave out the chari-
ties part. but 10 make the correction
part strong and begin ON Joe and
whale away until she Is out Of breath.
Jericho will be for you as solid as the
rock of Gibraltar.
OLD PAP PINKHAM.