The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-05-17

She was too proud TO use the broom
stick or the rolling pin as weapons,
but she called at the drug store and
got some poison that settled the fate
Of about dozen men, She was found
out and hanged, but man awoke TO the
fact that women had grown tired of
his bluff.
Why so much about the pilgrim
fathers and SO little about the pilgrim
mothers? The stiff necked old chaps
came over here in search of liberty.
and yet how much did they grant
their wives? If wife "sassed back"
at her husband she could be placed in
the public stocks. If he cuffed her
ears that was his, right While he was
sitting around on Plymouth rock talk
ing politics she was pounding the corn
meal for the family.
When the New Woman Came.
The new woman had arrived one
day about thirty years ago. She wasn't
heralded by any brass bands or beat
ing drums. She Just quietly eIbowed
the bosses aside and made place for
herself, and she's been making more
room every day since. At first we
laughed at her. 1t was good joke.
Then we sneered at her. She gave us
the wink that there was something
doing by the time we had got ready
TO club her back into her old place it
was too late She was running things
to suit her own ideas.
Today women have the right to vote
In many states Five years hence will
see 'em voting In all Man, the boss,
has been deposed. and the sooner he
makes terms the better for him.
The new era has changed many
things, but nothing more than that
feeling we call love. Years ago l
loved and courted II took me n full
year TO find out whether the girl loved
me or not There was time wasted
There was anxiety and delay. | was
afraid to ask. and the girl was afraid
to answer. Even If she loved there
was the old man and the old woman
to ask, the grandfather and the grand
mother, the uncles and aunts and
cousins
How II Is with the new woman? She
knows her mind. and, knowing it, she
doesn't care what others think. When
you have courted her for four weeks
she is either ready TO cling TO you NJ
the vine does TO the oak or 10 point to
the door and tell you to take skate.
Here and there some Fifth avenue girl
still buys husband for so much cash
in hand. but even that sort Of barter is
going out of fashion.
Old Love on Modern Basis.
There is just as much love since the
new woman arrived as there was be-
fore, but it has been put on another
basis The new woman wants 20 know
where her bread and butter is coming
frem. and she doesn't become the cling
ing vine until she finds out Most of
them can 20 ont and earn SO per week
without cllnging TO any oaks or bass
woods
The new woman runs the house. The
boss hung on 10y his toes, but he had
TO 20 There are million homes IN
this country now where the wives can
20 TO the store and buy Spool Of
thread without being jawed all night
by the husband.
The new woman started the fashion
Of having two hats year instead of
one hat every fifteen years There
was talk that the country would be
bankrupted. but the United States
treasury is still paying all vouchers.
The new woman wears puffs and
rats. and she powders and paints.
That's her business If the boss
doesn't like il he can lump IT,
The new woman wears high heels
on her shoes. Men would have kept
her as fiatfooted as a dashboard, but
he just couldn't
The new woman shoots. rides, plays
ball and walks around alone Don't
try TO be funny with her or you may
get six months in the hospital.
In conclusion and just before taking
the highway for X Crossroads let me
exclaim Heaven bless and prosper
and progress the new woman. She
has turned the, world upside down, but
! the world is the better for it,