Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-01-24

and | agreed that their presence was
absurd in the extreme.
81 cannot think what their IA
theirs and husbands are thinking of
70 allow them to come" | said.
Perhaps they do not think it nee
essary TO consult their fathers and
husbands. Women are getting such
strange ideas into their heads of
late"
THAT is only too true. But you
snow ! cannot help feeling that the
men are partially to blame for the
present deplorable state of things"
"Do you mean that they do not
sufficiently exercise the authority
they naturally possess over the weak
er sex?"
That is the cause to some extent,
but | think the mistake chiefly lies
in their method of treating women.
1t is foolish to attempt to force a
woman into doing something she
does not want to do"
What would you advise, then ?"
inquired my companion in rather
puzzled tones.
GIVE her something else-some
little pleasure-to think about" l
said, smiling as l remembered how
successful l had proved this plan
to be.
'Isn't that rather like inducing
a child to drop knife by holding
out a sugar PLUMP"
Certainly, but what are women
but grown-j children?"
Further conversation was pre-
vented by the arrival of the speak
ers, to whom an enthusiastic well
come was accorded.
Mr.. X, the cabinet minister, was
famed for his eloquence, and soon
all his hearers were following his
words with eager interest.
what England needs today"
"Is Votes for Women" piped
shrill voice from the back of the hall.
The interruption was Immediately
followed by loud cries of "Turn her
out" "Turn her out"
"Let us be just before we are gen.
erous and give"
"Votes to Women"
This time the voice came from the
middle of the hall. The stewards
fastened there and seized hold Of
an elderly lady, whom they as hastily
released, when they recognized in
her the chairman's wife. Once more
they were obliged to withdraw.
"Dfsgraceful" said a voice in my
ear. 1t was the youth of the Inver-
ness coat.
Shameful" 1 calculated.
"What dunderheads the stewards
must be not to find out who they
are Il"
Again Mr.. Y attempted to make .
his speech, only to be interrupted
again.
So it continued for the space of
an hour. Every few moments the
squeaking feminine voice repeated
its demand, "Votes for Women"
But the mystifying part of the
business was that the voice, although
apparently the same one, never came
twice from exactly the same quar-
ter. The stewards were at their
wits end. They had tracked the fu-
yitive voice to all parts of the room,
'nly to be met with amused or an
Try assurances that none there had
poken. When the voice came from
he platform, from the very table at
which the chairman was seated, ev-
ryone felt that the climax had been
The chairman, a hot-tempered, ex-
'losive little gentleman, sprang 70
lis feet, upsetting a glass of water
n his excitement.
Ladies and gentlemen" he splut-
cred, "this is scandalous. have
ever presided over such disgrace
III meeting, nor been so grossly in =
ulted. Both Mr.. X and I feel it is
ute impossible to proceed with the
usiness Of the evening"
When next saw Nell she was so
Teetly sympathetic, and acquiesced
entirely in my condemnation of 4
ne suffragettes that onca mora q