Dewey County advocate. [volume] (Timber Lake, S.D.) 1910-1913, 1911-01-20

Il cannot think what their IA
theirs and husbands are thinking Of
to allow them to come," l 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 your
know 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 sep"
''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 p
inquired my companion in rather
puzzled tones.
"Glye her something else-some
little pleasure-to think about" T
said, smiling as l remembered how
successful I had proved this plan
to Re.
''lsn't that rather like inducing
child TO drop knife by holding
out sugar PLUMP"
Certainly, but what are women
but grown-up 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 clo9uence, and soon
all his hearers were following his
words with eager interest.
'What England needs today
els Votes for Women" piped
shrill voice from the back of the hall.
The interruption was Immediately
followed by loud cries Of Turn her
out, " STurn her out"
"Let us be just before we are gen.
crous and give"
"Votes to Women.z
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.
"Disgraceful!" said a voice in my
ear. 1t was the youth Of the Inver-
ness coat.
Shameful" l calculated.
what dunderheads the stewards
must be not to find out who they
arep'
Again Mr.. X 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, S'Votes for Women
But the mystifying part of the
business was that the voice, although
apparently the same one, lever came
twice from exactly the same quar-
ter. The stewards were at their
wits end. They had tracked the fu-
gitive voice TO all parts of the room,
only to be met with amused or an
grv assurances :.aat none there had
spoken. When tie voice came from
the platform, from the very table at
which the chairman was seated, ev-
eryone felt that the climax had been
reached.
The chairman, a hot-tempered, ex-
plosive little gentleman, sprang to
his feet, upsefting glass of water
in his excitement.
"Ladics and gentlemen" he splut-
tered, "this is scandalous. I have
never presided over snch disgrace
full meeting, nor been so grossly in
suited. Both Mr.. x and feel il is
quite impossible to proceed with the
business of the evening"
When next l saw Nell she was so
sweetly sympathetic, and acquiesced
80 entirely in my condemnation Of
the euffragettes that once more I
rejoiced in my he opy choice of q
wife.
Presently I suggested stroll and
she ran away to dress.
In a few minutes the door re-
opened.
elbow quick"