The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-14

| you out; 1t is so upifted so pale and
prayerful, and 1t suggests that she has
seen an angel beckoning her over your
head.
| Her nose was designed chiefly to lift
the scene OF her face-the same face
the face that was cast in the mold of
NOW l lay me down to Sleep
Pesgy's mouth, while the author doesn't
say II is, ali things to all men," it is
mouth evidently made for their ardent
| consideration
Mrs. Harris describes ii as "a demure
thing, and further SAYS 'it is pinllv
kissfui, surmounted by round, tenderly.
| giving chin" #H + fHat4lsA Iaz1fs'
Peggy, you see. was the new wom-
an -the sutfragette--who, disappointed in
Georgia garden about love, set forth to
: find out about life.
Isn't this description of Peggy delicious:
Just as may see in a green
| meadow. beside pleasant stream. a
pretty house placarded. TO Lett"
so Peggy was a sign, a little token
ITO be loved"
Well
Peggy goes foraging. as it were. and
learns great deal about "womans
rights and lots of other things about
which Mrs. Harris herself makes some
pertinent observations.
Il believe she says, that women are
like cats. subject to fits of alteration.
You make take a nice little, fluffy pussy
cat, bring it up on-cream and a pink
cushion, with blue ribbon around It's
neck when suddenly some morning she
disappears. So far as you know, she has
no reason for disappearing but she does.
She is gone long time, then quite as
unexpectedly she returns-thn and worn
with a tired look between her ears. She
goes back to her saucer of cream laps
1t up. curls up her little pink cushion
and purrs herself to sleep. She settles
into a faithful house cat for the rest
of her days You do not know where
she went or what she did when she was
away. and doubt If she remembers long,
She had the alteration of cat nature She
may have been out in the woods trying
to be lion. This was Peggy's exact sit
uation as to her interest in the woman's
movement i'll the old world, and 1t is like
that of most of us women, who get the
opportunity to escape from 1t after they
try going in 1t. l am not saying that this
should be so, understand, but 1t is So
So far. nature has not fitted many women
Tor carrying forward movements or re-
forms. We are endowed the other way,
with dispositions-a sort of house cat pro-
pensity for cream and cushions and kit
| tens
| III this Is the case, it does seem when
women leave home they must have some
| good reason.
| Sometimes it is from principle, but u.s.
uaily 1t is from some personal reason.
| As for our heroine, Peggy" and what
happened to her in her alterations. the
| author leaves us to guess, also ignoring
the votes for women" situation, and
turns her clever pen to the English
| man.
| She hates his attitude toward women.
and aims this straight blow from the
shoulder:
"He (the Englishman1 will gossip about
every other woman in the world freely.
A good deal of this was made to me
when I went to England that he never
| talked about his own women, the implica-
| tion being that his silence was due to a
| deeper reverence for the sex than our
men have; but my own impression was
after observing him closely, that the Eng
| lishman does not talk about his women
| for the same reason that he would not
| discuss the small of his back in society"
| Is 1t any WONDER then, in England,
which is a mans land, that the woman
| who halls from America, womans land
| should find much to amuse her, especially
in the attitude of the same women who
have an "ancient darning needle inter-
est in life. ostensibly to attract the same
! ayowed lords of creation?