The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-07-20
The Wornam's Page Of The Tinr1es-Dispatch
Where Two or Three Are
Gathered Tegether

They We're seated around e pretty
luncheon table. dainty with It's APP
pointinenta Of silver and glass and
needless to SAY. they were women be-
cause men rush in and lunch heartily
on an egg milk in a drug store; in all
history you do not find them lingering
at a luncheon table SO these wero
women. and such nice ones. too. The
talk had driftcd 10 many things from
shoes and ships and sealing wax" to
the outer darkness Of benightcd peo-
pie who will not argue. not even about
the price OF eggs. and one woman put
down her fork and gazed in admiration
at the other two. You have no idea
how glad am" she said. that we are
not talking fashions and clothes
Nearly everybody thinks that that is
all mat woman's mind can hold when
she shuts the door on mankind and
lunches with tho chosen feminine friend
OF her acquaintance"
They smoothcd each other down 0uito
happily for the next nftcen minutes
about VIVA, fun 1t was to butt your
rind against somebody clse's mind
ana really became agitAtcd on the
subject of the women who might no,
discuss a given topic without aging
nv - az:
of course" said tho newest married
one TO the one who was not married ut
all. when | am arguing on my DO,
hobby | have rather a bad habit Of
raising my voice higher and higher
when things seem TO be going against
me don't know why, but always
feel as II noise must be convincing.
and sometimes my theories give out.
and ! VIII be heard am not in tho
least angry. only Interested. very in
terested And right that very minute
the Woman Question" reared It's head
Theories few TO the winds, and hot ana
fast the combat waged one had al
ways thought this and the other had
never IN her lfe considered anything
OF the sort over the Goals those
women chased and threshed the Rrea,
theories az the world that are living
so close 10 the hearts of all thinking
people 10 day and back they came
".ith tho rags and tactcrs of what thev
had started out with and not step
ala any one Of the three progress be
cause. you sec, g woman always thinks
the way she wants to think
GOOD arguments and bad sailed forth
and some We're listened 20 and others
dropped Undecided from The convcrsa-
ton sweet littlc words and mean 1t
tle words and great big ideas traught
WITH deep meaning humlned and
danced around tina; table. spread Win
IL littie white mats and graccG ,y!th
!ts plctty flowers Most u the things
that were said were 10 the point; some
of the arguments advanced were not
but the minds FLASHED and the souls
Of the three bent and waVered and
stood their ground Il was "a noble
sally at any rate
In such state these are the
laws"
1T IS all FOR the working girl; she
needs a.! the help that organized
women car give her"
Aiaybe she doesn't want any help
and 50 many Of them don't want the
ballot
The words came in little chains ,ha,
wound themselves into a grcA, rome
ana each listener Was bound wiki the
weaving OF her own thoughts: she
never for = moment considered what
the other ,wo were saying Her soul
was SWEPT out % meet the sea OF rea
soniue that rushed and seethed so uu-
iathomably a. hey feet. II wish r
knew was in the mind OF each % the
three and thcy all felt just Hike YOU
did the time you triad 10 follow the
puppy under Tho garden gate. and
there YOU stuck You coUldut possibly
get out into the garden. and claw and
scratch az hard as ever you could you
couldn't get back again II YOU re-
member rightly. somebody had "a come
AID help you
These three women pinned on thoir
hats ANA Kissed each other good by.
and said what a lovely time ,hey'd
had. because their minds we're SO re
frashed. Wherever YOU turn into what
ever lane you wander. wherever TWO
or three women are gathered together.
the Woman Question seems Obliged 10
come up FOR discussion. and ono side
or the other is dangerous and the ueu
trail way Very NARROW one
BRENT WITT