New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-06

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protest and the rich are indifferent. 1t IS
| time pcople Weakened 20 their individual
rcsponslbilitics." Her authoritative voice
and bovine ewes embraced Mrs. Narian with
an approving smile. 81 am glad to see YOU
here this morning she continued. "li more
of your kind would come 10 these shops and
markets, and lift up their voices where 1t VIII
do most good, living conditions would not be
rs they are.
"When women get the vote, SAID DoSii
with a smile, "thcrc will be
"The deuce 10 payl'
"Yourc not a sutfragette!
"God forbid
With military precision they turned about
and faced each other in quick sympathy
shaking with laughter.
@Let me show YOU wherein lies woman
strength" and the cadence OF her voice, so
different from its former tones, went straight
70 Dosia Narian's heart.
In land out OF pushcarts and stalls Mrs.Narr-
ian followed her guide observing the shrcwd-
ness and economy with which the housewives
chose and bought. The smaller vegetables
dolcd out in paper bags were a revelation
"Thc bags are numbered, said the guide;
zone or two quarts, as the case may be.
But YOU must take the sellers word for 1t.
When the purchasers get home and wclgh
the contents, its buttons 10 doughnuts they
are short quarter OF pound, halt pint,
In Paris YOU can take your butter or meat
10 an official bureau in the ncighborhood,
and have "A test made of both weight and
quality. Proof Of fraudulent dealing Is
promptly punished
why haven't we one?" asked Dosia in
tercstcdly, her eye on the fat thumb OF a
butcher holding down the scales while he
weighed a steak
"New York has a bureau Of weights and
measures; but municipal officers cannot
exercise eternal vigilance. The housewives
should help enforce the law.
Gould they without the voter?
"Don't get that nonsense into your pretty
head No vote is necessary to put down
evils Of the sort have pointed out to you.
1t requires only heart and will. The remedy
is in the hand OF the homemakerS, wives and
mothersl' She put whistle to her lips and
summoned touring car from cross street.
"Lct me take you home, Mrs. Varian!
You re not using You're car these days, lnotce.
Dosia hesitated. She had been 50 alb
sorbed in all she had heard and seen that
she had forgotten that the woman beside
her was a stranger. How had she learned
her own name?
81 read the papers" she said with a smile,
divning Mrs. Variants perpleXity.
"And-and believe all YOU read;'
81 was not born yesterday
Dosia stepped into the car, and was
speeding homeward without having given
or been asked her address.
Il hope ! haven't taken YOU out of your
way she said as she alighted at her own
door. "And while thanking you for your
exceeding kindness, may ask your name!
"Mrs. Stephen Griswold. | have been
your neighbor for three years And, with
a vigorous handshake and motherly nod, she
disappeared into the adjoining house, leay-
ing Dosia wide-eyed on her own threshold.
THE five weeks were drawing to a close
when Willis telegraphed:
What's this newspaper uncombe-servants
-bridge-sufrage Much truth as Tobacco
slump. Nicotine soaring. Hurrahl Home soon.
Tobacco soaring. Dosia balanced her ac-
counts, and squared the bank shortage she
had borrowed from her husband She gave
triumphant little whistle, then long look
into the future.