The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1915-09-17

| which should uot be rocked. and that a
cook-apron and dust cap would be lust
as becoming to her as il ever was and
that If she put on her hat and coat and
| went with her husband to help rule
the world IN reality, the same person
who looked after the baby while she
| paid her taxes could care for it while
she helped rule the world. And she
began to think very seriously. She
knew very well the home where man
ruled as lord of all" would be no
place for her and she wondered if the
world might not be better place to
live In II she took hand in ruling it.
and when the husband came home the
house presented its usual orderly an
| pearance and the dinner was alright.
but he saw something was wrong. so
he commenced. very tactfully. to find
what 1t was and he discovered It was
not new dress, or new hat. or a
monograph, or new rug for the liv-
ing room floor, or an overwhelming de-
sire tor an automobile, he had not even
forgotten her birthday il was simply
that the baby was resting quietly and
peacefully on bed without rockers,
the cradle had been sold to the wash
lady and she was not ruling the world
any more.
She would not dsObey the doctors
and Keep rocking the cradle, and hav.
ing ruled the world men said she had
she would still rule it or know the rea-
son why, And she no longer believed
things just because a man said thew
were true. She had d brain of her
own and she used it, and she desired to
know why she might not receive recog-
milton as citizen, and she was very
decidedly from Missouri" and de-
manded to be shown
Seriously | do not really care to vote,
and certainly | am not one of the class
who complain of mans Injustice to
woman | despise a man-hating wo-
man, as do few other things in the
world, and when | hear them airing
their Heaven only knows how obtained,
opinions OF mans meanness and vic
iousnes, before self-respecting and
man-respectlng women land self-re-
spectlng women are unusually man
respecting for they have no reason to
be otherWise) and innocent young girls.
have to hold on to my self control
with both hands to keep from saying
things to them they could not forgive
me R0r!~>
But there are women no earnestly
desire ID share man s privileges as
well as his burdens and responsibilities.
and who is unjust enough to say, your
true, strong, helpful. Womanly women
do not. share them, and the love of
man. ard home, and little children, and
colntf will be quite as dear to her
w'ea '4saFyiYen the right of suffrage,
On III Flcael 'ge. and without shadow
81 q. t.5nlS gill-giil be given II and
y q. NY lops;t .a,1 e sass
10 nd II wilt be oGr & duty Vi leave
oft ocheting and critieising our
fgian0s 80 much and spend some of our
leisure Frightening up our mentality in
preparation for citizenship, and in the
meantime will some man who is very
logic M III, convincing, a fine broad
minc faav agent American man con-
vince M navnrSst tell me, for | do not
acce, sor who I just because man
says tlapa It way, really convince
me fF rnsT educated, intelligent woman
10 notff| well qualified to vote as
man citizen who has never heard of
the initiative, the referendum and re-
call land couldn't spell it,, who does
not know that Columbus discovered
America, who does not know whether
Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson
is president of these United States,
who does not know that baseball is the
National game, who does not know