The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-11
CHAPTER XII.
An Attained Tomorrow.

CHAPTER XIII.
 An Attained Tomorrow. I LIVE changed my mind about a wo- mans being like a whirlwind.
 The women eoe now are the at
 tained tomorrow that the world Hines the beginning has been trying to ..catch up with. Jane is that, and then nGhe day after, too, and what she has. fFEone to Glendale en these two weeks Aias stunned the ola town into a. trance FDf delight and apaazement- She has ewncreated us bre44hed the breath of nodernity into us and started the ma sshamef up the gradp of civilization at 5pace that makes ne hold my breath 2or fear of something jolting us-
 She and Aunt Augusta have organic ed an Equality league, and that wheel fcame very near fEdng loose and being, sahe finish of Uncle Peter.
 He came to see me the morning of sthe first meeting, fnd, when saw him coming up the froIt walk, got an as traI visfonSof the Hhips on his shoulder enlarged to twice ssheir natural size and called to Jasper t, mix the juleps very < long and extra de4p.I But deep as they were, to the very top of the longest glasses, he couldn't drown his wrath in his. ssWomen, womezA," he exploded froI1 over the very mant sprig itself, talI fooIs all fools fram the beginning CT time: made that way on purpose-oa pHrpose-hey? World needs some sc1A of creature with 40 better sense thaA to want to spenE their lives fooling with babies and tae bread of life. HlI- man young and EaFigfon are the onty things in the wolld men can't atteLd to for themselves .and that's what thy need women foE- Women with To brains, but all heagt-all heart-hey HJ
 tsWhy should ju5t little brain hurt their heart actioA, Uncle Peter?' I asked mildly. There is nothing in tile world that I ever lnet that enjoy aLy more than one of Uncle Peters rag4s, : and always try to be meeIz1y infa4a- matory.
 They're never Jatisded with usi1 g them to run ehureh societies and chJ- fdrens internal organs, but they watt to use lem on meA and civilization en general Wheresd you get that Yankee ischooImarrn, hey2 Why don't she got a husband and bEby and settle dowm2 Ten babies, twenty. babies if necessary, hey P
 HYou are entirelE mistaken as to the splans that Jane and Aunt Augusta
 
 Ethfs morning, UncE Peter, began to Bay with delight az to what was likely to ensue. '-If you would only listen to Jane while she''
 Don't want to bear a word. she has ho sayI All .as the cracking of thorns Aunder- pot all the talk of fools.''
 'sE2aaf suraly you are not afraid ts Aistan to her, Uncle Peter,'' dared to nay and then stood away.
 seAfraad Afra1dS Never was afraid lDf anybody in my lfe, Augusta not ex- eeptsdrv he exc7aiused as he rose in his gEath. eEhe men of this town will @h0w fhe uprising hussies what we a1lnlz of 'en and put lem back to ths Deeds of men, where they belong-be-
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 And baeoue l could remonstrate with Mim he was marching down the street snke WheEe regiment out on a charge sEf1at was to be one of extermination or Ieomplete surrender.
 | The Graz told me that evening thaa ftl1e mayors office of Glendale had xeeked of birthstone for hours, and the next Sunday Aunt Augusta sat in thet- pew at church, militantly alone, while hhe occupied a seat in the farthest linn its of fhe amen corner with equal mili- tancy-
 Jane didn't throw any rocks at any body's opinions or break the windows of anybody's prejudices. She had the most lovely heart to heart talks with the women separately, collectively and Tn both smaH and large punches. ] had them in to tea in the combina- lions that she wanted them, and must say that she was the loyeliest thing with them that could be i'm agined.
 The subject of the rally was q fine one for everybody to get together or from the start, and before any o1 them realized that they were doing enything but plan out the details o1 a big spread, the like of which they had been doing for hospitabie genera tions, for the railroad commission they were organized into 6 nourishine equality league, with officers and by laws and a sinking fund in the treas ury.
 "Now, Evelina," said Jane as she sat on the edge of my bed braiding heI heavy, sleek black braid that is as big as my wrist and that she declares is her one beauty, though she ought to know that her straight, strong figure r1ddy complexion, aroma of strength sRnd keen, nearsighted eyes are-weiI