The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-12-08

"But, Margie," expostulated
Dick" after my feminist outburst.
"You yourself know how hard
YOU women are on each other
"No, | don't, Dick, l think
women are more lenient with 9TH
err women than are men On,
don't raise your eyebrows ana
smile your little crooked smile, OF
course the good woman OF whom
we have just heard is sample
of the old regime, but l think you
yourself know at least one woman
who has done very differently.
You forget Eliene."
but 1t was Harry she for
gave" exclaimed Dick. I'VE do
not know what she would have
done had the girl lived"
Little book, Is 1t possible that
Dick has forgotten what | did in
the case of Eleanor Fairlow? L
actually believe he has.
1T is true" said Jim, that the
average woman sends her sisters
to Coventry for the lightest in
fringement of the moral law.
Surely you can't deny that, Mar
gie."
mo, I do not, JIM" l answered,
land that is because we are still
in that wife, mother, sweetheart,
etc. class. Do you know, you
men never think of us except as
your wives, your mothers, your
sweethearts, your daughters-
something that belongs to you.
You never think of us as individ-
uals. To somewhat paraphrase
Shakespeare, Hath not a woman
eyes, hath not a woman hands,
organs, dimensions, senses, affec-
tons, passions? fed by the same
food, hurt with the some weapons,
subject to the same diseases, heal
ed by the same means, warmed
and cooled by the same summer
and winter that man is? If you
prick us do we not bleed, If you
tickle US do we not laugh, If you
poison us do we not die?"
"And If we do wrong may we
not be punished the same as you
and no more?
AYE, there is the nub of 1t all
punished the same as you and
no more
"And still they smiled, and still
the wonder grew that one small
head could harbor all she knew"
misquoted Dick in his turn.
You don't get my point, Mar
gle. 1t is you yourselves that pro-
nounce sentence on your sex. How
many women knowingly recog-
nize a woman who has stepped
outside? Men do not make these
foolish distinctions "
mo-" l answered, now thoroly
aroused. You men will bow to
Mrs. s., whose name emilia
IONS the first page of the daily
papers with scandal, but you will
forbid your women to speak to
her. / will make the assertion
here and now that nine out OF
ten women are only hard on the
sinners of their sex because some
man that each one loves has for
hidden her, either by word OF
manner, to recognize them. You
will bow to Mrs. S. with all
politeness, lifting your hat from
your head with the same courtesy
that you do to me, but you would
be perfectly furious If you should
see me stopping on the street
corner where all might see us, to
wish her Good morning And
now, dear friends, l am going to
bed. Jim, I'm awfully glad you
told me that story. I'm proud OF
you for helping the girl, and most
of all, I'm proud that it was a
woman to whom you sent her.
"You see. gentlemen, your ar
gument falls to pieces when
placed beside Jim's action. Incon-
sistent creatures, bid you Good
night.
"But-but, Margie," sputtered
Dick, II had made up my mind
that you would sign the proxies
for your stock over to me so that
could vote them at the meeting
tomorrow"
80 there is to be a meeting
tomorrow" l said. you did not
tell me before. Well, gentlemen.
vote my own stock"
But Margie, you know nothing
about the inner workings OF the
matter"
"You may explain 1t to me be-
fore the meeting, or will ask for
explanations there"
Come, we will explain II to
You now"
ut is late, and I am tired. In
the morning, please "
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