Florence Nightingale could mother and help cure an army, and why
hain't men willin' to let wimmen help cure a sick legislation, kinder
mother it, and encourage it to do better? She might much better be doin'
that, than playin' bridge-whist, or rastlin' with hobble skirts, and it
wouldn't devour any more time."
He sot demute for a few minutes and then he sez, "While on the subject of
women's achievements, dearest madam, allow me to ask you, if they have
reached the importance you claim for them, why is it that so few women are
made immortal by bein' represented in the Hall of Fame? And why are the
four or five females represented there put away by themselves in a remote
unadorned corner with no roof to protect them from the rough winds and
storms that beat upon them?"
Sez I, "That's a good illustration of what I've been sayin'. It wuz owin'
to a woman's gift that America has a Hall of Fame, and it would seem that
common courtesy would give wimmen an equally desirable place amongst
the Immortals. Do you spoze that if women formed half the committee of
selection--which they should since it wuz a woman's gift that made such a
place possible--do you spoze that if she had an equal voice with men, the
names of noble wimmen would be tucked away in a remote unroofed corner?
"Edgar Allan Poe's genius wuz worthy a place among the Immortals, no doubt;
his poems and stories excite wonder and admiration.
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