There is no
more danger on't than there is of a settin' hen wantin' to leave her nest
to be a commercial traveler. Nature has made laws for wimmen and hens that
no ballot, male or female, can upset.
Josiah and Lorinda and I went in the trolley in good season, so's to git a
sightly place, Lorinda protestin' all the time aginst the indelicacy and
impropriety of wimmen's appearin' in outdoor meetin's, forgittin', I spose,
the dense procession of wimmen that fills the avenues every day, follerin'
Fashion and Display. As nigh as I could make out the impropriety consisted
in wimmen's follerin' after Justice and Right.
Josiah's face looked dubersome. I guess he wuz worryin' over his offer to
represent me, and thinkin' of Aunt Susan and the twins.
But as it turned out I met Diantha while Josiah wuz in a shop buyin' some
peppermint lozengers, and she said her niece had come from the West, and
they got along all right. So that lifted my burden. But I thought best not
to tell Josiah, as he wuz so bound to represent me. I thought it wouldn't
do any hurt to let him think it over about the job a man took on himself
when he sot out to represent a woman. They wouldn't like it in lots of
ways, as willin' as they seem to be in print.
Wimmen go through lots of things calm and patient that would make a man
flinch and shy off like a balky horse, and visey versey. I wouldn't want
to represent Josiah lots of times, breakin' colts, ploughin' greensward,
cuttin' cord-wood etc.
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