, etc. Men and wimmen want equal legal rights to
represent themselves and their own sex which are different, and always must
be, and both sexes don't want to be hampered and sot down on by the other
one. That is gauldin' to human nater, male or female.
We got a good place nigh the speakers' stand, and we hadn't stood there
long before the parade hove in sight, the yeller banners streamin' out like
sunshine on a rainy day, police outriders, music, etc.
More than a hundred automobiles led the parade and five times as many
wimmen walkin' afoot. A big grand-stand with the lady speakers and
their friends on it, all dressed pretty as pinks. For the old idee that
suffragists don't care for attractive dress and domestic life wuz exploded
long ago, and many other old superstitions went up in the blaze.
Those of us who have gray hair can remember when if a man spoke favorably
of women's rights the sarcastic question was asked him: "How old is Susan
B. Anthony?"
And this fine wit and cuttin' ridicule would silence argument and quench
the spirit of the upholder.
But the world moves. Susan's memory is beloved and revered, and the
contemptious ridicule of the onthinkin' and ignorant only nourished the
laurels the world lays on her tomb.
At that time accordin' to popular opinion a suffragist wuz a slatternly
woman with uncombed locks, dangling shoe strings, and bloomers, stridin'
through an unswept house onmindful of dirty children or hungry husband, but
the world moves onward and public opinion with it.
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