Helpless tears, of no
more account than other females have shed, and will, as they set on their
hard benches with idiots, lunaticks, and criminals.
Of course she wiped up her tears pretty soon, not willin' to lose any of
the wimmen's bright speeches. But when her tear-drops fell fast, Josiah sez
to me, "You'll see them wimmen run like hikers now, wimmen always thought
more of shiffon and fol-de-rols than they did of principle."
But I sez, "Wait and see," (we wuz under a awnin' and protected).
But the young and pretty speaker who wore a light silk dress and exquisite
bunnet, kep' right on talkin' jest as calmly as if she didn't know her
pretty dress wuz bein' spilte and her bunnet gittin' wet as sop, and I sez
to Josiah:
"When wimmen are so in earnest, and want anything so much they can stand
soakin' in their best dresses, and let their Sunday bunnets be spilte on
their heads, not noticin' 'em seemin'ly, but keep right on pleadin' for
right and justice, they are in a fair way of gittin' what they are after."
He looked kinder meachin' but didn't dispute me.
The speeches wuz beautiful and convincin', and pretty soon old Mom Nater
stopped cryin' to hear 'em, and she and I both listened full of joy and
happiness to see with what eloquence and justice our sect wuz pleadin' our
cause. Their arguments wuz so reasonable and convincin' that I said to
myself, I don't see how anybody can help bein' converted to this righteous
cause, the liftin' up of wimmen from her uncomfortable crouchin' poster
with criminals and idiots, up to the place she should occupy by the side
of other good citizens of the United States, with all the legal and moral
rights that go with that noble title.
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