"
The members argued quite awhile on this pint, but finally come round to
Josiah's idees, and the meetin' for a few minutes seemed to come to a
standstill, till old Cornelius Snyder got up slowly and feebly. He has
spazzums and can't hardly wobble. His wife has to support him, wash and
dress him, and take care on him like a baby. But he has the use of his
tongue, and he got some man to bring him there, and he leaned heavy on his
cane, and kinder stiddied himself on it and offered this suggestion:
"How would it do to tie females up when they got to thinkin' they wuz equal
to men, halter 'em, rope 'em, and let 'em see if they wuz?"
But this idee wuz objected to for the same reason Josiah had advanced, as
Philander well said, "wimmen had got to go foot loose in order to do the
housework and cookin'."
Uncle Sime Bentley, who wuz awful indignant, said, "I motion that men shall
take away all the rights that wimmen have now, turn 'em out of the meetin'
house, and grange."
But before he'd hardly got the words out of his mouth, seven of the members
riz up and as many as five spoke out to once with different exclamations:
"That won't do! we can't do that! Who'll do all the work! Who'll git up
grange banquets and rummage sales, and paper and paint and put down carpets
in the meetin' house, and git up socials and entertainments to help pay the
minister's salary, and carry on the Sunday School? and tend to its picnics
and suppers, and take care of the children? We can't do this, much as we'd
love to.
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