Recipe For A Suffragette:

To the power that already lies in her hands
    You add equal rights with the gents;
You'll find votes that used to bring two or three plunks,
    Marked down to ninety-eight cents.

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Nursery Rhyme. DVI. Natural History.

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Nursery Rhyme. XXXV. Literal

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        --"quas ipsa decus sibi dia Camilla
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        VERGIL.


As Whig Reform has had its range,
    And none of us are yet content,
Suppose, my friends, by way of change,
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Petticoat patriots, flounced John Russells,
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The plan is startling, I confess--
But 'tis but an affair of dress;
Nor see I much there is to choose
    'Twixt Ladies (so they're thorough-bred ones)
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The Rights Of Woman. An Occasional Address Spoken By Miss Fontenelle On Her Benefit Night, Nov. 26, 1792.

    While Europe's eye is fix'd on mighty things,
    The fate of empires and the fall of kings;
    While quacks of state must each produce his plan,
    And even children lisp the Rights of Man;
    Amid this mighty fuss just let me mention,
    The Rights of Woman merit some attention.

    First on the sexes' intermix'd connexion,
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    Our second Right, but needless here is caution,
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Lines Read At A Ladies' Aid.

        After chatting with each friend,
        We our way to the table wend,
        On it we all do make a raid,
        And this we call a ladies' aid.

        'Tis pleasant way of taking tea,
        Improvement on the old soiree,
        On such a time as this I find
        Food for body and for mind.

        Gladly all obey the call,
        To attend this pleasant social,
        And we hope none will lament
        The time and money they have spent.

James McIntyre

My Rights.

Yes, God has made me a woman,
And I am content to be
Just what He meant, not reaching out
For other things, since He
Who knows me best and loves me most has ordered this for me.

A woman, to live my life out
In quiet womanly ways,
Hearing the far-off battle,
Seeing as through a haze
The crowding, struggling world of men fight through their busy days.

I am not strong or valiant,
I would not join the fight
Or jostle with crowds in the highways
To sully my garments white;
But I have rights as a woman, and here I claim my right.

The right of a rose to bloom
In its own sweet, separate way,
With none to question the perfumed pink
And none to utter a nay
If it reaches a root or points, a thorn, as even a rose-tree may.

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Place Aux Dames

[To M.]


With brilliant friends surrounding me,
    So cosy at the Club I'm sitting;
While you at home I seem to see,
    Attending strictly to your knitting.

When women have their rights, my dear,
    We'll hear no more of wrongs so shocking: -
You with your friends shall gather here;
    I'll stay at home and darn the stocking!

Arthur Macy

Spinsters

There once was a lonesome, lorn spinster,
And luck had for years been ag'inst her;
    When a man came to burgle
    She shrieked, with a gurgle,
"Stop thief, while I call in a min'ster!"

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