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A PIONEER SUFFRAGETTE
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of what she had determined to be her life work. He also agreed that she should retain her name. The only concession she made was to prefix it with "Mrs."
A few years ago, H. L. Mencken said, "She began her melodramatic tours in stagecoaches and canal boats and if she had lived a few years longer, she would have ended them in automobiles and airships."
For over twenty years, she edited the "Woman's Journal" founded in Boston in 1870. During the centennial year of Presidential activities (this would be the time of President Harrison) she wrote in Woman's Journal this appeal : "Women of the
United States, never forget that you are excluded by law from participation in the great question which at this moment agitates the country. A question which is not only who the next candidate for the President will be, but what shall be the policy of the Government under which we live for the next four years."
Lucy Stone died four years later in 1893. By that time Woman's Rights were no longer connected with irreligion, free love and everything radical.
We ask as did Mencken, "Where is her monument reaching upward to the stars? For one, I believe it is too long delayed."
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"Is it true, my dear, that your husband is very absent-minded?" inquired a friend.
"Yes," the lady replied, "we've been married six months and many an evening at eleven he gets up, takes me by the hand, tells me what a delightful time he has had, and would leave if I didn't remind him."
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A street car inspector was watching the work of a new conductor.
"Here, Foley," he said, "how is this? You have 20 passengers and only 19 fares have been rung up."
"Is that so?" asked Foley. Then, turning to his passengers he yelled: "There's wan too many on this car. Git out, one of yez."
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An old lady who was being introduced to a doctor, who was also a professor in a university, felt somewhat puzzled as to how she would address the great man.
"Shall I just call you 'doctor' or shall I say 'professor'?" she asked.
"Oh, just as you wish," was the reply; "as a matter of fact some people call me an old idiot."
"Indeed," she said sweetly, trying to patch it up, "but then, they are the people who know you."
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A fashionable Hollywood hostess recently sent out elaborate invitations for "Bearer and One Wife" to a Hollywood party.
— Harry S. Donen.