On Not Believing All You Hear


("Women are angels, they are jewels, they are queens and princesses of
our hearts."--_Anti-suffrage speech of Mr. Carter of Oklahoma_.)


"Angel, or jewel, or princess, or queen,
Tell me immediately, where have you been?"

"I've been to ask all my slaves so devoted
Why they against my enfranchisement voted."

"Angel and princess, that action was wrong.
Back to the kitchen, where angels belong."




The Revolt of Mother


("Every true woman feels----"--_Speech of almost any Congressman_.)


I am old-fashioned, and I think it right
That man should know, by Nature's laws eternal,