deep hard problems men have to grapple with. They are too doll-like, too
angelically and sweetly frivolous."

"No doubt," sez I, "some wimmen are frivolous and some men foolish, for
as Mrs. Poyser said, 'God made women to match the men,' but these few
hadn't ort to disfranchise the hull race of men and wimmen. And as to soft
brains, Maria Mitchell discovered planets hid from masculine eyes from the
beginnin' of time, and do you think that wimmen can't see the black spots
on the body politic, that darkens the life of her and her children?

"Madame Curie discovered the light that looks through solid wood and iron,
and you think wimmen can't see through unjust laws and practices, the
rampant evils of to-day, and see what is on the other side, see a remedy
for 'em. Florence Nightingale could mother and help cure an army, and why
hain't men willin' to let wimmen help cure a sick legislation, kinder
mother it, and encourage it to do better? She might much better be doin'
that, than playin' bridge-whist, or rastlin' with hobble skirts, and it
wouldn't devour any more time."

He sot demute for a few minutes and then he sez, "While on the subject of
women's achievements, dearest madam, allow me to ask you, if they have
reached the importance you claim for them, why is it that so few women are
made immortal by bein' represented in the Hall of Fame? And why are the
four or five females represented there put away by themselves in a remote
unadorned corner with no roof to protect them from the rough winds and
storms that beat upon them?"

Sez I, "That's a good illustration of what I've been sayin'. It wuz owin'
to a woman's gift that America has a Hall of Fame, and it would seem that
common courtesy would give wimmen an equally desirable place amongst