“What do you have reference to?”

“Taking the straw vote.  Who would venture to predict a woman’s ballot twenty-four hours before election?”

WOMAN’S RIGHTS

Why We Oppose Pockets For Women

1.  Because pockets are not a natural right.

2.  Because the great majority of women do not want pockets.  If they did, they would have them.

3.  Because whenever women have had pockets they have not used them.

4.  Because women are expected to carry enough things as it is without the additional burden of pockets.

5.  Because it would make dissension between husband and wife as to whose pockets were to be filled.

6.  Because it would destroy man’s chivalry toward woman if he did not have to carry all her things in his pockets.

7.  Because men are men and women are women.  We must not fly in the face of nature.

8.  Because pockets have been used by men to carry tobacco, pipes, whisky flasks, chewing-gum, and compromising letters, we see no reason to suppose that women would use them more wisely.

WORK

  Oh, would that working I might shun,
    From labour my connection sever,
  That I might do a bit or none
    Whatever!

  That I might wander over hills,
    Establish friendship with a daisy,
  O’er pretty things like daffodils
    Go crazy!

  That I might at the heavens gaze,
    Concern myself with nothing weighty,
  Loaf, at a stretch, for seven days—­
    Or eighty.

  Why can’t I cease a slave to be,
    And taste existence beatific
  On some fair island hid in the
    Pacific?

  Instead of sitting at a desk
    ’Mid undone labours, grimly lurking—­
  Oh, say, what is there picturesque
    In working?

  But no!—­to loaf were misery!—­
    I love to work!  Hang isles of coral! 
  (To end this otherwise would be Immoral!)

  —­Thomas R. Ybarra.

Labor is man’s great function, He is nothing, he can do nothing, he can achieve nothing, fulfill nothing without working.—­Dewey.

If you are poor—­work.  If you are rich—­continue to work.  If you are burdened with seemingly unfair responsibilities—­work.  If you are happy—­keep right on working.  Idleness gives room for doubts and fears.  If disappointments come—­work.  If sorrow overwhelms you and loved ones seem not true—­work.  If health is threatened—­work.  When faith falters and reason fails—­just work.  When dreams are shattered and hope seems dead—­work.  Work as if your life were in peril.  It really is.  No matter what ails you—­work.  Work faithfully—­work with faith.  Work is the greatest remedy available for both mental and physical afflictions.—­Korsaren.