"What you want, I suppose, is to vote, just like the men do."
"Certainly not," replied Mrs. Baring-Banners. "If we couldn"t do any better than that there would be no use of our voting."
"There"s only one thing I can think of to head off this suffrage movement," said the mere man.
"What is that?" asked his wife.
"Make the legal age for voting thirty-five instead of twenty-one."--_Catholic Universe_.
MAMIE--"I believe in woman"s rights."
GERTIE--"Then you think every woman should have a vote?"
MAMIE--"No; but I think every woman should have a voter."--_The Woman"s Journal_.
During the Presidential campaign the question of woman suffrage was much discussed among women pro and con, and at an afternoon tea the conversation turned that way between the women guests.
"Are you a woman suffragist?" asked the one who was most interested.
"Indeed, I am not," replied the other most emphatically.
"Oh, that"s too bad, but just supposing you were, whom would you support in the present campaign?"
"The same man I"ve always supported, of course," was the apt reply--"my husband."
_See also_ Suffragettes.
WOMEN"S CLUBS
_See_ Clubs.
WORDS
_See_ Authors.
WORK
All work and no play Makes Jack surrept.i.tiously gay.
"Wot cheer, Alf? Yer lookin" sick; wot is it?"
"Work! nuffink but work, work, work, from mornin" till night!"
""Ow long "ave yer been at it?"
"Start tomorrow."--_Punch_.
Several men were discussing the relative importance and difficulty of mental and physical work, and one of them told the following experience:
"Several years ago, a tramp, one of the finest specimens of physical manhood that I have ever seen, dropped into my yard and asked me for work. The first day I put him to work helping to move some heavy rocks, and he easily did as much work as any two other men, and yet was as fresh as could be at the end of the day.
"The next morning, having no further use for him, I told him he could go; but he begged so hard to remain that I let him go into the cellar and empty some apple barrels, putting the good apples into one barrel and throwing away the rotten ones--about a half hour"s work.
"At the end of two hours he was still in the cellar, and I went down to see what the trouble was. I found him only half through, but almost exhausted, beads of perspiration on his brow.
""What"s the matter?" I asked. "Surely that work isn"t hard."
""No not hard," he replied. "But the strain on the judgment is _awful_.""
_See also_ Rest cure.
WORMS
A country girl was home from college for the Christmas holidays and the old folks were having a reception in her honor. During the event she brought out some of her new gowns to show to the guests. Picking up a beautiful silk creation she held it up before the admiring crowd.
"Isn"t this perfectly gorgeous!" she exclaimed. "Just think, it came from a poor little insignificant worm!"
Her hard-working father looked a moment, then he turned and said: "Yes, darn it, an" I"m that worm!"
YALE UNIVERSITY
The new cook, who had come into the household during the holidays, asked her mistress:
"Where ban your son? I not seeing him round no more."