His First Chance.
"Ii there a man in all the audience," demanded the female speaker on woman's rights fiercely, " who has ever done anything to lighten the burden resting on his wife's shoulders? What do you know of woman's •work ? Is there a man here," she continued, folding her arms and looking over her audience with superb ecoria, " who has ever got up in the morning, leaving his tired, worn-oub wife to enjoy her slumbers, gone quietly downstairs, made the fire, cooked his own breakfast, sewn the missing buttons on the children's clothes, darned the family stockings, scoured the pols and kettlfs, cleaned and filled the lamps, swept the kitchen, and done all tbi?, if necessary, day after day uncomplainingly ? If there is such a man io this audience, let him stand up. I should like to see him." And far back in the hall a mild-lcoking-man in spectacles, in obedience to the summons, timidly arose. He was the husband of the eloquent speaker. It was the first chance he had ever had to assert himself.
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Otago Witness, Volume 11, Issue 2280, 11 November 1897, Page 61
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176His First Chance. Otago Witness, Volume 11, Issue 2280, 11 November 1897, Page 61
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