DREADFULLY SCARCE.

Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3038, 21 February 1899, Page 3

DREADFULLY SCARCE.

" 1 knew it would come in time," s^id the young, woman who w;icts- to vote mud -wear bicy cjc cloth ess f o£ cvcd wg d r-c^g. ' ' "We are reaching a pirint wrut»pt> aw cannot ftrfl to oe | recognised." " What do you niOcinV " inquired Mia£ " I iik'o'l tluit our Btis Jjas been achieving ■ bo niucli tl)at it .iujMWt be long before our ! HUpcriority is udmiUed.' 1 " Of course," said Miss Cayenne," women hiive alsvuys sliowii facility iv certain branches of ait. Hut thai does not iin[ily any obligation <m !ht j ia.it to [uirlicipatr in the more rnttpwl ati'aiis c>f life." " Shi- can <io all that men can. Tal<e, for t.'xamplc, the oecurreiices. <-f the \,;i*t few weeks. Ijiteratuie iia.i educated us in belli ye that tin. 1 natural course <if i-vi uts is for a "Jrl t<> fall into the water, and fur a young man to come alouj; and n-seire her. l>ut sec how things have < handed, llecall the rc|i<nts which have app--.' :ed in the new-[..qu rs f I oin day to <i«iy. Sear • ly a week has p,i-.-cd without seeing s<- n.v joui^mari who could. n't swim fall into the waver. And wln.se strong aim w-js it that pulled him out? " " I don't l-iii'.'W," replied Miss L'ayfiine, rather frigidly. " It. was a woman's! What,'' she added, in a tone of yuie.t triumph. '" docs that yo to show? " '■ It simply nvvs to mliow, dear, how dread fully b<;are<: moil are getting to be at suinmcr i"es<.ii t-s. "