HIS CHANCE.
“What do men know of women’s work?” fiercely queried the lady orator. . “Ts there a man here,” she continued, folding her arms, “that has day after day got up in tho morning, gone quietly downstairs, made the fire, cooked bis own breakfast, sewed the missing buttons on the children’s clothes, cleaned the pots and kettles, and swept the kitchen? If there is such a man ip. the audience, let him rise up; I should like to i-es him.” In the rear of the hall a mild-looking man in spectacles, in obedience to the summons, timidly rose. He was the husband of the eloquent speaker. It was the first time he had ever had * chance to assert himself.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 52, 11 February 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)
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119HIS CHANCE. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 52, 11 February 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)
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