Burdette on Womankind,

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6145, 18 August 1891, Page 2

Burdette on Womankind,

• : — :•■ 4t Why am I a woman suffragist ? because I am. Because a woman has niore good, hard, common sedse than a man. Because she makes less bluster aboufc her rights, ancl quietly maintains them better than a man. Because she won't give Idol 60c for an article thufc she knows very well she can get for 700. Because she does not stalk loftily away from tho counter without hor ohange if the robber behind it is a little reluctant about counting ifc oufc. Because she is too indopondanb to pay the landlord 2dol 25c for her dinner, and then pay tho head waiter Idol to send her a waiter who will bring it to her for 500. Because she will hold her money tightly in hor own good little right hand for two hours, until she first gets a receipt for it from tho fellow who made her husband pay the samo bill three times last year. Nob any ' Jusfc give you credit for it ' for her. Beoauso ono day a Pullman porter j complained to me l No money on this trip ; j too many women aboard. Don't never get ! nobhin 1 oub of a woman 'ceptin' jusfc her i regular fare. I had jusfc paid him 25c for blacking ono of my boots and losing the other ; and when he said that, when I saw I for inyself the. heroic firmness of those women, travelling alone, paying their fare land refusing to pay fche salaries of the em- 1 ployees of a wealthy corporation, I said : ' Theae women have a right to vote.,. By all thab is bravo, self-reliant, and sensible, they have a right to ruri tho Government !' "

The Auckland Reehabites aumber 400, with a capital of over L7OOO, being an increase of over &300 for the year,