How Ladies may become Legislators.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 4, Issue 20, 14 March 1893, Page 2

How Ladies may become Legislators.

Lady Florence Dixie has made an excellent suggestion. She assures the world that a large number of women, unable to vote any other way, have gone to the polling-booths in mail attire, having previously become ratepayers by taking their houses in a male name, and she suggests that woman assuming male attire shall now put up for Parliment as males, and enter the House in the garb of the less gentle sex. This new masquerade, it is hinted, has already commenced, There was a woman once who so far deceived all Christendom as to becme Pope of Rome. There have been women who have followed the colours as full privates, and sailed the seas before the mast. There have been women engine-drivers and women hansom cabmen. J3ut until Lady Florence gave the game away, nobody suspected that some of our worthy legislators were women in disguise, although many have long been credited with being “old women.”

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