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Observer, Volume XVIII, Issue 1024, 13 August 1898, Page 18

Removal of Women's ~— —. Disabilities Bill. WHEN THE LADIES GET THEIR RIGHTS. (Fob the Obseeveb.) You ask me why I'm ageing, why I'm looking thin and queer, m . „ . , „ • „ . ... _„ r , „ . , •, • . Then my eldest daughter, Sally, in a miliWhy I don't enjoy my baccy and my pint tary rig, S?GW or two of beer, Surmounted by a helmet several sizes Why I have to nurse the babies and to much too big, cook the family grub. With her übac^u bac^ hair hanging And do all the family washing for the" a^^^S iXHssns at the tub ? , ing sentry-go. I'm a slave of tyrant woman, and she works When I said it was indecent, and^would me like a hoaa, drive me to despair, For when she got the franchise woman got She polled her false moustachios with a to be the boss; military air, . «^»t^ Since a chap named Tommy Taylor And says she 'It's women's duty |to repel passed a little Bill of his . onr enemies For the purpose of removing women's Since you've passed that Act removing disabilities. women's disabilities.' Such a harmless little Bill it was when . first he brought it in, I met m y c ° nB ™ Marv > mA xi S ave me Yoa wouldn't a thought it covered so much quite a shock, devilment and bid; • She waß Pressed in fancy bloomers, BtrolHe worked upon onr feelings like a deep, ">g and down the block. &*««■ designing cubs She was puffing at a meershaum as Bhe To elevate the women to equality with walked along the street, SsWna And she said she d only jußt .come out ' to He Bai'd he only wanted to remove the give the boys a treat.' social checks she frequents public-houses, at the bars That tyrant man imposed upon the free- she takes a drink, dom of the aex; And P onra «\ bl S long-sleever downier. "The weaker ccx' he called 'em, they're throat withont a wink ; • the stronger aex ' aince then, And when she's flash of money she throw He removed those disabilities and shoved ank ee gri ab for fizz \, 'em on the men. -^ or Taylor s Act abolished women s dißabilitieß. But it gave me quite a facer when I saw My Bister Angelina, who was always my lovely spouse rather fast, Announced that she was Btanding for elec- Has slipped aboard a vessel as a hand betion to the House ; fore the mast ; She stamped the country over and she She says it's awful jolly to go Bailing on the canvassed far and near, sea, Boozed up the 'orny - handed with un- And the height of her ambition is to paas stinted pints of beer, for an A B. And when she was defeated 'twas a very She's versed in all the phrases of the nanbitter pill tical lingo, . To mortgage all the furniture to pay her Can chew a quid and spin a yarn that little bill, girls ought not to know 1 thought thiß degradation would have 'We men have got to shut our eyes to brought some sense of shame, ! little things like these Bpt aha swears at next elections she will Since we passed that Act removing get (here all the same. | women's disabilities.