WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 41, 11 October 1890, Page 20

WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO.

‘ls there anything a man can do that a woman can’t do ?’ asked the woman’s rights advocate, as she adjusted her spectacles and looked around upon the audience. ‘ That’s it,’ said a bald-headed man in the back of the hall, ‘ put it to ’em straight. Bring these opponents of woman suffrage right to their mutton.’ ‘You see,’ pursued the lady, ‘we are not without ourfriends among the stronger sex. Again I ask the question, Is there anything a man can do that a woman can’t do ?’ ‘ Good, good,’ cried the bald headed man, enthusiastically ; . ‘ she can do more. A woman can do things that a man can’t do. I know it. ’ ‘ You hear,’ said the lady triumphantly, as she waved her hand, ‘ you hear what the champion of our down-trodden sex says. A woman can do things that a man can’t do. Tell us, my friend, what a woman can do that a man can’t do.’ ‘ She can talk a man to death, by jingo,’ said the bald headed man, ‘and if you could hear my old woman when she gets her tongue on to me you’d believe it, and don’t you furgit it.’ This speech broke up the meeting.