Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1881 — How a Boston Woman Voted. [ARTICLE]

How a Boston Woman Voted.

A very amusing comment upon a certain phase of the woman suffrage question is told by one of the tellers at a Boston city election, and vouched for by him as absolutely true. A woman well known in strong-minded circles camo to the polls vote in hand. Upon being asked her name she hesitated a little, but finally concluded on the whole to give it. She. seemed to have similar misgivings about answering an equally impertinent question in regard toner place of residence, but in this matter also she decided to yield. The name being checked upon the list, the voter was told to deposit her vote, which, after examining the ballot box with some curiosity, she did. She stood a moment in an attitude of expectancy, and then asked : “ Is that all ?” “Yes, madam,” answered the teller. “ Then, if that is all,” she asked with some asperity, ‘ ‘ why do men make such a fuss about it?” The tide of voters kept waiting by her delay became at this moment too strong for her, and she was swept forward with her question unanswered. She lingered about, however, and in the first lull came back to the ballot box. “ If you please,” said she to the teller, * ‘ I’d like to see that vote I put in there.” “But cannot,” he said. “A vote can’t be taken out of the box.” “ But I want to see it very much,” she persisted. “What do you want of it, madame,” he asked politely. “ Oh,” was the naive answer, “I want to know who I voted for.”— Boston Courier. As he sat on the steps on Sunday evening he claimed the right to a kiss for every shooting star. She at first demurred, as became a modest maiden, but finally yielded. She was even so accommodating as to call his attention to flying meteors that were about to escape his observation, and then got to “ calling ” him on lightning bugs, and at last got him down to steady work on the light of a lantern that a man was swinging about a depot in the distance where trains were switching. People who think China is a small power are surprised to know that the tonage of her mercantile marine is 4,100,000, exclusive of the inland junk traffic. The tonnage of the United States, including all the canal boats in the country and all the river boats, is but 4,500,000. Even England’s tonnage is only 6,100,000. So that China is pressing close after England as a sailor power. Wealth may not bring happiness, but it ooumauds rwpeotih » pouoa offloor,