Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1891 — He Was There. [ARTICLE]

He Was There.

“Is there a man in all this audience,“» demanded the female loctureqon woman’s rights, fiercely, “that has ever done anything to lighten the burden resting on his wife’s shoulders? What do you know of woman's work? Is there a man here," she continued, folding her arms and looking over her audience with superb(Bcorn, “that has ever got up in tho morning, leaving his tired, worn-out wife to enjoy her slumbers, gone quietly down stairs, made the fire, fooked his own breakfast, sewed the missing buttons on the children’s clothes, darned the family stockings, scoured the pots and kettles, cleaned and filled the lamps, swept the kitchen, and done all this, If necessary, day after day uncomplainingly? If there is such a man in this audience let him rise up. I should like to see him.” And away back injthe rear of the hall a mild-looking man in spectacles, in obedience to the summons, timidly arose. He was the husband of the eloquent speaker. It was tfi’e first time he had ever had a chance to assert himself.