People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1895 — WELL TURNED. [ARTICLE]

WELL TURNED.

On* Man’a Idea of the Proper Sphere of Woman. A discussion arose lately at a dinnertable upon the basis of the right of suffrage, when the following colloquy took place: “I do not think.” said one of the party, “that'all men should indiscriminately be permitted to vote. There must be some restriction; and if yon tear away all barriers, you may as well extend the privileges still further and admit women to the polls.” “Womenl” quickly replied a spirited lady on the opposite side of the table —a disciple, perhaps, of Miss Grimlce. "And why should women not vote? Do you mean to say we are Inferior to the other sex?” “By no means, madam. The ladies, I admit, have generally their intellectual powers as vivid and as well cultivated as those who have assumed the title of ‘lords of creation,’ but, then, I like to see them in their proper sphere.” “ ‘Their proper sphere!’ And pray, sir, permit me to ask: What do you deem their proper sphere?” “Why, madam, the sphere of woman is —a —it is a celestial Bpnere."— N. Y Ledger.