ride
about in their carriages or haunt the shops of our cities in gay
apparel are reasonably well contented with their lot in life. In
a word, it is not hostility so much as calm indifference with
which the advocates of woman suffrage have to contend, and
unluckily for them the indifference is very largely
feminine.--[New York _Evening Post_.

There is something awful in the thought that should the woman
suffragists be continually refused a voice in the affairs of the
nation they might at last in a fit of desperation, do what our
fathers did, and frame a declaration of independence, No, 2. Just
think of an army of crinolines willing to take arms against the
tyrant man, and sacrifice their lives, if need be, to carry out
their principles! It is easier to ridicule the woman suffrage
movement than to answer the arguments advanced by some of the
leading advocates of that question. It is only the innate
mildness of the position of women in general that has prevented a
revolution on this same subject long ago. One hundred thousand
such fire-eaters as Susan B. Anthony or Elizabeth Cady Stanton in
the land, could raise a rumpus which would cause the late
unpleasantness to pale into insignificance. Armed and equipped,
what a sight would be presented by an army of strong-minded
women! There would be no considering the question of whether the
cavalry should ride side-saddle, or _a la_ clothes-pin. Such
detail would be of too small importance to receive the slightest
attention; the more vital questions would be, "How can we
slaughter the most men?" "How can we soonest convince the demons
that we have rights which must be respected?" The fact is, that
if these down-trodden women would take a firm stand in any thing
like respectable numbers, and assert their claims to suffrage at
the point of the bayonet, they would be allowed everything they
asked for. There is not a man in the land who would dare to take
up arms against a woman. Such a dernier resort on the part of the
women would be truly laughable, but the matter would cease to be
a joke, if General Susan B. Anthony, in command of a bloomer
regiment, should march into the halls of congress, armed
_cap-a-pie_, and demand the passage of a law in behalf of woman
suffrage, or the alternative of the g