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("In this age of discontent, hundreds of thousands of girls, who have no necessity to support themselves, leave home in order to win pin money."—Anti-suffrage leaflet. Apply to G. D. M., Albany.)

I to ask a scrub-woman: "Why labour like a man? You cannot feed your children? Well, There must be some one can." She said: "I merely work because I need a feather fan."

I went to a steam laundry, And asked with smile polite: "Ladies, why will you work so late?" They said: "We think it right To buy our opera cloaks ourselves, And so we work at night."

Observe how nagging women are: Their work is just a feint To make Man feel inadequate, And selfish—which he ain't. True womanhood would rather starve, And starve without complaint!