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 ("We women are not supposed to be humorous, I know."—Anti-suffrage speech.)

, true to the tradition Of the ivy and the oak, Never make the dark admission That you see a joke!

Laugh and smile, for that's beguiling, If the teeth are good; But not knowing why you're smiling— That's true womanhood.

Humour must remain a stranger To the loving female mind, If we would avoid all danger Of a thought unkind.

Chivalry would go to Hades Very, very quickly then. Men may laugh at us poor ladies; We must not at men.