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 *perty is an absurd institution? She has a surplus of lace; I have a deficiency. Have I not a right to equalization? Monrose, who happened to overhear this dialogue, observed, "women, you are yet only advancing, without having reached the end of your journey. I shall lend you a spur myself."—"Thanks, Monrose, you will interpret and familiarize the profound wisdom of St. Leon. But hold, here comes our sublime instructress."

Jemima now ascended a pulpit, from which she addressed the female part of her hearers. "Women, great objects of my care, I have learned that there are many who approve the exemption which I have proposed from the aristocratical restraints, to which the monopolizing tyranny of men has subjected our sex; who agree with me that women should be as free as light or air, but like