Woman´s Rights
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Excerpt from Woman´s Rights: A Strictly Original Comedy in Three Acts Scene. - Interior view of the Capitol at Boston, Mass., representing the hall in which the members of the Massachusetts State Legislature convene. In the rear of the hall is a stand, resembling an altar, and behind the same is a large arm-chair resting on a raised platform, occupied by the President of the Massachusetts Woman´s Rights Association. Two rows of chairs, twenty-five in each row, arranged in a semicircle, are occupied by fifty women, all of whom wear dark-blue goggles. Five of them are supposed to be from 18 to 22 years of age; the rest from 30 to 60 years of age. To the left of the President are three meant chairs, subsequently to be occupied by the Woman´s Rights Commission. The hall is otherwise suitably furnished. When the curtain rises, the President calls the meeting to order. Miss Mary Talker [spiritedly]. My patient, much-abused, downtrodden and enthralled sisters [striking the table violently with her hand], we have convened here this evening to discharge a solemn duty which we owe not only to ourselves, but to all posterity. The notorious manner in which the obvious rights of women have been trampled upon has at last called forth your righteous indignation, and scattered seeds of discontent in every household in this broad land. "Woman´s Rights" is the burning question of the day - the all-absorbing topic of the hour. Indeed, I firmly believe that it is destined to become a party issue in national politics. [A short pause.] My sisters, it is for you to determine how long you propose to submit to the tyrannical domination of your incommensurably selfish husbands. No doubt, if this question were put to any one of the myriads of society girls who are annually thrown upon the matrimonial market, they would answer with incredible unanimity, "We will submit to the tyrannical domination of a husband so long as we can procure one." Ah! [sighing], my sisters, it cuts me to the very quick to think that woman has fallen so low. It was not always thus. [Triumphantly] - There was a time when man sought woman. [Despondently] - But alas! alas! that was long ago, in the days of Adam, before woman was born. Strange indeed is the fatality, that it should rest upon the women of the nineteenth century to call into life the unborn virtue of pre-Adamite woman! But we must accept the inevitable. Let us revolt, en masse, against the present regime of husbands. If the "boss system" should not be tolerated in the management of political campaigns, why should it prevail in the regulation of domestic affairs? I need hardly stop to detail the sufferings of married women. Most of you have experienced the tyranny of a husband; the rest will not be slow to embrace an opportunity when it presents itself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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