THE PAST AND PRESENT EVE
Where is the maid of the long ago
Who stayed at home and knit?
And where is she who won her way
Having a fainting fit?
Where is the maid who sat all day
Waiting a lover to call
So she might wed and ride away
Unto his manor hall?
And where is she who always blushed
And giggled "Tee-hee-hee!"
Whene'er a noble "Adamite"
She even chanced to see?
Where is she with the wasp-like waist
And Chinese hobbling feet,
The maiden fair with light bleached hair
Who thought she was too sweet?
Where is the dame who left her babes
Unto a servant's care,
While she reposed or tried to make
Herself look wondrous fair?
And where is she who wouldn't vote
And did not care to know
Who guided this great ship of state
And saved it from the foe?
She's gone away to "Has-been-realms,"
And now we have instead
Our glorious type of womankind
Who forges fast ahead.
Our brothers who now make the laws
Of this great country fair,
'Tis they alone who power have
Their franchise rights to share.
I pray you show your chivalry,
Oh, all you worthy knights,
And vote for equal franchise laws,
Which are your sisters' rights!