The following extract is from the diary of a New England woman who lived in the eighteenth century:
"We had roast pork for dinner and the Doctor, who carved, held up a rib on his fork, and said: 'Here, ladies, is what Mother Eve was made of.'"
"'Yes,' said sister Patty, 'and it is from very much the same kind of critter'."
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The little girl reported at home what she had learned at Sunday School concerning the creation of Adam and Eve:
"The teacher told us how God made the first man and the first woman. He made the man first. But the man was very lonely with nobody to talk to him. So God put the man to sleep. And while the man was asleep, God took out his brains, and made a woman of them."
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
During the agitation in behalf of woman's suffrage, an ardent advocate pleaded with a tired-looking married woman, and said:
"Just think! Wouldn't you love to go with your husband to the voting place, and there cast your vote along with his?"
The woman shook her head decisively and she answered: