Woman’s Status
Was brought up in a narrow zone;
And couldn’t call her soul her own.
She vegetated, ’tis well known
Under the ‘cloche’ of Chaperone.
But now the ‘Franchise’ she obtains,
And her own property retains.
What a difference from then,
She ‘carries on’ just like the men.
And now at Westminster we see
A lady sitting as M.P.
Darwin 1809–1882
CHARLES Darwin offers us a Key
To help unlock the mystery
Of Evolution’s wondrous span
From Protoplasm up to Man.
Livingstone 1813–1873
The traveller, great Scotch Livingstone,
Wandered o’er Afric’s trackless Zone;
Where no white man had ever trod
Teaching the blacks the Word of God.
Crimean War
English, French and Turks unite
’Gainst Russia in Crimean fight.