"I will now read several resolutions which have been handed in since the opening of the meeting.
"First, Resolved, That the enfranchised women of Wimbledon use their combined efforts for the liberation of their suffering sisterhood, who yet groan beneath the despotic cruelties of the oppressor man."
The secretary sat down. The president arose. "Are there any remarks to be made on this resolution?" she said.
None were forthcoming.
"Then I move its adoption."
"I second the motion," squealed a little voice from some remote corner.
The secretary came forward. "All in favor of this resolution will please say, ay."
A score of voices were heard.
"It is unanimously accepted," said she. "I will now proceed to the reading of the second.
"Resolved, That, as a means of humbling and destroying the tyranny which the monster man exercises over the larger portion of the women of Wimbledon, six of the usurpers be converted into lamp-posts, and placed at the corners of the principal streets, with tin lanterns fixed upon their heads, to light the cause of philanthropy in its midnight struggles." (Sensation, and several brawny hands scratching uneasily at the apex of their craniums.)