MRS. BROWN. Mrs. Thom, Cochon has just escaped a terrible death from the flames. He shall not be handed over to the sword. He shall not be made a victim to the modern woman’s propensity to desert the home and children, to philander around after responsibilities for which she is unfitted by nature. As Mr. Becker just quoted so beautifully, “Man for the field and woman for the hearth.”
MRS. THOM. Well, it’s the baseball field and golf field then, I guess. As for the hearth, give me steam heat—it’s cleaner and has more go to it.
MRS. TILSBURY. Why, where is Mr. Becker?
MRS. BROWN. He has gone home or to his Club. I think that he has had all of women’s rights that he can stand for one afternoon. If you make enemies of all the men who have the power to grant the vote to women, Mrs. Thom, how are you going to obtain it? Get what you want first and fight the men afterwards, that would be my advice. I always followed that method with Mr. Brown.
MRS. THOM. You were consistent to the end. You got what you wanted when your husband died, and you fought his will afterwards. Well, we don’t follow the methods of the so-called feminine women in putting forward the cause. We don’t wheedle for our rights. We demand them.
MRS. BROWN. But if you can’t enforce your demands, what do you do then?
MRS. THOM. We will follow the example of the Roman women who, when unjust laws were enacted restricting the cost of their wearing apparel and jewelry, withdrew to the hill outside of the city, and stayed away from Rome until the men yielded and let them wear what they chose.
MRS. TILSBURY. If the men won’t give us the vote, we women will all go to Paris and stay there until they grant it. How lovely!
MRS. BROWN. What will you live on in Paris if the men refuse to send funds? The bankers are all men still, my dear.
MRS. THOM. It shows that you have not seriously studied the subject, Mrs. Brown, or you would not make such foolish remarks. There is nothing to prevent women from becoming bankers.