Descending gestures pertain to the will, express determination and emphasis.
Horizontal gestures pertain to the intellect, and are used in argument and address.
Ascending gestures pertain to the imagination, and express exultation.
—F. Lizzie Peirce.
The Meeting at Wendletown.
’Twas early in the winter when first the talk began
About the rights of women and the cruelty of man,
Sech talk was new in Wendeltown, it scared us all to hear
How ignorant we women was about our proper speer;
And how we’d toiled and pinched and saved, and nothing better knew,