History repeats itself. The Ceres Ladies’ Society, fifty years old—the society, not the ladies—admitted a few men as a compliment and now has filed an ouster against them because they usurped all the offices. Sixty years ago Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed a women’s temperance society and were persuaded to admit men, who at the first election, got control of the offices. The two women walked out of the society and out of the temperance movement straight into that for woman suffrage. Men should have a care!
They say that such a crop of eels never has been known. It’s always like that during the season of candidates.
According to the decision of the New York board of education, no woman is fitted to teach children after she has had a child herself. Masculine logic!
The latest scientific discovery is that on the right kind of food a hen will lay a hundred per cent. more eggs. If she does the rooster will crow himself to death.
The papers have given wide publicity to the Arkansas farmer who offers a large porker to any one that will find him a wife. There is often an exchange of that kind in marriage, and the wife gets it.