"Not on your life!" was her reply.
"Now, what do you want to talk like that for?" objected her husband. "You know women ought to be allowed to vote."
"I don't think so," she returned firmly.
At that her daughter-in-law, the assistant clerk of the Grand, took up the cudgels.
"Of course they ought to vote!" she insisted. "You know you can do just as good as a man can do!"
"No," asseverated Captain Nettie. "Women ought to stay home and tend to their families."
"As you do?" I suggested, mischievously.
"That's all right!" she flung back. "I stayed home and raised my family until it was big enough to do its own navigating. Then I started in steamboating. I had to have something to do."
But the daughter-in-law did not intend to let the woman suffrage issue drop.
"Do you mean to say," she demanded of Captain Nettie, "that you think women haven't got as much sense as men?"