WOMEN'S RIGHTS AND WRONGS.
—o— The following appears in the London Hornet :
To the Editor : Sir :—Yours is one of the few papers not afraid to discuss great questions fearlessly. I hope you are not afraid of the Woman Question —or of me. I am never backward in coming forward in the noble cause of Woman, and am ever ready to discuss the subject argumentatively.
I believe that the sexes ■were created perfectly equal, with the -woman a little more equal than the man. I also believe that the world would be happier today if man had never existed. As a creature, man is a failure, and I bless my stars that my mother was a woman.
I not only maintain these principles, but 1 maintain a husband besides. They say man was created first. First experiments are always failures, And then they throw it into our face about Eve taking an apple.
What did Adam do when he was found out ?
True to his masculine instincts, he sneaked behind Eye’s Giecian Bend, and said—- “ Twasn’t me, ‘twas her and woman has had to father everything since, and mother it too.
What wo want is the ballot, and the ballot we’re bound to have, if we let down our back hair and swim in a sea of sanguinary gore.
At Dieppe, in France, tho following notice has been issued by the police“ The bathing police are requested, when a lady is in danger of drowning, to seize her by the dress and not by the hair, which often times remains in their grasp.
i)R. Bright s Piiosphodyne - Multitudes of people are hopelessly suffering from Debility, Nervous and Liver Complaints, Depression of Spirits, Delusions, Unfitness for Business or Study, Failure of Hearing, Sight, and Memory, Lassitude, Want of Power, &c., whose cases admit of a permanent cure by the new remedy—Phosphodyne (Ozonic Oxygen)— which at once allays all irritation and excitement, imparts new energy and life to the enfeebled constitution, and rapidly cures every stage of these hitherto incurable and distressing maladies. Sold by all chemists and storekeepers throughout the Colonies from whom Pamphlets, containing testimonials, may be obtained. Caution. —Be particular to ask for Dr. Bright’s Phosphodyne, as imitations are abroad ; and avoid purch a sing single bottles the genuine article being sold in eases only.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 655, 6 November 1874, Page 3
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