A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1486, 30 March 1886, Page 3

A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

There is t-xenement nt White Plains and New Rochelle, just above New Fork. The merry maidens of that locality are driving their single blessedness for id lit is worth. Last year they organised clubs, under (ho defiant and soul-stirrine nam- of “ We-can-go-it-nlooo-Club,” whose members hunt in gangs, so to speak. They issued a derlumtion of independence of ihe “ male men,’ as Mr Stanton used to call the clothes-wearing bifurcated anim d. Since that they go on picnic and steamboat excursions in couples and trios and quintettes and dozens, mid ignore the beaux, and pay their own and nek no odds of any man. Tltev regard young men exactly as they do members of their own sex, and if Billy sake Milly to "go and get some ice-cre-im” she boldly answers "Yes, sir; with all my heart ; but my oath requires me to pay for my own dish, remember, The question being up in the W.C.GI.A. Lodge bow the rebels ought to treat young men, one of the emancipated damsels spoke up and said, "Wo are not to treat them at all ; and tlioy am not to treat us either.” In summer and autumn they agglomerate, and go to agricultural fairs and to Coney Island without any beaux ; in winter they similarly invade the theatres of the metropolis m fmbelowed flocks. The maidens were happy in their warlike attitude. lew of them married. There was fun in getting up shore parties, and every girl paying her own livery bill and buying her own dinner. But, alas ! there was a fly in the ointment. There arose murmurs of discontent—not from the girls, not from the beaux, but from their papas ; and these paternal murmurs have now swelled into adi-io ison of wrath—a fierce, deep, concentrated growl. The foim-tl protest of the fathers was presented at the last lodge meeting, "Hang it! high-minded and independent citizenesses,” it said in substance, “it is our money you are spending 1 Wa are footing your Theatre, bouquet, and livery bills. You tire us. We would like a rest, if yon please. Either go to work like a man, or fall in with the heaven-ordained order of things like a woman. We decline longer to be broiled on the griddle of your caprice to be immo’ated on the altar of your independent independence.” The remonstrance was voted t > be "quite uncalled for,” but was referred to the committee of ways an i means, bo the sub ime movement thro,.tens to perish, —New York paper.