THE ANTIS.

White Ribbon, Volume 21, Issue 246, 18 December 1915, Page 7

THE ANTIS.

She was an anti suffragist from some where up the State, Who thong hi it w .is her duty to offset the coming fate. So, although she was .1 spinster, she went le< luring here and there On “Wife and Mother Home and Child, The Nursery and Prayer.” Another of the .nit is .1 mother of thirteen— Saw votes for women coming, and stepped boldly on the scene; She pa< ked her little carpet bag and went from Troy to Rome, Just preaching to creation that “A Woman’s place is Home !” And there was still another with a husband meek as sand She used to tell the neighbours “she could train him with one hand!” She said “he didn’t know as mu< h as their old lex.is mule,” And the best of all her lectures was, “Wives, lot your husbands rule!” The next one was a widow who would gladly wed again; To her the weighty question was not altogether plain; But throughout her lengthy lecture* all the subejet matter ran That she wouldn’t vote for women, but she would vote for a man. The l.i-»t had done the housework and the farmwork all her life, Although there was a farmer, and she was this farmer’s wife, She’d churned and hayed and gardened, paid the taxes—saved the farm— But she* lectured on “The Comfort of a Man’s Protecting Arm." —By Laura \V. Sheldon.