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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, October 25, 1896
Howe’er absurd a thing be made
Our wives and sisters bow before it,
And when within it they’re arrayed
We wince, endure and then adore it.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, October 25, 1896
Howe’er absurd a thing be made
Our wives and sisters bow before it,
And when within it they’re arrayed
We wince, endure and then adore it.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, October 25, 1896
Our sisters, who threaten our scalps,
Have taken to climbing the Alps;
And this, though it vex all the masculine wrecks,
Most certainly proves the Ascent of the Sex.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, October 18, 1896
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, January 5, 1896
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, June 28, 1896
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, June 14, 1896
14 to 15, 16 to 17, 18 to 19, 20 to 21, 22 to 24, 24 to 25, 26 to 27…
Apparently a spinster is wearing a pince nez by 22 and using a cane by 26!
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The Charlotte News, North Carolina, December 16, 1902
Mrs. Cologan brought action in the District Court of Waseca county for a divorce from her husband, alleging cruelty and habitual drunkenness.
The latter court held Cologan struck his wife because he had good reason to believe she had misconducted herself.
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The Kansas City Times, Missouri, May 19, 1954
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The Evening Review, East Liverpool, Ohio, April 7, 1921
Do you look as young as your husband? If not - what is wrong? You may have grown stouter and consequently somewhat older looking.
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The Daily Phoenix, Columbia, South Carolina, September 24, 1868
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Poughkeepsie Journal, New York, August 7 1816
Ladies who are accustomed to wear their dresses extremely low in the back and bosom or off the shoulders, are particularly requested to beware of a person who has for some time past frequented all places of public amusement, and many private parties.
…when he observes a lady dressed in the manner above described, is, with an almost imperceptible and apparently accidental pressure of a little instrument which he carries in his hand, to imprint the following words upon her back or shoulders - Naked, but not ashamed.
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The Illustrated Book of Manners: A Manual of Good Behavior and Polite Accomplishments, 1866
not even that of being her husband, can give him a right to, without her gracious permission.
The Burlingame Enterprise, Kansas, October 2, 1913
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Oakland Tribune, California, November 4, 1928
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Etiquette for Every Day, Mrs. Humphry, 1904