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what would you think of a woman who addressed a club meeting of men by telling them how charming, how well gowned, how pretty, they were?
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The Illustrated Book of Manners: A Manual of Good Behavior and Polite Accomplishments, 1866
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Highland Recorder, Monterrey, Virginia, September 15, 1893
“I’ll sell my wife and furniture for $3.50 and throw in the cat and dog”
Sedalia Weekly Democrat, Missouri, April 27, 1905
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The Minneapolis Journal, Minnesota, June 22, 1901
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, April 19, 1896
She may win the rights she’s after,
she may make us don her dress,
An’ ignore our lusty kickin’ an’ our rantings of distress;
An’ although we swear an’ mutter, the result is always this -
Ruther’n we should do without her
We
Will
Take
Her
As
She
Is!
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, October 7, 1912
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Matrimony; : or, Good Advice to the Ladies to Keep Single, 1739
In which are painted, in very lively Colours, the Pictures of many terrible HUSBANDS, both at Court, and in the City; particularly of one whose WIFE is now suing our a DIVORCE, on Account of his Unnatural Abuses.
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Shelbina Democrat, Missouri, January 23, 1889
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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 Evening Statesman, Walla Walla, Washington, January 21, 1910
“Sir, you’re a woman” hisses detective; “Sir, I am; what of it?”
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La Plata Home Press, Missouri, June 28, 1879
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Staunton Spectator, Virginia, April 2, 1861
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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.