The Times, Shreveport, Louisiana, August 16, 1891
Some men talk to a woman very much as they might talk to the wonderful automaton around at the museum when it plays a game of chess. “Why, bless my soul, it really seems to be thinking! What evident faculty of mental independence! It almost appears to possess the power of coherent thought!”
Hasten the day, dear Lord, when she shall be regarded as something wiser and nobler than an automaton, less perishable than a confection, more comforting and peace producing than a firearm, a veritable comrade for man at his best..
The Illustrated Book of Manners: A Manual of Good Behavior and Polite Accomplishments, 1866
The Decatur Daily Review, Illinois, June 25, 1933
“’Listen’, he says, ‘I don’t care how much other women expose themselves, but I don’t want my wife to make a show of herself!’ … Isn’t that like a man!”
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
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!
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, October 7, 1912
Shelbina Democrat, Missouri, January 23, 1889
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!
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.
The Evening Statesman, Walla Walla, Washington, January 21, 1910
“Sir, you’re a woman” hisses detective; “Sir, I am; what of it?”
La Plata Home Press, Missouri, June 28, 1879
Staunton Spectator, Virginia, April 2, 1861
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