CHAPTER XVIII.
"Why Mrs.Gladstone," said Miss Tabitha, "you are as zealous as a new convert to the cause of woman suffrage.

We single women who are constantly taxed without being represented, know what it is to see ignorance and corruption striking hands together and voting away our money for whatever purposes they choose.

I pay as large a tax as many of the men in A.P., and yet cannot say who shall assess my property for a single year." "And there is another thing," said Mrs.Gladstone, "ought to be brought to the consideration of the men, and it is this.

They refuse to let us vote and yet fail to protect our homes from the ravages of rum.

My young friend, whom I said died of starvation; foolishly married a dissipated man who happened to be rich and handsome.