She quotes the German proverb:—
“Make a sheep of yourself, and the
wolf will eat you.” She says it
sounds natural to hear of muscle and
manhood, but I never heard ofmuscu
lar womanhood! Women have made
sheep of themselvs by their muscular
weakness, and they act like sheep in
following the bell'weather. She
says she once saw four women try
to kiss one man, on a wager, and
they could not do it. and he was
only a man of ordinary muscle, and
they were above the average of wo
men. And tho worst of it is, they
are proud of their weakness, and
thej make parade of their physical
delicacy, and their delight is to be
leive themselves born to cling to a
stronger sex, “like the ivy to the
way, and to be viney and twiney
and whiney throughout.” She con
cludes that this race of weaklings
will never win their right of suffrage,
and do not deserveit. Indeed, her
philosophy seems to be that woman
must be free before she can have her
political rights, and that to be free
she herself must strike the blow.—
For, as to suffrage as a concession,
she says:
‘When women make a boast of
of their utter incapacity to take care
of themselves, it is hard to see, some
times, what possible rights they
ought to have. Perhaps, some day,
in piety to our weakness, masculine
legislators will give us the rights
to vote, but a woman should be
ashamed to accept it thus. The
half contentious boon which is con
ceded to be weakness because it is
not strong enough to do any harm,
is a very different thing from the
glorious right which, like the Mag'
na Charta, is granted because it can
not be withheld. Obtaining the
right of suffrage as pitiful alms, flung
ito us dog and bon like, is a very dff>
erent thing from rising, in royal
strength of body and soul, and de
manding that right.”
Power of a Horse’s Scent.—There
is one prescription which a horse
posesses to which little attention has
been paid, and that is the power of
scout. With some horses it is as ac
ute, as with the dog; and for the ben
efit of those who have to drive after
night, such as physicians and oth
ers, this knowledge is invaluable. 