I understand those women who say they don't want the ballot.
They purpose to hold the real power while we go through the mockery of
making laws. They want the power without the responsibility. (Suppose my
squash had not come up, or my beans--as they threatened at one time--had
gone the wrong way: where would I have been?) We are to be held to all
the responsibilities. Woman takes the lead in all the departments,
leaving us politics only. And what is politics? Let me raise the
vegetables of a nation, says Polly, and I care not who makes its
politics. Here I sat at the table, armed with the ballot, but really
powerless among my own vegetables. While we are being amused by the
ballot, woman is quietly taking things into her own hands.
NOTES
=comparative philology=:--The comparison of words from different
languages, for the purpose of seeing what relationships can be found.
=protoplasm=:--"The physical basis of life"; the substance which passes
life on from one vegetable or animal to another.
=attic salt=:--The delicate wit of the Athenians, who lived in the state
of Attica, in Greece.
=parvenu=:--A French word meaning an upstart who tries to force himself
into good society.
=Aaron's rod=:--See Numbers, 17:1-10.
=Bacchus and Venus=:--Bacchus was the Greek god of wine; Venus was the
Greek goddess of love.
=Darwinian theory=:--Charles R. Darwin (1809-1882) was a great English
scientist who proved that the higher forms of life have developed from
the lower.
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