Life — April 29, 1909 — page 23: what you’re looking at

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R! AL ESTATE PROFITS ¢ Manhattan necessitate a large Investment. We havo ry on Long Island, 25 minutes from Broadway, Fehisable @t a small outlay, either cash or on easy Firms, which will increase to many times Its present } valve in a few years. Facts and figures showing this to > bea sound business proposition furnished on application, EAST, WILLISTON REALTY COMPANY , t oon. ‘Now 1 Madison Should Woman Speak? I is hard to believe that at this late day there are those who, being sorely perturbed in mind, asily, “Should woman speak in public ?"" od straightway the old wolf cries of “ bold- y—woman unsexed!"? rise upon the ait. Ah, la-la-la! Some of woman's rights came to her after aiting; some she worked hard for, and some she asked for prettily; but the right of free and unlimited speech was seized for her away back in Eden, when Eve filled with light, chattering persiflage the long silences left by s heavy, slow moving tongue; and since practices free speech by right of precedent— so why not let her speak in public? Of cours: the public is human and should not te caused needless suffering, so that a woman with nothing to say should really not be per- mitted to climb upon a platform and say it at agonizing length. But when the thinking woman sincerely believes she has a message to deliver, ct a promising plan to offer for the betterment { those who are in sore need of help—then God's name"’ let her speak as publicly as ste pl “Bold—vain—unsexed !"? Oh, la-la-la! What nonsense! The woman who becomes a good speaker learns to think more clearly, rea- ceases to converse conquers the incli perfectly grand,” a broken awful,” a headache as “just too sweet for nan can benefit her- tolly in adjective her hat as s “perfect ara as So you see a wo blic speaking. is surprising how the public's judgment as to the propriety or impropriety of the woman, sho dares, is influenced by the suitability of her 1 her personal attractiveness while ring. ‘The most qoquent woman on earth xoald be utterly flouted, jecred and condemned if she presented herself on the platform in Uoomer or some other reform raiment, such as “common sense shoes—weight all from the shoulders; health- st, without bones, etc., etc." Xo, no! ‘Woman must first please the eye, then ic will lend her their ears, and prob- ly end up with giving their hearts. Have you sen her? 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