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Excerpt from When Women Vote: A Farce in Two Acts
Scene. - In the living-room of the Jamison's home. There are two doors, one leading to the hall and the other to the room back. There is also a window. Furniture consists of chairs, a mirror, desk, clock, etc.
Enter Hannah with duster; begins work, looking occasionally out of window or at clock.
Han. Here 'tis after two o'clock, and Mis' Jamison ain't home yet. I guess her dinner's all dried up a-settin' an hour in the oven. But land sakes, she won't know whether she's eatin' steak or leather with the suffrage on her mind. Seems as if she'd clean forgot everything, even her poor invalid husband and her daughter that's a-gettin' more headstrong every day. Helen won't mind even me now. I wish the suffrage was in tunket. What do women want to vote for, anyhow? They've got enough to do if they tend to their rightful business. I'd look pretty, wouldn't I, a-runnin' to the polls on "Lection Day" I might be tempted to take a bribe or even a drink But if Mis' Jamison wa'n't a-plungin' into the suffrage 'twould be somethin' else. I ain't forgot how she was off, all the time, bein' a slummin' socialist, just when Helen was a-goin' through measles and whoopin'-cough and mumps, all to onct. Then when Mr. J., poor man, had his abominable cavity removed, she was a-runnin' a Theosophist magazine. Of course, I expect her to belong to the Woman's Club and the Travelers' Club and the Tuesday Club and the Orient Club and the Woman's School Alliance and the D. A. R. and the Missionary Society and the Benevolent Society, but to become a suffragette on top of all the rest is too much. (Whistle outside.) There's the postman. (Goes out; returns with letter.) It's for Helen. That girl gets too many letters in this handwritin'.
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