ABSTRACT
The sentiments of men about women must necessarily be formed on the characters of those with whom they associate. It seems to that those women who have been fighting for the Suffrage with logical arguments have been behaving very much like those poor Psyllians, who imagined that darts, and swords, and catapults would avail against the Simoon. The great obstacle to the concession of the claims of women does not lie with men, for even those most opposed to them might be won over. But the great obstacle lies with idle women, and nearly exclusively with those for whom nobody dreams of asking for the franchise - for the wives of rich men who have never known a want unsupplied, who have been surrounded by tenderness and homage from their cradles, and have lived all their days like little birds in a downy nest, with nothing to do but to open their beaks and find food dropped into them.
