138 The Coming Woman. Fourth Voice. Such a famous housekeeper I will be, Oh! the sweetest jellies and cream I'll make, I'll be a lecturer, travelling about, When it isn't too stormy for men to get out: I'll let people see why the world goes wrong, Sixth Voice. I'll be a milliner, wrapped in a cloud Of laces and ribbon, and sought by a crowd Who want exquisite hats for their dear little girls, I'll have dozens of girls sewing night and day, Seventh Voice. When I'm a woman, a teacher I'll be, Oh! if committees could only know How glad we are when they rise to go! When I'm a woman I expect that teachers will have great pay, And they won't work more than three hours a day, And I'll caution my scholars to take great care All When we are women, you then will see But perhaps it is true that time has wings, If our plans should go wrong, we'll have courage still, WHAT WE WANT. ELLA WHEELER. WE have scores of temperance men Bold and earnest, brave and true; Fighting with their tongue and pen, To gain our ends, You must use the ballot too! When we tell about our cause, While they mould and make our laws, They sneering say, "We'll make liquor laws the while." We want men who dare to fling Shall get our votes," Then shall our cause gain the day. 140 66 "Half-way Doins." HALF-WAY DOINS." ELUBBED fellow trabellers, in holdin' forth to-day, De sermon will be bery short, and dis here am de tex': Dat half-way doins aint no 'count for dis worl' or de nex.' Dis worl' dat we's a libbin' in is like a cotton row, When Moses led de Jews acrost de waters ob de sea, wish, And reached de Promised Land at last, if dey had stopped to fish? My frens, dere was a garden once, whar Adam libed wid Eve, Wid no one for to bodder 'em, no neighbors for to thieve; And ebery day was Christmas, and dey got deir rations free, And eberything belonged to dem excep' an apple tree. You all know 'bout de story-how de snake come snoopin' 'roun'- A stump-tail, rusty moccasin, a crawlin' on de groun'How Eve and Adam et de fruit, and went and hid deir face, Till de angel oberseer he come and drove 'em off de place. Now s'pose dat man and woman hadn't 'tempted for to shirk, But had gone about deir gardenin' and 'tended to deir work, Dey wouldn't hab been loafin' where dey had no business to, And de debill neber'd got a chance to tell 'em what to do. No half-way doins, bredren! It'll neber do, I say; Keep a plowin,, and a hoein', and a scrapin' ob de rows, And when de ginnin's ober, you can pay up what you owes; But if you quit a workin' ebery time de sun is hot, De sheriff's gwine to leby upon everything you's got. Whateber 'tis you's dribin' at, be sure and dribe it through, And don't let nuifin' stop you, but do what you's gwine to do; For when you sees a nigger foolin', den, as shore's you're born, You's gwine to see him comin' out de small end ob de horn. I thanks you for de 'tention you has gib dis afternoon- T TEETOTAL DICK, DAVID LAWTON. EETOTAL Dick, a trusty lad, But he was faithful to his pledge, And glad that people knew That he was firm and loved the cause He flinched not when among his mates- One day Tom Black, a bigger lad,' "Now be advised and take a drop, "I'm strong enough to do hard work, So hearty, that I sometimes say "Just take a drink with me," said Tom. And drank, and smacked, and drank until "No, once for all, I tell you no !" "I hate the sight of all such things, 66 Upon the noble list of those And while I live, I tell you, Tom, "I'll make you," Tom in anger cried; A stranger, watching unobserved, Now came to lend Dick aid, Gave Tom a cuff that made him start "Come here, my lad," the stranger said, I like your looks and if I find Your life is free from blame, "Then I will give you work to do, "Teetotal Dick, they call me, sir, Dick won his way to wealth and fame, From Temperance, Truth and Honesty, And so his life was full of good To him, and others too; Dear lads, would you succeed like him, |