Ladies now devise lists of ques tions and send them to candidates, and the candidates have to answer these questions or the ladies will get their number, so there! What they want is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth from candidates, and anybody with a heart must know what the inward agonies of those candidates must be. Hell hath no fury like a woman voter whose questionnaire you have not answered, and so we are not surprised when we read, "The necessity of pleasing the suddenly powerful woman voter soon turned the most evasive candidate into a supporter of the question-noire system." We can well believe it.
Nevertheless, we are not convince ed that these facts given by reformed politicians to the ladies, bless them, are necessarily interesting. The ladies think they are, but after they have grown accustomed to directing the destinies the New World and it has finally and seriously determined whether skirts shall be long or short, they will feel differently about facts. They will pick, they will choose, they will boldly say that a fact, while good, loses nothing by being beautiful, and though, as the indurated foreign observer once said, they are greater realists than men, they will see that a little discourse now and then not based on tax-reports and cost-schedules can be interesting and perhaps useful—J. H. 8. in the "Boston Transcript."
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