ing her that he
shall expect her duly to keep his house and his wardrobe in
order, to prepare his meals, to entertain his visitors, to bear
his children, and that she will be required by law to pay her own
bills; that for this inestimable privilege she shall be called
Mrs. John Snooks, and may, perhaps, have the honor of being
written in the newspapers, and on her tombstone, as the relic of
Mr. John Snooks. Could any woman withstand that?

The following statistics have been used by speakers in the
opposition, to show that women are too ignorant to vote:

A decided sensation has been produced throughout the country by
the publication in the third number of the "Transactions of the
American Social Science Association" of statistics concerning the
illiteracy of women in the United States. The subject has
received very general discussion, and these are the conclusions
reached:

1. That there is a large excess of female illiteracy. 2.
That from 1850 to 1860 there was an increase of illiterate
women to the extent of 53 per cent. in New Hampshire, 27 in
Vermont, 24 in Massachusetts, 33 in Rhode Island, 16 in
Connecticut, 37 in the District of Columbia, 33 in
Wisconsin and 32 in Minnesota. 3. That this state of things
is alarming, and ought to be remedied.

When the London _Saturday Review_ raised the cry of alcoholic
drunkenness among women, the conservative journals all over the
world swelled the sound and confirmed the charges. Now that that
story has run itself to death, a new assault is projected, and a
general clamor concerning their illiteracy follows. If the
charges are true, there is nothing very astonishing about them.
The education of women has been considered a matter of secondary
importance until very recently, and with our foreign population
the education of girls has been almost wholly neglected. When the
customs and usages of the world have made ignorance largely
compulsory in women, it is somewhat inconsistent in men to go
into spasms about the results.

January 17, 1874, at the Republican State convention, Mayor Briggs
of Manchester, on taking the chair, made a speech, rehearsing the
history of the party and laying out its programme for the future,
closing as follows:

The Republican party has future dutie