My opinions and Betsy Bobbet'sDesigned as a beacon light, to guide women to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book . ed and she dont seem tobe contented. She is awful opposed to wimmens rights,she thinks it is wimmens only spear to marry, but asyet she cant find any man willin to lay holt of thatspear with her. But you can read in her daily life andon her eager willin countenance that she fully realizesthe sweet words of the poet, while there is life thereis hope. Betsey haint handsome. Her chee
My opinions and Betsy Bobbet'sDesigned as a beacon light, to guide women to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book . ed and she dont seem tobe contented. She is awful opposed to wimmens rights,she thinks it is wimmens only spear to marry, but asyet she cant find any man willin to lay holt of thatspear with her. But you can read in her daily life andon her eager willin countenance that she fully realizesthe sweet words of the poet, while there is life thereis hope. Betsey haint handsome. Her cheek bones are high,and she bein not much more than skin and bone theyshow plainer than they would if she was in good complexion (not that I blame her for it) haiut good, and her eyes are little and sot way back in her 26 OUR NEIGHBOR, BETSEY BOBBET. head. Time has seen tit to deprive her of her hair and teeth, Imt her large nose lie lias Icindly sullered ber to keep, but she has got the best white ivory teeth money will buy ; and two long curls fastened behind each ear, besides iri/. zles on the top of her bead, and it she was- nt naturally bald, and if the curls was the color of her hair tlu-v \ i/ V. BETSEY BOBBET. would look well. Sheis awful sentimental,I have seen a goodmany that had it bad, but of all the sentimental creeters I ever did see Bet-sey Bobbet is the sentimentalest, you couldnt squeezea laugh out of her with a cheeze press. As I said she is awful opposed to wimmins haveinany right only the right to get married. She holds onto that right as tight as any single woman I ever seewhich makes it hard and wearin on the single menround here. For take the men that an; the most op-posed to wimmins bavina right, and talk the mostabout its bein her duty to cling to man like <i vine toa tree, they dont want 1 eling to them, theywont let her cling to em. For when they would boa goiii on about how wicked it was for wimmin to vote 28 BETSYS OPINIONS. —and
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