There has been this week an odd incident at Birmingham.
A clinvention, to consider the proper steps for the emancipa- tion of women, was sitting there,—apparently, very thinly attended, most of the Birmingham women being much better employed,—when a delegate from London, Miss Cozens, said that there had been enough of talk. The time had come for action. If they could not otherwise secure a victory over men, who had from the beginning been the worst foes of women, they should use a little dynamite. That would bring them to their senses. So far from the sieggstion of dynamite, at all events, bringing men to their senses, it seems to have brought women to a clear consciousness of their nonsenses, for the evening meeting which followed this remarkable sugges- tion, and which should have been a popular one, was a great failure. Miss Cozens, by her valiant suggestion, had blown up the very little zeal in the cause that there was before.
After all, men are, as a general rule, more interesting to women than their own sex, just as women, as a general rule, are more interesting to men than their own sex, and foolish Miss Cozens brought this home to her audience. When women came to ask themselves whether they would like to blow up men with dynamite,—instead of with reproaches, which only betray the deepest interest,—they felt the full absurdity of the situation, and probably thought that they had better drop the agitation and stay at home.
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