"Mrs. Will Clough and her daughter
arrived in my Club a year ago. They are very pushing and what they call
'advanced.' They do not believe that the earth is the Lord's nor yet
that it belongs to man. They think it is woman's own heritage. And they
want the name of the Club changed. It has always been the Society Club.
Mrs. William Clough thinks a society club is shockingly behind the
times; and she proposed changing it to the Progressive Club. She said we
were all, she hoped, progressive women."
"Well, Jane, my dear, this is interesting. What next?"
"Mrs. Israel Akers said she had been told that 'very few of the
old-fashioned women were left in Hatton, that even the women in the
mills were progressing and getting nearer and nearer to the modern
ideal'; and she added in a plaintive voice, 'I'm a good bit past
seventy, and I hope some old-fashioned women will live as long as I do,
that we may be company for each other.' Mrs. Clough told her, 'she would
soon learn to love the new woman,' and she said plain out, 'Nay not I! I
can't understand her, and I doan't know what she means.
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