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WOMEN ARE PEOPLE!
Marriage
(According to the New York Board of Education)
DEDICATED TO MRS. ELIZABETH ELDREDGE
Oh, the tragedy, the pity!
Oh, the things that women do!
There's a rumour in the city,
But we hope it isn't true;
There's a scandal has been carried,
And the clubs are whispering
That a teacher has been married—
Isn't that a shocking thing?
Marriage in our estimation
For a man is not a crime,
And the Board of Education
Will not dock his pay or time;
But a woman is a lily;
Marriage is not in her line;
For an act so weak and silly
We must ask her to resign.
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