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UNAUTHORISED INTERVIEWS
Queens and Goddesses
Scene: Congress, during a woman suffrage debate. The
Congressmen are, as usual, moving about, talking, reading,
dozing, and one, an anti-suffragist, is speaking.
Congressman:
I shall vote "No" on this measure, but I wish to say I take
My stand for Woman's protection, for her own sake.
No one honours Woman, no one respects her more,
Than I do; as queen and goddess I love and adore
(Suddenly in an open space in front of the Speaker's desk
appear Pallas Athene and Cleopatra.)
Cleopatra:
Strange little man without weapons, what can you mean?
Pallas:
I, in my time, was a goddess
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