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himself of some account about the house. They agreed 

 that she was inquisitive and prying, and that she was 

 an inferior being, because she worked while he sat still 

 and thought. Being an inferior creature, her place was 

 to keep in the background. But woman has kept ding- 

 donging at man to do this and that little job of work, until 

 now their positions have been reversed and she is the one 

 that sits around and looks beautiful and gives her mind 







rig. 7. Culex pungens, male, common mosquito. 



to philosophy. It is one of Dame Nature's greatest jokes 

 that the purely ornamental classes shall be looked up to 

 and respected by those that do things, so that in these 

 days man hardly dares say anything about women being 

 inferior creatures except under cover of a joke. Still 

 there is a bit of the prehistoric in him, and he secretly 

 enjoys hearing that it is the female mosquito that does 

 all the biting. 



Further comfort is afforded by the knowledge that the 



