90 MY SUMMER IN A GARDEN. 



are to be held to all the responsibilities. 

 Woman takes the lead in all the depart 

 ments, leaving us politics only. And 

 what is politics ? Let me raise the vege 

 tables of a nation, says Polly, and I care 

 not who makes its politics. Here I sat 

 at the table, armed with the ballot, but 

 really powerless among my own vege 

 tables. While we are being amused by 

 the ballot, woman is quietly taking 

 things into her own hancls. 



