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feel very bitter indeed against male monopoly 

 in the kingdom of politics, because as I passed 

 the windows of the hotel, in which on the night 

 of my first arrival on the prairie I had been 

 denied food, and tea or coffee because nine 

 o'clock was too late an hour to expect such fare, 

 I noticed that at 10.45 p.m. it was simply packed 

 with men who were evidently under no difficulty in 

 obtaining the particular form of refreshment they 

 required. And it seemed so very hard that whilst 

 men can so easily obtain everything that is bad for 

 them, women may not have even the very few things 

 that are good for them. 



