CHAPTER XXXV.

WOMEN’S WORK IN THE TREASURY—HOW APPOINTMENTS ARE MADE.

The Difference Between Men and Women—A Shameful and Disgraceful

Fraud—What Two Women Did—Cutting Down the Salaries of Women—The

First Woman-Clerk in the Treasury—Taking Her Husband’s

Place—The Feminine Tea-Pot—“A Woman can Use Scissors Better

than a Man”—Profound Discovery!—“She’ll do it

_Cheaper”_—Besieged by Women—Scenes of Distress and

Trouble—Infamous Intrigues—The Baseness of Certain

Senators—Virtue Spattered with Mud—Secret Doings in High

Places—Sounding Magnanimous—Passing the Examination—The

Irrepressible Masculine Tyrants—Up to the Mark, but not

Winning—An Alarming Suggestion—Men _Versus_ Women—Tampering

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