In 1890 the "Dorothy" Restaurant was started for "Ladies Only," but this condition, though the _raison d'être_ of the venture, was soon modified: men were admitted from 6.30 to 10 P.M., and _Punch_ was unchivalrous enough to make humorous capital out of the concession. In regard to the suffrage and "Women's Rights" _Punch_ remained on the side of the fence where he had got down after a good deal of vacillation. In 1879 he publishes what is apparently a _bonâ fide_ letter from "A Lancashire Witch" protesting against Miss Lydia Becker's claim to represent the general feeling of the district. "I assure you," she writes, "that Miss Becker's followers are chiefly ladies of her own pronounced politics, or semi-foreigners, and not Englishwomen _pur sang_." _Punch_ observes that "no Lancashire Witch need fear to be mixed up with the Representative Gathering of vote-claiming Spinsters which Miss Lydia Becker threatens to bring down on the Free Trade Hall. Witches who know whence comes the real potency of their charms will certainly not seek to mix voting-powder in the cauldron." This was not friendly to the Suffragists, but the tone is preferable to that of 'Arry's views on Women's Rights in 1881 after attending a lecture. There is a certain admixture of shrewd commonplace in his remarks, but the verses are chiefly remarkable as a storehouse of cad-slang, fortunately mostly obsolete. Female emigration comes up for comment in the same year, but, as the object was avowedly matrimonial, the scheme had no political significance. The picture of the large, self-indulgent, sultanic brother advising his adoring sisters, cousins and aunts to assert their rights by learning to be more independent of men is purely ironical and has no bearing on the problem of women's economic dependence. The dialogue in two scenes between Edwin and Angelina in 1883 on the working of the new Married Women's Property Act is a rather cynical burlesque. The first scene shows the Act as it is expected to work, to the advantage of women; in the second we see it as it is sure to work--to the confirmation of the _status quo_, the woman continuing to leave her money affairs entirely in her husband's hands. [Illustration: "THE ANGEL IN 'THE HOUSE'": OR, THE RESULT OF FEMALE SUFFRAGE (_A Troubled Dream of the Future_)] [Sidenote: _Women Jurors_]