Working Woman monologue (Act 2) — Votes for Women: A Play in Three Acts

If it wus only to use fur _our_ comfort, d'ye think many o' you workin' men would be found turnin' over their wyges to their wives? No! Wot's the reason thousands do--and the best and the soberest? Because the workin' man knows that wot's a pound to _'im_ is twenty shillin's to 'is wife. And she'll myke every penny in every one o' them shillin's _tell_. She gets more fur _'im_ out of 'is wyges than wot 'e can! Some o' you know wot the 'omes is like w'ere the men don't let the women manage. Well, the Poor Laws and the 'ole Government is just in the syme muddle because the men 'ave tried to do the national 'ousekeepin' without the women.