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Women's Rights (1899)
 

Synopsis

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Two women (played by men) in bonnets and shawls stand gossiping behind a fence. Two workmen creep up to the other side of the fence, pull the hems of their skirts through the palings and nail them to the wood. When the women discover their plight they try to get away and pull the fence down in their attempt