Who would be the last man?

Olive Branch
June 11, 1853

"Fanny Fern says, 'If there were but one woman in the world, the men would have a terrible time.' Fanny is right; but we would ask her what kind of a time the women would have if there were but one man in existence?" --- NY Musical World and Times.

WHAT KIND OF A TIME would they have? Why, of course no grass would grow under their slippers! The "War of the Roses," the battles of Waterloo and Bunker Hill would be a farce to it. Black eyes would be the rage, and both caps and characters would be torn to tatters. I imagine it would not be much of a millennium either to the moving cause of the disturbance. He would be as cray as a fly in a drum, or as dizzy as a bee in a ten-acre lot of honeysuckles, uncertain where to alight. He'd roll his bewildered eyes from one exquisite organization to another, and frantically and diplomatically exclaim --- "How happy could I be with either, were t'other other dear charmer away!"
​          "What kind of a time would the women have, were there only one man in the world?"
          Why, they'd resort to arms of course! What kind of a time would they have? What is that to me? They might "take their own time," every "Miss Lucy" of 'em, for all I should care; and so might the said man himself; for with me, the limited supply would not increase the value of the article. 

Fanny Fern

To cite this project:
Fanny Fern, "Who Would Be The Last Man?," Fanny Fern Archive, Ed. Haley Jones (2019) http://fannyfernarchive.org.