Judge — July 22, 1911 — page 18: what you’re looking at

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Some Overlooked “ * Woman's Rights.” By HENRY WALDORF FRANCIS. Ar HY SHOULD a man who NC cones his wife be sent to jail and a wife who de- serts her husband not be? By all means women should insist upon the right to be sent to jail and be supported at the public expense in such cases since menare, The right to go to jail is inalienable and to give it to men and not to women under like circumstances is to place them upon a plane of inequality insulting to their dignity and self-respect. Again, why should a man have to pay a woman alimony when she secures a divorce and the rule not work the other way, particularly when the woman has the boodle and the man has not? It is an outrage that women should be denied TO BE REPAID. Mr, Newlywed—" We received twenty-eight wedding presents."" Jack Bachelor—" You are a lucky man.” Mr, Newlywed—" 1 guess not. Every one came from friends who are engaged to marry.” the right to pay alimony. And why should a man be obliged to pay the fees of a lawyer his wife engages to fight him, whether she be plaintiff or de- fendant in a divorce case, and she not have to pay his lawyer similarly even when she sues him and loses? Sucha discrimination is surely not in accord with sex equality. Again, why should women have a dower right and a man not a correspond- ing one? It is a wicked reminder of the old-fashioned notion that she is depend- more consideration than a man is, as if she could not take care of herself? She should insist upon being bullyragged and browbeaten, just as if she was a man. Instead of thinking only of the suffrage—which the courts have de- clared is not a right at all, but a privi- lege—women are overlooking such glo- rious rights as those mentioned; but nd other res the perhaps it is to secure the similar delights that she d ballot. It certainly is cl not to insist upon having all the legal rights of man is incompatible with her dignity and her claim to equality. She should demand that she should not be treated as weaker, and she should not permit man to arrogate to himself the right to go to jail when he deserts her and be supported at the public expense, the right to pay alimony and her lawyer to abuse him, and she should decline to have a share in his property of which he cannot deprive her, while he is treated that for woman as a more independent being not need- ing anything from her. Clearly for the law to favor men in the respects men- tioned, as it does, is a slur upon women which should not longer be tolerated by them. “Ol Nutmeg” Begs To Remark. RULE, in order to work two needs a good worker. The social swim is altergether too deep water fur some folks, The lap uv luxury ain't considered the softest seat in the world. Some men are too much stuck on their * some don’t earns thet makes him rich; it’s what hegits out uv some one else. They ain’tno sense in hevin’ a high aim in life an’ then be skeerd to pull the trigger. There are two ways uv raisin’ a buildin’; “* How is your wife getting on ?”" “T don’t know, but I think she 's wise."* What Was the Text? 467] SELECT my text,’’ began the young layman, ‘‘from the Book of Nature. It scribed on every leaf, which clings to every tree, in the li- brary of the forest—the latter clause of the fourth branch, and the third twig.’’ As One Sees It. 46 TONES grumbles that his wife can’t take a joke.” “That's funny, seems to me.”* **How so?"" “She took Jones."* A PRIZE WINNER Diner—"* See, waiter, here's a piece of nbbon in my pumpkin pie."* Waiter (with great presence of mind) —'' Ab, sir, you are a lucky man! That was the prize pumpkin which took the ‘blue ribbon at the fair, and they cooked it with the ribbon on."" but a good many ways to raise the devil. ent upon him which she should resent. Once more, when a woman goes to court, why should she be treated with Jee Cone, comicbooks.com