Judge — May 25, 1912 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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T H E Echoes of the New York Parade. By IDA HUSTED HARPER. THe anti-suffrage slogas, ‘Women are already sufficiently protected by men,’’ seemed to strike a discord when it came to the police protection of the women in the New York suffrage parade. The women of at least a thousand families didn’t have to apologize because dinner was late the day of the suffrage procession, for their menfolks also were marching up Fifth Avenue at seven p.m. Who will take care of the baby when Mother, mother parades for suffrage? just as usual, for the baby will be part of the parade. If the parade did not prove anything else, it demonstrat- ed clearly that a woman can look mighty pretty in a thirty-nine-cent hat; and as that is what women’s hats are for, why not adopt this as a maximum price, instead of going without hats entire- st he English suffragists are threatening to do? Women do not want to Those ten thousand marched three miles and vote. Carnegie Hall in mass meeting for three hours afterward just for a joke. The legislators who voted against the suffrage bill at Albany are busy trying to see the point of the joke, and when they come up for re-election the women will explain it. OF Course. “Where will we leave the baby when the mother goes to vote?”’ 1, just for the convenience of any one that axes, We'll naturally leave him—will our crit- ics all please note?— Exactly where we left him when we went to pay the taxes, packed Apslegies to Pea WwW Suffrage Snapshots. The Kansas suffragists declare they are not going to ask the men fora penny to carry on their campaign. Maybe not, M OD E'RN but husbands had better go to bed with their clothes on, The country seems very much sur- prised that President Taft should put a woman at the head of the children’s bureau. It has always been supposed that any investigation into the needs of children or women, where there was a salary attached, could be made only by men. At the counties voting voting ‘‘dry.’’ Men, women and chil- dren took part. The children stood by the polls and handed out litlte cards say- ing, ‘‘Please vote ‘dry’ for our sake recent elections in Ohio the doubled those ne the women held prayer meetings all election day; the men went inside the booths and cast the ballots. The liquor interests can now turn their attention to the woman-suffrage question, which will be voted on in August, when the above program will be repeated. 14° Sap. A Stanford University professor has spent two years experimenting with rats in squirrel cages, and he finds the fe- male of the species can make the wheels go round four times as fast as the male. Naturally the result must be applied to woman suffrage, as nothing escapes this test, and it shows unquestionably the great need of women in Congress and the State Legislatures. WwW OoM AN Catching at Straws. The anti-suffragists remind one of @ prize fighter who knows he is beaten, but stays in the ring striking out wildly and blindly. Sir Almoth Wright wrote an opposing letter in the London Times, from a standpoint so low that it called forth almost universal protest; but the Anti-Suffrage League had it reprinted as a leaflet and widely circulated. When Mrs. Humphry Ward, head of the league, returned from her trip to the continent, she to repudiated its action and the arti- cle itself. Precisely the same thing occurred in the United States a year or two ago. In their desperate clutch- ing at straws, the ‘‘antis’’ frequently pull down a haystack on themselves. A Suffrage Alphabet. A is for Anti, who clings to her sphere. B is for Brewers, who suf- fragists fear. C is for Catt, Carrie Chap- man, of course. D’s for Disfranchisement— sign of brute force. E’s for Election. Letus help you, too! (Is your mother less fit- ted to vote, friend, than you?) F is for Friends, whom we're winning in hosts. G’s for Great Progress be- tween the two coasts. H for Heroic—our friends cross the sea. I, Inspiration they give you and me. J is for Justice, the right we demand. K’s for Kind Feeling, which spreads through theland. Lis for Laws, which as women we need. M is for Man, by whom Woman is freed. N’s for New Zealand, where women can vote. - O, Other Places of equal good note. P, Pioneers, whom we honor and love. Q is our Quarrel with brains that won’t move, R is the Reasons our arguments show. S is for Shaw, Dr. Anna, you know. T is for Taxes we all of us pay. U is United, we women to-day. V, ‘‘Votes for Women!”’ our great bat- tle cry. W’s for Workers, on whom we rely. X, XXth Century. It’s time to pro- gress! Y is for You, who can help us, I guess. Z is the Zeal which our great movement claims. & now, all you suffragis names! —Mi send us your ms Allen de Ford comicbooks.com