Judge — June 22, 1912 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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T H E Suffragette Snapshots. By IDA HUSTED HARPER. T IS rather amusing to observe the newspapers still pointing to those thirty-nine-cent hats which the suffra- gists wore in the parade as the best proof they have shown of their fitness to vote, when the principal reason given for their unfitness has always been that their clothes were dowdy and out of style! Several times recently Congress has had to adjourn in the midst of most im- portant business bezause so many mem- bers were at the baseball game. What would be thought if the sergeants-at- arms in those Western Legislatures had to go scurrying around to pink teas to gather up the women members? It seems slightly inconsistent to see half of the male voters staying away from the presidential it from the ground; then, seeing a friend with a baby, she took it in her arms and almost smothered it with kisses and caresses. Thus in the flash of a moment was illustrated the immnta- ble truth that no so-called masculine act or occupation can destroy the eternal womanly. On September 3d the men of Ohio will vote as to whether the women of the State shall or shall not have the suffrage. If they wish to save themselves further trouble, they will vote ‘‘yes’’; for-if the initiative and referendum proposal carries, as is probable, the women, in case of their defeat, will have the suf- frage question submitted every year until it wins. When Mrs. Clancy, of Jamaica, N. Y., had her husband arrested for choking her as she was leaving the house, the police judge said in his decision, ‘‘The husband Ww omM A N “Trimmed” the Anarchists. Suffrage sentiment was greatly stimu- lated by the election in Los Angeles. It was thought there that the socialistic and the anarch vote would destroy all normal balances. But the women voted for the first time, and the socialists and anarchists, in the language of the day, were ‘‘trimmed.”" A Young Astronomer. Woman has proved her mind in every field of human effort. Camille Flam- marion took as an assistant at the Paris Observatory a young woman whose cal- culations of the stars have been so re- markable that as a result the standard time of the French capital has been al- tered a fraction of a minute. Oklahoma's Representative. During the last campaign, Charley Carter made a speech in Atoka, Okla., and, on being asked his primaries and women re- fused the franchise be- cause they have not shown that the majority demand it. In Rhode Island, for instance, in a number of towns, no primaries were held because nobody came out to vote. Meanwhile, women ‘of that State by the thousands are clamor- ing or shrieking or mak- ing some kind of a noise for the suffrage, but when the question was submit- ted to the electors some time ago, they voted more than three to one against letting them have it. The old story of the dog in the manger should be revised to read, ‘‘The man with the ballot." The national movement among women to erect a memorial to the chivalry of man, in honor of those who went down on the Titanic, does not show any evi- dences of sex antagonism, at least on the part of women. When the United States flag was torn down by anarchists at the recent social- ist meeting in New York, it was a woman who sprang into the midst of the howling, fighting mob of men and lifted RATS LEAVING THE SINKING SHIP. should be the head of the family, and if the wife desires to go out against his wishes he has the right to detain her, using force if necessary.’ It is high time for Mrs. Clancy to join the suffra- gettes, if she can make her escape long enough to do so. A firm which is making marble statu- ettes by machinery is sending out circu- lars offering to supply ‘‘all women’s windows with effigies of Theodore Roose- velt and Susan B. Anthony at a nominal cost."’ No window smashing has yet occurred in this country, but there’s a limit! position on the woman's suffrage question, made some very flattering re- marks, ending with, “When all the ladies want suffrage, they will get it; but all must want it.’”” He smiled his genial smile, really thinking he had made a hit. At the door one of the ladies quietly remarked, “Mr. Carter, I suppose you do not want to be sent to Washington un- less all the voters want you to go?"’ “Why, yes, I do,’’ he said. to get there any way I can." “You have answered the question,”’ she told him. ‘*We are willing to get suffrage any way we can.’’ Representative Carter laughed heart- ily and said, “You are right there, and the joke is on me.”” “I want Mrs. Atlee Pomerene, wife of Senator - Pomerene, of Ohio, is said to be the most active worker among the equal suffragists of Washington. She is well- informed, and has been a true helpmeet in her husband's political career. comicbooks.com