Judge — July 6, 1912 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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T H E An Anti-Suffrage Dictionary. By MIRIAM ALLEN DE FORD. BaAteor—a strange, savage weapon, needing’ the physical strength of a man’s arm to wield it, and utterly un- manageable by the most intellectual woman, though easily amenable to any weak, wicked or feeble-minded man. Colorado—A horrible den of iniquity, where no one ever gets married, where all the babies are neglected, and where only ward heelers and their feminine tools exercise the franchise. Chief means of arousing scorn at an anti- suffrage meeting, though unfortunately likely to arouse indignant letters of denial from Governor Shafroth and Judge Lindsey. Democracy—A figment of the im- agination, based on the foolish idea that the people who are governed should say who does the governing, and, so far as it should be allowed at all by a haughty aristocracy, to apply to the male sex only. Home—An altar to the masculine divinity; an institution which has not changed since the Middle Ages, and which should occupy all of every woman's time, interest and atten- tion, whether her tastes be domestic or not. Lecturing—A very proper method of confuting radical arguments, and chiefly beneficial when the lecturer can dress becomingly and appeal to the men inher audience. When done without so much gadding about the country, and in a straightforward, man-to-man way, but by suffragists, it becomes bold and unwomanly. Man—A dispensation of Providence to fill the minds, hearts and intel- lectual needs of women; also, inverse- ly, a divinely constituted being who alone among mortals possesses that remarkable part of the brain, the vot- ing organ. Polling Booth—A dreadful place, even if on other occasions the corner bakery or grocery store, where a woman would surely be unsexed by marking, in the company of her male neighbors, friends and relatives, a harmless piece of printed paper. Social Service—A pleasant way for a lady to occupy her spare hours patroniz- ing the poor, such problems as child prevention of disease having, of course, absolutely no connection with the cast- ing of a vote. Sphere—A narrow, contracted space, with a bigoted and medieval outlook, for a woman; for her brother, the world. Suffragist—A virago, or, at the best, a misguided woman, who dares to be- lieve that men and women were created equal, and that half the world cannot legislate for the other half. N.B.: Do not argue with this person. She may convince you. Woman—A lesser, weaker man, brought into the universe for the sole labor, the white slave traffic and the HER HAT 1S IN THE RING. purpose of perpetuating the race and worshiping its masculine members; a creature too good to be corrupted by politics, and, at the same time, too fool- ish to be trusted to meddle with it. Forty-two to Six. Adelphi College, Brooklyn, has just graduated forty-two women and six men and announced that henceforth it would be a woman’s college. The an- nouncement hardly seems necessary. Suffragette Snapshots. By 1DA HUSTED HARPER. AST month, in California, a woman who had been ovliged to earn her own living for a number of years sued for divorce on the charge of non-support. The judge denied the application, on the ground that as the wife’s earnings are “‘community”’ property and belong to the husband, she had in reality been supported by his money. This is a fair specimen of California laws for women, and it is no wonder the new voters can hardly wait for the Legislature of that State to meet. In New York not only do the wife’s earnings belong absolutely to her, but the judge of the United States Dis- trict Court at Buffalo has just handed down a decision that the money saved by a wife from the money given her by the husband for household expenses cannot be touched by his creditors. And yet California grants the suf- frage to women, while New York will not even give them a chance to try it out with the voters! The latest census report compared with the last election returns shows that at least one-third of the men of legal age do not vote. That is, men who possess the suffrage don’t care to use it, but they won’t give it to women who are very anxious to have it—a sort of man in the manger attitude, so to speak—with apologies to the dog! Among the lecturers announced for Columbia's new School of Journalism are seven men and Miss Ida Tarbell. She should call her course ‘‘The Busi- ness of Being a Woman,” after the series of articles she has been run- ning in the American Magazine to prove that the great trouble with women nowadays is that they are trying to do men’s work! oO Copenhagen has recently elected nine women to her city council, Stockholm seven, with over fifty on various other town councils, and Norway a larger number. Wonder if they’ve heard about our woman mayor out in Hunnewell, Kan.! comicbooks.com