Judge — November 23, 1912 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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T H E Suffrage Snapshots. By IDA HUSTED HARPER. FRENCH naturalist has discov- ered that the female oyster is far more palatable than the male. This is the case with all animals that are used for food. It is a com- mon remark about a woman that she looks good enough to eat, but did anybody ever say that about a man? A Baptist minister in Chicago has opened in his church a school of home training to make women more desir- able for wives. That school had bet- ter be closed by the authorities, for women are so ‘‘desirable’’ already that school boards, theater managers, telegraph and telephone heads, even the government, are requiring those they employ to guarantee that they specified A school to make women less need of the will not marry within a time. desirable—-that is the hour, Women’s place is at home. Wives must make the home so attractive that husbands will never want to go out evenings. Children must be kept off the street. All very good; but how is the whole family to stay at home at the same time ina city flat of the average size? College girls in all parts of the country have been conducting cam- paigns and electing Presidents of the United States in the seclusion of each campus. Four years from now they will be joining the college boys in their demand to cast a bona-fide ballot in their scholastic precincts and have it duly counted in their home town, and they will be every bit as well qualified as the boys to cast an intelligent vote. It is very weak reasoning that would attempt to justify it in the one case and not in the other, The women who have been running for office in those Western States M O D E RN have drawn the line on kissing babies, saying that they are too well versed in hygiene tocommit that crime. As has been remarked, women are en- tirely too much given to sentiment to be allowed to vote. The president of a New York club said, in her address to the City Fed- ou rocers SHE'S GETTING SO BIG! Suffrage movement—* What is it you are saying, little sister 2" eration the other day, ‘‘You neglect culture and buzz around too much; you should set aside ten minutes every day to meditate on something refining and ennobling.”? Like that speech, for instance; but isn’t ten minutes a day an awful lot of time to spend on culture? The anti-suffragists have been so busy during the campaign running pol headquarters and making speeches for the candidates they haven't had a minute to tell the suffragists that a woman’s place is at home and that women are wholly unfitted for politics. It will be al W OM AN somewhat embarrassing for them to resume business at the old stand and hear the suffragists jeer. is) That new woman fire inspector in New York reported in one week thirty-seven violations of the law. The next thing she knows she will lose her job. oO The judge of the Chicago Domestic Relations Court gives six reasons for the trouble in married life, and one of them is the interference of mothers- in-law. If it were not for the other five reasons, there would probably not be so much necessity for mothers- in-law to interfere. A blind woman who suddenly re- covered her sight was almost par- alyzed when she saw the present style of dresses. The women who are wearing them are still blind mentally and spiritually. New States for Suffrage. Arizona, Oregon, Kansas and Mich- igan fell intoline for woman suffrage at the recent election, according to the returns, and every one associated with the movement for suffrage is delighted. It is predicted that in good time every State in the Union will give woman the vote. A Straw. It has been assumed by some op- ponents of suffrage that when women vote they will be influenced in a single direction, and thus destroy the “balance” of things political. The Woman's Journal negatives this no- tion, for it set about getting the preferences of women prominent in the suffrage movement as to the can- didates for President of the United States prior to election. The women were as various in their preferences as men. ‘‘Evidently,’’ says the Woman's Journal, commenting on the matter, ‘‘no one can ‘deliver’ the woman vote."’ comicbooks.com