Judge — February 15, 1913 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Suffra HE RECENT labor report of France says that four million women in that country are working for a living at an average wage of fifty cents a day. The playwright Brieux has prepared a drama on the subject and predicts a terrible war between the sexes. The women would certainly be justified in fighting somebody without further delay. o That ancient skull found in England proves conclusively, so the anthropologists say, that man had reason before he spoke. Well, well! What a revolution has taken place since those prehistoric days! The Century Company states that the sale of seri- ous books has increased en- ormously and the suffrage movement is responsible for it, as itis the women who are reading them. We have been told for a long time that women were the novel readers and that the magazines were published for them. Do the men read anything at all except the market reports and the sport- ing news? Edward Everett Hale was astrong opponent of votes for women and he would not he altogether happy to know how his famous story of ‘*Ten Times Ten” is being applied in the State Nor- mal School of Indiana. A suffrage club of two hundred and fifty charter mem- bers has been formed, whose only pledge is to make ten converts each; then those ten must do the same, ad infinitum. Why don’t the anti-suffragists try this plan? But, come to think of it, they don’t have to, as the vast majority of women are al- ready “‘antis."’ Still, the suffragists will ketch ’em ef they don’t watch out! Professor Ellen Hayes, at the recent in- tercollegiate socialist dinner, divided the whole civilized world into two classes— the socialists and the goats — between gette Sna By IDA HUSTED HARPER. whom there is a greatchasm. But if the socialists truly believe in all that brother- hood business, they'll get over occasion- ally with a drink of water or something. oO A Chinese woman doctor, now lecturing in this country, tells a sad story about the way the men of her country are hen- pecked. Very likely! Women who are treated as half way between children and slaves, and taught to get what they want BRINGING HER MOUNTAIN TO MAHOMET. by deceit and cajolery, are just the kind who henpeck men if granted a little au- thority. Men are blind, indeed, not to see that, by holding women in this position, they themselves are bound to get the worst of it, in more ways than one. A good many people always seem to be in doubt, along at inauguration time, as to how the great Jefferson got up to the Cap- itol. Itis to be hoped the gentleman him- self knew whether he was afoot or on horseback on that auspicious occasion. A London physical-culture professor has announced that it is possible for every woman to have as perfect a figure as the pshots Venus de Milo. If it is to be so common as that, the most of them would prefer to look like somebody else. Possibly women as well as men may be at their best when fifty, but they will never give anybody a chance to prove it on them, The president of the New York Press Club, in talking lately to a woman's so- ciety on suffrage, said, “Keep within the sex line. Tand the men behind me will never forgive you if you step outside of that line!’’ Is it anything like the bread line? And how are women to know if they fail to toe the mark exactly? They are as far now from what was origi- nally considered the ‘‘sex line’ as if it was at the equator and they were at the poles, and yet the men seem tohave forgiventhem. The truth is that there is just as much substance to the ‘‘sex line’’as there is to the bound- ary line between the Sta It is a remnant of that cir- cumference which was once supposed to inclose woman’s “‘sphere."” In all parts of the country the health officials are pro- testing because physicians fail to record certificates of birth. Women risk their lives to produce children; doc- tors do not take the trouble to register the births, and then preachers, editors and the rest of mankind condemn the women for race suicide. Perhaps if their babies were properly counted it would be found that they were supplying all reasonable demands, Just as this country is trying to make its women lengthen their dress skirts, Berlin has passed an ordinance that Ger- man women must shorten theirs. Really, if the lawmaking powers keep on at this rate, they will drive the women to trou- sers, comicbooks.com