Judge — February 22, 1913 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Suffragette THEY do say that out in those Western States husband and wife frequently vote the same ticket to avoid discord in the family, but it is not always the ticket which the husband thought he was going to vote when they began discussing the matter. The vice chancellor of New Jersey has announced from the bench of the Court of Chancery, after much study, the neces- sary cost of a woman's wardrobe—$43 for suit, coat, shoes and corset. Some women wear other garments besides these —a hat, for instance—but they are not necessary, according to Jersey justice. Imagine a wom- an issuing such a dictum about a man’s wardrobe—or, indeed, try to think of women from one end of the country to the other con- stantly criticising and advising about men’s clothes, from their neck to their heels! Imagination cannot picture them as being guilty of either such a waste of time or such a piece of impu- dence, and they wouldn't stand it from men if they cared one rap for the opinions expressed. One of the objections made by politicians to giving votes to women has always been that it~ Sna By IDA HUSTED HARPER. semble in that spot dedicated to political liberty and independence. It was never any mystery to them that the bell cracked. ) Pennsylvania Avenue has been granted to the suffragists for their parade in Washington the day before inauguration. The chief of police finally decided that if they would march in the middle of the afternoon and the middle of the road, he could afford them protection from the wild and woolly cowboys, the Indians, the Eastern thugs with their bludgeons, brass knuckles and knockout drops, and all the would increase the horde of office seekers; but now it is fully de- cided that women are going to vote, they'd better uphold that order of President Taft putting thirty thousand postmasters of the fourth class under civil service. Women would be very apt to look upon those offices as their own particular “spoils.’” Maybe the city council of Philadelphia closed Independence Square to “promis- cuous gatherings"’ because the Industrial Workers of the World did not behave when there, but no attempt should be made to hold the suffragists responsible for the council's order. Their meetings were orderly as a Sunday school; they felt themselves on consecrated ground, and they believed that no class of citizens in the country had so strong a right to as- SAFE FROM THE DANGER OF SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS. desperate characters who would be as- sembled there. The tens of thousands of women who have gone about that city un- protected at inauguration time wonder if it is because these others are suffragists that there has been so much anxiety about them. Now, if they could be guaranteed protection from the inaugural blizzard which seldom fails, they could take their lives in their hands and walk down the avenue. The latest census report shows that there are about thirty thousand more di- vorced women than men in the United States. This seems to indicate that the men get back into the married state as quickly as possible, but the women know when they have had enough. pshots Andre de Fouquieres, who has come over from Paris to teach American men how to dress by lecturing at afternoon teas, says, ‘‘New York is the finishing touch of the world.’’ Glad it looks that way. So many seem to come over for the purpose of making a finishing touch. At the beginning in all Eastern coun- tries it was women who wore the trou- sers and men the skirts; but when men saw that women had the best of it, they compelled an exchange. The women in forgotten China were not disturbed, but now the government has stepped in and ordered them to hand over the convenient and comfortable garment. After a while, when they begin to demand the suf- frage, the men will bristle up and say, ‘‘Oh, you want to wear our trousers, do you?"’ Great Britain has solved the race-suicide probem. Hereafter the parents, where either is in- sured, will get thirty s] gs for each new baby. What a simple solution! What a magnificent recompense! The little island won't hold them! When Utah's electoral college met to cast the vote of the State for President and Vice-Presi- dent, its members selected the one woman elector to carry the result to Washington. Those Western States are constantly giving just such examples as this of the way men lose respect for wom- en when they can vote and hold office. Young and impecunious members of the nobility may now be rented out for after- noon tea in. London. This is not a bad use to make of them, but they could com- mand a higher price in New York and Washington. A record has been unearthed in London, showing that women used to be plumbers in 1500. Very likely; but that was be- fore the business became so profitable that only men were competent to engage in it. comicbooks.com