Judge — March 8, 1913 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Modern Suffragette Snapshots ANEW YORK club invited two thousand people to send in a list of ‘‘the twelve most socially useful Ameri- Of the women who received the majority of votes, all but two are leaders in the suffrage movement; and of the twenty-five men who headed the list, all but six are pronounced advocates, and the opinion of two of these six is unknown. The daughter of a member of Congress, who was serving as her father’s secre- tary, resigned and went into the insurance business. She gave as a reason that the office was ‘‘too puny,’? and so she left it for some one of the twenty or thirty young men who are always waiting to grab a position of this kind. It’s funny how every woman who does. anything nowadays, from climbing a steeple to taking the prize at a beauty show, is described as ‘‘a leading suffra- gist."’ Don’t the ‘‘antis’’ ever get mar- ried or die or have triplets or do anything worth noticing? Surely there must be a few of them around some place. fs) In Norway a woman has been appoint- ed to the responsible position of counsel for the defense in the High Court of Justice. In the United States a woman is not considered competent to be judge ina Juvenile Court, and when one was elected justice of the peace in Illinois, the country almost went into hysterics. The California papers congratulate the State that, ‘‘whereas it was ina fer- ment of suffrage meetings two years ago, now there is not the slightest tur- moil, but all is peace.’ This should be alesson to other States where the tur- moil is getting worse every day and there is just about as much peace in sight 4s there is in southeastern Europe. o A leader of the opposition to woman suffrage writes to a religious paper that it might work fairly well in California, where there are so many intelligent women, but it would be a great mistake in other parts of the country. To be Sure, there are a great many more anti- suffragists among the women of the East- ern States, but most of them could pass the slight educational tests for voting. ae The Fathers’ and Mothers’ Club of one of the Eastern cities farthest along in the science of eugenics has issued in- structions to young men contemplating matrimony to study the mother, as the daughter is likely to be an exact copy. Suppose the girl is advised to study the father on the same principle. Won't that put an end to marriage? Qo Madame Calve, in speaking of her oper- atic successes, is quoted assaying, ‘But, after all, I would rather have been the mother of five or six children; they would have been my lullaby.’’ On the contrary, she would have been their lullaby and WALLING HIM IN WITH HIS OWN CONSCIENCE. would have wasted on half a dozen indis- criminating listeners music which has delighted thousands. In any kind of a voice Mother Goose melodies would sound just as sweet. ia} Is one reason why so many men oppose woman suffrage because they are afraid their wives would obey St. Paul’s injunc- tion to ask of their husbands at home when they wanted information, and ques- tions on political issues might prove em- barrassing? The court in Breslau, Germany, has just granted a divorce to.a man because his wife reduced her weight fif- teen pounds and at the same time reduced her charms. Whose adipose was it that disappeared? a In Great Britain women have had a vote in all matters of local government and been eligible to the offices for a gen- eration. Before the last election Mrs. Humphrey Ward, leader of the anti-suf- frage forces, organized a committee to nominate and work for such women only as were opposed to having the ballot thrust upon them. It did so, and all of its candidates were ignominiousiy defeated, a The French courts have decided that a husband need not pay his wife’s dress- making bills when they are living apart and ‘‘he does not profit by the elegance of her attire.’? So it seems the United States is not the only country where husbands consider it good business to dress their wives extravagantly. is} It is too bad that members of the Eu- ropean nobility cannot come over here to hunt grizzly bears without being ac- cused of seeking a rich wife, but per- haps it is because their graces and lord- ships have so long considered American heiresses as game. a Dear, dear, how times have changed! Once a woman was not considered a per- son by law, and a wife and husband were one and he was it. Now the highest court in New York has decided that a wife is not only a person and an individual in her own right, but she isafamily! ‘‘A childless widow ora deserted wife with- out children is included in the term fam- ily’’—those are the very words. From nobody to a whole family—what an evo- lution! Suffragists have a busy year ahead of them. The Legislatures of Montana, Nevada and South Dakota have submitted constitutional amendments to the voters. Michigan will doubtless give the women another chance, and several other States show signs of following these commend- able examples. comicbooks.com