Judge — June 21, 1913 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Suffra VERY pleasant to learn that the Presi- dent’s daughter Jessie won ‘‘her’’ fight in the Delaware Legislature for a ten-hour workday for women! How many hours has it been legal to work them in that little borough, whose legisla- tive body has just overwhelmingly de- feated a bill for woman suffrage and voted against the direct election of United States Senators? o During inauguration week in Washing- ton, Indian Chief Lockeji took all the squaws in hia band to the anti-suffrage headquarters and had them put their X mark in the register. The male Indians, having had the ballot forced on them by the government, are determined to save their consorts a similar fate. The North Carolina Legislature voted down a woman-suffrage bill, but it re- moved women from the position of chattels by giving them control over their earnings and the right to sue for damages in case of personal injuries. One step at a time. First admit that women have souls; then teach them the alphabet; the rest follows, The high cost of living is said to be largely due to the modern woman's per- nicious habit of buying food in small quantities. Yes; when she goes to mar- ket she should send to her modern flat a barrel of flour, half a barrel of sugar, a firkin of butter, several bushels of pota- toes, turnips and onions, a sack of coffee, and canned goods of all kinds by the dozen. This may create some complica- tions with the dumb waiter and dispossess the family to make room for the food, but the experiment is wurth making. They managed things better at that second suffrage parade in Washington. To be sure, there were only 530 in line; but there was an escort of a policeman to every one and two-thirds woman, and it was as much as a man’s life was worth to step off the curb. The women felt just like an inaugural procession. A candidate for mayor in a Colorado town hears of a woman who can’t leave gette Sna By IDA HUSTED HARPER her baby to go to the polls, rushes to her house and holds it, while she hies to the ballot box; doesn’t drop it or damage it in any way, and is elected by one vote! Question forever settled as to who will care for baby when mother goes to vote. The candidates, who have been kissing babies all these years, to get the moth- ers’ indirect influence. is) New York papers are making a good deal of fun of the men chosen as judges THE RIGHT ?— D Ze BUSINESS § PT TO LAW: EDUCATION EVERY STEP BUT THE LAST ONE of the suffrage hat-trimming contest. Why shouldn’t they be, when men mil- liners are a conspicuous feature in that city? The only funny thing about it was that they served without pay. When a few progressive women of Persia appeared on the streets without veils, their husbands and fathers were allowed to drive them back with the lash of the whip. In more civilized countries it is the lash of the tongue. The harem and the veil for woman! Woman's place is at home! pshots Dr. Talcott Williams, head of the new School of Journalism in Columbia Uni- versity, complains because the women students won’t specialize on the Woman's Page. ‘‘This important part of a news- paper has great possibilities,’ he says, “but seldom are they fulfilled.’’ True, alas! too true; but these girl students understand that any work they might do along this line in the future would have to conform to a masculine editor’s ideas, and there is nothing he really knows so little about as what women want to find on the Woman's Page. a Deputy Joseph Reinach, of the French chamber, would give the suffrage. to women as the only solution of the tem- perance question; and furmer Premier Clemenceau would deny it, because they would use it to restore the Catholic Church to power. Does it ever occur to men to consider this subject from the point of abstract justice and equity? a “‘When we realize the wealth of un- thanked tenderness that women forever shower over the aching places of the world, it will be time enough to accord their sex the vote,’’ chirps the Manches- ter Courier; and Votes for Women, quot- ing it, heads the quotation: ‘‘Woman as a Poultice!’’ Julia Marlowe telegraphed wishes for success to the Michigan women. When Maude Adams wants to express con- tempt, she says, ‘‘You talk like an anti- suffragist!’’ Practically all of the lead- ing actresses in this country and Great Britain are for the suffrage. They speak from the standpoint of working women who know the world. a The English suffragettes seem to be mixed on their spelling and are showing their indignation against the males by attacking the mails. oO Those councilmen in Hunnewell, Kan., who got smart with Mayor Ella Wilson and defied her authority, have been ousted from office by the Supreme Court and as- sessed costs of $400 each. Space forbids a transcript of their remarks. comicbooks.com