Judge — July 12, 1913 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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r THE MODERN WOMAN Curbside Comments By OREOLA W, HASKELL With bogles ad with banners,tbe suffrage coborts go, ‘And 1, 2 watcber on the cutb, look out for weal of woe, ‘hod tote what word the gaping world ja passing may bestow. Time for Taps T= the suffrage cause is languish- ing, even dying, may be ascertained by applying to the S. O. W. S. (not a porcine proposition, but an anti society). When it finally becomes a The Drama MISGUIDED theatrical managers are allowing suffragists to make speeches in the intermissions during plays. The theater is no place to get real ideas, and it is to be hoped that women in the audiences will show their disapproval by following haughtily in the footsteps of the male sex who scud out between the acts. Suffragette Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER HERE are people who say the militant movement in Great Britain has in- jured the movement in the United States. Since the militants got under full head- way over there, five of our States and one Territory have granted the complete suf- frage to women; and this winter, while the militants have been do- corpse and all hands assem- ble for the requiem, a modest delegation of eighty thou- sand souls from the Woman Suffrage Party of Greater New York will constitute a small per cent. of The Faith- fal who will come to mourn. Manufacturers of mouchoirs should join with the antis and prepare for the happy event. A shroud of the one million five hundred thousand suffrage leaflets given out during the past year by the little handful of W. S. P. adherents is now being made for the Crushed Cause. A Harry Call ET SOME anti illustrate the truth that woman’s place is the home in the usual way by rushing madly from it to rescue the youth of the land. A young high-school student was caught by his sister on the street haranguing a number of his fellows on the subject of suffrage. The peroration of his speech was: ‘‘I don’t care how you feel about it, fellows, but it’s bound to come.’’ This is but one heartrending result of debates in our public schools, The Prayer of the Anti DEAR MEN, we pray you keep us far From where the raging voters are; Let us not hear their mouthings rude, Lest we defile our womanhood, Keep us from those vile spots remote, Where our husbands and our fathers vote— From the tumultuous, seething polls That fill with quakes our gentle souls, Though mothers of the race we be, Ward off responsibility, So to our children held most dear We'll pass weak wills and selfish fear. Though women slave and children moan, Let us care only for our own, Like birds, we'll twitter round our nests And civic duties view like pests. Sweet, timid shirkers keep us then; So shall we help you not—Ah, men! CRIMINALS PAUPERS AND MINORS NEITHER ONE THING NOR THE OTHER The Remedy By ELINoK BYKNS, Chairman Press Bureaa, National American Woman Suffrage Association HAT a foolish picture the cartoon on this page is! The woman looks so absurdly helpless and afraid! Just be- cause the men will not have her at the ballot box, and she doesn’t want to stay with the idiots and the criminals, she seems to think there is no place for her. Why doesn’t she go out and make a place for herself, as the real live women are doing? They are proving that no govern- ment can be successful if it merely pro- tects property and fails to take care of the children, to protect human life, and to make it possible for people to live de- cently, Men, when they realize they must have a new kind of government, and that they can’t manage it alone—as the men of Illinois and the West have already done—will urge the women to join them at the polls and help them to care for the minors, the criminals and the idiots. FULL FLEDGED CITIZEN ing their worst, both houses in eleven of our State Legis- latures have given large ma- jorities in favor of suffrage bills. This certainly shows that American suffragists are judged on their own mer- its and not on the demerits of those in another country. A New York restaurant proprietor, in commenting on the afternoon turkey trots and bunny hugs which the mayor is trying to suppress, said, ‘‘It is a whole lot bet- ter for women to come here and dance and keep slim than to sit around afternoons playing bridge and getting fat.’"" Maybe so; both kinds of women are a menace to the best interests of society. o The belated action of the New York anti-suffragists, in opening their little head- quarters on Fifth Avenue a few days be- fore the big suffrage parade, ‘‘to offset any impression it might make,’’ reminds one of the careful housewife, who ex- claimed, when she saw Niagara Falls, ‘Oh, that reminds me—I left the kitchen faucet running!"’ 5 : ‘‘We must abolish everything that bears even the semblance of privilege,’” is the Wilson slogan. Thanks, Mr. Presi- dent. Will you kindly get yourself into astate of mind where you can see that the possession of the suffrage by only one-half the people is about the most. iniquitous privilege that could exist? oO The health commissioner of New York is determined that all the restaurants and hotel dining-rooms shall display signs telling how much benzoate of soda and similar stuff there is in the pastry. It is often asked why men make so much better cooks than women, but no such signs were ever necessary on the pies that mother used to make. comicbooks.com /