Judge — July 19, 1913 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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THE MODERN WOMAN Curbside Comments EOLA W. HASK Wich Gurles and with banner And I. a watcher on the caf ‘And note what wosd the £25) Pint-cup Politics M4?A™ MARIA VEKONE, a French lawyer, has suggested, as some deep-browed souls before her, .that we have not woman suffrage, but ‘mother suffrage’’—that the vote resolve itself into a civic trading stamp given for maternity. All hail to the Veronean idea! At one fell swoop it would bar from the ballot box thousands, aye, mil- lions of the unsexed creatures who choose to become wage-earners rather than to remain ladylike starvers. And what a boon it would be to the State, ad- mitting to its privileges and coun- cils only the cream of womanhood. For it is a gratifying fact that Mrs. Smith or Mrs. Jones, after present- ing the community with specimens of posterity without regard to the latter’s quality or training, are lift- ed high into the realms of wisdom and worth. How far they rise, for instance, above an unmarried female like Mary Bartelme, of Chicago, the public guardian for Cook Coun- ty, Illinois, and the firat woman judge for girl delinquents! Called “The Mother of Ten Thousand Child- ren” and having under her charge never less than four hundred at a Cards VOTES - FOR- WOMEN playing cards may now be obtained by the un- righteous at any emporium where the vote vandals preside. Thus do women ally themselves with baseness. For will not enormous revenues now come from the gambling element, who will in a body desert the anti side and rush to the suf- frage precincts, lured by the yellow beauty of kings and jacks? fa} Little drops of prejudice, Little grains of fear, Make old fogies everywhere And our antis dear. time, how can she hope, for ex- ample, to understand the needs of children as her married sister would? No, matrimony is the only edu- cator and maternity the only service worth mentioning, and so let us hand political premiums only to those who have properly qualified. Glasses ««}{OW BRIGHT the women look!’’ she said. ‘How good they are ani true! They’ve bettered church and home and schools, Why not the great state, too? Give them the vote."’ A sage came by and answered her at last, “You note them through your suffrage specs that yellow glamours cast."” “How stupid is the female sex !"" Another voice spoke low. “They always lag behind the men. _They’re silly, sly and slow. Keep them at home.’’ The sage replied, in accents sad, ‘‘Alas! Dear anti, look! Your lorgnette’s made of dreary old smoked glass.’” USING THE BACK WAY The Antics of thé Anti Cat By EL1won ByRws, Chairman Press Bureay, Natienal American Woman Saffrage Association THE ANTI cannot go to the Capitol herself, because it is no place for a lady; but she lets her favorite cat—Indi- rect Influence—go. The cat cannot go by the front door, because he might be taken for a lobbyist; but he is not afraid of underground routes, and he knows the soot will soon rub off. Once inside, the cat will be so ingratiating the legislators will enjoy petting him and playing with him. Everything will be very pleasant, unless the legislators fail to do what the Anti and the cat want done. Then little I. 1. will be quite capable of howling and scratching until he gets his way. Would it not be better if the Anti went herself to the Capitol? It would seem so; but, then, she would have to be responsible for what she did, and Antis, you know, like power without responsibility. Suffragette Snapshots By IDA HWSTED HARPER ‘OME awful things are promised in the season's styles for man. They are to be more expensive, which will require him to owe his tailor more than ever. Even- ing trousers are to be very loose, and $15 shoes are to replace pumps, so that the creature can perpetrate the tango and turkey trot without accident. For the rest of the day the clothes are to be very tight, so as to show the natural form, and this is where the long-suffering pub- lic will start a saffragette movement. The San Francisco building inspector says that now he can say to the builders, ‘‘There is one organiza- tion of voters—the Civic Center— numbering over a thousand public- spirited women, who will measure up your new tenements and see whether you violate the law.’” Every city needs a watching com- mittee to compel the enforcement of laws much more than a commit- tee to secure new laws, and women, with their greater leisure, will make admirable watchers as soon as they are invested with power to act. a It is often asked why the suf- fragists will not consent to the sub- mission of the question to a vote of women. Because it would require just as much money and effort to make a campaign of that kind as one among male voters, and, after it was finished, the results would not be binding, but all would have to be done over again, as only qualified electors can change a State constitution. Such a proposal is a mere subterfuge, and it failed ignomini- ously in every Legislature where it was introduced this year. The New York suffragists are selling soap to raise money. Is that symbolical of a general cleaning up when women get the vote? Miss Julia Lathrop, head of the Na- tional Children’s Bureau, says, ‘‘The a: suffragists are like the hypnotized chick- ens which balk at a chalk line when there is nothing beyond.’’ Yes; and after the ballot is actually given to women, they are just like those same chickens when some corn is dropped the other side of the chalk line. comicbooks.com