Judge — July 26, 1913 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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THE MODERN WOMAN Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASK Wich beties and with banners, the suffrace cobont f=, Wr battecher om the carts look cet for weal ot wom, Jot Le ‘shot word the gaping world In passing may Scstow. A Noble Example DURING a suffrage debate an anti rose and in sturdy tones spake: ‘Why should I strive for the miserable ballot? Ihave four sons and a spouse, and I'd like to see any of them dare to vote except the way I want them to!" What a noble figure is this, standing out in clear bas-relief against a back- ground of bossed and brow-beaten manhood! Let every suffragist for- get the women whose four sons are daughters, cast aside not only respect for their own opinions, but the deference due to those of others, and emu- late this worthy despiser of the dignified methods of the voter. For it is through creatures of her kind that the full beauty of indirect influence bursts upon the human mind. The Cunning Things Some women say they have all the rights they want—namely, to be loved, protected and supported. How sweet and cute this sounds! Just think—the babies in long clothes have precisely the same rights! Het View THE SMALL daughter of a suffragist championing the Votes-for-Women question was heard to say to her father, ““Tain’t right for this house to have only one vote. You’re the only man we've got. Even the kitten is a girl!"’ An Anti-climax ERBAL evolution of a suffragist be- ginning sixty years ago and up to the present date: Monster, freak, fail- ure, frump, flirt. The Remedy A METROPOLITAN newspaper has shown us the way to crush out that monster—suffrage sentiment. In taking asmall poll to find out how many women in New York City really want to vote, it was discovered that self-supporting and poor women were more desirous of be- coming enfranchised than those whom fate had attached to satisfactory male money machines. Let us, then, arise and marry off the former to masculine cash registers, so that they may tear from their breasts forever the yellow badge of female insurrection. RIDDING A STATE OF A MORAL NUISANCE The Coming of the Camel By ELINOR BYRWS, Chairman Press Mureau, National American Woman Suffrace Association LEAVING its habitat in the far West, the suffrage camel came last Novem- ber into Kansas. And the people of the East said, ‘‘Oh, well, a camel may be very useful on the Pacific coast and in other partly civilized places, but you will never see one this side of the Missis- sippi.’’ Enraged at this, the camel humped itself and swam the great river, landing safely, though suddenly, in IIli- nois.. The first creature it met was the anti cat—Indirect Influence. That pam- pered animal gave one look, then sprang upon the camel with a ferocious howling and scratching. ‘*You amaze and annoy me!"’ said the camel. ‘‘I heard you were sweet and gentle—a safe pet for any lady; but, instead, you are a wild beast. This State is not big enough for both of us, and I’m the one the people need; so good-by.’ Then, assisted by the camel, the cat rapidly disappeared from Illinois. The New Voice WITHIN the city’s strident streets, we hear the same old sounds once more— The peddler’s call, the huckster’s cry, the swarthy singers at the door; And, in the country, birds and bees and boarders wake the meads sun-kissed. But through the land there’s one new note, whose vocal lure few can resist— It is the Votes-for-Wom- en voice of the omni- present suffragist. From California A YOUNG woman who served on an election board in Los Angeles not only insists that during the balloting the men were courteous and the women dignified, but has the temerity to add, ‘‘I can only say good of my experi- ence.'’ Thank goodness, we are not so credulous as to believe it, for do we not know that the mere act of voting will change a man into a boor and a woman into a sim- pleton? Yes, indeed! Suffragette Snapshots Ry IDA HUSTED HARPER FTER the Minnesota Legislature defeated the bill for a woman-suf- frage amendment, the women of Minne- apolis undertook to get up a debate on the subject. They wrote over forty letters and tried for a month to find a man or woman to take the negative side. They even begged the legislators who voted against it to come and state their reasons; but this was the very last thing they would be willing to do, and, finally, the debate had to be abandoned. The latest undertaking reported from Seattle is a training school for mothers, promoted by the leaders of the recent campaign for the ballot, with lectures on the care of mothers before the birth of children, the care of babies and every- thing connected with child life. In the city hall two rooms have been set apart for a class in scientific buying for house- wives, These reports must be a mistake, as it is a well-known fact that, the mo- ment women get a vote, they lose all in-, terest in the duties of motherhood and domestic life. comicbooks.com