Judge — August 9, 1913 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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THE MODERN WOMAN Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL With begles and with banners, the weffrage coborts go, Aad |. a watcher on the curb, look out for weal or woe, ‘aod note what word the gaping world in passing may bestow, Kansas Consciences KANSAS suffragists, having secured the vote, are busy promoting a school for women voters. The headquar- ters are at Lawrence, and the course of study includes all governmental activities in connection with health, food, work, ete. This shows the troublesome femi- nine conscience at work. Just as if a voter ought to be educated about any- thing! Extracts from “The Antiquary” anti throughout the land celebrate this day. Remember, dear sisters, that we are the mental descendants of all the noble band who objected to woman's edu- cation, her entrance into industrial life, her acquirement of legal rights, her rise from the sweet, unlettered helplessness that made her man’s dearest chattel, Let us glory in that fact to-day and be proud that the same arguments that were A weekly journal edited and published by h ral ladies and opposed to female enfran- chasement Editorial--It is sad to see the wild ones of our sex lift- ing voices, that ought to be devoted exclusively to lulla- bies, far above the roar of pugilistic weep. For truly to-day tis a mighty fight to try to complete the work begun by the dear ones of old—namely, to keep woman in the company politically of idiots, paupers and lunatics, that she may be a fitting mate for man. News and Notes—Our esteemed worker, Mrs. Anti Dote, is flying across the con- tinent to give her celebrated lecture on “Woman's Place Is at Home."’ She will leave her husband and children thousands of miles away. What devotion to our cause! We recommend her as an exam- ple of consistency and-logic. Miss Anti Pathy has writ- ten a beautiful poem that brings out female delicacy in a wonderful way. Space forbids giving it all, but we. quote the last few lines: Fragiliy To get a husband I have danced At forty-seven balls, I’ve golfed and tennised, traffic in passionate pleas for the ballot. Time and again have we hammered these creatures over the head with the truth of their sex inferiority. Woman is in- ferior to man—we state it, we believe it, we glory in it. She has not produced a Milton, a Shakespeare, an Abraham Lin- coln or achef fit for a hafel kitchen. She * doesn’t run our ocean liners, dig in our coal mines or manufacture our trolley cars. Physically, mentally, morally, spiritually and sartorially she is no good—all of her butus. Weare all right and must be ex- cluded from all criticisms of the rest of the sex, especially by the dear men, whom we adore. But to resume: Be- cause of their failure to produce the above-mentioned gentlemen geniuses in proper female form, women are not fit to vote. Ask any peanut-stand vender and have this view confirmed by a worthy male voter, who has been enfranchised solely for the reason that he can turn himself into a Milton or Shakespeare whenever he so desires, But he doesn’t want to. He prefers to sell peanuts. A Note—Seventy years ago to-day Mrs. Backnumber, of sainted memory, pro- tested, in a scented letter written by her husband (since she was too much of a lady to know how to write), against girls being educated. Ah, if such as she had prevailed, we would not now have to com- bat the monstrous suffragist! Let every hurled by our anti ancestors are doing duty to-day, strong and unimpaired, in our verbal fracas with the ballot grab- bers. Let us, then, drop tears in mem- ory of Mrs. Backnumber, but let it be a rowed and swum And gone on countless calls. I’ve had ten colds and fifty chill Pneumonia and other ills, But went right on—but this pray note: 1 am too fragile far. to vote. Susan B. Anthony told women that they could.never *‘sing down or pray down an institution that had been voted into existence.’’ Of course she . should have said that they ought not to fuss round institutions at all. Votes for Men By ELINOR BYRNS SUPPOSE all men, unenfranchised, could secure a voice in the govern- ment only by persuading an electorate of women of their fitness for the franchise? Would not the women be justified in say- ing, ‘‘No. You men believe that phys- ical force is the basis of government, and you are given to settling disputes by. war instead of by reason or justice. You might waste half or*three-quarters of our national income on war or prepara- tion for it. You have always devoted yourselves to money-making, so you know more about the protection of property than about the protection of human life. You might sacrifice our children to pre- ventable diseases, to exploitation in fac- tories and sweat shops. You have always chosen to say that white slavery is nec- essary, and. you might fail to make laws to check or prevent this evil. You might run for office and try to win by making a sex appeal to women voters. And, any- way, all the men have never united in any demand for the ballot. When they have proved that they all want it, that they would never do anything but good with it, that they would all vote, no matter how much they wanted to play golf or go to a ball game, and that their business. and professions would never stand in the way of their holding office, then we might. consider giving it to them’’? Yes, the women might say all of these things; but they would not, because those who think about it at all know that good govern- ments, like good homes, need both men and women. : comicbooks.com