Judge — August 23, 1913 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL With becles and with banners, the suffrage cobors £0, Aad I, a watcher ca the curb. look ost for weal oF woe, fod note what word the gaping world in passing may bestow, The Dependeat I HAVE no cash account nor need A checkbook, so I'm told. Ihave a bank called husband, To furnish all my gold. And when he doth my wants ignore, Islyly look his pockets o’er. This makes of me a thief, they say? But I must get the coins some way. To win my points I'm often forced To gloss the facts a bit. Alittle flattery is sure To make a telling hit. Exaggeration, falsehood, too, Are helpful from my point of view. Aliar? I? This course convicts? But every trade must have its tricks. When, in the larger work I do, I want a law or bill To fill a need or remedy A quite conspicuous ill, Iplead and pray with tears and smiles, For legislators like such wiles, Aslave takes just such means to please? The world gives me no powers but these. Direfal Proof AFTER ten months of enfranchisement, the suffragists of California have proved to the entire satisfaction of the antis the truth of the predictions that were made as to the evil effect of ballot- ing upon the female mind and soul. That voting has utterly destroyed their tenderness of heart, womanly pity and consideration for others may be seen by their support of a minimum wage bill, an employers’ liability act, health certifi- cates for marriage, teachers’ pensions, pay for the work of prisoners and annual incomes for the infirm and indigent old. The mother instinct has also decamped, for, instead of concentrating all their affection on their own broods, they have been warmly interested in the matter of shoes and dress for school children and in keeping children from being separated from their parents because of poverty. Their housewifely predilections have for- ever departed, for, instead of focusing ali their attention on their private supplies of linen, they have tried to make things dean and sanitary for strangers, by championing a bill regulating the size of theets to be used in hotels. Their eco- tomical traits, too, have been crushed, for they have recklessly approved of many appropriations for commissions to investigate conditions with a view to remedying wrongs. May the good wom- en of other States never deteriorate like this, but ever continue to devote their leisure to uplifting subjects like bridge and broaches. ANSWERED Soldier citizen—But, madam you can- not bear arms, Woman citizen—Ner can you, sir, bear armies. Resting Voters NEW thing has been discovered and exploited by the anti-suffragists. It is the voter’s vacation. To enjoy it, one must be a man and a resident of a State where women have the ballot. We find that the men citizens of California have been vote vacationists for ten months, and the men of Colorado have been resting thus politically for almost twenty years. For the antis tell us that all the legislation in the enfranchised States, all the political scandals and mis- takes, are due to the women, are sup- ported by them, and a direct expression of their frenzied notions about statecraft. The male voters are in a delightful coma- tose state, oblivious to both men and measures. Thus we have a modern and modified reincarnation of the matriar- chate. Extracts from “ The Antiquary”” A weekly journal edited and published by real ladies and op- posed to female enfranchisement Announcement—There will be an anti- suffrage parade in a month or two, and all the faithful are called upon to prepare for the gorgeous event. We shall march by divisions, such as the gamblers, the society lights, the back numbers, the grafters, the minions of vice, the igno- ramuses, the frivoliters and the non-self- respecters. Our indefatigable worker, Mrs. Goit, is planning some novelties, which are to be sprung as surprises. We understand one is called Our Political Peers, and that she has secured a choice idiot, a harmless lu- natic, an amiable criminal, a cherubic minor and a rich non- residenter to combine forces and make this a truthful repre- sentation of existing conditions. Weare proud of this feature. There will be numerous floats of great beauty. One, depicting The Inferiority of Woman, will show numbers of the female sex holding flat-irons, mops, scrubbing brushes and dusters, kneeling at the foot of a male bearing aloft in his outstretched hands a violin, a picture, a book and a sword. The one calted Fragility will be very graceful, as one of our young beauties will swoon every five minutes, to show the utter helplessness of the feminine sex. The bands will play ‘‘We’re No Good and We Know It”’ and other favor- ite songs. All in all, this is an occasion to look forward to and to work for with unceasing energy. Mrs. Slavinski came into our office this morning and exhibited her ten children. We think of raising funds to put up a monument to her. How far such as she, a mother, surpasses the unmarried, child- less Jane Addams type! We'll need ex- tra funds, however, for we might use some doctoring the children, as one has the rickets, another has a cough, a third a crooked spine and a fourth the St. Vitus dance. Mrs, Slavinski says she'll march in the parade and show her off- spring, that all the world may see antis are home bodies and multipliers; but she wants a wagon for the children, as none of them feel equal to the walk. We hope some rich friend will loan an ambu—er— automobile, Mrs. Booth should have credit for her work in Illinois for female suffrage. comicbooks.com