Judge — October 4, 1913 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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THE MODERN WOMAN Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL With betes and with banners, the suffrage coborts £0, And la watcher on the'curt, look out for weal or moe And note what word the gaping world in passing may Semow. Home it is estimated that over 300,000 famitics in New York City tenements take home work from factories and perform it un- det the most unsanitary conditions. | O4 LADY, do I hear you speak In praise of home, declare "Tis woman's work its good to seek, And find her duty there? If so, with pleading voice I ask— Oh, make my home fit in your task! Amid dread squalor, ceaseless sound, Crowded, half dark and small, My home within your city’s bound For light and love doth call. For o’er it drudging labor casts A spell that soul and body blasts. I toil while you sleep sweet and play. My home's both shop and prison cell. Its tasks are sordid Trade’s alway, And yet it threatens you as well; For, lady, through the work I do, I send disease and death to you. Women Chauffears ‘0 MUCH has been said of the incom- petency of women as drivers of autos that a leading Detroit manufacturer was incited to investigate the question from the most practical standpoint, that of ac- cidents. Doing so, he reports that mas- culine recklessness or inefficiency is in his mind greater than that of feminine, since men-induced accidents are more common in proportion to the number of men drivers than women can show in pro- portion to their numbers—that is, in Los Angeles. So the maligned ones may once more clutch the wheel and beam through their goggles upon the whizzing world. Andacity ONE HAS only to remember the words, “*Equal work, equal pay and equal say,’’ flaunted on a banner in the Wom- en’s Trade Union League section of the labor parade in New York City, to realize . how horribly audacious the modern woman has become. We can only sadly wonder why she is not content with the first two words of the motto, since these satisfied her meek and modest grandmothers. Clothes for Cops EVEN the dressmakers are aiding and abetting the lady cops. The last thing in slit skirts is a model for the Chicago policewomen, The skirt Tooks like any other uncomfortably tight nether garment, until a secret string is pulled, when, lo! a long slash enables the female limb to stretch itself with such freedom that it can chase the ungodly with ease. After carefully swathing woman forages, FITTING A SQUARE PEG INTO A ROUND HOLE it is no wonder man is horrified to behold her kicking herself out of the winding sheets of clothes and customs, Fitting a Square Peg into a Round Hole By FRANCIS MAULE BJORKMAN National American Woman Suffrace Association, $05 Fifth Are. nue, New York ONE HAS only to read the newspapers, the tables of contents of the poputar magazines and the publishers’ announce- ments to perceive that the topic of para- mount interest to the public mind just now is ‘‘the woman question.’’ The ‘‘feminine unrest’’ breaking out in spots into open feminine revolt has seized upon the imaginations of writers, editors, publishers and preachers and set them all frantically to producing ‘‘stud- ies,’ ‘‘interpretations,’’ ‘‘explanations” and ‘‘sermons.’’ The situation is analyzed in its moral, its religious, its ethical, its spiritual, sociological, economic, emotional and bio- logical—oh, especially its biological!— aspects; and each analyst has a different theory of causation, a different solution, Most flattering this—to those of us who make up the class that has provoked it all—and diverting withal; yet the smiles that it evokes are sometimes nei- ther pleased nor amused. Sometimes they are just a bit sardonic. To the hypothetical Man on Mars, it occurs to us, much of this buzz of discus- sion, much of this effort at regulation and adjustment, must produce much the same gencral effect as that conveyed by the accompanying picture—a swarming horde of little men trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. And sometimes we whom it is all about wonder when it will occur to these little men to cease their futile efforts, and all—as some are doing already—turn their attention to the task of ascertaining the exact pres- ent character of the peg, the exact pres- ent character of the hole, and their rela- tion to each other. Then, we think, they might get somewhere. The Dutch have taken Holland—that is the women of that country are to vote. “The Crowning Attribute of Lovely Woman is Cleanliness” The well-dressed woman blesses and benefits herself—and the world—for she adds to its joys. 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