Judge — October 25, 1913 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Suffrage Snapshots fy IDA HUSTED HARPER AN ITORIAL in a London paper 8, ‘‘There is no doubt that women have smaller brains than men, and the only reason they so often seem to equal and even to excel men is because not one man in a thousand exercises his brain to its full capacity.’’ It really isn’t sur- prising that Englishwomen have gone on the war path, There seems to be nothing but physical force left for them. fe) The new leader of the Social Democratic party in Germany declares that if a re- form of the electoral system for men is not made at once, ‘‘there will bea general strike and a storm let loose that will coerce the authorities." Then why are women con- demned when they merely talk aboyt a strike and start a small zephyr to hurry up the authorities? is] The anti-suffragists say that the United States Senators from the States where wom- en vote are intimidat- ed into declaring in favor of amending the national Constitution for woman suffrage. How do they explain the fact that Senators from ten other States where women cannot vote have made a simi- lar declaration? The ‘‘antis’’ can’t com- prehend how a man can recognize the jus- tice of giving woman a voice in the gov- ernment, because they themselves are too blind to see it. a A woman city physician and ‘quaran- tine officer of Ogden, Utah, rode seven miles on the cowcatcher of an engine to capture a man suspected of having the smallpox. He ought to have known that smallpox is no protection to a man when a woman gets out to get him. G The manager of the largest vaudeville circuit in the country has issued orders that there must be no more jokes at the expense of the woman-suffrage movement. THE MODERN WOMAN Lovers of humor need not be discouraged, however, for the literary bureau of the Anti-Suffrage Association will still con- tinue to issue its bulletins. The women voters of San Francisco, having ‘‘recalled’’ Judge Weller for his leniency to ‘‘white slavers’’ and had two RUSHING THE GROWLERS prominent men sent to the penitentiary as examples, have now taken steps to re- move an alleged incompetent and corrupt chief of police, and announced that they have only just begun. That's all right; but what has become of the anti-suffrage slogan that the women wouldn’t use the voteiftheyhadit? Ifonly they wouldn’t, they could soon get it. One of the Western railroads has placed a woman in charge of its dining car, and the customary how! at women’s usurping the work of men is now in order. To be sure, having charge of a dining-room has always been considered a woman's busi- ness, but that is only when there is no salary attached. Curbside Comments y OREOLA W. HASKELL With bo ry n passing may bestow Meat for Thought NEw YORK boasts a woman butcher. There probably are many more, but this one has been featured in the public prints as a slim, sinewy creature, who. cuts chops and steaks with her own hands. She is a suffragist, so, of course, has discarded all interest in the domestic side of life, and shows this by bemoaning the fact that meat education is not more widely disseminated among her own sex, since the average housewife more often ruins a fine cut than improves a cheap one by her cooking. Trees REDERICK J. HASKIN, writing on American forestry, says that for some rea- son women have been more active than men in working for for- estry legislation and that in some States the entire movement for a forestry depart- ment has been initi- ated by organized womanhood, This is another example of how clubwomen waste their time, and pre- sents those slow and sludgey souls who are opposed to feminine societies with food for thought that we fear will give them men- tal indigestion of an acute kind. Helping the Unfortusate "THAT women police may be of value in checking the white-slave traffic is an idea advanced at the international congress for the suppression of the great iniquity. That individual women, by holding out practical helping hands to their unfortunate sisters, can accomplish great results toward the latters’ regen- eration is also a truth worthy of consid- eration. These suggestions call women from a rapt contemplation of the family fireside to a struggle with public wrongs --a thing that is more than apt to in- crease the ranks of the ballot seekers. comicbooks.com rs ad a oe waa