Judge — November 1, 1913 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL With bagtes and with banners, the suffrage cohorts £0, And I. a watcher on the curb, look out fof weal of woe, And note what word the eaping world in passing may bestow, Women Jurors THE FIRST complete woman's jury that ever sat in a misdemeanor case in the State of Illinois has been described by Justice of the Peace Kendall, of Chi- cago, as *‘the most conscientious body of jurors that ever heard a case in my court.’’ It is strange that the judge does not mention how the women’s ram- pant emotions rose up and upset the pro- cedure of the court, since it is well known how unruly they act outside of the domestic circle; but doubtless it is just another example of a man not yet free from the chains of chivalry and so addicted to polite whoppers. Aa Obstaclo Threatened ONE OF the greatest obstacles to feminine voting—the require- ment that a woman must tell her age —is threatened by the suggestion of a Mrs. King that the voter merely state “legal age."’ Neither friends nor foes of the suffrage movement will welcome the idea. The antis will protest at the possibility of removing so huge a bar- rier to their sex’s political liberty, while the suffragists will rashly re- fuse to cling to the false shame of days when woman’s chief value was a physical one, and when consequently she was sensitive to the departure of the giggling and gum-chewing days of youth, A New Ficld THE Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway tried the experiment of ap- pointing Miss Carolyn M. Bunton as di- rector of one of their buffet cars. So well did Miss Bunton fulfill her duties of keeping the passengers in good humor, advising them what to eat and looking after their culinary comforts, that she has become a fixture. Just why it is more unwomanly to be the presiding god- dess of a whirling kitchen and dining- room than of stationary ones perched on the tenth floor of a Harlem flat house is not clear to a progressive brain; but doubtless the minds that peer through the cobwebs of custom will find this new field for the woman worker full of things that will rob her womanhood of its bloom and her sex of its subtlety, simplicity and sanity. Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER "THE dense gloom of the suffrage situa- tion in Grea‘ Britain was pierced by a ray of humor when, the next day THE MODERN WOMAN invited women to address it. This ac- tion brought out a vigorous protest from Lord Curzon, president of the Anti- Suffrage Association. ‘‘It has been re- ceived with apprehension .nd dismay,”’ he said, ‘‘and will be deplorable in con- sequences.’’ His lordship is suffering from a complication of aristocracy, nar- row-mindedness and old-fogyism, from which there is no hope of recovery. His attitude proves that the movement he represents is not only anti-suffrage, but anti-woman’s-progress and anti-democ- racy. It is good to know that it is headed in the direction taken by the swine in the Scripture, not to follow the analogy any further. The first use the Chicago women are going to make of their voting privi- lege is to take hold of the garbaye sys- tem and find out what is done with the $15,000,000 that the city appropriates for it. Women shouldn't begin by asking embarrassing questions, and this certainly will illustrate that they have entered ‘‘the dirty pool of poli- tics.” It will illustrate also that they Liv, will not hesitate to do so if it will Tue Camet—"* I should worry! after Sir Edward Carson received a letter from Mrs. Pankhurst demanding that he put votes for women in the constitution of his provisional government, the an- nouncement was made that it had been there all the time! There are two rea- sons for this—first, that Sir Edward and his colleagues do not wish to receive any of those delicate little attentions which the suffragettes have been giving Pre- mier Asquith and his cabinet; and, sec- ond, that there isn't going to be any pro- visional government. The recent annual congress of the Church of England gave a day to the woman movement and for the first time result in a clean city and sanitary schools and homes. One would sup- pose, however, that Chicago men would feel considerable shame at the situation, The suffragists of Aiabama are in- viting Congressman Heflin to some down home and address them. f= would not be a male man if he did sot just hanker to show off his oratory to an au- dience of feminine admirers, but in this case it would be a little embarrassing aft- er his recent assertion that the only wom- en who want the suffrage are old maids, unhappy wives, cranks and faddists, and referring them to the barnyard to find the proper position of their sex. Publicmen should now be a little careful about their speeches on this question, as the day of reckoning is nearer than it used to be. 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