Judge — January 3, 1914 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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Suffrage Snapshots By IDA RUSTED HARPER MEDICAL statistics from Paris an- nounce that men show most brillian- cy from forty to fifty-six. This holds out a great deal of hope for a lot of men we know who are under forty. oO Emile Deschamps tells us, in his new book, that the American woman cannot keep her husband's love, because she does not return it. But if she returned it, of course she couldn’t keep it. Funny how many things these foreigners find out about American women which American men have never dis- covered. They seem to be well enough satisfied not to go wife hunting in any other country. a Secretary of Agriculture Hou- ston has sent out letters to the women of fifty thousand farm households, asking how his de- partment can best serve their needs. This reminds us of a former administration—it is so different. When President Roose- velt appointed a commission to study the interests of farmers, it was specially directed to in- vestigate the lot of the farmer’s wife, and he didn’t put a woman on it. Less talk and more recog- nition are what women want. Oo Seven girl students of Leland Stanford University have just been elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and not one of-the boys, although they outnumber the girls two to one. Comment would be impolite. ) A fund of $20,000 has been raised for the woman-suffrage campaign in New York.- That must make the political “‘bosses’’ laugh. ie) At the same time the delegation of New Jersey woman suffragists in Washington were trying to discover the hiding places of the Senators from that State, the Sen- ators from several Northwestern States were holding a reception for four hundred of their Norwegian constituents en route for Norway. It makes a Vast difference whether you have a vote or are after one. The anti-suffrage women are boasting of the co-operation they receive from men. Sure—they are playing the game for the men! - The young men of Cairo who have re- turned from European universities have begun a crusade to ‘‘emancipate’’ the Moslem women from the veil. Let us believe they are wholly disinterested. LOOKING FOR WORM HOLES Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL With bugles and wit the suffrage coborts £0, And 1, a watcher on the cutb, look oxt for weal of woe, And note what word the gaping world in passing may bestow. Prison Invasion IN CHICAGO the women have formed a Woman's Vigilance Committee, with the object of wiping out the disgraceful conditions prevailing in Chicago prisons. This resulted from an inspection made of a police station by Grace Trout and An- toinette Funk. Finding the building a fire trap, the cells dark and foul and with- out ventilation, vermin, rats and mice plentiful, youthful offenders lodged with hardened criminals, the women's house- wifely instincts were outraged, and they determined to work for decent and sani- tary jails. Thus we see inaugurated that awful thing, Social Motherhood, long ad- vocated by the suffragists. It is doubt- less not nearly so womanly and poetical as to confine female activities to the in- dividual dust cloth and mop, but possibly thousands of unfortunates will have the bad taste to bless the womanhood that endeavors to make their hard lots in life a little more bearable. Honsewives Astiz T IS reported that, since the House- wives’ League was organized, twenty- five public markets have been established throughout the country in cities where the league is represented. The house- wife is coming out of her shell, shedding her excessive timidity and domesticity, and boldly investigating conditions con- trolled by the farmer and merchant. A sorry meddling with man’s sphere! More- over, the step from an interest in pota- toes to an interest in politics is not a prodigious one, and suffra- gists have been known to beam benignly upon what may well serve as the kindergarten of pre- paration for the enlarging of the kitchen-angel’s brain. Holland and France BILL is to be introduced in Holland removing the con- stitutional obstacles in the way of granting the suffrage to wom- en, so that they may be given the parliamentary franchise. In France municipal suffrage has already been conferred upon the women of Paris and is being advocated by the may- ors of smaller cities, while the committee who gave a full year to the investigation of woman suffrage in the countries where it is in force have recommended the full suffrage for the sex. French investiga- tors were unfortunate in not meeting the voluble antis, who declare votes for women a failure everywhere; for, instead of con- sulting prejudices, they have been forced to confine themselves to a dispassionate consideration of facts, with the usual direful consequence. ‘A $400,000 bonfire to welcome home Mrs. Pankhurst! A high price. é a a Bi tas Pe fis el ts OE a i ks, wl a ek ci ee a eas ee. ok. rk. wea, comicbooks.com