Judge — February 7, 1914 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER A PARIS jeweler has invented a ring to be worn by the divorced —two mar- riage rings intertwined in the form of a cross, Very inappropriate, when the wearers have just laid down their cross, An anti-Tammany bureau of a thousand speakers‘is being organized in New York to talk the ‘tiger’ todeath, Right there is where they need the help of women, Ex President Eliot has come to the front again to declare that there wasn’t any Garden of Eden or Adam or Eve. All right. Then Eve didn’t eat the apple and bring sin into the world; therefore that objection to giving the ballot to the women of the United States is null and void. Cuban women are organizing for the suffrage, and a flourishing society already exists in Hawaii, Truly, the anti-suffragists are kept so busy these days trying to stem the tide, they are obliged to forget that a woman’s place is at home. A noted astrologer has seen in the stars victories for woman suffrage in many States. The “antis’’ see stars every time there is a new victory, but when they pick themselves up they never make any forecast of the future. “in the U.S. WOMEN have disturbed the peace of many estimable citizens. Some have lighted fires in the homes of harmless householders. Packages of powder, believed to have been left by women, have been discovered in railway stations and public convey- ances, FEN] New York SuFFRAGETTE—Me, too, Patrick ! The New Thought devotees vethought out a new kind of marriage —‘‘a mating of harmonious vibrations.’’ But that has been the trouble with mar- riage in late years—the parties have vi- brated among too many people. Dr. Anna Shaw, president of the Na- tional Suffrage Association, has started a nation-wide cry of a militant movement by refusing to pay her tay How happy the English government would be if it had only this mild brand of militancy! The ‘‘antis’’ are failing to scare the suffragists by warning them that they will get the worst of it when they ‘‘rouse the brute force in men.’’ As long as they are getting everything they ask for, they will never believe that men are brutes, Some have been detected pouring a mixture of oil and vinegar on lettuce. A number are suspected of murdering the king’s English. Several husbands are reported to have been blown up. A lot of women, with their male ac- complices, have been caught burning day- light. Females of tender years have been seen cutting out pictures and daubing them with paint. There are numerous complaints of the silence having been broken by women. Some women have been found capable of setting. the grand-stand ablaze at base- ball games. And others have ruthlessly uprooted cherished vices. B. Morewood. —Ge Curbside Comments by OREOLA W. HASKELL With bogies and with banners, the suffrage cohorts £0, And 1. a watcher on the curb, look out for weal or woe. And note what word the gaping world in pasting may bestow. Words vs. Deeds / YEARS of yore the antis spake: “It is absurd a fuss to make O'er putting knowledge in the brain Of woman; it would be in vain. She cannot learn; her powers forbid it.’’ But when 'twas tried, forsooth, she did it. In later times the antis cried: “This talk of working we deride. No feeble female ever can Earn her own living like a man. A foolish thought! 'Tis best she hid it.’* But when ’twas tested, lo! she did it. The antis now their voices lift: ‘*For voting woman has no gift. She never can the ballot use Sanely to state her public views. If given the power, she’d ne’er pursue it.” And yet three million women do it. The Teacher and the Taught N THE course of an address, Jane Ad- dams told of the fact that for years a voting booth was wont to be placed in Hull House for the use of the men of the neighborhood, and that, in her capacity as general friend and counselor to the di trict around, she often took some Lithu- anian, Greek or other foreigner by the hand and led him to the booth, adding to former talks on citizenship final instruc- tions as to how he should cast his ballot in the election at hand. Invariably the man, in whose eyes Miss Addams was a great personality, expressed surprise that she herself could not vote, but must leave him to perform his civic duties alone. **And then,’’ said Miss Addams whim- sically, ‘‘I always had to explain that I was not wise enough to vote myself, only to teach men how to do it.’” Making Good Mrs. Gertrude A. Lee has been made chairman of the Democratic State Cen- tral Committee of Colorado, the first woman to hold that position. She was a presidential elector in 1912. A professor in Pennsylvania University has evolved the theory that the present thin attire of women requires them to eat a great deal, in order to create more ‘‘heat units.’’ What the thin attire seems to show more clearly than anything else is that the wearers have quit eating altogether. comicbooks.com