Judge — February 21, 1914 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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THE MODERN WOMAN Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL ‘With bogies and with banners, the suffrage coborts £0, And 1, 4 watcher on the curb, look out for weal of wor, And note what word the gaping world in passing may bestow. The Latest Suffragette SHE'S thin and fragile as can be, Yet very crisp and sweet; Her figure’s rather flat, perhaps, But dainty, small and neat. She does not rave or rant or rush, But likes right well to be A quiet aid to those who qu:ff Their evening cups of tea. She's welcomed into countless homes, Although a suffrage token; But no disaster comes of it— 'Tis only she that’s broken. A strange anomaly, you say? You feel you'd like to back her? She’s not a woman in the flesh, But just the latest cracker. Perverse Mea I‘ WOULD seem that the association op- posed to woman's advancement ought to cease assaulting feminine enemies and devote more time to wrestling with the misguided men who basely encourage fe- males to forsake the hearthside by hand- ing out public jobs to them. That noble soul, ex-Fire Commi ner Johnson, re- fused to permit women to become at taches to the Fire Prevention Bureau but now Fire Commissioner Robert Adam- son, in a letter, states that women will do better than men in the inspection of factories where women are employed, in dance halls and moving-picture places, and adds that in positions which women are called upon to fill, they display a high grade of ability. How absurd, when every one knows that the only combust- ible business suitable to females is tend- ing the kitchen fire! Variows Offspring N MAKING a plea for the better and more extensive registration of births and deaths in the United States, a speaker, addressing the Municipal Club of Brook- lyn, stated that a little Western girl in- herited a fortune partly because her father, when called upon in court to give the exact date of her birth, remembered that she came into the world two days after one of his calves, whose advent had been duly registered. This illustrates anew the tendency men have always shown to place cows, calves and pigs on pedestals, while their own offspring squirm about unheeded at the base—a state of things that woman shows an alarming determination to'reverse. Rights and Privileges N ARDENT anti-suffragist says, ‘‘I prefer my privileges to my rights. If a woman were to gain the right to vote, she would lose the privileges which she now enjoys.” What are some of the privileges woman now enjoys? One is to pay an income tax. The FORCING THE MERCURY largest income tax is paid by a woman. Would she lose this privilege if she gained the right to vote? During the term of Mayor Fitzgerald, $23,000,000 were appropriated at a sin- gle meeting of the City Council of Bos- ton. Woman has the privilege of con- tributing her share of this and all other appropriations made by city, State and nation. Would she lose this privilege if she were to vote to say by whom and how the money she pays out shall be spent? Woman has the privilege of giving life to her children. She may suffer for them, work for them, pray for them. But once they step beyond the sacred pre- cincts of home, she has no right to pro- tect them. —Ellen State Taylor. Over 150,000 women registered in Chi- cago on the first day, whichis about 33 per cent. of the woman voters. A good start. Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER ORMER President Taft is quoted as * saying in a speech at Toronto re- cently, ‘‘The advocates of woman suffrage will have to justify their attitude either by showing that women as a class suffer by not participating in government or that if given the franchise they will ma- terialiy add to the wisdom and patriotism of the electorate.” Can Mr. Taft point to any class of men who justified their enfranchisement beforehand in this man- ner? Was it done by Filipino men who were made voters under his administra- tion? What precedent is there for ap- plying this acid test to women? An eminent London scientist asserts that the points which distinguish the human race from the beasts are more marked in woman than in man. ‘‘For instance,’’ he says, “her ear is more human than a man’s.’’ Maybe so; but certainly she doesn’t so often show the length of it, figuratively speaking. The public has borne with some forti- tude the close-fitting garb of the women —it has had its compensations; but now that the National Association of Clothing Designers has decreed that men’s clothes also must be tight fitting—well, if the police fail to do their duty, the common people must rise up. is) The political ‘‘bosses’”’ in Kansas have had bad news. Representatives of the 275,000 new women voters have held a convention and’ resolved to be absolutely non-partisan as to candidates and meas- ures, As they are very likely to influ- ence the men, who is left for the party “‘bosses’’ to boss? Looks as if there was nothing more in life for them. In the United States the women say they won't pay their taxes if they can’t vote, and in London they say they won’t pay their rent. The government can compromise with them by giving the suf- frage, but what is the landlord to do? The Legislature of Alaska enfranchised women, and then enacted a statute de- claring that ‘‘a!l laws which impose or recognize civil disability on a wife that do not exist as to the husband are hereby repealed.’’ As the ‘‘antis’’ are fond of saying, ‘‘ Women must accept the suffrage at a terrible sacrifice of the precious privileges they have enjoyed.’’ comicbooks.com