Judge — February 28, 1914 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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An Interesting Experiment WOMEN may eventually get all they are looking for in public life, but there is inherently in the fair something that militates against J ~. distinguished success in some positions which men have so long mo- nopolized. Portsmouth, New Hampshire, furnishes a case in point. The se- lectmen of that town, hoping to be in the van of progress, appointed @ young woman named Miss Vera Vir- ginia Bush as policewoman. She was to be paid $800 a year, and her termof serv- ice began July 1 last. Miss Bush was not a native of Ports- mouth. She came from Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, and she was a revelation. The news dispatch which the other day chronicled her release from police duty gave no detail of the cause of that event beyond the suggestion that Miss Bush was found by those in authority at Portsmouth to be too young and attractive for the place. There is much room for speculation as to the true inwardness of this removal. None of the usual causes of trial or re- lease of patrolmen in the larger cities can be imagined of this young woman. She probably never was found asleep on duty, and it would be ungracious to imagine that she had been guilty of any cther con- duct unbecoming an officer of the law. She was a stranger in a strange town, @ woman, and attractive. Really there is a volume beneath that mere statement. Perhaps when she ordered corner loafers to move on they declined to do so, pre- STAGE FRIGHT? Arctic explorer (before lecture)—By Jove! I've made seven trips to the polar regions and this is the first time I ever had really cold feet ! ferring to stay around in hope of seeing her again. Maybe business men of the town, informing themselves of the period of her beat, neglected their affairs to get out on the street to watch or greet her. Maybe she was the topic that eliminated all other subjects in the social meetings of women of the town, some of whom might have resented her good looks and her freedom from household cares, and others of whom may have been jealous of her because in the course of duty she had occasion to speak to their husbands, At any rate, 8 good-looking young woman is not exactly the material of which policemen are made, and Ports- mouth, if pressed for facts, can probably make the reason clear. A Long Process A SAVANNAH judge has decided that aman cannot kiss his wife without legal punishment when she resents sucha show of affection, upholding the legal ap- peal of a wife who was kissed by her husband against her wish and her will. O, wise judge! When a wife does not want to be kissed she should not be kissed. This judicial ruling may not have been made on any statute in such case made and provided, but it paves the way for a law on the subject. . And such a law should be active with- out regard for sex. No man should be forced to submit to kissing by his wife if he objects to osculation. By long experience, with scientific notes thereon, by much lawmaking and interminable litigation, and by other de- vious ways may the requisites of happi- ness finally be made clear to mankind. Perhaps we had better tango while the tangoing is good. SESE LT INITIAL Nor comicbooks.com