Judge — March 14, 1914 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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Wifcliness HE “‘antis’’ are flourishing Mrs. Goe- thals as the model woman, because, forsooth, she is a good wife, and they add to this the sad-eyed reproach that suffra- gists rarely laud the excellent helpmate. Why should they, when the ‘‘antis’’ are eternally on the job, and when the suffra- gists themselves believe that the world is so full of this human convenience and blessing that it can very well be taken for granted, and valuable time be ex- pended on what is in more need of fem- inine attention? Lovely Laws MBS. LOUISE DE KOVEN BOWEN, of the Juveline Protective Associa- tion of Chicago, has said that in Illinois one gets three years in the peni- tentiary for stealing a horse, but only one year for criminal assault; pays a one-thousand-dollar fine for adulterating candy, but only three hundred dollars for procuring girls for prostitution. Bumptious woman is now rising up and asking to be considered more important than cat- tle or grub. Scared ORD NORTHCLIFFE, owner of newspapers said to employ thirty thousand men, when asked why he thought women would never get the vote in England, said that it was not because of militancy, but be- cause there were a million more women of the voting age in Great Britain than men. Since the gen- tleman evidently believes the ‘‘an- ti’ argument that the women will on most questions vote solidly against their brothers rather than be led spinelessly around by the latter, he may be pardoned if thought of the awful results makes him grow white about the gills. Another Pleasing Catcgory ERMAN women have addressed a cir- cular letter to the leading bankers and financiers of Berlin, demanding ad- mission to the floor of the Stock Ex- change. They find it a grievance that the German Bourses now bar out ‘women, children, idiots, bankrupts, criminals and Persons afflicted with contagious dis- eases,’"” Naturally this will make men Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL wonder how any human being can object to a rating so in accord with the best in- terests of society and of nature. For to keep woman humble-minded is the hope of the world. Fo: Awakenings ISING up out of age-long slumber, our foreign friends in other countries are getting busy on the woman question. Japan has its first woman bank president in Mrs. Kin Seno, seventy years old; Norway is to make the father of illegiti- PLENTY OF ROOM FOR ALL HANDS mate children responsible for their main- tenance; the Ottoman government has decided to admit women to universities, and in Bohemia it is proposed to alter the Bohemian Constitution in order to en- franchise women. Thus the woman move- ment, like a contagious disease, is going all over the world and attacking the con- stitutions of many a fair, unblighted land. Suffrage Snapshots BALLOT in the box is worth two in the benedict. A polling sister gladdens no boss. A vote in time saves crime. You can lead a dame toward voters, but you can’t make her shrink. A WHEN early woman planned full brave To substitute a windy cave For the arboreal nooks she’d known As shelter, long she stood alone, Reviled, outcast, while rose a wai ‘When she discards her lovely tail, No longer used to scale a tree, How hideous to man she'll be!’’ But when cave dwelling grew more swell, Man learned to love the tailless belle. In later years, when spirits bold For woman gained rights manifold, To build a sturdy body, do A various work like man, pursue The knowledge culled from books and life, Once more a woeful cry was rife: “When feebleness she sheds and fear, How hateful she’ll to man appear!’” But, lo! he braced him for the blow, And made new women all the go. So now the dolorous anti chant Strikes on the ear like ancient rant: “If their dependence women lose, If voting’s dared, men will refuse To give the homage that is due.”’ How weak this rings and how un- true! For man deep Nature can’t elude, That Old Dame ever strong and shrewd, Who rules though women change in haste They'll always suit man’s veering taste. A New One 'T IS always delightful to hear a new argument against the en- franchicement of women, and a superb specimen has just emanated from the brain of an anti-suffrage genius, Woman is to be denied po- litical rights because there is only five per cent. of lime in her anatomy, while man has seven per cent. A skeptical soul retorts that lions have but two per cent., while chickens have ten; but there is al- ways somebody around to spoil a choice bit of logic. Just why lime and votes must go together may not be plain to most finite minds, but we humbly suggest that without an adequate supply of lime woman may be unable to endure the lime- light cast upon the voter brazenly step- ping up to the ballot box. Only 47,500 women of the 158,000 reg- istered voted at the primary election in Chicago. Bad weather caused the slump. comicbooks.com