Judge — March 21, 1914 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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WHEN United States Senator Burton, of Ohio, landed from a trip to Europe not long ago and was asked the inevitable question about woman suffrage, he said, ‘I do not care even to express an opinion on such a subordinate issue.’’ Now he says that of course he is going to yote for it in his State. It is taking a mean advantage for reporters to corral a great statesman on the dock before he finds out what has happened in his ab- sence. 0 Dr. Mary Walker is greatly disgusted with the suffragists for making so much fuss to obtain a right which is already guaranteed to them under the Constitu- tion. If she really believes this, let her try to cast a vote at the next election. There is always room in jail for one more. “Women of New Jersey,’’ said ex-As- semblyman Matthews, at the legislative hearing, “if you want to improve the conditions of public life, I beg you to keep on being women.’’ As they felt that conditions very much needed im- proving, and for various other reasons, they adopted a resolution to keep on being women. THE MODERN WOMAN Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER With an amendment for full suffrage pending in Montana, the opponents be- lieve in nipping any voting tendencies in the bud; so the district attorney an- nounces that any woman giving a tea party to induce other women to come out and register for the spring school elec- tion, at which women are entitled to vote, will be prosecuted under the corrupt practices act. Of course, then, he will prosecute the ward bosses who round up the men in the back rooms of saloons to arrange for their registering and voting. Or is it only drinking tea that is a cor- rupt practice? o A woman who has just returned to earth after a trance reports that she saw some male angels, but they had no wings. Possibly they had at one time, but found them very inconvenient and passed them on to the women, just as here on earth they did with skirts. Dr. Geisel, president of Shorter Col- lege, Georgia, says that institutions of higher education interfere with women’s natural destiny. Chancellor Day, of Syra- cuse University, says if college women don’t marry, it is because their marriage standard is higher and they are not find- ing men fitted for fatherhood. As all the colleges can’t be abolished in order to lower women’s ideal of marriage, it looks as if something will have to be done to bring men up to the new standard. The Sir Almoth Wright who has re- cently written a book on woman suffrage which can’t be mentioned in good society is the same individual who last year put forth a treatise against taking a bath; but really he should have allowed an ex- ception after reading his book. Cc No, the public has been too thoroughly hardened by the present styles in women’s dress to be frightened at anything that may happen if hoop skirts come in again. a President Wilson said the last session of Congress accomplished so much sim- ply by ‘‘sawing wood.’ He was careful not to add, ‘‘and saying nothing.”’ A Transformation FRED'S wife was once a quiet dame, Who thought and talked always the same, Of homey things like socks and bread, Which often seemed quite dull to Fred, Who, when his office hours were o’er, Was wont to seek a club’s wide door, To hear men’s talk of world-wide scope— A change from prim domestic dope; For though man will a home adore, As conversation it’s a bore. But now Fred seeks the hearthside more, For things are different than of yore. Now Mrs. Fred the papers reads; Both news and politics she heeds. To meetings manifold she goes, And people of repute she knows. To keep up with her worries Fred, But home’s no longer dull and dead. What cleared her mind of mental mist? Oh, she’s become a suffragist ! An Anti Mother NEW YORK daily prints a pathetic letter from a girl whose mother is devoted only to her sons and who turns to her daughter the fault-finding, unsympa- thetic side of her nature that prompts her to belittle the girl on every occasion. This type of mother—and there are many such—springs from rich anti-suffrage Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL soil, where flourish the ugly weeds of male deification and female subordina- tion. When one thinks of the heartache and loneliness of hundreds of slighted girls, resulting in stunted mental growth and often in unguided actions that lead to social ruin, one realizes just what ma- ternal neglect means. But, of course, women who merely abuse their children haven’t made the despicable failure of the business of motherhood that the suf- fragist will who plans to basely desert her offspring once a year to stride several blocks to the polls. Exercise MBS. C.CULTER, of Vancouver, Wash- ington, desiring to find out just how fragile she is, carried a pedometer at- tached to her person while she did her housework. Sn» found that she covered four hundred miles a month, that her daily average was a tittle more than thir- teen miles, and that, vhile cooking a Christmas dinner she walked seventeen and a half miles. At this rate she fig- ured that at the end of a year she would walk four thousand eight hundred miles, and that in less than six years she would encircle the globe. Doubtless, in view of these facts, sh would not be daunted at the thought of sprinting a few blocks to the polls occasionally. Public Mothering ORROR of horrors! Tonopah, Ne- vada, boasts of a woman who fre- quents dance halls and saloons. Lots of unfortunate females do this, but no one brags about it. But the woman of Tono- pah neither imbibes nor tangoes, but does her best to hustle back to the shades of home the girls and boys who seek these diversions under auspices far from ele- vating. In her role as first probation officer in the State, she protects many youthful creatures from the sowing of wild oats, and holds out a loving and helpful hand to the fallen of her sex. Alas! here is another deluded creature whe does not realize how much more womanly and effective she would be if she cuddled herself into a home nest and in her leisure moments prayed and wept for the sinners of the world. comicbooks.com