Judge — March 28, 1914 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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yy Curbside Comments By OREOLA W. HASKELL Wid bortes and with banners, the suffrage cohorts £0, Jeitea encher 00 the curb, look out for weal of wor, jad cote what word the gaping world in p: A Change Ciicaco women once were scored By wags with phrases neat, 2 o’er all that they could laud, To joke about ‘‘big feet.’” But since Chicago women vote, Achange the reader greets; For wags, grown grave at deeds of note, Speak now about ‘‘big feats.’ Straws HE BACT that ten thousand people attended a recent suffrage ball in an armory in New York City and that during a five weeks’ tour through New York State a noted suffrage leader 3 addressed ninety meetings and raised $20,600 for the cause seems toelate the suffrage co- horts, as they consider these things the proverbial straws that show which way the wind blows. Thanks are due to the antis for the success of the State cam- paign, for wherever they had preceded the suffragists the lat- ter found the people more than ready to accept votes-for-women doctrine, and wherever the antis publicly opposed their more radical sisters the advertisement given the latter was invaluable asan audience drawer. Indeed, when a final history of the woman movement is written, the antis will rank high as efficient aids to suffrage propagandists. Extract from “ The Antiquary” A weekly journal edited and published by real ladies and op- paved to female enfranchisement Editorial—Anti-suffrage workers ought to feel mighty thrills of hope and pride as they hurry by the hundreds from the shelter of their homes to spread the gos- Pel of woman’s backwardness across the entire United States, East, West, North and South are shouting at us—to come forward and proclaim our undaunted be- lief in woman’s incapacity for coherent public thought and work. As one of our beloved leaders said at the close of a din- ner the other day, ‘‘All through the South A suggestion: the cry is, ‘We are opposed to suffrage. Come and tell us why.’ ’? This strikes the keynote of the demand for us. These are the people who need us, long for us, must be gathered into the fold. They are the sensitive souls who feel, but cannot think; who talk, but cannot reason; who oppose on general principles what their emotions urge them to reject. It is so touching to think they don’t know why! Rush to them, oh, sis- ters, and tell them that it is their holy prejudices that cry out, their loyalty to THE COST OF TEACHING UNCLE SAM THE MEAN- ING OF DEMOCRACY ancient custom, their shrinking dread to come forth from beneath the dusky man- tle of Tradition, their deep-seated aver- sion to watching the underdog rise that constitutes the whyness they blindly feel but cannot state. Go forth and do this, oh, sisters, hugging the inspiring and poetic thought to your bosoms that your mission is to the mute and the emotional of the earth, while your prosaic oppo- nents appea! only to the intellectual and the reasonable. Miss Edith Scott was the only woman to vote at the primary election in Aurora, Ill. Why not stop this vast economic waste by giving women at once the full citizenship that belongs to them, thus utilizing the splendid power here represented for the solving of our vital national problems. Suffrage Snapshots By IDA HUSTED HARPER THE PROBATION officer of Hoboken, New Jersey, reports on his books 1,860 violators of the law—1,740 male and 120 female—a somewhat higher aver- age of women than is found throughout the country. Would woman suffrage double the criminal vote? Will those alarmists that saw areign of militant suffrage in Dr. Anna Shaw’s re- fusal to make her tax returns please note that Mrs, Ella Flagg Young, Chicago’s superintendent of pub- lic schools, has insisted on pay- ing an income tax on her salary, although it was exempt? Mrs. Flagg is just as strong an ad- vocate of suffrage as Miss Shaw, 80 score one on that side. o Boston’s new mayor has dis- missed all the women employes from the office, on the ground that ‘‘it is nota fit place for women.’’ Probably he knows what kind of a place it is going to be from now on. is) The churches and the social- uplift societies seem to have al- most as much trouble in stopping the tango as the government does in putting an end to the snake dances among the Indians. Pittsburgh is to have saloons exclusively for women, as they have been crowded out of the others by the men. Promoters of the new idea should go to New York and inquire at the Hotel Vanderbilt, which started out with a beautiful ‘‘bar’’ for women, but a month later it was closed for lack of patronage and reopened as a much needed annex to the large and flourishing bar for men. [o] “‘If my mother-in-law comes to heaven, I'll leave,’” wrote a New Orleans man, just before he committed suicide. Doubt- less she will speed the parting guest. a “‘Bustles’” for women are to be the fashion this spring. Thanks for the prospect of even that much rebief to the helpless onlookers. comicbooks.com